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Alvin Ailey Troupe's Choreography Consumes the Stage
Dance Numbers Brim with EmotionBy Katherine S. Ryan
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Wang Center for the Performing Arts
April 13, 7:30 p.m.; April 14-17, 8 p.m.; April 17, 2 p.m.; April 18, 3 p.m.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is among the most well-regarded dance companies in the world, and its performances have been lauded for their artistry, athleticism, and cultural value. The company's yearly arrival in Boston is anticipated with posters draping lampposts and buses around the city, and the company members are welcomed with open arms by enthusiastic audiences. Their performance on Tuesday lived up to the hype.
In their opening night performance, their trademark dance, "Revelations," (danced at almost every show they perform) was prefaced with three pieces that demonstrated a solid range of artistic intentions. The first was a dance of collapse and sudden silences, the second of passion and rapture, and the third of neurotic chaos. The music was equally varied -- from Moroccan chanting to disco-esque electronica to insistent percussion. The dancers were astounding throughout; they contorted and extended and flipped themselves in all directions, flaunting their well-muscled selves as they engaged the choreography. Dancers are often called athletes, but these company members had football-player quadriceps and rower lats. They use their myofibrils well; they are able to use their strength, or to control it, as the movement demands.
In the most stunning of these first three pieces, called "Treading," dancer Clifton Brown, bathed in yellow-pink light, danced from his seat on the stage. He then rose, appearing immense in the spotlight. He moved back to his partner, Lisa-Denise Fisher-Harrell, pulling her up to the light and then disappearing into the shadows. She, too, relished her solo, moving her arms like wings and twisting herself to the music of Steve Reich. Then Brown reemerged, and the two joined together, wrapping one limb around the other, enmeshing their arms, legs, and chests and creeping their bodies one over the other. This was a duo of passion -- sensual, beating, and mesmerizing. As Brown pulled his partner off stage, the crowd burst into gasps and applause.
Immediately following this, "Juba" took on a drastically different tone. Held together first like paper-puppets at the hands, holding their arms extended to the air, four blue-costumed players danced in unison, twirling around the stage. Next they broke off to beat their hands on their knees, gyrate wildly to the rapid beat, and run repeatedly in square formations. The ground was initially lit in dramatic yellow lighting, but dissolved into blue, and the dancers ended one movement by collapsing in unison into a rectangle of space lit up on the floor. The dance suggested a chaotic nightmare and the epilepsy of frustration.
Last, to the delight of the old-time fans edgy with anticipation, the final piece, "Revelations," began. This series of dances is set to gospel tunes. It begins with the company melodiously extending their hands to the sky and executing grande plies, bodies draped in long sand-colored dresses or woven vests. The motions, lighting, and costumes suggest an emergence of people from the soil. The dance morphs next into pure white -- the dancers at first look like aristocrats out for a picnic, except that their movements are too raw, and the piece in the end suggests the purity of renewal. The dancers wear flowing white dresses, twirl huge white parasols, or drag poles decorated with shredded white banners. Finally, in the last part of the piece, nine women dressed up in Sunday church dresses, flapping hand-held fans frantically, come out to nag at their suitors and to dance furiously to the finger-snapping beat of "Rocka My Soul." The crowd roared with enthusiasm through the bows, and stayed to clap for the entire encore.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is here until the end of the week, set to perform the opening night's program again tomorrow night. "Revelations" will be shown at all but one show, together with other favorites and newer concoctions; especially promising is "Hymn," a piece to be performed on Sunday. Student rush tickets ($20) are available for each performance two hours before the curtain.


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Web browsers are making our lives easier with additional features in every major update. One day browsers might be able to replace several software that are required to be installed for different purposes.
Some prominent alternative tasks that browsers can perform are reading PDF files in browser, open different media files including video, audio and images etc. Google Chrome has some extensions and apps that can be used to create, open, edit and manage Office documents.
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Top sources confirmed to NDTV that the Union Cabinet is likely to approve the initiative to build the National Register for Indian Citizens which will be carried out by the Home Ministry.
Last month, Home Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament, "We have to identify who is an Indian citizen and who is not."
One of 20 documents including birth certificates and land records will have to be furnished by citizens. In rural areas, for those who do not have these records, a separate process of verification has been devised by village-level bodies.
In the pilot study conducted in 2009 with a sample size of a few lakhs, only 85 per cent of the residents surveyed qualified as citizens. Nearly 2% cent were found to be illegal migrants.
The fate of those who do not qualify as Indian citizens and are categorized as "illegal migrants" will have to be decided. Broadly there are two options - they can be asked to leave the country or alternatively the government can issue them work permits and allow them to be in India. Sources say the cabinet has not yet begun discussing this aspect.
The database, when complete, will render obsolete the National Population Register, which lists all residents of an area who have lived there for six months or longer, and the much-discussed Aadhar scheme, which ascribes an 12-digit unique number to a person based on their biometrics, introduced by the previous government to make direct cash transfers to the poor for welfare schemes.
Unlike the Aadhar scheme, it will be mandatory for citizens to enlist with the database of citizens.
"As of now we do not have fix of the exact cost but it should be about RS 4000 crore. The Register General of India which will issue the citizenship cards will be conducting another pilot to work out the cost," a senior official told NDTV.


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Plane. Train. Automobile. Underground. Water taxi. Bus. Weary feet. We did it all during the week we were meant to be studying for our final exams. My friends and I packed up our backpacks and left from the Dublin Airport for a week of traveling and exploring.
We arrived in London Monday afternoon eager to discover the city. We spent the evening wandering Piccadilly Circus, looking into the beautiful window displays and behaving like children in the six-story monstrosity of Hamley's Toy Store. We saw Buckingham Palace at night, nice and devoid of tourists. In Hyde Park, we came upon a Christmas carnival where we courageously braved some very high swings. Our eyes were watering from the wind, but we had an amazing view of the whole city.
Tuesday dawned early as we excitedly hopped on the underground to Paddington Station, which is around the corner from the hospital where Princess Kate had the royal babies. From there we went on to check out 221B Baker Street and do some sleuthing. Afterwards, onward to watch the changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. It was quite the ceremony! Onto the underground once more to Westminster. We came out to the most beautiful, radiant scene of Big Ben, minutes from chiming the hour. Though gray all morning, the sun peeked out to illuminate our view of the famous clock and the Parliament buildings. Though we didn't get to go inside, we spent several minutes marveling outside Westminster Abbey, in awe of the architecture and the historicity.
We meandered down to the National Gallery and spent a solid two hours gaping at Fra Angelico, Bernini, Van Gogh, Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, and Rembrandt to only name a few. From there, we found (with some trouble) the Cheshire Cheese where Charles Dickens, Samuel Johnson, and G.K.Chesterton among other authors liked to grab a pint. Afterwards, we went back across the city to see the Brompton Oratory followed by the enormous department store, Harrod's.
Wednesday, we got up to begin the day at the Tower of London. The tour was fascinating, and it was mind-boggling to walk in the footsteps of the royalty, the prisoners, and those sentenced to death, particularly Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher. The crown jewels were absolutely spectacular in person! Afterwards, we sped across the city to see Kensington Gardens and Palace, which were absolutely gorgeous!
The rest of Wednesday was spent in traveling to the airport and flying across Europe to the Venice airport. We made it to the city of canals at 11, exhausted but excited to see the sights the next day. The water taxi ride to our hostel was eerie as the city was covered in fog and mist. The waters were grey and dreary, and honestly a bit foreboding.
