Word: snow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other climbers read such details and shrug. Mistake or mischance, there is nothing useful to say. This is not because the deaths are meaningless but because their meaning seems alarmingly personal. They raise the sort of dust that stirs in every mountaineer's sheaf of recollections: soft snow breaks out from under your boots on a steep slope. You slide, gaining speed. Then some mountain god flips a coin, and it comes up heads. You stop sliding, safe as a baby, a few yards above a long drop. Nothing...
...crashes into a cliff. Or a sequence in which Stallone and a hood roll down a sharp incline together. "We were going 200, 300 yds. straight down -- sheer face," Sly recalls. "You don't know if there's a branch or a hidden jagged rock under the snow. That really worried...
...Snow, a computer science concentrator, says he will work for a small publishing company in Boston, although he eventually hopes to become a musician...
...Snow sang, composed and played guitar for a band for the past two and a half years. He says he lacks the passion for computers that he feels for music, but he is excited for next year. "I'll have more time and energy [to work on music]," he says. "This place is exhausting...
...Like Snow, many seniors say their first official jobs or activities next year will not necessarily relate to their eventual career goals. They just want to experiment for awhile, gain financial stability, or spend some time thinking about what they want to do with their lives...