"After a couple of months, I decided that it would be better to be alive, in misery, above ground than to die below, so I went back to Spain".
(Sid would later tell me he had started out mining in eastern Canada, but given it up when two of his friends died below ground. Now his office is the vast expanse of the north beyond the screen of his helicopter.
With a few breaths remaining, all I can think is that I must make it through the vent; I can't die below.
Mr. Waterman climbed to the top of Mount Lafayette, a 5,249-foot 5,249-foote White Mountains in northern New Hampeakre, and sat down to din in below-zero theperatures.
10 P.M. (13) IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL -- Henry Darger (below) died in 1973 in Chicago.
Reed Whittemore, a former poet laureate of the United States whose work's calm, unruffled surface belied deep subversion below, died on Friday in Kensington, Md .He was 92.
The author E. Lynn Harris, below, died of heart disease complicated by a hardening of the arteries and high blood pressure, the Los Angeles County coroner's office told The Associated Press.
Mr. Leo, the crane operator, who worked for Sorbara Construction, fell 20 stories to his death, and Mr. Kurtaj, who was working below, died from injuries he received in the collapse.
First, northward (hurrah!) to The Bridge, returning to fill BBC4's Saturday-night subtitled slot (recently vacated by Borgen), with Swedish-Danish duo Saga and Martin teaming up to investigate the mysterious case of a ship found adrift with no crew and a bunch of abducted young Copenhageners in chains below decks, dying (as it turned out) of the plague.
Stevenson, in Balfour's voice, expresses this as he lives over again "the worst part of my adventures… Ransome carried below, Shaun dying on the round-house floor, or Colin Campbell (the Red Fox) grasping at the bosom of his coat…" Balfour survives, of course, but for almost everyone else their fate is death.
