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Sierra Gothic. The mountaineer-geologist Clarence King found in the Sierras elaborate analogies to the Gothic −an organic interchange between nature and art. On the other hand, a group of Americans spent five days in 1853 cutting down a 3,000-year-old sequoia, 302 ft. high and 96...
The canoeists have grown gradually more isolated from their smug idea of civilization. This episode of brutality and reprisal severs what few connections remain. Drew (Ronny Cox), the most rational of the four, wants to bring the murdered mountaineer downriver to the police. He believes that they will all be...
As they set off again, Drew falls from his canoe and is lost in the roiling water. Then Lewis spills out in rapids and suffers a bad break in his leg. It is up to Ed, the most hesitant of them, to save Bobby and the crippled Lewis. To do...
The Harvard gollers will be trying to make up for the loss they suffered Wednesday at the hands of Dartmouth. The loss was largely the result of the difficulty of the Hanover Country Club Course which appeared to be rigged against anyone except the most experienced mountaineer.
The old mountaineer learned to make whisky when he was twelve, drifted into moonshining for profit by an economic process of elimination. "I always figured I'd get away from this here place just like my brothers did," he said. "Reason why I never did is every time I...