Thursday was bright and misty, allowing us to soak in the boats, canals, and bustle of Venice. The day had no particular agenda, and we spent most of it wandering around the narrow streets and riding the water taxis just to soak it all in. We also ate a LOT of gelato. A lot a lot. We saw the Basilica di San Marco, which is spectacular. The inside is in the Byzantine style, and every inch is covered in amazing mosaics. How beautiful it was to pray before the remains of St. Mark the Evangelist. His mark is all over the city in the Marcan symbol of the Winged Lion.
Venice is beautiful, and it was a delight to take a deep breath and not worry about cross the city as we had to do in London. It was nice simply to wander with no commitments and demands.
Friday morning made a parting of the ways as Taryn went to make it to Belfast, while Lena and I took the train to Assisi. The train ride was peaceful and rife with the first glimpses of the beautiful Italian countryside – olive trees, vineyards, and rustic homes. Arriving in the Assisi train station was so very exciting. Lena and I found our Bed and Breakfast before making it to the Basilica di San Francesco for daily Mass. We prayed before the tomb of the saint, absolutely reveling that we actually made a pilgrimage to Assisi.
After Mass, Sr. Mary Frances of the FSE sisters picked us up for dinner, and we got dinner and shared lovely conversation. Then she took us to Mary of the Angels, the basilica built around the Porziuncola, the original church that St. Francis built. It was there that my heart felt squeezed with the reality of where we were. How very good God is!
Saturday, we returned to San Francesco to investigate further the artistry and architecture. Taking our time, we wound our way back up the city poking around the Christmas market and marveling at the views of the Umbrian hillsides. In the afternoon, we walked down to San Damiano, where Francis received the vision from God and St. Clare established her monastery. So. Incredibly. Beautiful. And oh so peaceful. My heart was full walking in the beautiful way of the saints!
The monastery was a place surrounded in the spirit of true peace. What wonder that God brought us, two little girls from the US, to the beautiful Assisi. We climbed back up into the city to explore Santa Chiara before ending our day.
Sunday dawned very, very early as Sr. Mary Frances picked us up for 7am Lauds followed by 7:30am Mass at San Damiano. It. Was. Amazing. And a little bleary eyed. Following Mass, Sister took us to their house for breakfast before dropping us off at the airport.
What a week! And this description is but the bare bones of it all! Britain is great. Italy is gorgeous. And above all, God is good!
May God bless you on your way!


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Asiatic Loins fall under the list of endangered species. It is the Gir Forest National Park that stands alone as the abode of these big cats. Recently, the rapidly declining number of Asiatic Loins turned up as the matter of big concern. But fortunately, just at the right time a miracle at Gir brought a change in the scenario. A lioness named Laxmi gave birth to 5 cubs in a litter (group of lion cubs).
As per the wildlife experts, a lioness normally gives birth to two or three cubs at a time. Therefore, the delivery of five cubs in a litter is nothing less than a miracle that happened in Devaliya Park, Gir.
Around a year ago, Laxmi was shifted from the Sakarbaug Zoo to the Interpretation Centre (a zone where lions and lionesses are kept to receive visits from the tourists) in Devaliya Park. And today this 5 year old lioness is the proud mother of five healthy cubs.
5 newly born cubs are a ray of hope
These five newly born cubs brought a ray of hope for Gir National Park. On April 15, the Supreme Court gave orders for shifting the Asiatic Lions from Gir to Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh.
The Government took this decision as it felt that the shift will bring a positive change in the gene pool of lions. Further, it was like a pre-defined action to avoid the Asiatic Loins from going to the brink of extinction.
Fortunately, the five little cubs have turned as the savior of their other kith and kin. Their birth has proved that the genetic pool at Gir is not affected by any means. Therefore, the Asiatic Loins can flourish at Gir in prosperity.
A brief on Gir National Park
Gir, the only home of the majestic royal cats – Asiatic Lions, was established as a sanctuary in the year 1965. The core area of the Gir National Park stretches over 258.71 square kilometers. Though this national park is highly acknowledged for preserving Asiatic Loins, but in addition to this the sanctuary is a home for various other fauna and flora species. As per the statistics Gir inhabits around 300 species of birds, 32 species of mammals and 26 reptile species. Further talking about the flora species, the major constituents of the park includes:
- Teak
- Khair
- Ber
- Hermo
- Timru
- Saledi
Various conservative efforts were made by the authorities to preserve wildlife dwelling at the park.
One of the most recent was strengthening patrolling and rescue operations around the Gir National Park. For the same WWF-India, a wildlife conservation organization offered three pickup trucks to the governmental bodies. Conservation initiatives have always laid the ground of Gir. This sudden leap in the number of Gir lions is a milestone recorded in the golden pages of the wildlife sanctuaries. The lioness Laxmi has not only set a biological record, but has also gifted saviors to Gir National Park.
Jessica Frei is a wildlife enthusiast and a blogger too, she likes to travel different national parks and wildlife sanctuaries all over the globe. She is currently in India on her wildlife tour.


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Carlos do Carmo, one of Portugal's longest-established fado singers, has received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Hollywood MGM Theatre in Las Vegas, Nevada, the first Portuguese artist to win a so-called 'Latin Grammy'.
Other career award recipients this year are Willy Chirino, César Costa, O Dúo Dinámico, Los Lobos, Valeria Lynch and Ney Matogrosso.
"The 'Board of Trustees' of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences decided unanimously to award Carlos do Carmo the 'Lifetime Achievement Award', a prize that distinguishes the work of major figures in the international musical scene", according to a statement.
In comments to Lusa News Agency, Carlos do Carmo said that at a time of hardship for people in Portugal, he was pleased if this "could give them some joy".
The singer, whose career spans 51 years, said this was also an opportunity for other Portuguese artists to become known and in future also win awards.


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The website contains most of the information that you will need to make an informed decision about the camps that we run. Remember to check out each of our centres, all the activities that we provide, and the way we program those activities together.
Contact us for any further information.
If you have any questions, queries or comments after checking out our website please feel free to contact us by phone/fax/email.
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- No : Please fill in the following booking form or just flick us an email to email@example.com with the details of your camp.
If contacting us for a brand new booking please provide us with the following information to allow us to help you get things moving
- The approximate number of students
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- The time of year you're looking to come to camp (e.g. Term 1, 2, 3 or 4)
- If you have a preference for particular days of the week (most camps are either Monday to Wednesday or Wednesday to Friday)
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Once you've provided us with the above information we will send out a list of available dates for you to choose from. As all our centres are in high demand especially in our peak seasons it is best if you email us back as soon as you can to place a tentative hold on your preferred dates. You can then check with "the powers that be" that you can go ahead with the camp and get back to us with confirmation. Once we have received this we will send out the 1st organisation package which will help guide you through all the processes involved with your camp along with a booking deposit to secure your dates.
We are here to help you out with any questions you have along the way and we will contact you around 3 months prior to your camp to see how you are going with your numbers and to send you the 2nd organisation package to help you collect the information required to finalise your details.
We will stay in close contact with you while you work out how many students are coming, and what activities you would like them to participate in. During this time we can also send a staff member to your school to talk to the students, teachers and/or parents and provide them with valuable face-to-face camp information.
A week or two before the camp date we will ask for final attendance numbers. This allows us to finalise our timetables and programs. All you need to do after that is pack the bags on the buses when they arrive at your school, and enjoy the trip.


