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The Catalonian tradition of building human towers (Castells) dates back to the 18th century. By tradition the tower is topped by a child "enxaneta", light weight, agile and of course fearless ! After the fatal fall of Mariona Galindo in 2006, enxaneta have been required to wear helmets. This shot was taken as a Castell was being assembled, a performance by the Falcons de Barcelona.

This image was taken on labor weekend at Secret Beach Oregon, while I met my photography friend Nam Ing in the morning at this beach after the sunrise. We were happy to chat each other after our last lunar Eclipse meet.

On the afternoon, I rushed from Bondan Beach to Natural Bridge viewpoint hope for a better sunset. I was blocked by First Responders not letting me down since they were busy to rescue someone falling down from the cliff. I had no choice but went to Secret Beach for sunset and milky way shooting.

I did not even know the person falling down and passed away at Natural Bridge viewpoint was Nam Ing until the second day after I back to the Bay Area.Curry County Sheriff's Office Provides Details of Sunday's Fatal Fall at Natural Bridges

What a tragedy!

A big loss in the Bay Area photographer Community!

I knew him since I started the landscape photography 10+ years ago. He had been such a good photographer to deal with, even though I only met him in photography spots, and chat several times about the photography issues. He had been always nice and gentle from my memory. He passed away for what he love the most - photography.

A Photographer To Remember!

Here's a wider view of the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas. The city is barely visible in the distance. It's popular with rock climbers and I saw just before posting this that a climber fell 80 feet last night. Fortunately not a fatal fall.

Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere is a 12 km (7.5 mi) long temperate maritime glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Together with the Fox Glacier 20 km (12 mi) to the south, and a third glacier, it descends from the Southern Alps to less than 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level.

The area surrounding the two glaciers is part of Te Wahipounamu, a World Heritage Site park. The river emerging from the glacier terminal of Franz Josef is known as the Waiho River.

Franz Josef Glacier (Kā Roimata ō Hine Hukatere) is one of the steepest glaciers in New Zealand, descending from its origins high in the Southern Alps deep into the lush native rainforest of Westland's National Park. It also moves faster than your average glacier at around 50cm per day. This creates some truly incredible features in the glacier such as ice caves, tunnels, seracs and crevasses; all of which are constantly changing and evolving so no two days are ever the same.

Legend has it that Franz Josef's lover died in a fatal fall. She cried so much that her tears pooled, eventually freezing into a block of ice. The magic of this fable isn’t lost on the town or the tourists who flock to the tragically romantic site.

This is an HDR image taken just in front of the barrier rope, about 500 metre from the tongue of the glacier. Had to wait for an hour for the right light.

Sher Mandal is an octagonal structure inside Purana Qila (Old Fort) in Delhi. This structure is believed to have been built by Sher Shah in around 1541 CE. After Mughal emperor Humayun recaptured Delhi throne, he is said to have converted this building into a library.Emperor Humayun had a fatal fall on the steps of this very structure.

(the lyrics are lengthy but worth it!)

manhattan transfer & stan getz

music: clifford brown

lyrics: jon hendricks (of lambert, hendricks, & ross)

We sing a spring

(Sing joy spring)

A rare and most mysterious spring

(This most occult thing)

Is buried deep in the soul

(It's story never has been told)

The joy spring, the fountain of pleasure

Is deep inside you whether you're diggin it or not

Once you're aware of this spring

You'll know that it's the greatest

Treasure you've got

And furthermore

The joy spring, the bounteous treasure

Cannot be bartered away and never

Can be sold

Nothing can take it from you

It's yours and yours alone to have

And to hold

And something more

It never is lost to fire or theft

It's always around

When trouble is gone the pleasure is left

I've always found

It's burglar-proof same as the treasure

Man lays up in heaven worth a

Price no one can measure

That says a lot

So joy spring this fountain of pleasure

That's deep inside you let me inform

You in all truth

Ponce de Leon sought this

When he was searchin for the fountain of youth

Ol' Ponce de Leon laughed so much he

Never did find the magic fountain

But many people with a well-adjusted

Spirit they could hear it when you told

Them it was there tellin them was

Like tellin it on the mountain

It's quite a life havin the gift of laughter

I'm a man who knows in a minute

I can tell you just exactly how the story goes

It involves a firm conviction in another

Previous life givin your mind a chance to fly

Fly around the universe investigatin other

Galaxies & certain other subtle

Types of life tryin to dig it gettin

Pretty well-acquainted with a lot of

Other strife & pretty much acquirin

Yourself plenty of education

Pretty soon here comes earth birth

& then you're ready to put it all to work

But soon as you're finished bein born

You start forgettin what you knew

Cause you're another kinda you

A reincarnation manifestation

Of spirit in sensation

You really got that right

The average person isn't bright

Not so bright that they recall the fatal fall

Down here t'o this earth

Their minds disguise their death to spirit

Life and call it birth

That's their reason for forgettin and they

Find it very upsettin when reminded

Tell them they've lived before

They'll show you the nearest open door

Gotta have feelin while dealin with

Walkers in their sleep

They can't imagine somethin as deep

Here they come - here they come - there they are

Unimaginative and ignorant of fallin from a star

Here they come - there they are - there they go

Life is over in a minute & they never dug

It in it or enjoy a minute of it

Cause they put too much above it

That was gross

Somethin that was worth a couple bucks

At most

So there is the reason that the maker of man

Included there in his plan

A certain fountain deep within

Where there was laughter, youth & gold

For human beings to have & hold

& share the memory of where we've all been

Brothers called Grimm knew chances were slim

Anybody would dig that the human soul was Snow White

And the Seven Dwarfs were seven tempers in man

Whose diggin out the gold completes the plan

& Bacon was hip that Shakespeare couldn't read

And so he gave him all the rhymes

That have lasted through the years

And kept eternal truths alive through several centuries

That's how we know them now

They lasted cause they're true

What was it from Macbeth?

"Life's but a walking shadow

a player poor

that struts and frets upon the stage

and's seen no more

a tale that truly has an idiotic ring

that's full of lotsa sound and fury

signifying nothing..."

That's right signifying nothing

I'll repeat it, nothing!

Don't forget it, nothing!

And that's the reason for that spring

Of joy

Showtime, everyone's on

Let's hit the stage

It's showtime everyone

& proceed to act your age

Whatever you're frownin at is funny

Enough laughin

So you're wastin all your humor on a frown

While you're bringin your spirit down

You gotta book yourself a comic in your act

Without some laughter life's a maudlin

Farce & that's a fact

Once you know about the spring

You always can smile

It becomes your one expression

And you're always wearin' it

Like the buddhas do

(um, and i think there's more ... !)

River Narmada at Dhuadhar falls, Jabbalpur, Madhyapradesh, India.

Ngadi Chuli (also known as Peak 29, Dakura, Dakum or Dunapurna, 7.871 m) is a high peak in the Manaslu Himal, also known as the Gurkha Massif, Nepal. It is flanked by Manaslu to the north and Himalchuli to the south. Despite its top 20 height, Ngadi Chuli has only been climbed once or twice. The probable first ascent occurred in 1970. Hiroshi Watanabe and Sherpa Lhakpa Tsering, members of a Japanese expedition, climbed the east ridge and face. They left their camp V, at about 7.500 metres, for a summit attack. About 70 m below the summit they disappeared out of sight for nearly two hours. On their return, after descending a difficult snow ridge, they suffered a fatal fall down an ice wall, from ca. 7.600 m nearly down to camp 4 at 6.900 m, where their climbing partners observed their fall. Neither their camera nor Watanabe's ice-ax, to which pennants would have been attached had they reached the summit, survived the crash so that no conclusive evidence could be found that they had reached the summit. In order to achieve a confirmed ascent of the mountain, the Japanese organized three more expeditions, in 1974, 1978 and 1982, but these all failed. The first confirmed ascent was in 1979 by the Polish climbers Ryszard Gajewski and Maciej Pawlikowski via the West buttress, involving some class V rock climbing at great height. As of 2014, no further attempts have been made on the mountain since the last Japanese expedition in 1982. Source: www.wikipedia.org

We looked at the Lackey,* and saw that those shameless souls hire themselves out to do whatever menial task, or take whatever position of assured destruction they're placed in.

The thug, in contrast, rather than groveling for their imagined dues, are motivated by a perverse pride in which they assume they have all might, and all intellect, to take all that they desire.

Both are hopelessly out of touch with reality.

While the lackey futilely dreams of a rise in the ranks, the thug, in an equally vain measure, imagines themselves on an upward trajectory through their own inherent abilities.

The word "thug" ultimately comes from the Hindi word thag, meaning "rogue," "thief," or "cheat." This, in turn, is derived from the Sanskrit word sthaga, meaning "scoundrel," which comes from the verb sthagati, "to conceal."

During the British colonial period in India, the term "Thug" (often capitalized) was used to refer to members of a network of criminal gangs known as Thuggee. These groups were professional robbers and murderers who preyed on travelers, often by strangulation, sometimes in the name of the goddess Kali.

