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To the top of the world: filmaker conquers deadly Mr. Everest.(Special Report)
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When David Breashears and his team set out to climb Mount Everest the highest mountain in the world, they knew that they were up against a killer. For every four people who succeed in climbing Everest one dies trying.
When they set out to climb the mountain in early May of 1996, they were not merely trying to make it to the top, like other climbers. Armed with an IMAX camera, the largest camera in the world, they were out to capture the beauty, size, and power of the g...
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Measuring A Mountain Of a Year
The Washington Post
; From a distance, the mountain -- my mountain, the only one I've "climbed," or, actually, hiked -- is unimpressive as mountains go. Squat and beige, it seems stamped onto a backdrop of Mexican sky, a boulder-strewn afterthought painted by a rushed God. But follow the hikers' path up its side, as I
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Take it from the top: a giant-screen IMAX film restores a sense of awe and beauty to conquering the world's highest peak.(the film 'Everest' by David Breashears and Greg MacGillivray features magnificent footage of the mountain as captured by an IMAX camera during the ill-fated 1996 climb)(Brief Article)
Newsweek
; A giant-screen IMAX film restores a sense of awe and beauty to conquering the world's highest peak One of the great achievements of Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of the 1996 disaster on Mount Everest, Into Thin Air, was to put to rest once and for all in the minds of most readers the idea of
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Exploring Sugarloaf's Natural Sweetness; Writer, Illustrator Turn Love Affair With Mountain Into Published Book
The Washington Post
; The path up the mountain vanishes in a white mist, and the low sky looks like flannel. On all sides there is gray, gray and more gray. But the two women climbing step by step to the top of Sugarloaf, a geological oddball hunkered near the border of Frederick and Montgomery counties, find flourishes
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EVEREST: RUSH TO THIN AIR TRAGEDIES ASIDE, NEW IMAX FILM HELPS FUEL HIGH-MOUNTAIN MANIA.(Lifestyle)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; After reaching the top of Mount Everest five times, Ed Viesturs has had enough of the roof of the world and has formed Everest Anonymous, a group of elite mountaineers who have sworn off the 29,028-foot-high obsession. ``You go up there now, there are 18 other expeditions, and half of them
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Upgrading the mountain/ Renovations aim to keep NORAD up-to-date
The Gazette
; ... missile and space surveillance outposts lands in a command center. A basic sketch of what's going on is displayed on electronic maps about the size of large screen TVs. More detailed data appear on computer screens staffed around the clock. Officers in the command ...
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Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters.(Book Review)
Philosophy East and West
; Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters. By Steven Heine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv+200. Hardcover $25.00. Paper $17.95. On the beautifully designed cover of Steven Heine's Opening a Mountain: Koans of the Zen Masters, we gaze at one of the masterworks of Chinese painting,
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Park dreams/ Will Cheyenne Mountain become open space or a mountaintop development?
The Gazette
; The stone horns on Cheyenne Mountain's crest snare the imagination and the flashing antennae demand attention night and day. But anyone wanting to summit this south end landmark will run into "No Trespassing" signs. And some rumors. Some warn the summit is guarded by secret cameras and laser
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Synoptic Responses to Mountain Gravity Waves Encountering Directional Critical Levels
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
; ... 32, 233-242. _____, M. E. McIntyre, and A. W. Robertson, 1985: On the use and significance of isentropic potential vorticity maps. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Sac., 111, 877-946. Jiang, Q., and J. D. Doyle, 2004: Gravity wave breaking over the central Alps: Role ...
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Mountain Heir
Seven Days
; <BOOKS> Mountain Heir Book review: On Kingdom Mountain On Kingdom Mountain by Howard Frank Mosher. Houghton Mifflin, 276 pages. $24. Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, by its very name, would seem a perfect setting for stories of lost treasure, beautiful royalty and dashing scoundrels. Irasburg
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Nature's roller coaster: the thrills and spills of mountain biking.
American Fitness
; Until now, experiencing the grandeur of a mountain meant uncloseting your hiking boots and a walking stick. Today, time has stood that notion on its ear. To take full advantage of a mountain, you must go down it on two wheels. Mountain biking (an oxymoron for many) is an exhilarating way to whip
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