They headed straight up Mount Zeppelin, which rises 473 metres behind the village and has a small laboratory on its summit, filled with whirring dials and a hum of motors, sucking in air from the winds racing overhead.
After two nonracing days because of high winds, racing restarted in perfect conditions with a spring sun sparkling on the Hauraki Gulf amid whitecaps stirred by 16-knot southerly winds from the Tasman Sea.
A fast-spreading fire whipped by strong winds raced through a refugee camp in northern Uganda, burning 4,000 huts to the ground and killing as many as six people.
As we lurched through a heavy swell along the shores of the tiny island of Eday, icy winds racing at up to 40mph brought a succession of heavy showers of rain, sleet and even hail.
As I lurch towards the stern, a trio of white yachts with matching indigo sails taut with wind race towards us, turn in perfect formation and slice away.
There's nothing more thrilling than those giant ladders in Candyland that let you shortcut the winding race track and cut way ahead of your opponent.
Taken in isolation, a single performance tells little about the state of doping — there are simply too many factors, like wind, race situation, rider preparation and injury, that influence performance to prove that the sport is cleaner based on one climb alone.
In DARPA's 2005 race, 23-year-old U.C. Berkeley student Anthony Levandowski led a team that entered the autonomous two-wheeler in the event's rough, winding race.
Today, as a biting wind raced across campus, most of those students filed into Walsh gymnasium again, their youthful exuberance shadowed by grief, the most recent pages of those metaphorical blank books scored by tragedy.
He is one of the department's most outspoken advocates of using fans to attack high-rise fires, by clearing smoke from corridors and stairs, creating thermal buffers against heat and potentially counteracting the force of wind racing through a broken window.