The word "thug" entered the English language in the early 1800s, directly from Hindi, to describe these Indian criminals. The earliest recorded use in English is around 1810.

By 1839, the meaning of "thug" broadened in English to refer generally to a "ruffian, cutthroat, or violent lowbrow." It became a general term for a violent, aggressive, or lawless person.

This is the modern thug. Excessively assured of their own might. Persistently proceeding under a mental 'plan' that does not include much past their next 'score'. Never worried, but always self-assured in their own personal merits that they can overcome anything and anyone.

Until the day, usually quick in coming, that they either lead themselves into a fatal fall of their own foolishness or, in the world of comics, the bone crushing fist of a super-hero.

While there is some pleasure in seeing them fall due to the circumstances of their own making, the two-fisted justice of super-heroes raining violence upon the thug is more immediate and satisfying.

Whatever the thug had thought of their own brute strength is revealed to be nothing more than a gnat in the face of a hurricane. Thinking themselves a shark amongst guppies, they suddenly, painfully, find themselves a minnow in a maelstrom.

The irony sits well, as the thug has invariably spent their lives subjugating those who were weaker and suddenly finds themselves as impossibly weak before the caped justice of spandex and icons.

But, like the lackey, no matter how many thugs are pulverized under the colorful superhuman might of heroes, more will quickly take their place.

Which just makes for good comics!

⚡ Happy 🎯 Heroclix 💫 Friday! 👽

_____________________________

A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.

Secret Identity: None, and no one wants to know

Publisher: All

First appearance: The first time a big guy kicked sand in a little guy's face at the beach

Created by: Greed and stupidity

* As seen in BP 2024 Day 96!

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Hivjufossen is a 250 meters high waterfall in Hovet, a village in the municipality of Hol in the province Viken, in Norway.

Some kilometers from the centre of the village Hovet, in the direction of Aurland, is a hiking track to the Hivjufossen. The majestic waterfall is a tourist attraction and can only be reached after 40 till 60 minutes climbing. Hivjufossen consists of an upper and lower waterfall which are created by the water of the river Storekvelvi that streams from Hardangervidda National Park to Hallingskarvet National Park. It is joined by other rivers and streams as it flows in the direction of the river Storåne in Hovet.

Deadly accidents

The waterfall came in the news when on August 3, 2007 a Dutchman (40) accidentally fell into the waterfall and was found dead some hours later. The first deadly accident took place in 1991. The victim was a Norwegian woman (44). The third victim was an American (52).

The fatal fall happened on 24 July 2016. Magne Holestøl, local guide, experienced travel guide of tourists who visit the Hivjufossen and member of the rescue team in 1991, stated in the article "Ikke trygt for turister" in the provincial newspaper NRK Buskerud Hivjufossen is not safe for tourists.

Source: www.wikiwand.com/en/Hivjufossen

The Hermitage is a beautiful property near Dunkeld, Scotland, that is owned by the National Trust for Scotland (it costs only £2 carpark charge for your visit). The River Garry runs through a gorge here, which features nice waterfalls and the tree colours in autumn (or fall to my trans-atlantic friends) are just so gorgeous. Having been involved here a few years ago, in the successful rescue of a lady after her near-fatal fall off the rocks, we nowadays stick to the safe paths. Many years ago I used to clamber over slippery rocks, for that special shot, but those heady days are gone.

The sandaled right foot on a rectangular plinth crowns a pillar inscribed in nine lines of Greek in which Isidoros, the monument’s dedicator, claims that he dedicated this foot to a deity, whom he does not explicitly name, as a result of having recovered from a near-fatal fall. According to the inscription, there is no specific reason for connecting this dedication exclusively with Isis, while feet, although associated with Isis as ex-votes, are also associated with Sarapis and other deities.

The foot and its inscription serve to illustrate that this shrine at Ras el-Soda was the result of a private initiative rather than state sponsorship and that it should be considered a shrine to Egyptian deities in general rather than to specific deities, such as Isis or Sarapis because Isidoros passes over the name of his deity in silence.

Marble

Roman Period

Ras el-Souda, Alexandria

Graeco Roman Museum

Alexandria Egypt

The sandaled right foot on rectangular plinth crowns a pillar inscribed in nine lines of Greek in which Isidoros,

the monument’s dedicator, claims that he dedicated this foot to a deity, whom he does not explicitly name,

as a result of having recovered from a near-fatal fall. There is no specific reason — according to the inscription —

for connecting this dedication exclusively with Isis, while feet, although associated with Isis as ex-votes, are also

associated with Sarapis as well as with other deities.

The foot and its inscription serve to illustrate that this shrine at Ras el-Soda was the result of a private initiative

rather than state sponsorship and that it should be considered a shrine to Egyptian deities in general rather than

to specific deities, such as Isis or Sarapis because Isidoros passes over the name of his deity in silence.

The only private temple discovered (1936) so far in Alexandria was situated in the Ras El Soda area on the agricultural road leading to El Montazah and Abu Qear and near the eastern company of Linen. In the early 19th and 20th centuries, the temple was transported to Bab Sharq.

It was built by the Roman charioteer Ezadoras (Isidore) as a thank-giving for Isis, on the recovery of his foot which was broken when he fell off his chariot.

The temple consists of a platform built of limestone and approached by a staircase. In the middle of the platform is a small pedestal on which the votive marble statue of Ezadoras was placed.

From Ras el-Soda Temple, now at the Antiquities Museum of Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Did you like that ? Quotation inlaid into pavement

Moments before final descent along 80 degree slant to the bank of beautiful Kedartal...

Taken at glacial ridge along Kedartal in Garhwal Himalayas, uttaranchal, India.

Larger view

On Black

Horseshoe bend near Page, Arizona. I was here twice to photograph this location, once in the evening and once in the morning. It is a beautiful spot, but there was also the height.

I am afraid of heights and the drop of from the edge in steep, spectacular and 100% deadly.

The way I made this photograph is to push forward my camera on a tripod towards the edge, after I crawled, lying down slowly towards the edge under the management and with support of my Sam. I almost didn't photograph at all!

Probably very funny for people that witnessed my approach.

For me, it is unbelievable that not more people die from a fatal fall, seeing what they do here, standing, photographing and posing near the edge.

I will upload a sunrise photo sometime in the future, which will provide an even wider view of the river below.

Hivjufossen is a 250 meters high waterfall in Hovet, a village in the municipality of Hol in the province Viken, in Norway.

Some kilometers from the centre of the village Hovet, in the direction of Aurland, is a hiking track to the Hivjufossen. The majestic waterfall is a tourist attraction and can only be reached after 40 till 60 minutes climbing. Hivjufossen consists of an upper and lower waterfall which are created by the water of the river Storekvelvi that streams from Hardangervidda National Park to Hallingskarvet National Park. It is joined by other rivers and streams as it flows in the direction of the river Storåne in Hovet.

Deadly accidents

The waterfall came in the news when on August 3, 2007 a Dutchman (40) accidentally fell into the waterfall and was found dead some hours later. The first deadly accident took place in 1991. The victim was a Norwegian woman (44). The third victim was an American (52).

The fatal fall happened on 24 July 2016. Magne Holestøl, local guide, experienced travel guide of tourists who visit the Hivjufossen and member of the rescue team in 1991, stated in the article "Ikke trygt for turister" in the provincial newspaper NRK Buskerud Hivjufossen is not safe for tourists.

Source: www.wikiwand.com/en/Hivjufossen

Banished from my house to make way for a bridesmaid party get together, I had no other option but to head out with my newly acquired Canon EOS 5D Mk2. My original plan had been to go to Spurn Point, but the forecast for blanket cloud made me change this. The only other place with interesting weather was the High Peak, so I set off for Buxton with no particular plan in mind other than to try and make some images with my new 'old' kit. As I approached Buxton, I made the snap decision to go to Chrome Hill and Parkhouse Hill, as I had not visited them for about ten years. In fact, the last time I photographed them, I was using Fuji Velvia with my Canon EOS 3.

When I arrived at the foot of Parkhouse Hill I made the terrible mistake of driving off the tarmac road and on to the grass in order to turn the car around. The ground was boggy and the wheels of my Corsa span like crazy. Luckily, a family was walking along the road and the man helped me to try and push the car out, while his wife sat in the driver's seat and their kids held on to their very excited dog. We somehow just managed to get the car free and get the wheels on to the road. Having thanked the family, I drove back to the main road, parked up there and walked back to the foot of Chrome Hill. By this time, it was beginning to snow quite a bit, but I carried on and scrambled my way to the top of Chrome Hill. I came across a few walkers on the way back down, who looked a little worse for wear and they were the last people I saw on the hill.

Once I was at the top, it was like another world - a complete white out with thick fog and increasingly heavy snowfall. I tried my best to make some meaningful images, but the possibilities were very limited and there was no variation in the light. My biggest challenge at this point was keeping snow off the front of the lens. The petal hood of my 24-105mm did a good job at this point. I was not surprised that there were no other photographers up there!

