Word: snow
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...Three years later, he finds the hours and duties give him the freedom to pursue other dreams, like acting. Employed by a couple who are both lawyers, Morgan picks up the kids from school, takes them to parks and museums and supervises their homework. On a snowed-out school day, they made snow forts for hours. Reared by a single mother, Morgan considers his work great training for becoming a dad someday. He says, "I look intimidating, but I've been around kids so much it's made me a gentle giant...
...expanded and contracted. As I weaved through the labyrinth, I could hear huge ice columns groaning and cracking overhead. My first trip took a miserable 13 hours through a frozen maze, a blind person's worst nightmare. No two steps were alike as I zigzagged over thin snow bridges and leapt over deep cracks onto shifting ice boulders. Eventually, with the help of my team, I made it through the icefall 10 times, working the duration of each trip down to five hours...
...step requires monumental effort. I feared that not being able to think, along with not being able to see, would be an overwhelmingly bad combination. However, extreme altitude slowed down my team, so I actually had more time to plant my axe and kick solid steps in the steep snow. On the Hillary Step, I finally felt in my element. Similar to Hillary's own description, I wedged myself in a crack, my gloved hands scanning for holds, my one cramponed boot biting the rock, and my other jammed in a cornice of ice. It was 40 minutes later, when...
...winding trail climbs steeply over a foothill of the province's stunning Meili range, through forests of rhododendron and towering hemlock and past open views of the snow-capped peaks that have kept Yubeng in a state of fairy-tale seclusion. By the time we finally crest a prayer flag-festooned summit and drop into the valley below, it's late afternoon. Beneath us are the handful of dwellings that shelter Yubeng's 65 ethnic-Tibetan inhabitants; in the crook of a slim, glacial stream, a white, sagging stupa glows in the low sunlight. The locals feed and water their...
...Build a snow penis—be sure to include a vein, and watch the honeys gather around it like monkeys...