The total along-the-runway wind component sheared from an 8-knot headwind to about a 56-knot tailwind over a 44-second period.

Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.

Larry is not good at a slow tune, or chune as he calls it, but he comes out strong in jigs, strathspeys, and reels, and he whacked off Tullochgorum, Killiecrankie, and the Braes o' Tullymet and Mar, not to mention Garryowen and the Pradhestan Bhoys, and Saint Pathrick's Day and Boyne Water, with inconceivable vim and vigour.

But Jim was all smiles and, as if in added welcome, alpenglow suddenly flared to flood the summit hot pink and lit up the cabin.