The next point is well worth making a note about: I am pretty resistant to whatever the elements might throw at a landscape photographer and most things don't bother me too much, but the trip back down was incredibly dangerous. Chrome Hill is pretty steep, with no path, and by the time I was making my way back down, there was little sign of a discernible route to take. My walking boots were pretty hopeless for getting a grip on the slippery, snowy surface and one false move might have led to a fatal fall to the bottom of the slope. My Manfrotto tripod came into its own in this situation as I used it to gain some stability, but in the end I inched my way down the hill in a similar way one would climb down a ladder. It was a huge relief to finally reach the bottom of the hill, but it was not an experience I would recommend to anyone.

Volume 1 - Origin of Powerhouse: Issue #10

Flicker Fighters

Firelighter begins to stir after being rammed through the door. For a brief moment Ben contemplates bringing his sword down on him but scolds himself for even contemplating it. Instead, he runs, seeing the ceiling beginning to crumble and crack. Ben makes his way to the window and uses the hilt of his blade to smash the glass. It explodes into glistening shards which sprinkle the ground outside. With a hesitant glance Ben looks down at the fire engines and crowd of onlookers. It must’ve been a 20ft drop down. With his weight in the armour it would be a fatal fall. The alternative, is to fight a Metahuman with flamethrower hands. Not to mention the fact they were in firefighter gear and well acclimated to the napalm environment around them both. Even with the fresh air and cool breeze from outside Ben was cooking inside his armour. He could feel his skin blistering and cracking under his armour. The heat was intense and his sweat was starting to sizzle against his skin. His lungs were being choked and his eyes were burning up. So much so his cheeks were streaming with tears. Leaving clean trails on his soot covered cheeks.

He notices Firelighter getting to his feet and his fingertips begin to dance with flames once more. Ben grimaces and looks back outside and at the drop. He could make out a few faces in the crowd, but couldn’t see his Mum. She wasn’t in her office. Luckily, she hadn’t bumped into Firelighter either as he too was approaching her door. There were other exits outside so he knew if she was still in the building she’d be able to make it safely out, as would the others. The only way out was to either fight Firelighter and make his way through a burning corridor or jump from the window.

Ben: “Goddamn it.”

Ben takes a sharp inhale, and steps one foot out the window. He clings to the side of the window frame. After mustering the courage to bring his other leg out, he lets go and falls from the building. Flames spray out from the window as he descends and Ben yells in a panic. He had an idea in mind before he jumped but it still didn’t stop him from being scared. Quickly, he grips both hands on the hilt of his blade and drives the metal into the side of building. Much to his luck, it cuts deep into the brick and tears through the foundation. Ben yells in pain, feeling the muscles of his arms stretch from the strain of holding onto sword. His sword continues to slice its way down as he comes to a slow stop. He hears people scream for him as he dangles from the hilt of his sword. Ben’s arms tremble from effort and his biceps spasm with pain. He looks down at the ground, just a 10ft drop. Thankfully, he sees firemen extending a ladder out towards him. He didn’t know what would happen to Firelighter but he didn’t really care at this point in time.

Prepare thy forearms! LEGO knights rejoice! We are happy to release our popular Leather Vambraces in a new tan color. No longer will your calvary fear the fatal fall of a sword upon their unfashionably unprotected arms. These custom LEGO accessories pair perfectly with our selection of Medieval Castle and Thrall armor, and will embolden any warrior to forge into battle.

Premier Kenney miscalculated the 3rd covid wave here... 15,000 surgeries were canceled and there were many deaths in the Fatal Fall that followed.

Whoopsie.

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This is the view from Glacier Point that everyone else was taking photos of when I took Picture Window. This image doesn't quite do the breathtaking view justice - you really do have to experience it in person.

Below are outtakes from my hike up to the ~8,800+' summit of Half Dome. The final 400' ascent to the summit is via cables that are fixed with bolts in the rock and raised onto a series of metal poles (see below). Incidentally, the latest fatal fall from the cables happened a mere 2.5 weeks after my climb!

More to follow in a couple of days.

Saturday, July 8: Stage 8, Libourne - Limoges, 201 km

His record attempt ended in a minor. No 35th tour victory for MARK CAVENDISH, the Manxmissile from the Isle of Man (1985).

No first place at the expense of Eddy Merckx but a potential collarbone fracture and an early exit from the peloton. Immediately the end of Cavendish's touring career, which will end after this season.

But should he stop? Immediately after his fatal fall, the words of the great Eddy Merckx already came: "Cavendish must come back to the Tour! This does not have to be goodbye yet! A 35th stage victory is still possible. I would wholeheartedly give it to him!" Great words of a great man! And we all hope so too! And his team Astana as well.

Well Mark, please come back one more time.

(photo in "Het Nieuwsblad", July 10, 2023)

Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper, MTA New York City Transit President Richard Davey, and MTA Chief Safety Officer Patrick Warren at the Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St Station on the L line on Thursday, Jun 22, 2023 after one teen was killed and another seriously injured during a subway surfing incident.

(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)

Dutch postcard by Takken / 't Sticht, no A.X. 934. Photo; Fotoatchief Maandblad PHILHARMONIC.

Sultry American jazz and pop singer Peggy Lee (1920-2002) recorded such classics as 'Fever', 'Manana', 'Big Spender' and 'Is That All There Is?'. In Hollywood, she made herself a name with parts in The Jazz Singer (1952) and Pete Kelly's Blues (1955). And she composed songs for Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp (1955), for which she also voiced the unforgettable Peg, a broken-down old showgirl of a dog, whose provocative walk was based on the stage-prowl of Peggy Lee.

Peggy Lee was Born Norma Dolores Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1920. She was the seventh of the eight children of Selma Amelia (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olof Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad. At age four her mother died. Peggy's father remarried Minnie Schaumberg Wiese, but he later left home, leaving Peggy's care entrusted to a stepmother who physically abused her. Peggy used singing as an escape. She later memorialised this in the calypso number 'One Beating a Day', one of 22 songs she co-wrote for the autobiographical musical 'Peg' (1983), in which she made her Broadway debut at the age of 62. Young Peggy worked as a milkmaid, later turning to singing for money in her teens. While singing on a local radio station in Fargo, the program director there suggested she change her name to Peggy Lee. She developed her trademark sultry purr, having decided to compete with the noisy crowd with subtlety rather than volume. Peggy's big break came in 1941 when Benny Goodman hired her to sing with his band after hearing her perform in a Chicago nightclub. She replacied vocalist Helen Forrest. In 1942 Lee had her first No. 1 hit, 'Somebody Else Is Taking My Place', followed in 1943 by 'Why Don't You Do Right?', which sold more than one million copies and made her famous. She sang with Goodman's orchestra in two films, Stage Door Canteen (1943) and The Powers Girl (1943). In March 1943 Lee married Dave Barbour, a guitarist in Goodman's band. She had to leave the band and became a housewife. In 1947, she drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the Capitol Record. She had hits with 'Golden Earrings', 'It's a Good Day' and the no. 1 hit 'Manana', which she also wrote. Later, such classics followed as 'Fever' in 1958, 'Lover', 'Big Spender' and 'Is That All There Is?' - the latter winning her a Grammy Award in 1969. Peggy's vocal style provided a distinctive imprint to countless swing tunes, ballads and big band numbers. She was considered the type of performer equally capable of interpreting a song as uniquely as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Bessie Smith.

Peggy Lee also became known as a film actress. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "An elegant, intimate performer with a minimalist style, her recording and supper club fame eventually led to movie offers". She appeared opposite Danny Thomas in The Jazz Singer (Michael Curtiz, 1952), a remake of the Al Jolson film, The Jazz Singer (1927). She made her mark in Hollywood, winning an Academy Award nomination for her role as a singer who battles the bottle in the jazz saga, Pete Kelly's Blues (Jack Webb, 1955). She composed songs for the Walt Disney animated classic Lady and the Tramp (Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske, 1955). She also voiced four different characters in the film: Darling, both the Siamese cats, and Peg, a broken-down old showgirl of a dog, whose provocative walk was based on the stage-prowl of Peggy Lee. In 1991, 36 years later, she won $2.3 million against Disney to recoup royalties from videocassette sales of Lady and the Tramp. The case hinged on a clause in her pre-video-era contract barring the sale of 'transcriptions' of the film without her approval. But music was her first love and she continued on the road, crossing over occasionally from the easy jazz to pop field. At the age of 62, she made her Broadway debut in the autobiographical musical 'Peg' (1983). It was one of the few projects in her life that was not a success.

