Word: windstorm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite all his previous experiences, Yates had never slept through a windstorm in such an exposed position not bivouaced on a rock. He had set off "anticipating part of a Mission Impossible chase scene with rangers hot on my trail. That aspect of the chase was all just a game. I would play fair if they caught me," he said, but added he didn't expect the plane, the helicopter, or the searchers...
Since the collapse of the Farrell Bubble in a windstorm in December 1973, the track team has been forced to spend the indoor season in small, dusty Briggs Cage. Okerman notes that it is especially important for a New England school to have a good indoor facility because the indoor season here lasts from November to the end of March...
...factor. Big John is jacketed by steel girders that form a series of five giant Xs on each side. This is intended to provide extra support against the chilling winds that boom in from Lake Michigan. Despite the Xs, however, Big John swings: McElhatton claims that during one recent windstorm, with gusts of up to 75 m.p.h., there were whitecaps in his toilet. The girders creaked and groaned all night...
...Anchorage-based company, Alaska Wildlife Productions, and has published a book, Minus 148, about the first winter ascent of North America's highest peak, Mt. McKinley. (The title refers to the temperature Art and two other members of the expedition withstood when they were forced to wait out a windstorm for several days in an ice-cave near the summit. One member of the expedition died in a crevasse during the ascent; Art was lucky enough to return to Anchorage with the loss of only one toe to frostbite...