In the thin air, the kids promptly fell asleep and Marji fumbled with her movie camera.
Helicopters cannot fly to the area because the thin air disables their blades, making hauling this graveyard down nearly impossible.
Shaw had done as many or more in training, in the thin air of his gym at five thousand feet.
Hiking in the thin air of the Tetons got me thinking about long-tail events, namely a possible encounter with an unfriendly bear.
Both nations have struggled in recent years while playing at altitude, where the thin air hands an advantage to those acclimatised to the conditions.
In the thin air of Cherry Hills outside Denver, Palmer drove the 336-yard par-four first hole to launch his final-round charge that led to victory.
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The hike is tough due to the steep terrain and thin air, but the scenic rewards are worth it.
Flying high in the earth's atmosphere, where the air is thin, is, he says, rather like flying near the surface of Mars.
Sufferers from duodenal ulcers would find Him operating on them, materialising the instruments from thin air.
Expect your adrenaline levels to rocket and, in the warm, thin air, you will realise that cowering in front of an oncoming silverback is not something you could ever get used to.
However, the energy extracted from thin air by these wind farms could well be worth billions, and create thousands of new jobs in the Commonwealth.
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The major averages kept rising into nose bleed thin air, but the Ag names were struggling to stand upright.
Just on the level of sheer spectacle -- and these are movies we're talking about, spectacle is no small matter -- a flick like "Jack the Giant Slayer" has a lot going for it: a perilous daylong climb into the clouds, a castle in the sky worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, waterfalls that drain into thin air and the delightful sight of a 100-foot chef sneezing into his pastries.
Twenty-three minutes later, in the Sterling Cooper boardroom, Don pulled a perfect pitch out of thin air, the first of many resurrections.
Ambitious finger-tip passing opened up space for Barry Davies, but Williams' pass off the floor ended up drifting harmlessly into touch, leaving Bowe grasping at thin air and the Blues' line intact.
"We kept coming back to having a partner in the experience and as we looked out onto the field of partners that existed (in other games), the air gets pretty thin, " Levine said.
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Both were the result of quick bursts of pace which left the defence flailing at thin air.
But my patience had become as thin as the cabin air.
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Rescue helicopters can't reach above Camp 2 because the air is too thin.
Maybe this means the Vix will evaporate into thin air now.
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It will also be tricky to find builders who can work well at such altitudes (few people can do hard manual labour where the air is so thin).
The air is so thin that the first glimmer of sun can throw it into violent convection, lofting up into towering thermals, twisting into dust devils, and collapsing back down as they cool.
The intervening weeks will be spent in a manoeuvre called aerobraking, which involves using the air-resistance of the thin Martian atmosphere to change the elliptical initial orbit into a circular one from which the planet's surface can be examined in detail.
The Argentine keeper was less convincing from the following corner, though, flapping at thin air and then turning to see Collins's close-range shot blocked on the line by Clyne.
When the Fed creates money out of thin air, for example, it is a lie.
By creating money out of thin air, when the Federal Reserve deploys the quantitative easing tools at its disposal, it is printing money.
Libertarians tend to be sticky about principles and the last time I looked robbing savers of purchasing power by creating money out of thin air was theft no matter how Dr. Friedman or the Keynesians would like to justify the practice.
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