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...numbers from the training manual, he jettisoned his canopy, blew himself out by the ejection rig, pulled the cord on his parachute. Down, down he swayed toward the Sierra's peaks. Up, up they came in sharpness, ruggedness, meanness. He landed hard on a 12,000-ft.-high slope, spraining his ankles as he hit one of the few rocks in sight. Coolly he measured the stillness around him, took inventory of his assets: a .32-cal. revolver, a knife and some book matches (he had forgotten his survivor's kit). Dave Steeves was, in fact, some...
...several nights in a shelter rigged from signal-flare parachutes, kept their feet warm in below-freezing temperatures by tucking them into an oversized insulated ice bucket. Although Dalton had suffered a head injury in the crash, it seemed minor; they decided to strike out down the slope through the waist-deep snow. Pausing to rest on a ledge, the exhausted couple rigged a shaky windbreak and decided to stay put. There Dalton LeMasurier died of a brain hemorrhage...
...offered a $2,500 reward for anyone who located the plane, and Putnam had a hunch. Late in the morning he spotted a tiny speck of silver high on the mountainside. He quickly reported his find, and an evacuation party was soon puffing its way up the rocky slope. Closing the summit, they heard a faint cry, at first thought it was an echo. Then they found Dorothy LeMasurier on a snowbank. "I don't believe it," exclaimed one veteran mountaineer. "That woman can't be alive...
...century pals at Cambridge. Gerry is the gracious son of an earl and Peter is a steely-eyed child of fortune. Peter does his first serious social climbing on a Swiss Alp when he seduces Gerry's well-heeled, well-built girl friend Emily on "the steep slope above the Zmuttbach.'' Married and shortly in receipt of Gerry's gentlemanly blessing ("the best man won"), the couple head for the Punjab and Peter's civil-service duties...
...this was no bellywhopping slide over a gentle snow-covered slope. On his beefed-up steel "skeleton," Bibbia was running down the ice-slick Cresta sled run. His objective: a descent fast enough to win him the Cresta sledders' Carder Cup. Face low in the biting wind, his nose scant inches from the ice, Bibbia scudded into Curzon, the first turn on the twisting chute. The special, spike-toed Cresta shoes that were his only brakes were clear of the glass-hard groove as he slid along, and by the time he hit the straightaway at Junction, dropping...