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We were graciously hosted by URI Europe in the beautiful grounds of the Theological and Pastoral Center in Antwerp . The staff and volunteers of Bond Zonder Naam ("Movement without a name") CC were great hosts. We thank Fr. Patrick Hanjoul, the dynamic Director of the movement for their great hospitality.
"A THRESHHOLD MOMENT FOR URI" was the theme of the meeting of the three day Global & Regional Staff (June 6-8). Seven years after the signing of URI's Charter and with over 350 CC in more than 60 countries of the world and the enormous challenges, URI is now poised to enter a new, dynamic stage of growth and development...
(to read the full story and see more photos, click here: http://www.urigcmeetingantwerp2007.blogspot.com/ )
URI Statement on the Crisis in the Middle East
(Approved by the Standing Committee on behalf of the Global Council of
the United Religions Initiative)
As trustees of the Global Council of the United Religions Initiative, we write to urge an immediate and complete ceasefire of violence that is currently happening in the Middle East, and a commitment by all parties, including the international community and the world's religions, to find the will to complete, implement and invest in a comprehensive peace agreement that will allow current and future generations of Palestinians and Israelis to live their lives in peace.
We write as leaders of the URI, a global interfaith organization active in 70 countries, through the work of 400 member Cooperation Circles. URI's purpose is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings. We have many members in the Middle East, including Palestinians, Israelis, Jordanians and Egyptians. The URI has consultative status at the UN through ECOSOC.
As leaders of an interfaith organization dedicated to resolving conflict without resorting to violence, we recognize and laud the heroic work of Palestinians, Israelis and peace advocates all over the world who are dedicated to rising above the violence and working for peace, justice and healing.
We believe that a new day is possible when a comprehensive, just peace will allow current and future generations of Palestinians and Israelis to live their lives in peace.
We call on all involved - Israelis and Palestinians, people of other nations, international bodies, religions, and grassroots groups working heroically for peace - to take the following steps to speed the dawning of that day:
* To stop the violence immediately.
* To supply immediate humanitarian aid to address urgent suffering and long-term aid to rebuild.
* To commit to negotiate, invest in and implement a comprehensive peace agreement that will allow current and future generations of Palestinians and Israelis to live their lives in peace.
* To invest in every means possible to weave a fabric of genuine, mutually honoring community among Palestinians and Israelis at the grassroots level.
* To invest less in armaments and more in social and economic infrastructure.
We commit to do all we are able, beginning with support for URI member Cooperation Circles in Israel and Palestine, and engaging our members around the world to help these steps be fulfilled.
And we commit to pray and meditate that violence will cease, peace prevail and a life of hope be restored to the long-suffering people of this region.
URI Global Youth CC Statement on the current situation in Gaza.
As a youth network we sympathise with our fellows, the young people who are caught up in the crisis, in both Gaza and in the Israeli communities that live in fear of rocket attacks. Young people are the future of any community and we feel that they should not have to live amidst a cycle of violence and hardship. In order for young people to make meaningful and healthy contributions to society, it is imperative that they grow and develop within a space of security and integrity.
We are also concerned about those who are vulnerable in these times, such as the elderly and the sick. They need access to medical resources and clean, safe environments. In times of crisis these people suffer the most because basic facilities are less accessible.
They also need to live without the fear created by constant attacks. This situation is robbing people on both sides of basic human rights that are theirs by international law.
We implore both sides to pursue the path of peace and reconciliation and reduce hostilities so that aid and supplies can reach the people of Gaza to alleviate their suffering and so the Israeli people can live without fear. It is our hope that both sides can cooperate in order to achieve a lasting peace and quality of life for all people. Our goal, as members of a global interfaith community, is to achieve this all over the world.


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|23rd IAOPA World Assembly
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|The "Meigs Field of Canada"
|Safety and technology, and the power of numbers
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An important part of any IAOPA World Assembly are the "marching orders" the delegates give to their respective organizations and governments. Passed in the form of resolutions, they explain what is important to GA pilots worldwide and help direct the emphasis of the collective GA representative organizations as they work to preserve and protect general aviation in their own countries.
For example, the delegates called on world governments to "recognize the value of general aviation aerodromes as an essential part their transportation infrastructure," and to "develop and enforce national and local land-use policies and statutues designed to preserve and protect aerodromes."
The threat to general aviation from overzealous security regulations was also a concern of the delegates. They said that governments should first conduct rationale threat analyses prior to adding GA security restrictions, and that regulators should understand the operational and economic impacts of their security regulations.
Delegates said that governments should recognize the value of voluntary security measures by the GA community. (AOPA's Cebula had also briefed delegates on the success of such measures in the United States, particularly AOPA's Airport Watch program.)
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are not only a concern of U.S. pilots. The IAOPA World Assembly delegates resolved that ICAO and its member states should develop uniform standards for UAVs, designed to ensure that the drones do not present a threat to manned aircraft. The delegates wanted UAVs to have "sense and avoid" capabilities so that they won't collide with other aircraft, and they do not want additional airspace restrictions imposed on GA to protect the drones.
And the delegates asked ICAO and member states to develop efficient and inexpensive ways to cross-validate pilot certificates, to allow pilots licensed to fly in one country to obtain a pilot certificate in another.
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Reformed Reflections
Apologetics: The Defence of Christianity
(Part 2)
Scripture tells us that the Gospel message is "foolishness to those who are perishing." But if that is true, if unbelievers will find the Gospel foolish, then how do we tell them about it?
Christian apologists have a crucial task - they bring the Gospel into the marketplace of ideas. They endeavor "with gentleness and respect" (1 Pet. 3:15) to persuade non-Christians of the Truth and the beauty of it. They answer honest questions, refute erroneous views, deal with specific criticisms of the Gospel, interact with our postmodern culture, and shatter the myth that the Christian faith is intellectually inferior.
The value of apologetics, therefore, goes beyond evangelism. The broader task of Christian apologists is to create and sustain an environment in which the Gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.
But can apologists expect success? Why do some intelligent and well-educated people deny the Lord, and reject all the evidences for the Christian faith offered to them? The fact that many people do not believe the Gospel despite all the logical and persuasive evidences, or are antagonistic to its claims, may make us uncomfortable, but in itself it does not mean anything. The Scripture never promises any easy acceptance of the claims of the Gospel.
The Incompetence of Reason
But why is apologetics so difficult? Why don't unbelievers, when confronted with Scripture, quickly place their faith in Jesus Christ?
It is because many have already placed their faith elsewhere, and that misplaced faith blinds them to the Truth of Scripture. Many unbelievers today have put their faith in the autonomy of human reason. They trust man's reasoning ability to discern all sorts of truth. Reason is their god.
But should reason, in the form of apologetics, judge the evidence that the Scriptures are the Word of God? Can reason persuade a sinner to come to the Savior? Human reason is not competent to discern the content of the Christian faith such as creation, the fall into sin, redemption, grace, the working of the Holy Spirit, the resurrection, the second coming of our Lord, eternal life, and so forth.
What is often forgotten, also by Christians, is the fact that reason is not neutral. Scripture teaches that the mind and thinking processes are tainted by sin, and the mind is used to distort what we know to be true about God (Rom. 1:18-20; 1 Cor. 2:14; 2 Cor. 4:4). Therefore, reason cannot serve as the final arbiter. For example, the great 17th century apologist Blaise Pascal's defense of the Christian was a powerful one, but he well understood that neither his nor any other approach could make headway with those who were afraid to be open-minded about Christ. "Men despise religion," he said. "They hate it and fear it is true."