Peggy Lee was nominated for twelve Grammy Awards, winning Best Contemporary Vocal Performance for her 1969 hit 'Is That All There Is?' Her 1989 album, 'Peggy Sings the Blues', was a Grammy Award nominee. Peggy was a prolific songwriter and arranger and her 1990 'The Peggy Lee Songbook' contained four songs she wrote with guitarist John Chiodini. Peggy also wrote for jazz greats Duke Ellington, who called her "The Queen", and Johnny Mercer, and composer Quincy Jones. Also in 1990 Peggy was awarded the coveted Pied Piper Award presented by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). In 1995 she was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Peggy's private life was racked by physical ailments, a near-fatal fall in 1976, diabetes and she was semi-confined to a wheelchair since the 1980s, but she valiantly continued performing. She was married four times, to guitarist Dave Barbour, actor Brad Dexter, actor Dewey martin, and actor Jack del Rio, all marriages ending in divorce. She and David Barbour had a daughter, Nicki Lee Foster (1943), her only child. Peggy and Dave were on the verge of a reconciliation in 1965, but he died of a heart attack before the couple got back together. At the time, Dave had divorced her because he felt his drinking was not good for his daughter. They engaged again four days before he died. Dave claimed he had been sober 13 years by then and was ready to remarry Peggy. In 1998, Peggy Lee had a stroke, and in 2002, she died of a heart attack in Bel Air, Los Angeles. Just a week before her death, she earned a preliminary approval of $4.75 million in a class lawsuit (she was the lead plaintiff of a group of Decca recording artists) for royalties against Universal Music Group. Gary Brumburgh: ""Miss Peggy Lee", as she was always introduced, was a class act all the way and, in talent, is often deemed a smooth, self-contained combination of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday." And according to IMDb, Lee is the namesake of the Margarita cocktail. In 1948. Santos Cruz, a bartender at the famed Texas nightclub the Balinese Room, mixed up a new drink especially for her. He named it for the Spanish version of 'Margaret' which is the formal version of 'Peggy'.

Sources: Kelly E.F. Wiebe (IMDb), Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

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Panorama of the Wetterstein mountains (Eastern Alps), viewed from the Zugspitzplatt, Bavaria, Germany

Some background information:

The Platt or Zugspitzplatt is a high karst plateau with numerous caves below the summit of the Zugspitze to the south and southeast which lies at a height of between 2,000 and 2,650 m (6,560 and 8,690 feet). It forms the head of the Reintal valley and has been shaped by a combination of weathering, karstification and glaciation. The area contains roches moutonnées, dolines and limestone pavements as a consequence of the ice ages. In addition moraines have been left behind by various glacial periods. The Platt was completely covered by a glacier for the last time at the beginning of the 19th century. Today 52% of it consists of scree, 32% of bedrock and 16% of vegetation-covered soils, especially in the middle and lower areas.

Some words about the mountains on this picture: You can see quite a number of summits here. The most prominent and also highest one is the Hochwanner (in English: High Wanner) on the right with a height of 2,744 m (9,003 feet). The summit next to it is the Großer Hundsstallkopf (in English: Great Dog Stable Head) with a height of 2,559 m (8,396 feet). Both summits are connected by the Teufelsgrat (in English: Devil’s Ridge), a crest that is rather dangerous for mountain climbers. The third prominent peak left of centre of this picture is the Leutascher Dreitorspitze (in English: Leutascher Three Gates Summit) with a height of 2,682 m (8,799 feet).

The Zugspitze, at 2,962 m (9,718 feet) above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains in the Eastern Alps as well as the highest mountain in Germany. It is located south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen near the Austrian border.

On the flanks of the Zugspitze are three glaciers, including the two largest in Germany: the Northern Schneeferner with an area of 30.7 hectares and the Hoellentalferner with an area of 24.7 hectares. The third is the Southern Schneeferner which covers 8.4 hectares. All three glaciers are in extreme danger of completely disappearing in the next couple of years due to climate warming and greenhouse effect caused by human activities.

The Zugspitze was first climbed on 27th August 1820 by a team of land surveyors. The team was led by the Bavarian officer Josef Naus. He was accompanied by his survey assistant Maier, and the mountain guide Johann Georg Tauschl. From the Schneeferner Glacier the three men attempted to reach the West Summit along the west ridge. Their first attempt failed, but a second one was successful. They finally reached the West Summit around 11:45 am, where they left behind a long wooden pole and a cloth to mark their success. A thunderstorm and snowfall forced them to climb down again quickly. On 28th August they returned to the shepherd's hut at about 3:00 am,, where the mountain guide Tauschl was given payment of two gulden and 42 kreuzer (converted to today’s currency and buying power: about 150 €).

To this day the ascent of Zugspitze is still a bold venture, which is often seriously underestimated. There are some routes to the summit, with different levels of difficulty, but all of them are still fraught with risks. Therefore many more or less experienced mountain climbers have already lost their lifes during their attempt to climb the summit. The last one was a female Chinese climber in 2013, who had a fatal fall of 500 metres just 100 metres beneath the summit. However, the biggest catastrophy in regard to the number of losses of human lifes happened 50 years ago, in 1965, and there were no mountain climbers involved. A huge avalange came down from the mountain side and when it arrived in the skiing area on the Zugspitzplatt, some hundred metres beneath the summit, it swept ten skiers to their death.

There are also some ways to get to the summit without any physical effort: Three cable cars run to the top of the Zugspitze. The first one, the Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car with its lower terminus on the Austrian side, was built in 1926 and terminated on an arête below the summit before the terminus was moved to the actual summit in 1991. The second one connects the Zugspitzplatt with the summit of Zugspitze and was opened in 1931. On Zugspitzplatt the top station of a rack railway is located, which was founded in 1928, running through the northern flank of the mountain and leading to several stations on the Bavarian side. Finally there’s a third cable car, the Eibsee Cable Car, which was opened in 1963. Its lower terminus is located near lake Eibsee also on the Bavarian side while its top station is situated at 2,950 m (9,678 feet).

Muenchner Haus (Munich House) on Zugspitze (2,962 m), Germany’s highest mountain, with the summit of Schneefernerkopf (2,875 m), Germany’s second highest elevation, and the remains of Northern Schneeferner Glacier in the background, Wetterstein Mountains (Eastern Alps), Bavaria, Germany

Some background information:

The Zugspitze, at 2,962 m (9,718 feet) above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains in the Eastern Alps as well as the highest mountain in Germany. It is located south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen near the Austrian border. South of the Zugspitze the Zugspitzplatt is situated, a high karst plateau with numerous caves.

On the flanks of the Zugspitze are three glaciers, including the two largest in Germany: the Northern Schneeferner with an area of 30.7 hectares and the Hoellentalferner with an area of 24.7 hectares. The third is the Southern Schneeferner which covers 8.4 hectares. All three glaciers are in extreme danger of completely disappearing in the next couple of years due to climate warming and greenhouse effect caused by human activities.

The Zugspitze was first climbed on 27th August 1820 by a team of land surveyors. The team was led by the Bavarian officer Josef Naus. He was accompanied by his survey assistant Maier, and the mountain guide Johann Georg Tauschl. From the Schneeferner Glacier the three men attempted to reach the West Summit along the west ridge. Their first attempt failed, but a second one was successful. They finally reached the West Summit around 11:45 am, where they left behind a long wooden pole and a cloth to mark their success. A thunderstorm and snowfall forced them to climb down again quickly. On 28th August they returned to the shepherd's hut at about 3:00 am,, where the mountain guide Tauschl was given payment of two gulden and 42 kreuzer (converted to today’s currency and buying power: about 150 €).

To this day the ascent of Zugspitze is still a bold venture, which is often seriously underestimated. There are some routes to the summit, with different levels of difficulty, but all of them are still fraught with risks. Therefore many more or less experienced mountain climbers have already lost their lifes during their attempt to climb the summit. The last one was a female Chinese climber in 2013, who had a fatal fall of 500 metres just 100 metres beneath the summit. However, the biggest catastrophy in regard to the number of losses of human lifes happened 50 years ago, in 1965, and there were no mountain climbers involved. A huge snow avalange came down from the mountain side and when it arrived in the skiing area on the Zugspitzplatt, the plateau southeast of the mountain, some hundred metres beneath the summit, it swept ten skiers to their death.

There are also some ways to get to the summit without any physical effort: Three cable cars run to the top of the Zugspitze. The first one, the Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car with its lower terminus on the Austrian side, was built in 1926 and terminated on an arête below the summit before the terminus was moved to the actual summit in 1991. The second one connects the summit of Zugspitze with the Zugspitzplatt and was opened in 1931. On Zugspitzplatt the top station of a rack railway is located, which was founded in 1928, running through the northern flank of the mountain and leading to several stations on the Bavarian side. Finally there’s a third cable car, the Eibsee Cable Car, which was opened in 1963. Its lower terminus is located near lake Eibsee also on the Bavarian side while its top station is situated at 2,950 m (9,678 feet).

On top of Germany you can find a meteorological station and the Muenchner Haus, which belongs to the Alpine Club section. It offers meat and drink as well as thirty beds for overnight stays and is open to overnight guests from May to October. But there are also several shops (even one selling Rolex watches) and other restaurants (even one with exclusive cuisine). There’s an observation platform, Germany’s highest beer garden and more than enough toilets (even special ones for Arab women). And finally there’s a short via ferrata (about 40 metres long), running obliquely up and down from the observation platform to the peak and its summit cross. With such a touristic infrastructure it’s no wonder that the summit of the Zugspitze is visited by more than 500,000 people per year at an average.

