Despite last year's fiasco on the snowbound Stelvio, where a group of riders clearly gained an advantage by ignoring calls to neutralise the race on the descent, Giro race director Mauro Vegni simply shrugged and said he was sorry, but that article 12.1.040 – which states: "Non-regulation assistance to a rider from another team, stage races.
I got a lift up snowbound Glen Nevis from a mountain rescue Landrover last year (its occupants were not especially risk-averse types), another from a policeman to Fort William in May and one just last week, on Lewis, from a friendly fish-farm worker.
The story carries echoes of both Beckett and another snowbound piece of existentialism, Kafka's The Castle.
It is two years since the Coen brothers made a star of an upper-midwestern winter in their snowbound black comedy, "Fargo", and the fascination shows no signs of abating.
In the winter months, when the high mountain passes into the Kashmir Valley are snowbound, infiltration tails off anyway.
The new high-altitude tunnel under the Somport pass will save trucks half an hour of a dangerous and often snowbound route.
ON DECEMBER 3rd 2004 jubilant crowds flowed into a snowbound Kiev's Independence Square, waving their orange flags, to celebrate a court decision to annul Ukraine's rigged presidential election two weeks earlier.
On a snowbound January morning, Chanda's two brothers are arrested and charged with murder.
And they do not see why Turkey should take on the burden of hosting immigrants just to help out the EU.In a snowbound Banja Koviljaca, on the Serbian border with Bosnia, Anosh, a forlorn young Afghan, has ended up in Serbia's centre for asylum-seekers.
A classic Mark Twain story, about a large group of Congressmen trapped on a snowbound train, comes to mind:"The sixth day passed--the seventh dawned upon as gaunt and haggard and hopeless a company of men as ever stood in the shadow of death.
Trains were cancelled or delayed, commuters frustrated and in several cases passengers were trapped in snowbound carriages overnight.More bad news is arriving with the thaw: from January 1st rail fares will rise across the network by an average of 6.2%.
