Mountain High

• Eiger Mountain High

Because the climbing scenes are basically a bust, the success of North Face depends almost entirely on the arc of [Luise]'s character and the actress who plays her. Johanna Wokalek, so sexy and dangerous in The Baader Meinhof Complex, buttons herself into the role of Luise, a dowdy (if persistent and ambitious) aspiring photographer. Wokalek's role offers plenty in the beginning as she asserts herself to chase her first big story. But the script shortchanges her in the last act of the film, when Luise rejects her journalistic assignment as exploitative (the most confusing element of Luise's story is the way the film equates journalism with Nazism) and becomes a woman in waiting, hoping for the safe return of [Toni], whom she's in love with. To end this review at the beginning of the fil...

• Independent Weekly, The; Durham, N.C.
• April 20, 2010

• Rocky mountain high: Americans united, allies win Colorado court case over school voucher subsidies for religious schools.

Members of the Douglas County, Colo., School Board had ambitious plans to begin privatizing education. Earlier this year, the board voted unanimousl...

• Church & State
• Vol. 64 Nbr. 9, October 2011

• Ski Season Starts at Mountain High; Other Resorts to Open Soon

An early snowfall has brought the promise of a lucrative season to ski resorts in the San Bernardino and San Gabriel mountains. It's awesome. It's the fourth-earliest opening in our history," said Kim Hermon, marketing manager at Mountain High Resort.

• The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
• November 11, 2011

• Mountain Valley High School Honor Roll

RUMFORD -- Mountain Valley High School has announced the first semester honor roll. Grade nine

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• November 12, 2011

• Rocky Mountain High for All Three State Hockey Programs

Recent success for Air Force, Colorado College and Denver has sparked Rocky Mountain-high expectations for fans of all three Colorado hockey programs headed into the 2011-12 season. All three programs have all been good over the last 10 years," Tigers coach Scott Owens said before the annual Faceoff Luncheon at the Colorado Springs Doubletree World Arena on Wednesday. "All three programs are doing a good job finding the players they need in their niches.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• September 28, 2011

• Mountain-High Momos

The senior Sherpas' cooking jobs weren't confined to the mountains. For six years, they helped a Kiwi diplomat and his family in their Nepalese home. Eventually the New Zealander took the couple aside and said, "'You don't have to do this kind of work all your life,'" says [Ongyel]. "They helped them finance a dry food business. My dad manufactured poori [bread], granola, dried vegetables, packet soups." Now, 26 years later, Ongyel hopes to sell his father's products in Burlington. Ongyel names dhedo as another Nepalese staple. "It's kind of a dough made with millet or wheat," he explains. "It's almost like mashed potatoes. They eat it with sauce, a hot sauce, with their hands." Dhal bat - which translates as "lentil rice" - is perhaps the essential food in his culture, Ongyel notes. Fu...

• Seven Days
• September 07, 2009

• Despite High-Profile Mountain Lion Incidents, Encounters with People Are Down

Last week, game wardens killed a mountain lion in a Redwood City backyard. In August, another lion was shot in downtown Berkeley, just blocks from Alice Waters' famous Chez Panisse restaurant. Yet despite such high-profile incidents, a permanent ban on mountain lion hunting 21 years ago and steady growth in California's human population, dangerous encounters between mountain lions and people in California are not on the increase. Actually, they are falling dramatically.

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• April 13, 2011

• Students at Mountain Valley High School

RUMFORD -- Erin Milligan and McKenzie Paterson are co-presidents of the Student Council, National Honor Society members and good friends. They have taken turns being the top student in their class ever since they were freshman at Mountain Valley High School. Now, about to graduate on June 2, Erin is the valedictorian and McKenzie is the salutatorian. Both are excitedly looking forward to their college years.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• May 05, 2011

• No Mountain High Enough: ; Charleston Man with 1 Arm, 1 Leg Conquers Kilimanjaro

Doug Maxwell wanted to conquer the mountain before he was too old. "I was confident that my spirit was willing," he said, "but the flesh can be weak and spongy sometimes. Maxwell knows about that: When he was 10 years old, he was climbing a tree and, he said, "got tangled up in a power line, is the general way to explain it."

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• February 14, 2011

• Rocky Mountain High ; Buffs' Burks Draws Attention.

Alec Burks could appreciate the charged atmosphere created by a near sell-out crowd Wednesday night inside the Coors Events Center, and he had a better seat than nearly every one of the 11,027 spectators as his Colorado basketball team took top-ranked Kansas to overtime before losing 72-66. MISSOURI (16-6, 4-3)

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• July 30, 2010