The Mystery of the Gospel
Human reason cannot penetrate the content of the Gospel. The Gospel is a mystery. The latter word refers to what cannot be scientifically fathomed. And mystery leads to wonder, which should prevent us from overestimating our thinking powers. The principle characteristic of the Gospel is that it is beyond human imagination or reasoning. No one has ever asked for the cross of Christ; nor was the idea of it ever conceived in the human heart.
Furthermore, however much there is to be said about the history surrounding the resurrection, we cannot fathom it scientifically. A man rose from the dead! That is clearly beyond logic! The resurrection is a great mystery of the Christian faith. The resurrection is all God's work, a demonstration of His grace and love.
Furthermore, how can a creature prove the existence of his Creator, the Lord over time and space? How can the clay have power over the Potter, who fashions and destroys? God's existence doesn't depend on our logic. We may know Him. Yet He remains incomprehensible. Who can understand the mind and ways of God? That's why we talk about the mystery of the Christian faith. Reformed apologetics makes abundant room for mystery mystery of being, of life, of love, of faith, of sin, of predestination. One cannot examine mystery. Mystery cannot be penetrated by reason. It withdraws from any kind of evidence. With our thinking intellect we have no access to the mystery of the Gospel, we have to accept it by faith. Faith is the basis of knowing.
Faith Seek Understanding
Contrary to secular opinion, it is not just Christians and religious people who believe. Atheists and agnostics do so too. Moreover, belief is fundamental to all human action, not just for "religious people." Believing is at work in the background of everything we do. From the heart, says Scripture (Prov. 4:23), flow the springs of life. Scripture also says, "By faith we understand that the world was made by the word of God..." (Heb. 11:3). That is not something one can understand - i.e. grasp logically or scientifically in a concept but one can believe it. In Faith and Hope in Technology Egbert Schuurman observes, "By faith we know creation as a divinely conceived mystery and it is faith, nurtured by God's Word and Spirit, which offers resistance against overestimation of science."
Faith is accepting authority - it is trust. But many people today balk at the word authority. "How can one accept anything on the basis of the authority of the Christian Bible? We don't believe anything to be true unless we can prove it to be true," they say. But these same people blindly trust the auto mechanic who fixes their cars and the butcher who helps to select the best cut of steak for a special dinner. In short, they accept authority all the time. And they learn by experience whether or not the trust they have placed in those authorities is misplaced. In other words, the choice is between different faiths, not between the Christian faith and none. Christianity is based on the claim that Jesus Christ is the ultimate meaning of everything. If we believe the Gospel, we have found a firm place to stand. If we are convinced that Jesus is what the New Testament says He is, then the word of Jesus becomes for us law. We cannot then choose whether we will believe Him when He speaks. We must believe. His authority then must be for us decisive in all disputes. In Why Should Anyone Believe Anything at All? James W. Sire notes, "The problem for the early church and us is not that the Gospels give us an untrustworthy picture of Jesus, but they give us a picture that either brings us to our knees or sends us sadly away, knowing we should believe and follow Jesus but unwilling to do so."
2. Presuppositional School
So relying on reason and evidence to "prove" the gospel (the apologetics of the evidentialists - see the previous month's article) is the wrong approach. But if that's the wrong approach, what's the right one?
The church father Augustine (354-430) laid the foundation for the presuppositional school of apologetics. It presupposes the supernatural revelation of God's Word as providing the only basis for the entire apologetic enterprise. Augustine used the phrase Believe in order to understand. He could have entitled his apologetic program Faith Seeking Understanding. According to Augustine, to attempt to prove Christ to unbelievers is to presume that the unbeliever can see, know, and understand prior to faith. But this is impossible. He argued that first must come godliness and faith, and then comes understanding!
In this Augustinian tradition are John Calvin (1509-1563), Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) and Cornelius Van Til (1895-1987).
In this school of apologetics there are no neutral facts.
For example, when people talk about the clash between the Christian faith and science, we must understand that the underlying conflict is between two different faiths. Non-Christian scientists do their work as if God does not exist. It is assumed that science is the source of all genuine knowledge. Christian scientists, on the other hand, honor the Creator and explore His handiwork. They do their work assuming (presupposing) that God does exist. The issue, therefore, is not "faith versus science" but rather of what you presuppose.
In Darwin's Dangerous Idea, professor Daniel Dennett hopes that his readers will embrace the "dangerous" implications of Darwin's theory of evolution. He uses his book to debunk the Christian faith. He says that Darwinism, rightly understood, is "universal acid" that dissolves all traditional moral and religious beliefs. He even suggests that traditional churches and rituals be relegated to "cultural zoos" for the amusement of onlookers. In other words, he posits his own militant faith in materialistic evolution over against faith in the triune God. Philip Johnson, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, discovered that evidence for evolution was flimsy. It dawned on him that Darwinism is dominant today not because of the strength of scientific evidence but because Darwinism supports an atheistic-materialistic worldview which not only rejects God but also depicts humans as morally autonomous. He realized that the conflict between evolution and creation was not between science and faith, but between two totally different worldviews.
Reformed philosopher and theologian Van Til has been associated for many years with Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia, where he was known as an outstanding leader and a "defender of the faith." He argued that the defense of the Christian faith cannot proceed from a neutral or a rationalistic type of apologetic; it must proceed from the presuppositions of the Christian faith itself. Van Til opposed autonomy, the attempt to think and live by some criterion of truth other than God's Word. The only way we can know is through revelation. Van Til's starting point is the fundamental distinction between God's knowledge and human knowledge. He defined apologetics as "the vindication of the Christian philosophy of life against the various forms of the non-Christian philosophy of life." He argued that non-Christian philosophies suffer from internal self-contradictions and posited Christianity as a logically self-consistent worldview. He believed that from the very first step we must walk by faith. In order to be truly rational all human thought must be subject to the authority of Scripture. We must make it clear from the beginning that the Gospel we preach must be believed in order to be understood. Once we presume that His Word is true, we have a basis from which reasoning can truly proceed. We can then reasonably show that the Christian point of view is coherent and that non-Christian alternatives are ultimately incoherent.
Throughout the history of the church, Scripture has always been regarded as the inspired and revealed Word of God. Therefore, its trustworthiness has been an assumed rather than a debated aspect of faith. It is only during the last few centuries that modernism began to reverse the dominant and long-standing principle that faith precedes understanding and began to teach that understanding precedes faith.
How do we know the Bible is the authoritative Word of God? Many try to verify the truth of Scripture through fulfillment of prophecy, archeology, science, etc. I have numerous books in my study which seek to meet critics of the Bible on their own ground and demonstrate that the Bible is not full of errors and contradictions. But not reason but the Holy Spirit confirms the truth of Scripture. We can wage a reasoned defense that the Bible is indeed God's Word. However, these evidences are not sufficient to provide a firm faith. This is inconsistent with the Reformed notion of the "self-authenticating" nature of Scripture, as well as the preeminent role of the witness of the Holy Spirit in the acceptance of Scripture.
Scripture itself is our starting point, and not accumulated evidences. Augustine accepted by faith the Bible as the veritable Word of God. He said that God gave us the Bible because "we were too weak by unaided reason to find out the truth and for this cause needed the authority of the Holy Writings." Calvin asserts that, "Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit." And he adds that human testimonies which exist to confirm the Bible are not useless. They function as "secondary aids to our feebleness." Calvin concludes that those who seek to prove to unbelievers that "Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known."
