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...IMAX team had been on the mountain for several weeks, acclimatizing and waiting for spring storms to let up, when eight climbers from two commercially-run ventures died on top of Everest (the episode chronicled in Jon Krakauer's recent best-selling "Into Thin Air"). The leader of one of the ill-fated groups was Rob Hall, an Everest veteran and a close personal friend of Viesters. As his body froze, Hall managed to contact the IMAX team via radio. In a moment saved from kitschyness by being non-fiction, the IMAX team managed to patch him through...
Since the storms on the summit of Everest span over more than 11 months of the year, there is only a brief window of time when the peak can be reached. Thus, the second time the team heads up the mountain, time is as much an enemy as the mountainous terrain itself. The climbers cross the avalanche-ridden Khumbu Icefall for a second time en route to the top. When they reach their previous camp, the climbers split up with Vesturs taking the lead sans oxygen. Finally, the climbers reach the top but, as is often true of hard-earned...
Beyond the personal interest stories and the beautiful vistas, Everest offers up a light amount of science knowledge (after all, this is the science museum). For all you budding pre-meds, the risks of high altitudes and the process of acclimatization are outlined as the climbers ascend the mountain. In addition, the audience gets a brief geology lesson and learns about satellite geography. But those who are science-phobic, fear not: this is science for the masses made fun, interesting and simply understandable...
Like its ad campaign, Surge is a bit of a puzzle. True, the new Coca-Cola product is often likened to Mountain Dew. But its sudden appearance on the market, weird after-taste and suspicious propensity to turn the drinker's mouth green, all deserve examination. Is this simply, as Maximillian Gomez-Trochez '00 put it, "The Coca-Cola attempt to put down those irresponsible Mountain Dewers"? Another example of "porcine capitalism at its worst"? Garish vocabulary aside, Gomez-Trochez has a point which no survivor of Ec 10 can ignore. Surge may just be Coca-Cola's attempt...
McLaughlin is somewhat of a Surge connoisseur herself. "I drink about one a day. But the count goes up when I run out of Mountain Dew. Then it's three or four times a day." By way of explanation, she offers, "I guess I like lemon-lime caffeine things." Gomez-Trochez also consumes the beverage on a fairly regular, though less frequent schedule. "Every time I have to pull an all-nighter or orgo problem set...so one every two weeks on average." And as for the side-effects McLaughlin describes? Gomez-Trochez only notices that he is "peeing...