In 1998, an American fighter jet clipped a ski lift cable sending a gondola of 20 passengers to their death in the Italian Dolomite mountain range.

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"In a 20-page section...there are explicit references to: The Magic Mountain, John Cheever, Death in Venice, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, Hawthorne and Death of a Salesman, " he wrote.

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The roads were barely wide enough for a horse cart, and often I looked over the face of a crumbling mountain, forcing myself to think of something other than death.

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Modern lifts, primed ski slopes from "Sesame Street" to "Death Wish", solitary cross-country trails through untouched nature, cosy mountain huts, steaming mulled wine, hearty dinners by a crackling fire - all are hallmarks of a German skiing holiday.

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In 1994's mountain-climbing thriller Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone did most of the apparently death-defying stunts himself, while suspended by safety wires and protected by nets.

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An engineer from Tehran (Behzad Dourani) arrives in a small mountain village in order to record some sort of ritual that depends on the death of an old lady.

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And now in "The Hothouse", written in 1958 but not staged until 1980, Mr Pinter plays the coarsest character of them all, Roote, the corrupt head of an indeterminate institution where the inmates and the staff are exploited to the point of torture and death, a theme he was to develop in a sparer and more political way in his later "Mountain Language".

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