Some more words about Schneefernerkopf in my picture: With its 2,875 metres (9,432 feet) it is surely Germany’s second highest peak, but geologists are in disagreement with each other whether it can also be called Germany’s second highest mountain or not. Due to its close proximity to the Zugspitze some experts only regard it as a subsidiary summit of the Zugspitze while others regard it as a separate mountain. So it might be Germany’s second highest mountain, but it could also be just a rather lofty "child" of Zugspitze’s main summit.

Summit cross on Zugspitze (2,962 m), Germany’s highest mountain, with Jubilaeumsgrat (Jubilee Ridge) and the two summits of Hochblassen (Main Summit, 2,706 m and Signal Summit 2698 m), Germany’s sixth highest mountain, on the right side, Wetterstein Mountains (Eastern Alps), Bavaria, Germany

Some background information:

The Zugspitze, at 2,962 m (9,718 feet) above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains in the Eastern Alps as well as the highest mountain in Germany. It is located south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen near the Austrian border. South of the Zugspitze the Zugspitzplatt is situated, a high karst plateau with numerous caves.

On the flanks of the Zugspitze are three glaciers, including the two largest in Germany: the Northern Schneeferner with an area of 30.7 hectares and the Hoellentalferner with an area of 24.7 hectares. The third is the Southern Schneeferner which covers 8.4 hectares. All three glaciers are in extreme danger of completely disappearing in the next couple of years due to climate warming and greenhouse effect caused by human activities.

The Zugspitze was first climbed on 27th August 1820 by a team of land surveyors. The team was led by the Bavarian officer Josef Naus. He was accompanied by his survey assistant Maier, and the mountain guide Johann Georg Tauschl. From the Schneeferner Glacier the three men attempted to reach the West Summit along the west ridge. Their first attempt failed, but a second one was successful. They finally reached the West Summit around 11:45 am, where they left behind a long wooden pole and a cloth to mark their success. A thunderstorm and snowfall forced them to climb down again quickly. On 28th August they returned to the shepherd's hut at about 3:00 am,, where the mountain guide Tauschl was given payment of two gulden and 42 kreuzer (converted to today’s currency and buying power: about 150 €).

To this day the ascent of Zugspitze is still a bold venture, which is often seriously underestimated. There are some routes to the summit, with different levels of difficulty, but all of them are still fraught with risks. Therefore many more or less experienced mountain climbers have already lost their lifes during their attempt to climb the summit. The last one was a female Chinese climber in 2013, who had a fatal fall of 500 metres just 100 metres beneath the summit. However, the biggest catastrophy in regard to the number of losses of human lifes happened 50 years ago, in 1965, and there were no mountain climbers involved. A huge snow avalange came down from the mountain side and when it arrived in the skiing area on the Zugspitzplatt, the plateau southeast of the mountain, some hundred metres beneath the summit, it swept ten skiers to their death.

There are also some ways to get to the summit without any physical effort: Three cable cars run to the top of the Zugspitze. The first one, the Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car with its lower terminus on the Austrian side, was built in 1926 and terminated on an arête below the summit before the terminus was moved to the actual summit in 1991. The second one connects the summit of Zugspitze with the Zugspitzplatt and was opened in 1931. On Zugspitzplatt the top station of a rack railway is located, which was founded in 1928, running through the northern flank of the mountain and leading to several stations on the Bavarian side. Finally there’s a third cable car, the Eibsee Cable Car, which was opened in 1963. Its lower terminus is located near lake Eibsee also on the Bavarian side while its top station is situated at 2,950 m (9,678 feet).

On top of Germany you can find a meteorological station and the Muenchner Haus, which belongs to the Alpine Club section. It offers meat and drink as well as thirty beds for overnight stays and is open to overnight guests from May to October. But there are also several shops (even one selling Rolex watches) and other restaurants (even one with exclusive cuisine). There’s an observation platform, Germany’s highest beer garden and more than enough toilets (even special ones for Arab women). And finally there’s a short via ferrata (about 40 metres long), running obliquely up and down from the observation platform to the peak and its summit cross. With such a touristic infrastructure it’s no wonder that the summit of the Zugspitze is visited by more than 500,000 people per year at an average.

Some more words about Hochblassen in my picture: With its 2,706 metres (8,877 feet) Hochblassen is either in the fifth or sixth position on the list of Germany’s highest mountains, only outreached by Zugspitze, Schneefernerkopf (depending on its status as a separate mountain or just a subsidiary summit of the Zugspitze), Hochwanner, the Hoellentalspitzen and Watzmann. Hochblassen also has a second peak of 2,698 metres (8,851 feet), which is called Signal Summit. In 1871, the mountain was first climbed by Hermann von Barth and Peter Klaisl.

This is the view of Horseshoe Bend, looking down over 1000 ft cliffs. This is 4-5 miles south of the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. Later we saw in the news that a man had fallen 600 feet to his death earlier that same day.

www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/local/apx-glen-canyon-fatal...

It really emphasizes the need for safety when shooting here.

Footprints of local wildlife in the sand, Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs.

This early morning shot is one of the more memorable from my trip as it was the only photo tying in local wildlife and it was the last photo taken before my camera had a nearly fatal fall. Amazingly my camera and lens still worked for the remainder of the trip.

Am Nordufer vom Altausseer See steht seit 2013 dieses imposante, an Paul Preuß (auch Paul Preuss) erinnernde Denkmal vom Künstler Walter Angerer (dem Jüngeren). Paul Preuß wurde in Altaussee geboren (* 19.08.1886) und wurde ein vielseitiger Alpinist. Er galt als einer der besten Kletterer seiner Zeit und wurde Vorreiter des Freiklettergedankens, der zum Ziel hat, die Verwendung von Mauerhaken ausschließlich auf die Seilsicherung zu beschränken und nicht als künstliche Aufstiegshilfe zu verwenden. Leider stürzte Paul Preuß trotz seiner Kletterfähigkeiten am Mandlkogel im Gosaukamm im Oktober 1913 tödlich ab. Viel zu früh verlöschte mit seinem plötzlichen Tod das Kerzenlicht eines aktiven, erfolgreichen und vielversprechenden Lebens. Im Hintergrund des Denkmals ist der Sarstein zu sehen. Das Porträt des berühmten Alpinisten in seiner Heimat fasziniert mich schon deshalb ganz besonders, weil die Schattenskulptur sehr gekonnt und sehr künstlerisch aus einer einzigen zusammenhängenden Metallplatte geschnitten werden konnte.

This imposing memorial to Paul Preuß (also Paul Preuss) mady by the artist Walter Angerer (the younger) stands since 2013 on the northern shore of Lake Altaussee. Paul Preuß was born in Altaussee (* 19.08.1886) and became a versatile alpinist. He was regarded as one of the best climbers of his time and was a pioneer of the free climbing concept, which aimed to restrict the use of wall bolts exclusively to securing by ropes and not as an artificial climbing aid. Unfortunately, despite his climbing skills, Paul Preuß suffered a fatal fall on the Mandlkogel in the Gosaukamm in October 1913. His sudden death extinguished the candlelight of an active, successful and promising life far too early. The Sarstein can be seen in the background of the memorial. I am particularly fascinated by the portrait of the famous alpinist in his homeland because the shadow sculpture was skilfully and artistically cut from a single continuous metal plate.

Panorama of the Wetterstein mountains (Eastern Alps), viewed from the Zugspitzplatt, Bavaria, Germany

Some background information:

The Platt or Zugspitzplatt is a high karst plateau with numerous caves below the summit of the Zugspitze to the south and southeast which lies at a height of between 2,000 and 2,650 m (6,560 and 8,690 feet). It forms the head of the Reintal valley and has been shaped by a combination of weathering, karstification and glaciation. The area contains roches moutonnées, dolines and limestone pavements as a consequence of the ice ages. In addition moraines have been left behind by various glacial periods. The Platt was completely covered by a glacier for the last time at the beginning of the 19th century. Today 52% of it consists of scree, 32% of bedrock and 16% of vegetation-covered soils, especially in the middle and lower areas.

Some words about the mountains on this picture: You can see the Östliche Plattspitze (in English: Eastern Platt Summit) with a height of 2,680 m (8,793 feet) on the right, the Westliche Gatterlspitze (in English: Western Fence Summit) with a height of 2,483 m (8,146 feet) in the middle and the Östliche Gatterlspitze (in English: Eastern Fence Summit) with a height of 2,475 m (8,120 feet) on the left side. The mountain on the left in the background is the Hohe Munde (in English: High Munde) with a height of 2,662 m (8,734 feet). In the centre of this photo you can also see the Schlicker Seespitze (in English: Schlicker Lake Summit) in the distance, with its two peaks and a height of 2,804 m (9,199 feet), and behind it in the far distance (to the right of it) the Wilde Kreuzspitze (in English: Wild Cross Summit) with a height of 3,135 m (10,285 feet).

The Zugspitze, at 2,962 m (9,718 feet) above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains in the Eastern Alps as well as the highest mountain in Germany. It is located south of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen near the Austrian border.

