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‘Everest’ makes a chilling – and oddly down-to-earth – opera
If you’ve never heard the word “y’all” sung in an opera, or seen an opera starring performers wearing insulated jackets and oxygen masks, you haven’t seen “Everest.” I caught the Sunday matinee of the one-act opera, which chronicles the 1996 disaster on Mount Everest...
Banff Film Festival comes to Austin March 8-9
Lace up your hiking boots for two nights of outdoors-themed films that’ll draw Austin’s tent-and-backpack set to the Paramount Theatre on March 8 and 9. The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, presented by Whole Earth Provision Company, features shorts about...
Fog, friends, and an unfurling river: Racing the Texas Winter 100K
Other than a 25-mile cruise from Austin to Webberville a few weeks ago, I haven’t dipped a paddle in the water since the Texas Water Safari ate me up and spat me out last June. That changed yesterday, when I raced the Texas Winter 100K, a 62-mile paddle race...
In the Swiss Alps, take time to walk from village to village
With this week’s cheese, butter and chocolate consumption off the charts, I needed to hike. Fortunately, that’s easy to do in Switzerland, where you can explore the countryside via a network of well-marked gravel pathways. I squeezed in two hikes my last full day in...
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