Each movement was painful and the dust had been sucked up into a blinding black storm.

This account focuses mainly on the efforts of three people to scale the peak in 1996 despite yawning chasms of ever-shifting ice, thundering avalanches, the perils of air so thin that it addles the brain, and sudden, blinding storms.

This account focuses mainly on the efforts of three people to scale the peak in 1996 despite yawning chasms of ever-shifting ice and sudden, blinding storms.

Mr. Brashears's 45-minute account focuses mainly on the efforts of three people to scale the peak despite yawning chasms of ever-shifting ice, thundering avalanches, the perils of air so thin that it addles the brain, and sudden, blinding storms that drop the wind chill to minus 100 degrees.

Braving blinding storms and pursued by Japanese fighters, he ferried evacuees to India aboard a C-47 transport plane, flying over 17,000-foot peaks.

It caught the phalanx of sailors squarely, raked the sand of the beach into a blinding white storm, and went on to tear across the surface of the quiet lagoon waters like a gate.

On they swept over the level and up to the slope, ere they met the blinding storm of the English arrows.