On the flanks of the Zugspitze are three glaciers, including the two largest in Germany: the Northern Schneeferner with an area of 30.7 hectares and the Hoellentalferner with an area of 24.7 hectares. The third is the Southern Schneeferner which covers 8.4 hectares. All three glaciers are in extreme danger of completely disappearing in the next couple of years due to climate warming and greenhouse effect caused by human activities.

The Zugspitze was first climbed on 27th August 1820 by a team of land surveyors. The team was led by the Bavarian officer Josef Naus. He was accompanied by his survey assistant Maier, and the mountain guide Johann Georg Tauschl. From the Schneeferner Glacier the three men attempted to reach the West Summit along the west ridge. Their first attempt failed, but a second one was successful. They finally reached the West Summit around 11:45 am, where they left behind a long wooden pole and a cloth to mark their success. A thunderstorm and snowfall forced them to climb down again quickly. On 28th August they returned to the shepherd's hut at about 3:00 am,, where the mountain guide Tauschl was given payment of two gulden and 42 kreuzer (converted to today’s currency and buying power: about 150 €).

To this day the ascent of Zugspitze is still a bold venture, which is often seriously underestimated. There are some routes to the summit, with different levels of difficulty, but all of them are still fraught with risks. Therefore many more or less experienced mountain climbers have already lost their lifes during their attempt to climb the summit. The last one was a female Chinese climber in 2013, who had a fatal fall of 500 metres just 100 metres beneath the summit. However, the biggest catastrophy in regard to the number of losses of human lifes happened 50 years ago, in 1965, and there were no mountain climbers involved. A huge avalange came down from the mountain side and when it arrived in the skiing area on the Zugspitzplatt, some hundred metres beneath the summit, it swept ten skiers to their death.

There are also some ways to get to the summit without any physical effort: Three cable cars run to the top of the Zugspitze. The first one, the Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car with its lower terminus on the Austrian side, was built in 1926 and terminated on an arête below the summit before the terminus was moved to the actual summit in 1991. The second one connects the Zugspitzplatt with the summit of Zugspitze and was opened in 1931. On Zugspitzplatt the top station of a rack railway is located, which was founded in 1928, running through the northern flank of the mountain and leading to several stations on the Bavarian side. Finally there’s a third cable car, the Eibsee Cable Car, which was opened in 1963. Its lower terminus is located near lake Eibsee also on the Bavarian side while its top station is situated at 2,950 m (9,678 feet).

the West door

There was a royal palace at Jedburgh, and the abbot was a frequent advisor to Scottish rulers. Alexander III married Yolande de Dreux at the abbey church in 1285. According to a rather convenient legend, a spectral figure appeared at the wedding and prophecied the king's imminent death. Sure enough, Alexander suffered a fatal fall from his horse the following year. The coronation of Malcom IV also took place here.

Hivjufossen is a 250 meters high waterfall in Hovet, a village in the municipality of Hol in the province Viken, in Norway.

Some kilometers from the centre of the village Hovet, in the direction of Aurland, is a hiking track to the Hivjufossen. The majestic waterfall is a tourist attraction and can only be reached after 40 till 60 minutes climbing. Hivjufossen consists of an upper and lower waterfall which are created by the water of the river Storekvelvi that streams from Hardangervidda National Park to Hallingskarvet National Park. It is joined by other rivers and streams as it flows in the direction of the river Storåne in Hovet.

Deadly accidents

The waterfall came in the news when on August 3, 2007 a Dutchman (40) accidentally fell into the waterfall and was found dead some hours later. The first deadly accident took place in 1991. The victim was a Norwegian woman (44). The third victim was an American (52).

The fatal fall happened on 24 July 2016. Magne Holestøl, local guide, experienced travel guide of tourists who visit the Hivjufossen and member of the rescue team in 1991, stated in the article "Ikke trygt for turister" in the provincial newspaper NRK Buskerud Hivjufossen is not safe for tourists.

Source: www.wikiwand.com/en/Hivjufossen

“Acquire the Spirit of peace and thousands around you will be saved.”

— St. Seraphim of Sarov

It was Father Germann, a monk I met in the Russian city of Vladimir, who first told me about Saint Seraphim of Sarov. He was showing me the local cathedral, still a museum in those days of Soviet rule. The tourists in the church were startled to see a living monk complete with long hair, full black beard and black monk’s cap — they couldn’t stop staring. It wasn’t only his appearance that attracted attention. He possessed a contagious joy and freedom. I mentioned to him that this church must have wonderful acoustics. Immediately he sang an unrestrained, banner-like, “Amen.” The church reverberated in an astonishing way.

I had traveled enough in Russia to be vaguely aware of Saint Seraphim, the icon of whose compassionate face seemed to grace the walls of every parish church and to have a place in many homes, but Father Germann was the first to tell me the saint’s life story.

“Saint Seraphim helped me to become a believer,” he said. Reaching into his pocket, he showed me a fragment of a large rock on which Saint Seraphim prayed for a thousand days. It was a gift from an old nun who knew a nun who knew a nun who had been in the Diveyevo convent near Sarov, a community closely linked with Saint Seraphim. The saint’s few possessions, among them the heavy cross he wore, were kept in the custody of the sisters at Diveyevo.

Father Germann explained that Seraphim was born in 1759, the son of a builder. He was still a baby when his father died. His mother took over the business while raising her children. While still a boy, he had what should have been a fatal fall from scaffolding. Miraculously, he was unharmed, an event which prompted a local “holy fool” to say the boy must surely be “one of God’s elect.”

When Seraphim was ten, he had his first vision of the Mother of God. Nine years later he entered monastic life where he began the regular recitation of the Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

Later, following his ordination as priest in 1793, he was led to seek a hermit’s vocation in the forest, or, as he regarded it, his “Holy Land.” Here he lived alone, devoting himself to prayer, study and tending his small garden, with few aware he was alive apart from the wild animals he befriended with gifts of food, among them a bear who sometimes lay at his feet, a scene portrayed in some of the icons of Saint Seraphim.

During this period of social withdrawal, he was nearly beaten to death by robbers who had heard there was a treasure hidden in his cabin. The injuries he suffered made him walk with a bent back for the rest of his life, a stance occasionally shown in icons. After recovering from his injuries, he spent a thousand days and nights in prayer on a large rock in the forest, sometimes standing, other times kneeling, leaving the rock only for brief periods.

After his long apprenticeship in solitude, people began coming to Staretz Seraphim for confession and advice, a few at first, but finally they came in floods. One of the first pilgrims was a rich man, gravely ill, who was healed by Seraphim, so healed that he gave up all his wealth and embraced holy poverty.

During the last eight years of his life, Saint Seraphim spent many hours each day talking with those in need, some of whom had walked for weeks to reach him. Others came by carriage, among them Czar Alexander I, who later gave up the throne and lived a pious life in Siberia — some say under the influence of Saint Seraphim.

Among many remarkable stories left to us about Seraphim’s life, one of the most impressive comes from the diary of Nicholas Motovilov, who as a young man came to Sarov seeking advice. At a certain point in their conversation, Seraphim said to his guest, “Look at me.” Motovilov replied, “I am not able, Father, for there is lightning flashing in your eyes. Your face has grown more radiant than the sun and my eyes cannot bear the pain.” The staretz answered, “Do not be afraid, my dear lover of God, you have also now become as radiant as I. You yourself are now in the fullness of the Holy Spirit. Otherwise you would not be able to perceive me in the exact same state.” Saint Seraphim asked him how he felt. “I feel a great calm in my soul, a peace which no words can express,” Motovilov replied. “I feel an amazing happiness.”

At the heart of Saint Seraphim’s teaching was use of the Jesus Prayer and continuing inner struggle to “acquire the Holy Spirit, the one treasure which will never pass away.” He reassured those who came to him that there is nothing selfish about seeking to save your soul. “Acquire the Spirit of peace and thousands of souls around you will be saved.”

Without a vital spiritual life, he said, we cannot love. “God is fire that warms and kindles the heart and inward parts. And so, if we feel in our hearts coldness, which is from the devil — for the devil is cold — then let us call upon the Lord and He will come and warm our hearts with perfect love not only for Him but for our neighbor as well.”

He was an apostle of the way of love and kindness. “You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of him who gives and kindles joy in the heart of him who receives. All condemnation is from the devil. Never condemn each other. We condemn others only because we shun knowing ourselves. When we gaze at our own failings, we see such a swamp that nothing in another can equal it. That is why we turn away, and make much of the faults of others. Instead of condemning others, strive to reach inner peace. Keep silent, refrain from judgment. This will raise you above the deadly arrows of slander, insult and outrage and will shield your glowing hearts against all evil.”

No matter what season of the year it was, he greeted visitors with the paschal salutation, “Christ is risen!” As another paschal gesture, he always wore a white robe.

Before his death, Saint Seraphim said to the sisters: “My joys, come as often as you can to my grave. Come to me as if I’m alive and tell me everything, and I will always help you.”

On January 2, 1833, Saint Seraphim was found dead in his cell, kneeling with hands crossed before an icon of Mary.

“Saint Seraphim is a unique saint,” Father Germann told me. “In him and his character, in his spirituality, we find the principal Christian characteristics — love for all people without exception, and a readiness to sacrifice. That’s why people love him so much.”