Kuyper followed the same argument as Augustine and Calvin. He didn't deny reason the role of conviction of the truth, but reason will always play a secondary role. He said, "The witness of the Holy Spirit is and ever will be the only power which can carry into our consciousness the certainty concerning Scripture." He was quite emphatic at this point. He argued that a sinner simply cannot test a divine revelation. The function of divine revelation is to heal the sick, to cure our depravity, and to give us knowledge of God. How can the sick cure themselves? To permit the sick and depraved to test their own cure is nonsense. If they could really test their cure, they would not be sick or depraved. Outside intervention is needed.
How must we commend the Gospel to the unbeliever? How can the unspiritual grasp the spiritual? How can the spiritually blind come to see?
A Scriptural starting point is necessary. The apostle Paul spoke of the power of the Word (Rom. 1:16,17). I wonder whether in our day and age we are so impressed by human power that we doubt the power of God's Word? The apostle pointed out that the proclamation of the "foolishness of God" has put all earthly wisdom to shame through the sacrifice of Christ. Augustine pointed out that salvation begins in a situation of utter powerlessness on the part of man. Man does nothing to prepare himself; he does not reach out for help from God. On the contrary, he reaches out for confirmation that he himself is God. Augustine's unshakable conviction was that salvation, just like creation, is an act of God in the strict sense of the word.
The Holy Spirit
We must also acknowledge the essential role of the Holy Spirit in apologetics. We are totally dependent on Him, the third person of the Trinity. He alone can break into people's lives. Apologetics, therefore, is ineffective apart from the work of the Holy Spirit on the heart (1 Cor. 12:3; Titus 3:5-6). It is the Holy Spirit who convicts of sin, removes spiritual blindness, and produces new birth (John 3:3-8; 16:8-11; 1 Cor. 2:14-16). However, I want to stress that the Holy Spirit's work does not make apologetics unnecessary any more than it renders evangelism optional. The Holy Spirit uses various means in bringing about conviction of the truth. Arguments and evidences can be used by the Spirit to remove intellectual or emotional barriers to the Gospel. As J. Gresham Machen put it, "What the Holy Spirit does in the new birth is not to make a man a Christian regardless of the evidence, but on the contrary to clear away the mists from his eyes and enable him to attend to the evidence."
Why apologetics? Its chief use is enabling Christians to answer the legitimate questions of people who are seeking the truth and are troubled by the hostile voices that are heard on every hand. And there are many restless seekers unacquainted with the Gospel. Like the apostle Paul, we should not be ashamed of the Gospel (Rom.1:16a). To be an effective apologist for the Gospel we need to know what we believe and why we believe it. We need hearts set on fire, inflamed with passion for God, and to live in the world in such a way that the world is driven to ask us about the hope we have (1 Pet. 3:15).


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Waterton, is my new favourite corner of the world. I just love its cute, quaint yet magnificent feel. I could get lost in its beauty for days!
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Nineteen teams (38 students) from nine area high schools competed in the "Battle of Burets". The event was hosted for the third year in a row at SIU–Edwardsville.
A new order of battle pertained to this year's "hostilities," allowing students to compete with their partner. Each team completed six titrations which were scored on relative error. The top six teams received trophies and a round of applause from the other participants.
Clayton High School and teacher Nathan Peck really excelled this year, sweeping the top three spots (with one tie)! In first place were Jolie Chan and Elizabeth Nguyen; second place, Caroline Thomason and San Kwon; and third place Lisa Raymond-Schmidt and Julia Beliz. Blake Selm and Abdullah Kuziez of Parkway High School tied for third place.
In a photo finish, the Villa Duchesne team of Tess Hagemeister and Cecilia Besancenez, under the tutelage of Kirsten Blasé and Didi Noelker; and the two teams from Edwardsville High School (Grant Berkbigler/Ryan Shustrin and DeVonte Fuller/Lindsey Hohlt) with their teacher, Grace Bannon, tied for fourth place. You would think this all but impossible, like a termolecular elementary process, but the finish was just too close to call. Congratulations to all the participants!
We (Mina Sumita and Kevin Tucker, organizers) have shared our photo stream, in case you want to see more from the field of battle and treaty negotiations. Follow the link, double-click on the first file, and use right and left arrows (keyboard or on-screen hotspots) to navigate through the show.
Guest author: Kevin Tucker
Dr Kevin Tucker received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign under the supervision of Prof Jonathan Sweedler. After five years as a mass spectrometrist, he moved to Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Dr Tucker's research lies at the nexus of analytical and environmental chemistry as he pursues PPCPs in their journey through the environment using field research and laboratory modeling. He is serving as this year's Coordinator for the Battle of Burets.


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Drug manufacturing and pricing vaulted into the news several years ago when a privately held company raised the price of a drug used for infections from US$13.50 to $750 for one pill.
After an outcry from hospitals, the company later relented, dropping its price by a small margin. Still, this single dramatic increase shed light on the once obscure arena of older generic drugs that continue to be in short supply and whose prices occasionally skyrocket.
Frustrated with these shortages and alarmed by the potential for price gouging, a coalition of hospitals has recently struck back. Four not-for-profit, religiously affiliated hospital systems and the U.S. Veterans' Administration announced their intent to form a company that would manufacture generic drugs, thereby helping to mitigate or eliminate shortages and prevent future massive price spikes for rarely used generic drugs.
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Gripping and exciting
Most climbing books describe great ascents and major achievements by top mountaineers. This book is different, telling the story of two novice climbers attempting a route that proves way beyond them on the massive Troll Wall in Norway back in 1969. They lose the route, the author has an accident and even when they finally reach the top of the cliff they can't find the descent route. It's a real nightmare epic for the two climbers but for the reader it's gripping and exciting
Chris Townsend, ChrisTownsendOutdoors.com, Outdoor Books Review 2014,
1 Jan 2015
The best outdoor adventure book I have ever read, bar none
Gordon Stainforth's "Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong," is the best outdoor adventure book I have ever read, bar none. Until I read this book, I believed that the famous high altitude British mountaineer Doug Scott's epic account of his survival story on The Ogre in the Pakistan Karakoram could never be matched. "Fiva" surpassed it.
The book is an account of Stainforth's youth when, in 1969, he and his teenage twin brother John, both moderately accomplished mountaineers, attempted a day climb on the 4,000 foot long Troll Wall in Norway. After three days on the "Fiva" route, they barely survived a successful ascent.
Intending initially to read the first four pages to get a flavour of the book, I could not put it down, so engrossing and well-written was the story. Seldom is a mountaineering epic written where you feel like you are on the face, in the cold, confused by the route finding, one minute optimistic, another minute terrified that you may never return.
What makes this book truly special is how well it accounts, in first person narration, the youthful exuberance of relatively novice mountaineers. As they approach this massive wall, the author states, "Now, dwarfed by an outrageous landscape of mountain superlatives, my heart is pounding with excitement, a strange mixture of fear and anticipation." In addition, the author perfectly describes the dangerous naivety of youth, and yet explains the discovery of courage and resourcefulness that these young men had no idea was within them.
Without giving too much away, what went wrong on the climb was a combination of youthful fanaticism, a lack of adequate food provisions for a big wall, and the inability to understand that a lack of great technical difficulty does not mean a lack of a serious climbing endeavor. These factors were further compounded by a very long route with extremely difficult route finding.
"Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong" was the winner of the Mountain Literature Award at the 2012 Banff Mountain Festival. This book earned that recognition, and I suggest you read it, and pick up a copy for your friends.
Peter G. Williams, OutThere Monthly, September 2014
This most British of adventures gone wrong
If you were to go on the reviews that adorn the cover pages of this book alone, you would expect this to be one of the finest mountaineering books ever written. Luminaries such as Stephen Venables, Chris Bonington, Joe Simpson and Andy Kirkpatrick are amongst the many big names singing the praises of Gordon Stainforth's account of, to quote the title, "an adventure that went wrong", and boy, oh boy, did it go wrong.......
The story is a compelling account of Stainforth and his brother John's attempt to climb the Fiva (pronounced Fever) route up Store Trolltind in Norway. With only three years of mountaineering experience, a sketched map and a four sentence route description, this is a classic example of what not to do.....couple it with the fact that rations consisted of a couple of sandwiches and two chocolate bars and you could argue the book should have been sub-titled "An accident waiting to happen". Of course, an accident is exactly what happens, when the climbers lose their planned route and are forced into ever more dangerous situations, an ice axe belay fails and Gordon is catapulted down the mountain severely injuring his knee in the process. The rest of the story explores Gordon and John's fight for survival as the weather turns against them, their rations run low and they are pushed to their ultimate limits in an attempt to survive and get off the mountain.
Stainforth has chosen to narrate in the first person which has a profound influence on the way the book reads. The internal monologues and recreated discussions represent a superb recall of events and certainly speed the story along at a rollicking pace, but, to me, sometimes they can become a bit relentless and I longed on occasion for some dispassionate, detached observation. The "conversations" with the mountain seemed particularly affected to me. However, this is not to denigrate a fine "Boy's Own" tale of adventure and survival which had me racing through the pages and rooting for the protagonists even as they seemed intent on digging ever deeper holes for themselves. In these days where every expedition is planned to within an inch of it's life, where kit is designed for the worst conditions Mother Nature can throw at us and where ration packs are manufactured to provide maximum calories, minimum weight and balanced nutrition, there is something distinctly appealing and "Famous Five-ish" about this most British of adventures gone wrong.
Howellsey, Comewalkwithmeuk.co.uk, Come Walk with Me, 3 Jun 2014
A fast-paced engrossing story
Usually stories of setting out on adventure unprepared are frustrating—it can be hard to feel sympathy for the adventurer who doesn't understand what they're getting into. Gordon Stainforth's account Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong of his disastrous attempt on Store Trolltind doesn't elicit this frustrated and judgmental response from me at all. Although Stainforth and his twin brother John drastically underestimated the time (and the food) their route would take and also overestimated their route finding capabilities on the mountain, I instead felt myself willing them up the wall as I read ...
Fiva is a page-turner. Like many adventure books, you know the ending but learning just how that ending happens becomes your singular focus. With each switch of the belay, I found myself even more deeply invested in just how Gordon and John were going to extricate themselves from their seemingly bleak situation. Despite looking more than forty years into the past, Gordon Stainforth has written a fast-paced engrossing story of a misadventure that takes the reader along on a harrowing series of events. John's pictures from the assent along with his Afterward fill out the story. Fiva won the "Best Book—Mountain Literature" at the Banff Mountain Festival in 2012, an honor that seems quite deserved.
Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong was provided by Mountaineers Books to 3Up Adventures for review. All opinions are Beth's.
BETH, On The Page: Fiva, 3upadventures.com, 29 Oct 2013
Will have you on the edge of your seat as much as any Hollywood thriller
Fiva is a remarkable story, and all the more remarkable because it's true.
There are a great many stories of mountain adventures and disasters available to those who have enjoyed climbing, and they usually appeal only to those who have some familiarity, at least, with the rigours, trials and dangers involved. Occasionally a story is compelling enough to warrant a wider audience, Touching the Void was one such, and Fiva is certainly another. Its accessibility is made possible by the simple but eloquent writing style, and the open way in which the author relates his feelings, which swing through the entire gamut of human emotions: anxiety, terror, hope, despair, shame, anger and gratitude. It is easy to identify with the story because the human voice is so immediate and so compelling.
This is a real Boy's Own adventure, but one that has dark levels and bottomless depths, much like the mountain itself, who becomes an implacable and dreadful third character in this epic tale. It's very easy to read, but not at all simplistic, and will really have you on the edge of your seat as much as any Hollywood thriller. Immensely enjoyable, terrifying and heart-warming in equal measure. Highly recommended.
'First Olympian', Immortal Life, 14 Sept 2013
A brilliant, toe-curling read
... Next is Fiva by Gordon Stainforth, which is only recently out but fast accumulating a big reputation for a brilliant read. Gordon was previously more famous for his excellent photography books. Eyes to the Hills was one of the first mountain books I borrowed from my library as a 15 year old novice climber. We don't tend to get many mountaineering stories in the shop, but Gordon's big win with this book at the Banff Mountain festival in November prompted us to check it out and we were impressed. I won't say too much about it other than it describes a death-on-a-stick epic on Troll Wall in Norway. If you know anything about how serious the Troll Wall is, the Fiva route sounds particularly toe-curling just to read about. Much recommended by us if you like reading about proper adventures.
Dave Macleod, onlineclimbingcoach.blogspot.co.uk, Dave Macleod, 13 May 2013
A great climbing book, resounding with echoes ...
Despite all that has been argued about the "death of print," great climbing books are still being written now. In the past two years alone, Jim Sweeney's Marine Life Solidarity presented a cosmic vision of suffering in uncompromising prose; Gordon Stainforth's Fiva resounded with dark-amber echoes of old-fashioned boys' adventure novels; Bernadette McDonald's Freedom Climbers evoked the lost, resplendent world of the Polish Golden Age; and Tanis Rideout's Above all Things filled historical gaps with translucent and ecstatic daring.
Katie Ives, The Sharp End, Alpinist.com, 23 April 2013
****1/2 A true epic, exceedingly well told
Fiva is the name of a route up Store Trolltind, a mountain in Norway. In 1969, nineteen-year-old Gordon Stainforth and his twin brother John, in a burst of exuberance and misplaced confidence, set out to climb it. The subtitle reveals how it went.
Most mountaineering literature is written by established mountaineers whose well-planned expeditions fall victim to circumstance. The great thing about Fiva is how Stainforth tells the story (in the first person present) from the point of view of an under-prepared teenager. I was able to identify completely with his growing feeling that they were in over their heads, and the frustration at not being able to find the proper route. The adventure itself is less dramatic than other climbs, but that just makes it easier to relate to their predicament.
A true epic, exceedingly well told.
Mike Lee, mikeleeliterary.blogspot.co.uk The Eager Reader, 15 February 2013
**** Expertly keeps the tension right to the nail-biting conclusion
Although an account of events of more than forty years ago, Fiva is written in the first person present tense, giving it an immediacy that meant once I started it, I couldn't put it down.
Stainforth perfectly captures the sense of youthful adventure of the two brothers, brimful of confidence, climbing Troll Wall. The writing is evocative - you get the sense of Stainforth choosing each word carefully whether describing the 'damp flanks of the dinosaur' they are climbing or discussing the limitations of phrases such as 'curtain of rock'.
As a climber, I especially enjoyed the period details - hemp ropes tied round their waists, big boots, Millar mitts and their 'space blanket'. Descriptions of this kit, along with some brilliant photos, bring the story to life and make it all the more remarkable when compared with the technical kit we have today.
