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A Drop of Water. For Bonatti, the trick now is to find new ways to climb the familiar old hills. And he had a really novel idea for the Matterhorn: a "direttissima" assault, straight up the mountain's ice-coated, practically vertical north wall, a climb that had been...
"Yeoh!" At almost the same time, aboard the Pan American jet, the pilot and copilot were taking landing instructions from the tower at Kennedy. Suddenly one of them shouted into the radio, "Yeoh!" Twenty-three seconds later, Pan American 212 radioed to the airport controllers: "We had a close miss...
Bennett and his companions were exploring the cave, located ten miles east of Ithaca, N.Y., when Mitchell became wedged in a vertical shaft under a stream of extremely cold water.
The two planes that took off from the Dallas Naval Air Station last week looked like a pair of elephants doing a mid-air pas de deux. Their wings were tilted vertically, while their four turbo prop engines blasted so much prop wash straight downward that they kept pieces of...
Further north, Glen Ellen in Fayston boasts the greatest vertical drop in the East, 2645 feet, and will open its second season with a new double chair, making three in all. The upper half of a new FIS-calibre downhill trail has also been completed, with a maximum gradient of...