“We live in a time that pays special homage to advanced education and intellectual brilliance,” Father Germann added. “But faith isn’t just for the clever. Seraphim didn’t graduate either from university or seminary. All his ideals were gifts from God revealed through prayer and deeds. And so through Saint Seraphim many different people are drawn to belief — the intellectuals, the simple, and now not only people in the Russian Orthodox Church but other churches.”

“Saint Seraphim is the face of the Church,” said Father Germann.

Living in a period in which iconography had been influenced by western art, old icons of Saint Seraphim often resemble portraits while more recently made icons are usually in the simpler, more symbolic Byzantine style. The one reproduced here, showing Saint Seraphim praying on the rock, was made in 1992 by the iconographer Philip Zimmerman closely following an icon made earlier in the century in France by the monk Gregory Kroug. In all icons of Saint Seraphim, there is a prayer rope in his hands, a reminder of his devotion to the Jesus Prayer.

(extract from Praying With Icons by Jim Forest -- Orbis Books)

brion tomb, san vito d'altivole cemetery, italy, 1969-1978 (largely completed by 1972 as far as I can tell)

architect: carlo scarpa (1906-1978)

a year ago I was able to revisit a number of scarpa's key works, but rather than feeling lucky it left me deeply frustrated: even after all these years I understood so little. project by project, building by building, my knowledge of scarpa receded. every door I opened led me further into the dark. these brief notes are, as always, my own attempt to gain or regain a foothold.

how do we begin to talk about the brion tomb? the published texts on this late work are like a competition in academic obfuscation; scarpa's pervasive use of symbols has even the finest historian talking about occultism. the architect himself was ironic to the point of hardly saying anything at all, although he admitted that this was - uniquely - a project he was happy to revisit. and revisit he did: carlo scarpa was buried, standing up, in a hidden corner of the cemetery following his fatal fall down a flight of stairs in japan in 1978.

but this is less about where the architect went. we should heed the lessons learnt from his monument to the partisan women and from the querini stampalia, projects that reveal scarpa's sensitivity to the position he puts you in.

you already know the place and you know the way there, whether you have been to the small town of san vito d'altivole or not. that narrow asphalt road from the village down to the walled cemetery following a line of tall cypresses, fields to the side. the cemetery with its sad pomposity and polished marble, telling us so little of those dead and those mourning except perhaps their social fears. along the back of the square enclosure, you'll recognise the line up of family graves, sad little temples, always under lock and chain.

the neatness and predictability of death in provincial italy is broken only once. a single, ancient-looking grave stands out in its ruinous and overgrown state. as you approach it, you realise the grave is open, and not only that - at the far end is another opening, two large circles in black steel and coloured glass intersect to form a set of eyes or glasses. come and see, they beckon. come and see for yourself:

enter. through. the. grave.

notice how you don't need to be familiar with symbolism, mythology or modern architecture to understand that you are facing a through-the-looking glass moment; that on the other side, meaning will somehow be heightened and twisted.

scarpa's manipulation of common building parts - we experienced it in querini stampalia when entering the palace through a window and in the monument to partisan women when left on a pedestal, looking down at the statue - these reversals of use and meaning tell us of a profoundly original architect whose approach was closer to what we might find in literature than among his colleagues, right here with just a touch of the gothic novel.

it was ruskin who insisted that we should read a building the way we read a book, and scarpa took care that his works merit the attention. you only need to look at his use of symbols, so confusing in a late-modern work of architecture. the intersecting circles, known as the vesica piscis, form one of the more open-ended symbols, in the scientific community simply signifying a lens which is clearly one of the meanings employed by scarpa. in early christian and byzantine art, the almond shape at the centre was used to frame christ, although in scarpa's use, its emptiness is telling.

it had become something of a personal signature for scarpa in the same way aalto used the wave (aalto meaning wave in finnish), but he only fully unfolded its symbolic potential here in the brion tomb. the duality of the circles is obvious, they express complementary opposites. as you move through scarpa's spaces, these are shown to be many: the husband and wife buried here as in the masculine and the feminine, but also the private and the communal expressed in ritual and reflection, and not least in nature and the built delineating each other. you may continue the list, but of course the circles first of all signify the interdependence of life and death itself, just as the whole turns out to be a meditation on death; a thinking man's reconciliation with death.

more recently, the vesica piscis has been understood as a representation of the female genitalia. this would be frivolous were it not for the way scarpa's own drawings of the cemetery swarm with naked women. I have yet to come across any actual naked women there, but fertility is a theme throughout, and the oddly laconic idea that you enter the cemetery through the birth canal seems to fit with scarpa's particular sense of irony. perhaps it is related to novelistic irony in that you simply cannot know where the author stands.

where scarpa appears willfully ambiguous, it is an invitation. here, standing at the entrance to the brion tomb, you realise that scarpa's work began way back where the mood was set: at the first of the tall cypresses as you left the village. and then, more painfully, that you have always been on the way to the cemetery, that we always are.

but there is a glimpse of a garden through the intersecting circles. you enter; the game continues.

the scarpa set.

#5020 - 2021 Day 271: My current reading is the biography of a Scottish mountaineering legend Robin Smith, whose life was cut tragically short in 1962 at the age of just 23 in a fatal fall in the Pamirs. Who knows how great he might have become.

I have been fascinated by Smith for many years since first reading articles written by him, collated in the compendium of essays "The Games Climbers Play". He was not only one of the greatest climbing talents, he was also a philosopher, an extraordinary writer, and a character of some repute. This picture on the cover has come to be definitive.

Imagine then, when visiting the house of a very dear friend, my intrigue to find a framed picture - this one - on her studio desk. "You have a picture of Robin Smith on your desk," I enquired. Nobody I have ever met outside of climbing circles has heard of Robin Smith. "Yes," my friend replied. "He was my cousin ..."

Connections are immensely powerful.

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View of Lake Eibsee and the Alpine mountain scenery from Zugspitze (2,962 m), Germany highest mountain, Wetterstein Mountains (Eastern Alps), Bavaria, Germany

Some background information:

Eibsee is a natural lake 9 km (6 miles) southwest of the town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. At an elevation of 973.28 m, its surface area is 177.4 ha and its maximum depth is 34,5 m (113 feet). Lake Eibsee lies at the base of Zugspitze (2,962 m resp. 9,718 feet above sea level), Germany's highest mountain. In the village of Eibsee (located on the eastern shore of the lake) you can also enter either the Eibsee Cable Car, which brings you right on top of Zugspitze, or the rack railway, which brings you to Zugspitzplatt, the plateau southeast of the mountain, some hundred metres beneath the summit.

Because of its location at the base of Zugspitze and its greenly tinted water, Lake Eibsee is considered to be one of the most beautiful lakes in the Bavarian Alps. In the northeast the little branch Untersee is connected with the main part of the lake by a bottleneck, which is only 50 metres broad. This bottleneck can be crossed by a footbridge. Lake Eibsee has eight islands, of which Sasseninsel near the lake’s southeast shore is the largest one.

The lake was formed during the Würm glaciation, when the Isar-Loisach glacier vanished and left a basin behind which filled up with water. 3,400 to 3,700 years ago, a tremendous rockslide with an expanse of 13 square kilometres and a volume of 350 cubic metres crossed the middle and eastern parts of the lake. Its energy release was estimated at 2.9 megatons of TNT resp. 220 Hiroshima atomic bombs. The rockslide resulted in a significant change of the Eibsee basin’s morphological shape. At that time today’s shape was formed with its 29 shallows and eight islands. Hence Lake Eibsee is one of the very rare cases, in which shallows and islands are much younger than the lake basin itself.

Lake Eibsee is fed by two streams, Kotbach in the northwest and Weiterbach in the south of the lake. However, Eibsee is a so-called "blind lake" with no outlet above ground. Its water only flows or trickles off subterraneously. It is presumed, that the headwater of Kreppbach stream, which is situated two kilometres northeast of the lake is fed subterraneously by the waters of lake Eibsee.

Not before 1900, a first inn was built at the lakeside. In 1913, the inn was converted into a small hotel, which was again converted into a much larger hotel with a guest capacity of 200 after World War I. In 1941 the hotel was annexed by German airforce and after Word War II it was confiscated by US Army, which used the hotel as a recreation home for their forces. Today Lake Eibsee is still a very popular recreation area with lawns for sunbathing at the whole northern lakefront. However, only dauntless people venture a plunge into the cold water of this mountain lake.

The Zugspitze, at 2,962 m (9,718 feet) above sea level, is the highest peak of the Wetterstein Mountains in the Eastern Alps as well as the highest mountain in Germany. On the flanks of the Zugspitze are three glaciers, including the two largest in Germany: the Northern Schneeferner with an area of 30.7 hectares and the Hoellentalferner with an area of 24.7 hectares. The third is the Southern Schneeferner which covers 8.4 hectares. All three glaciers are in extreme danger of completely disappearing in the next couple of years due to climate warming and greenhouse effect caused by human activities.

