Sentences with phrase «mountain in a blizzard»

The accountants and risk managers know this, but they look the other way to save their paycheques.The American banks» derivatives books are like mountain climbers tethered together on the side of a dangerous mountain in a blizzard.

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Maybe we'll tell them about the night we went camping in the mountains of New Mexico and a blizzard blew up, so we drove down the mountain to stay in a hotel, leaving our kit and tent all set up.

The author and a friend are probably the first whitemen to make a similar trip (they chose to hike north to south) in midwinter.For 17 days in subzero temperatures they snowshoed through blizzards, clamberedacross mountains and elbowed through herds of elk in the valleys.

When he was 17, Herr got trapped in a blizzard during a mountain - climbing trip and lost both legs below the knees to frostbite.

Keira will next appear in drama Everest - the true - life tale about a disastrous attempt to scale the world's highest mountain in 1996, which saw eight people killed when an expedition was trapped in a blizzard on the summit.

WHAT: In post-Civil War Wyoming, renowned bounty hunter John «The Hangman» Ruth (Kurt Russell) is forced to take shelter at a haberdashery in the mountains when a blizzard prevents him from transporting wanted murder Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Red RocIn post-Civil War Wyoming, renowned bounty hunter John «The Hangman» Ruth (Kurt Russell) is forced to take shelter at a haberdashery in the mountains when a blizzard prevents him from transporting wanted murder Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Red Rocin the mountains when a blizzard prevents him from transporting wanted murder Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to Red Rock.

Revisiting and reworking the Western genre for a second time, after 2012's Django Unchained, Tarantino's latest communiqué from the American frontier ensues in the years following the Civil War where race relations run reprehensible as eight rogues diverge together at Minnie's Haberdashery — a stagecoach chalet in the Wyoming mountains — just as a blizzard touches down.

The details: For what the posters and trailers remind viewers repeatedly is his eighth film, Quentin Tarantino has assembled an impressive group of actors — most of them returning Tarantino players — for a snowbound Western about a group of outlaws, bounty hunters, and assorted miscreants who find themselves stranded together in a remote mountain cabin during a blizzard.

Included is a hazard quiz and historic disaster puzzles where users can interactively piece together hand - drawn pictures of such disasters as the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the earthquake and tidal wave in Lisbon in 1755, the Rocky Mountain blizzard in 1870, and others.

Undoubtedly the bus driver who delivered us, in a blizzard, on a snow - covered mountain road, the 20 km from the hotel to the circuit.

I wish I would have gotten the 4WD version as we got stuck in a blizzard in the NC mountains a few years ago.

Even if you're not climbing that mountain, it's nice to know the next blizzard stands little chance of trapping you in your own driveway or the middle of the street.

I went back and forth of this vehicle because I do a lot of driving and the fuel economy wasn't great I have driven Subarus prior to my Jeep because they blend fuel economy with AWD safety, but a month after I bought the Jeep me and a few friends went up to the mountains on a ski trip for the weekend and got caught in a pretty bad blizzard with more then a foot of snow on the ground already cars were starting to pull to the side of the road or rather getting stuck on the way to the side of the road.

Would contemporary readers stick with a novel whose indolent pace feels more a stroll in the country, not a climb up a mountain in the midst of a blizzard?

It's Christmas Eve and a sudden, strong blizzard has left the mountain submerged in snow, wrecking his plan to drive back to Los Angeles in time to attend Jake and Beth's party Christmas Day.

The film follows the events that occur after eight bounty hunters become trapped in a cabin up in the mountains during a blizzard.

With a near - blizzard setting in that night, we woke up the next morning to over a foot of freshly fallen, heavy and wet powder that carpeted the entire resort — a typical variety of snow given the moisture that collects at the front of the mountain range here.

«In one scene towards the end of our hands - on, she has to climb a huge radio tower atop a blizzard - battered mountain.

Rise of the Tomb Raider takes place one year after the events that transpired in 2013's Tomb Raider reboot, and it begins with series protagonist, Lara Croft, making her way up a mountain in Siberia amidst a dangerous blizzard; an intense sequence that not only sets the tone for the 12 - hour campaign, but also establishes that Lara is willing to do whatever she must to uncover the truth about her father's studies.

This latest trailer will restore any faith that may have dwindled as you watched Lara bounce off the side of a mountain in the mother of all blizzards.

The Blizzard Mountain Expansion for Forza Horizon 3 brings with it a Forza first — snow, ice, extreme elevations and blizzards to challenge players in their quest to become the King of the Mountain.

Rich forests flush with life fill the south of the map and treacherous mountains and blizzards rage in the east.

You find yourself inside a cabin, stranded in the mountains as all roads are closed due to a recent blizzard.

We entered a blizzard and the pilot went off course and crashed straight into an 8,600 - foot mountain, completely engulfed in a blizzard.