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...Evolution: YES! YES! YES! - ROGER EBERT. Likewise Richard Corliss, who works at a patio-door factory in Toledo, Ohio, and was also wary of the time commitment, said, "I don't see many movies. The last one I've seen was the one with the fishing boat, The Storm. It kept me on the edge of my seat." This, I figure, will be perfect if anyone ever releases a movie called The Storm...
...tried for the summit once but had turned back because of weather. At 29,000 ft., the Everest peak is in the jet stream, which means that winds can exceed 100 m.p.h. and that what looks from sea level like a cottony wisp of cloud is actually a killer storm at the summit. Bad weather played a fatal role in the 1996 climbing season documented in Into Thin...
...Erik says. "We would have been spanked if we made a push in those conditions." A few teammates gambled and went for it, and Jeff Evans and Brad Bull heroically pulled out fixed guidelines that had been frozen in the ice. By the time Base Camp radioed that the storm was passing, Erik and the entire team were coated in 2 in. of snow. Inspired by the possibility of a break in the weather, the team pushed on up the exposed Southeast Ridge, an additional 1,200 vertical feet to the South Summit. At that point the climbers looked like...
Still, Scott Imler, president of the L.A. center and an epileptic who smokes weed to control his seizures, fears the worst. "If they march in here with storm troopers and seize the building, I can't imagine it would be politically popular," he says. "But maybe they don't care...
...storm is over, and the sun returns. The albino rides the light. At a certain angle, the bird becomes a radiance, a sort of feathered parhelion, a sundog. Yet at the core of the radiance you make out a dark center, the bird's skeleton and organs - in the way your hand looked to you when you were a child and you shined a flashlight beam through it, and through the translucence of your flesh, saw the dark blur of your bones...