To this day the ascent of Zugspitze, that was first climbed in 1820, is still a bold venture, which is often seriously underestimated. There are some routes to the summit, with different levels of difficulty, but all of them are still fraught with risks. Therefore many more or less experienced mountain climbers have already lost their lifes during their attempt to climb the summit. The last one was a female Chinese climber in 2013, who had a fatal fall of 500 metres just 100 metres beneath the summit. However, the biggest catastrophy in regard to the number of losses of human lifes happened 50 years ago, in 1965, and there were no mountain climbers involved. A huge snow avalange came down from the mountain side and when it arrived in the skiing area on the Zugspitzplatt, the plateau southeast of the mountain, some hundred metres beneath the summit, it swept ten skiers to their death.

There are also some ways to get to the summit without any physical effort: Three cable cars run to the top of the Zugspitze. The first one, the Tyrolean Zugspitze Cable Car with its lower terminus on the Austrian side, was built in 1926 and terminated on an arête below the summit before the terminus was moved to the actual summit in 1991. The second one connects the summit of Zugspitze with the Zugspitzplatt and was opened in 1931. On Zugspitzplatt the top station of a rack railway is located, which was founded in 1928, running through the northern flank of the mountain and leading to several stations on the Bavarian side. Finally there’s a third cable car, the Eibsee Cable Car, which was opened in 1963.

On top of Germany you can find a meteorological station and the Muenchner Haus, which belongs to the Alpine Club section. It offers meat and drink as well as thirty beds for overnight stays and is open to overnight guests from May to October. But there are also several shops (even one selling Rolex watches) and other restaurants (even one with exclusive cuisine). There’s an observation platform, Germany’s highest beer garden and more than enough toilets (even special ones for Arab women). And finally there’s a short via ferrata (about 40 metres long), running obliquely up and down from the observation platform to the peak and its summit cross. With such a touristic infrastructure it’s no wonder that the summit of the Zugspitze is visited by more than 500,000 people per year at an average.

He would have wanted to go this way. A life of captivity would have finished him anyway.

SO JUMP!

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Italian postcard by Bromofoto, Milano, no. 473.

Tall, dark and charming English actor Terence Morgan (1921-2005) played many attractive villains and criminals in British films. But he is probably best remembered for his starring role in the TV historical adventure series Sir Francis Drake (1961-1962), about the first Englishman to sail round the world. After this success, parts started to dry up as Morgan was no longer seen as ‘the bad guy’.

Terence Ivor Grant Morgan was born in Lewisham, London, in 1921. He was the nephew of British character actor Verne Morgan. He started work as a shipping clerk at Lloyd's of London before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). After training at RADA, Morgan began as a repertory theatre actor. His career was interrupted by two years in the army in World War II before he was invalided out with claustrophobia and returned to the stage. He played in Robert E. Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play There Shall Be No Night in London's West End. Laurence Olivier spotted the handsome Morgan and gave him the role of Cain in Thornton Wilder's classic Skin of Our Teeth. This 1945 production which also starred Vivien Leigh, proved a huge boost to his career. Morgan joined the Old Vic Company alongside Olivier, playing parts in Sheridan and William Shakespeare. He made his film debut in the role of Laertes opposite Olivier’s Hamlet in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet (Laurence Olivier, 1948). Ronald Bergan in The Guardian: “His Laertes (…) was everything a Laertes should be: daring, dashing and tempestuous. And, at 27, he was young enough to make a convincing student, 14 years younger than Olivier's over-age Hamlet. He wields his sword with aplomb before dying beautifully in Peter Cushing's arms.” Morgan was probably the first actor in the part to get fan mail from teenage girls. Hamlet is still the Shakespeare film that has received the most prestigious accolades, winning the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Terence Morgan signed a contract with the Rank studio. He played a support to Gregory Peck and Virginia Mayo in the American adventure film Captain Horatio Hornblower RN (Raoul Walsh, 1951), made in England. In Mandy (Alexander Mackendrick, 1952) he played the insensitive father of a deaf girl. In Gigolo And Gigolette, one of the three Somerset Maugham stories in Encore (Harold French, 1951) he played a cad risking the life of his wife (Glynis Johns). In 1953 he again played a villain in Turn the Key Softly (Jack Lee, 1953) as a crook who gets his well-bred girlfriend (Yvonne Mitchell) a prison sentence for helping him in a burglary. More nasty roles quickly followed with Always a Bride (Ralph Smart, 1953) where he played a Treasury Investigator who turns bad as well as Forbidden Cargo (Harold French, 1954) as a smuggler and Tread Softly Stranger (Gordon Parry, 1958) where he is an embezzler and murderer, who robs a steel mill in order to keep his girlfriend Diana Dors in fancy clothes. He was often given dramatic exits: Dance Little Lady (Val Guest, 1954) saw him fry in the conflagration at the end, The Scamp (Wolf Rilla, 1957) had him suffer a fatal fall down a flight of stairs, and in Forbidden Cargo (Harold French, 1954), he attempted to drive across Tower Bridge as it was opening and drowned in the Thames. Two films he made in 1955 saw him cast in more positive roles - in the espionage melodrama They Can't Hang Me (Val Guest, 1955) he starred as a dapper Special Branch officer charged with discovering the identity of an enemy agent, and in The March Hare (George More O'Ferrall, 1956) he played an impoverished aristocrat riding a horse for the Derby. One of his nastiest roles was in crime drama The Shakedown (John Lemont, 1959), when he played a pornographer and blackmailer. He just played a petty thief planning a big haul in the thriller Piccadilly Third Stop (Wolf Rilla, 1960) with Yoko Tani. In 1958, Morgan bought a small hotel in Hove, Sussex, and ran the hotel for 16 years.

When his Rank contract finished, Terence Morgan had his biggest screen success. He landed the title role in the British adventure television series TV series Sir Francis Drake (Clive Donner, Harry Booth, 1961-1962). Drake is the commander of the sailing ship the Golden Hind during the 1500s and one of the most famous explorers of the high seas. As well as battles at sea and sword fights, the series also deals with intrigue at the court of Queen Elizabeth (Jean Kent). During his career, Morgan appeared in 20 films and later notable roles included the villainous brother of the mummy (Rameses VIII) in the Hammer horror film Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (Michael Carreras, 1964), Lord Blackwood in the successful French-Spanish-Italian adventure film Surcouf, le tigre des sept mers/The Sea Pirate (Sergio Bergonzelli, Roy Rowland, 1966) starring Gérard Barray, and an estate agent who is forced to watch as his girlfriend (Suzy Kendall) is abused by thugs in the shocker The Penthouse (Peter Collinson, 1967). Since roles dried up, he spent an increasing amount of time as a property developer in Brighton and Hove. Incidentally he appeared in films like Hide and Seek (David Eady, 1972) with a young Gary Kemp, and The Lifetaker (Michael Papas, 1976), which had him back as the bad guy again where as a wealthy business man he plans ritualistic revenge on his wife and her lover. Later he gave a haunting performance on television as an ageing, homosexual matinée idol being blackmailed in an episode of King and Castle (1986) and he had a small part in The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Timothy Forder, 1993), based on the novel by Charles Dickens. In 2005, Terence Morgan died of a heart attack in Brighton, England. He was 83. Since 1945, he was married to actress Georgina Jumel. The couple had a daughter.

Sources: Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Anthony Hayward (The Independent), The Telegraph, Wikipedia and IMDb.

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(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)

Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper, MTA New York City Transit President Richard Davey, and MTA Chief Safety Officer Patrick Warren at the Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St Station on the L line on Thursday, Jun 22, 2023 after one teen was killed and another seriously injured during a subway surfing incident.

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Mayor Eric Adams, NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper, MTA New York City Transit President Richard Davey, and MTA Chief Safety Officer Patrick Warren at the Bushwick Av-Aberdeen St Station on the L line on Thursday, Jun 22, 2023 after one teen was killed and another seriously injured during a subway surfing incident.

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Hivjufossen is a 250 meters high waterfall in Hovet, a village in the municipality of Hol in the province Viken, in Norway.

Some kilometers from the centre of the village Hovet, in the direction of Aurland, is a hiking track to the Hivjufossen. The majestic waterfall is a tourist attraction and can only be reached after 40 till 60 minutes climbing. Hivjufossen consists of an upper and lower waterfall which are created by the water of the river Storekvelvi that streams from Hardangervidda National Park to Hallingskarvet National Park. It is joined by other rivers and streams as it flows in the direction of the river Storåne in Hovet.

Deadly accidents

The waterfall came in the news when on August 3, 2007 a Dutchman (40) accidentally fell into the waterfall and was found dead some hours later. The first deadly accident took place in 1991. The victim was a Norwegian woman (44). The third victim was an American (52).

The fatal fall happened on 24 July 2016. Magne Holestøl, local guide, experienced travel guide of tourists who visit the Hivjufossen and member of the rescue team in 1991, stated in the article "Ikke trygt for turister" in the provincial newspaper NRK Buskerud Hivjufossen is not safe for tourists.

Source: www.wikiwand.com/en/Hivjufossen

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