Stainforth expertly keeps the tension in his tale right to the nail-biting conclusion.
Jaimella Shaikh, Goodreads.com, 5 February 2013
**** Highly recommended
Great rollicking climbing adventure. For climbers of a certain vintage there is just so much nostalgia : wooden ice axes, RD Super Guide boots; abseiling with the rope cutting in to your shoulder.
Also highly recommended for non- climbers. A kind of "Touching the Void" which doesn't take itself too seriously.
John Keith, Goodreads.com, 5 February 2013
***** Amazing read
Amazing read. Gripped me from start to finish. I would definitely recommend this book to climbers and non-climbers as it is a great true story. My wife wants to read it now........
Jamie Robinson, Goodreads.com, 18 December 2012
In Gift Guide: Best Mountain Books
Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong by Gordon Stainforth, about $12.50 on Amazon UK (or more than $200 on the US site)
Forty years after the event, Stainforth writes about his 19-year-old self tackling the Fiva route on Norway's giant Troll Wall. "This is the most gripping escape-from-disaster story since Touching The Void," Venables said.
Best for…fans of thrillers or, in the words of Venables, "any intelligent reader who likes adventure in the mountains."
recommended by Stephen Venables, The Active Times, 28 November 2012
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A future cult classic
'So you had an epic then?' The question, delivered in a flat Lancastrian accent to the Stainforth twins, must have seemed a statement of the obvious taken to absurdity. The tattered pair were two days late back at camp, they'd hardly eaten in that time, had fallen hundreds of feet, been hopelessly lost, Gordon had smashed his left knee – it looked, he says, like a Jackson Pollack abstract done on the side of a beach ball, and worse still, it was turning gangrenous and starting to smell. Yes, this is the story of an epic. A more pertinent question would have been, 'Why aren't you dead?'
Fiva (pronounced 'fever') is the name of a 6,000-foot route on Store Trolltind in the Romsdal region of Norway. Stainforth's subtitle, An Adventure That Went Wrong, speaks for itself; it also carries the flavour of laconic self-mockery that makes this book such a delight. The boys' plight – they were just teenagers at the time – was dire, yet in retelling it Stainforth cannot resist drollery. His attitude to life (and death) epitomises that quip about the difference between Americans and the English: to Americans life is serious but not hopeless; to the English life is hopeless but not serious.
The Stainforths are as English as they come, two former public schoolboys from Knebworth in Hertfordshire; and, back in 1969, they were wonderfully naive: 'We've climbed a couple of quite big mountains in the Alps with guides, and we've done dozens of rock climbs (last year) in North Wales and now we're going to tackle the biggest rock wall in Europe – OK?'
It's not a novel and both Stainforths are still alive and climbing so we know the book has a happy ending. However it unfolds as such a gripper that it would be churlish to go into detail over the plot.
Epics, of course, are standard fare of mountaineering narratives; what elevates Fiva is the manner of Gordon Stainforth's telling of it. As with his superb photographic books –notably The Cuillin and The Peak – there is a sense of much careful forethought as to character of the final product. He didn't just sit down and trot out an account, dramatic though it would have been. The book is written in the first person present tense, a bold move that has been skilfully carried off, and employs a smaller type size for the voice of his brother John when distant at the far end of the rope. Echoes from the cliffs and voices in Gordon's head, spaced out with exhaustion, pain and hunger, are also cleverly conveyed.
For those of us of a similar age (the twins were born in 1949) there is also a good deal of gear nostalgia, Norwegian sweaters, Millarmitts, MOAC wedges and so on. Most glorious of all though is Stainforth's evocation of the late 1960s through his zany use of song lines and titles. Looking over an abyss he turns a whiter shade of pale, without quote marks, which adds to the fun; Louis Armstrong, Del Shannon, the Beatles and more are drawn in. Gordon could be scripting a climbing version of The Singing Detective.
Fiva should, as publicists like to say, appeal to climber and non-climber alike. If there were any justice in the publishing world it would be a best seller, eclipsing 'the Void'. But I can hear a doleful Gordon Stainforth adding, 'there isn't'. If so he'll have to settle for the accolade of 'a future cult classic'.
Stephen Goodwin, Alpine Journal 2012, November 2012
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Totally engaging … Gordon pulls it off to spectacular effect
Fiva describes a true climbing epic played out on a colossal rock wall in Norway by two very young and inexperienced climbers over three days in the summer of 1969. The audacity of their plan is breathtaking but typical of youth, viz: we've done a bit of rock climbing in Wales, and been up a couple of peaks in the Alps with a guide, so what shall we have a go at as our first proper mountain route? I know, let's do the 5,000ft Fiva Route on the Store Trolltind in Norway, we don't have a detailed description, but it's only VS so where's the problem?
Gordon's confidence has not diminished with age: he decided to set the book in the first person present tense, which throws up several challenges not immediately obvious. Most significantly it compels the author to speak and think as a 19-year-old on the spot, which colours all attitudes to his situation and decision making. You can't allow 20-20 hindsight or subsequently attained wisdom to direct the narrative. This makes for an extremely technically difficult piece of writing, but if anyone can pull it off Gordon can (given his writing, photography and cinematic credentials) and he does so to spectacular effect.
The story of the climb and subsequent escape is at times frustrating, baffling and exhausting but it remains totally engaging. John and Gordon are identical twins: 'alike, yet not alike' and although Gordon can pre-empt many of John's reactions to their perilous situation as only a twin could, it is still a very personal struggle for survival.
Bernard Newman, extract from adjudication of the Boardman Tasker Prize 2012,
16 November 2012
***** Deserves to become a classic in its genre as it reaches out to all of us
Gordon Stainforth is previously known, especially amongst the climbing fraternity, for his excellent photographic books on mountains, climbing and landscapes, so it was with interest that I picked up his latest offering Fiva.
Within the title itself: "An adventure that went wrong" the reader is provided with immediate enticement and I was eager to find out how the what, where and how elements of this adventure would unravel.
To begin with let me say that this is not your run of the mill mountaineering story. Written in the first person, almost like a diary, and from the perspective of the author 40 years ago, it gradually sucks the reader into the narrative and very soon you are almost part of the story yourself. By tackling a route not beyond the aspirations of many and from an age where most of us begin our climbing experiences, it is very easy to empathize, and in spirit be with the climbers every step of the way….
… Written from the mind of Gordon we see the constant questioning going on within him. Anyone who has ever climbed a long route has been there and this is the beauty of the tale in that he carries you along with every step. No Noooo! Don't do that you try to warn them but of course it is in vain.
Without giving the story away this is gripping stuff that lurches from one near disaster to another and eventually to a fitting climax.
This book really is a thoroughly good read and it deserves to become a classic in its genre. A number of my non climbing friends have read it and are equally enthralled as it reaches out to all of us.
Andy Birtwistle, Goodreads.com, 8 November 2012
Full review
This little, unassuming book stands among the classic tales of climbing 'epics.'
In his preface, Gordon Stainforth declares: "After several false starts, I decided to tell [Fiva] in the first-person present tense... to put myself back into the mountaineering boots of a 19-year-old with a very limited perspective on life." It is a monumental challenge for a 60-year-old author, and one that raises doubts.
But the breathless teenage voice that leaps off the first page never waivers. Not once. Rather, it becomes an unrelenting force, sweeping the reader ever higher on Norway's Store Trolltind as events spiral out of control for two young, bold, and grossly inexperienced twins.
