Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Breashears. The film focuses on the experiences of three climbers. Araceli Segarra is a Spanish rock climber destined to be the first Spanish woman to reach the top of Everest. Jamling Tenzing Norgay is the son of "Tiger" Tenzing Norgay, who, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, first topped the mountain. The third, Ed Viesters, is a seasoned Everest climber who shuns oxygen tanks, facing the oxygen-poor environment on his own terms...
Everest takes advantage of the diverse backgrounds of its protagonists to catch some great shots of each climber in their native region. The audience zips along on mountain bikes with Viesters and his fiancée on the plains of Utah and scales treacherous rock outcroppings on the Iberian peninsula with Segarra. Norgay appears praying at Tengboche, a Buddhist monastery nestled at the base of Everest, creating a less exilarating but beautiful and moving scene...
...Both the New York Times and Fox News are reporting Jones? firm intentions to climb back up that legal mountain -- a road that would give the hardiest presidential accuser pause for thought. ?Do I want two more years of this?? Jones is reported to have asked friends. Now it?s a rhetorical question. Whether the Rutherford Institute can pay for two more years of it when they?re already hundreds of thousands of dollars out of pocket from round one is another matter...
...rights, even allowed same-gender sexual-harassment cases to proceed. So the attitude seems to be, "You can sue for almost anything; but once in court, the bar will be set very high." Courts have settled on this compromise because they know that sexual-harassment cases involve a mountain of individual context. Cases can evolve remarkably once all the evidence is presented to a judge--which is why some relatively minor cases are allowed to proceed (including one involving a Miller Brewing Co. employee who accused a colleague of sexual harassment after he described a randy Seinfeld episode...
BEST SELLER Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier...