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The Storm King Highway (Route 218) from Cro's Nest - looking toward Bannerman's Island, Newburgh and the Gunks.
Thanks to yesterday's Storm Eowyn there was so many trees blown over! My walk today took me through Fullerton Woods and I couldn't believe the number of trees that I found, like this!!
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Curiosity left MastCam images of the Sun taken on different sols during the Mars Year 34 global dust storm. This image captures differences in atmospheric opacity related to the amount of dust suspended in the atmosphere over Gale Crater.
Image Credit: NASA / JPL / MSSS / Justin Cowart
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By Kathryn Schulz
There's a select number of places on earth where you really, really don't want to make a mistake. High on the list, in every sense, are the planet's tallest mountains: the 14 peaks in the world that are more than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet).
Widely acknowledged as one of the world's greatest mountaineers, Ed Viesturs is one of fewer than 20 people and the only American to have climbed all of those peaks—and one of only five to have climbed them without supplemental oxygen. Nonclimbers probably know him best as the star of the 1996 IMAX movie about Mount Everest, which he has climbed seven times. I sought Viesturs out because I was curious about the kind of attitude you develop toward error when a single mistake can easily cost you your life.
Ed Viesturs: "A mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it. Even though we succeeded, I don't ever want to do that again. I felt on the way down that the conditions were pretty desperate. We could've gone down in an avalanche at any minute. We just got really, really lucky. There were moments I was convinced we weren't going to make it down, when I said [to myself], "Ed, you've made the last and most stupid mistake of your life."
"I think a lot of people, when they survive a situation like that, they're willing to do it again. They're like, "Well, you know I got away with it one time, I can probably get away with it again." You do that too many times and sooner or later, it's not going to work out."
"I don't really look back and say, "Oh my God, that thing I did was really idiotic, how could I have done that?" I think I always wanted to be careful. I didn't want to die in the mountains. I do think, though, that as I climbed more, I became more conservative, just because of all the things I'd learned. When you're less experienced, you don't even know about the mistakes you're making."
Schulz: Are there certain predictable mistakes that less experienced climbers tend to make?
Viesturs: There's what I call groupthink, what some people call summit fever. You know, there's five or six people and they're climbing along and the weather starts to get funky and the majority of the group wants to go on, and the person with the least experience is like, "Weeellll, they're going on, it's probably OK." It's almost a lemming-type effect. People get swept up in it, it's that psychological feeling of safety. But I think we see that a lot in everyday life, too, where there's a group of people doing something and you go, "Well, they're doing it, it's probably OK."
". . . Climbing a mountain has to be a round trip. So many people get to the summit but never make it back down."
Storm Chasing in South Central Kansas. This storm would later go on to drop a tornado near Cedar Vale Kansas.
Huge storms passed over Grassland National Park for 24 hours recently. After one storm passed there was a brief break for the sun to shine.
In this street corner, water was coming from all directions, it was like walking in a river. Fortunately I had an umbrella, but most people did not. Not that it helped much, the downpour was so strong that only the head and shoulders would stay dry.
In addition to broken windows and hundreds of fallen trees, the storm also tore down roofs and the flashes caused several house fires.
Windows broke down in central Helsinki.
In the evening, the lightning struck down 6,500 times, which is not unusual, but it's the first time this summer that there had been so much thunder,
The storms on the night of July 23rd put on a heck of an electric show before the rain fell, giving me a great opportunity to get some shots before things got wet. This bolt crawled across the sky from the east behind me, all the way across to the west. It was like watching streaks of water run down a stream.
Impressive thunderstroms dominate our afternoons currently. Just ran through one, not the perfect jogging weather...