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...Steep and unforgiving, the ski track lay like a white scar along the face of Sweden's Areskutan Mountain. Half a dozen of the world's best skiers had already tumbled into bone-bruising falls as they swooped down the dangerous drop, going all-out for the downhill championship of the world. Norway's Stein Eriksen might well have taken it easy. Far ahead on points after winning the slalom and giant slalom, the Oslo ski salesman could have coasted home to a safe, slow finish, still a sure bet for the championship of championships, the Alpine...
That was not all. Led by a guide provided by Rio Grande's Mayor Adalberto Cuevas, the young archeologists tramped through a jungle full of screaming parrots to a steep slope called Cerro del Sapo (Toad Hill). Overlooking the blue Pacific was a second slab with two Picasso-like figures carved on it. Locally called Los Reyes (The Kings), the stone is still revered as a miracle-working idol. The people of the vicinity make pilgrimages to it to pray for rain, and the carvings show traces of wax from their votive candles. Near it is another carved stone...
...fantastic scene is produced by the explosions," he wrote afterward. "The . . . formation is disorganized completely. Some of the Fortresses plunge down in steep dives . . . three simultaneously go down to crash . . . My men are completely carried away . . . We can pick [the enemy] off one by one! One after another [the Fortresses] go down in flames to crash into the sea. Only large patches of burning oil remain on the surface...
...weekend, and the crowd was estimated at above 5,000 at the Vale of Temple, Dartmouth's Ski jump. The competition was close as the 38 men slid down the in-run and flew off for jumps up to 130 feet. As Dartmouth's Bassette whizzed along the frighteningly steep incline, crouched and waiting, the Old Grad announcer was heard to mutter in the microphone, "Come on. Johnny...
...been gripped by the intense cold, frozen into immobility ... [Yet] this labyrinth of broken ice is moving, its surface changing." High over the monumental, 2,000-foot icefall, with its treacherously shifting crevasses and its crashing, house-high blocks of ice, stands a greater obstacle-a steep slope of ice and snow rising a vertical distance of 4,000 feet. Beyond that lies the last and toughest 3,000-foot rise to the highest point on the surface of the earth...