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A clue for SAL could be [Nickname that drops "-ly"] or even [Nickname for our favorite "Off the Grid" writer, perhaps]. Just a couple of (tongue-in-cheek) suggestions for Amie and Amanda to ...
An illustration of why sloped armour offers no weight benefit when protecting a certain frontal area. Comparing a vertical slab of armour (left) and a section of 45° sloped armour (right), the horizontal distance through the armour (black arrows) is the same, but the normal thickness of the sloped armour (green arrow) is less.
Edmund Hillary reading The Times, with his photo of fellow summiteer Tenzing Norgay on the cover, July 1953. The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953.
Zonda wind (on the eastern slope of the Andes in Argentina) Pampero (Argentina and Uruguay), very strong wind that blows from the sea over the Rio de la Plata into the Pampa, generally accompanied with a thick line of squalls, with severe rains, hail and thunderstorm. Puelche (on the western slope of the Andes in south-central Chile) [9]
T en minutes after the second avalanche, the slope was abuzz with some 50 rescuers, including red-coated ski patrols as well as volunteer skiers. Like a commander marshaling her troops, Hurlen ...
Using cable lengths of up to 1,200 metres and a tractive force of up to 4.8 tonnes, winches can support the machines on steep slopes. [11] Snow groomers warn skiers and snowboarders with visual or acoustic signals. Groomers are mostly sent out during the night time after the close of the ski area so as not to interfere with daily and night skiing.
After she followed up with doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Healy discovered she had two types of cancer — and needed immediate treatment and surgery
At 8:30, after having passed the seracs of the Matterhorn Glacier, Whymper and others reached the top of the plateau. Shortly after they discovered the bodies of Croz, Hadow and Hudson. Of Douglas, only a sleeve was discovered. The bodies were recovered later on Wednesday 19 July after an order of the administration.