An evocative period piece, Fiva is human, innocent, and unflinchingly believable. This little, unassuming book stands among the classic tales of climbing 'epics.'
Bruce Kirkby, Judges' citation for Fiva on winning Best Book of Mountain & Wilderness Literature at the Banff Mountain Festival Book Competition, 1 November 2012
Fiva by Gordon Stainforth
Can you remember what you were doing when the late Neil Armstrong landed on
the Moon? I know where I was, having an epic deep underground in Italy, (ask me about it over a pint sometime!) but I know that some of you are too young. Gordon Stainforth remembers what he was doing in the summer of 1969 in this retrospective account of two young climbers having their own epic on a climb in Norway. By 'having an epic' I don't mean experiencing Elvis leg on an outcrop where your mate can run round to the top and drop you a rope. Gordon and his twin brother, John, their progress initially sustained by the fearless self-assurance of youth and subsequently undermined by their inexperience, attempted an early repeat of a 2000m route called Fiva on Norway's Store Trolltind, better known as the 'Troll Wall'. It is no exaggeration to say that on at least two occasions only good luck kept them alive; this is the compulsive, uplifting story of their prolonged struggle for survival.
It really is a page-turner of a book. The story is very well-written and very easy
to read, a combination of virtues which placed me in the predicament of not wanting to stop reading but not wanting to reach the end. It is well-constructed: to paraphrase Kenneth Wolstenholme, I thought it was all over, but it wasn't yet. It's also inspiring: like all good travel writing it made me want to go there and climb, although I'd prefer my adventures without such a massive capital 'A'. Still, how about Norway next year?
Published as paperback in 2012 by Golden Arrow Books at £9.95
Mike Blood, Northumbrian Mountaineering Club's County Climber, 22 October 2012
The Wrath of The Troll
Fiva is a gripping account of an epic climb, and one from which many of us can learn important lessons, or use to reconnect with our own life-shaping adventures on the cliffs and mountains ...
Tom Richardson, Climb, November 2012
Full review
Let's embrace danger!
I really enjoyed reading Gordon Stainforth's Fiva, An Adventure That Went Wrong ... a real life account of an ascent of the Fiva route climb on Trollveggen in Norway, written by a participant from the perspective of his nineteen-year-old self. It successfully recreates the atmosphere of the late 1960s and both the enthusiastic capability and the inexperience and impulsiveness of youth.
Would it appeal to today's fifteen and sixteen-year-olds? It is clearly written and energetically paced. The account of the climb is both exciting and graphically described. It is accessible: there is enough explanation of rock climbing, and a brief glossary. The author's perspective ensures it avoids becoming condescending....
I enjoyed the period feel of the book but might they find it hard to identify with two public school-educated nineteen-year-olds from 1969? I think we underestimate them. Teenage energy and enthusiasm were not so very different then....
Might the book encourage readers to emulate the authors (who both come out of their adventure suffering no real harm)? If it did I think it would be no bad thing. There is enough description of the dangers for an imaginative reader to appreciate them.
In other words, let's embrace danger!
Bookwitch, online book blog, 30 July 2012
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Gordon Stainforth's Fiva...review
Fiva 'an adventure that went wrong' is a finger nail whittling account of two gauche young adventurers - Gordon and twin brother John - who took on a Norwegian giant Troll and lived to tell the tale.... As in all the finest tales of mountaineering epics 'the best laid schemes of mice and men' unravel as surely as a kitten with a ball of wool!...
Gordon writes in a contemporaneous first person style and gives the account the authentic feel of story written by a young man recounting events which had happened but a few weeks before. That is not to suggest that the writing is in any way unrefined. Far from it. The author crafts the tale in a manner befitting the subject matter. Tightly drawn, to the point but not without humour....
If [the reader is] looking for a book which is well written, perfectly paced and which ratchets up the tension by degrees in the manner of the very best works of Mountaineering non-fiction then Fiva delivers.... It's incredible that Gordon has kept the story out of print for over 40 years before finally getting it out of his head and onto the page. Certainly Fiva is one of the better books to emerge from what is generally a crowded and often overworked genre.... Recommended.
John Appleby, Footless Crow, 17 May 2012
Full review
Succeeds wonderfully in strapping the reader into the emotional roller coaster of the participants
... Some natural raconteurs are unable to translate their gift into the written word but Gordon achieves an immediacy and pace that keeps the reader turning the pages in anticipation of the next twist in the story.... It's a Boys' Own adventure gone wrong to which we can all relate ...
Gordon has captured the physical and mental transition that led in a few hours from youthful overconfidence, to growing apprehension, to a desperate fight for survival ... and if a little creative licence has been used in the psychological narrative it succeeds wonderfully in strapping the reader into the emotional roller coaster of the participants.
For everyone, climber or non climber, it's a ripping yarn well told. Buy a copy for a long train journey or your next holiday and tell your mates about it.
Nick Gregory, Climber, June 2012 (published 10 May)
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Fiva is a work of art, a superbly crafted story that once read will never be forgotten.
Once or twice in a lifetime a mountaineering story crosses the divide between pure mountaineering and human interest, bridging the gap and becoming a "mainstream" hit. Touching the Void had that special appeal that could bring in a non-climbing audience, catapulting it's author and participants to fame and successful careers as writers and motivational speakers. The tale of human survival against all the odds gripped readers and viewers around the world, and justifiably so, but after reading Fiva I seriously doubt that TTV would have had half the success it has achieved if the epic story of the Stainforth twins had been written first. There's no getting away from the fact that Fiva is essentially a mountaineering book, describing a single attempt on a single climb, but like TTV it reaches far beyond the limitations of the sport and into the realm of epic survival stories.
Fiva is the story of a pair of twins setting out to climb a route of the same name in Norway. Armed only with a rough description and the confidence of youth the climb turned into a true epic with not only the summit uncertain but survival itself hanging in the balance. Loose rock, lack of experience and a lamentable lack of equipment that included just a single ice axe between the pair conspired to test the physical and mental strength of the the Stainforth twins. Despite over 40 years passing between the events of Fiva and the telling of it, it's a book that's as relevant today as it was then and benfits from the passing of the years. Though the author attempts to write Fiva in the style and with the mentality of the teenager he was at the time there's a maturity in the writing that I doubt would have been present if the book had been written at the time.
Fiva starts unusually with the author's return to the mountain 40 years on, setting the scene before turning the clock back to 1969 and plunging headlong into unremitting adventure. Success, failure, life and death hangs in the balance throughout as the twins discover they've bitten off something far bigger and far harder than they could have imagined with the daunting face of the mountain taking on its own persona as they pit themselves against it.
Writing from the perspective of a teenager, forty years on, the author does an amazing job in revisiting what must have been a life changing experience. The confidence and invulnerability of youth is all there as if the tale was only yesterday, but against it stands the immovable object of Store Trolltind, unforgiving and unremmiting. To take on the challenge with just 2 bars of chocolate a few sandwiches and a scrap of paper as a route description typifies the exuberance of youth and leads to the twins' inevitably finding themselves high on the mountain fighting for survival.
In the re-telling of the epic that follows the author puts the reader on the wall with the two brothers, relating the climb step by step. There's nothing new in the approach but in Fiva it's taken to extreme and each single sentence is idividually honed and crafted in such a way that the book, like the climb, becomes all consuming. The reader discovers the route, the mountain and the reality of the situation gradually to the point that although you know the brothers must have survived to write the book 40 years on you really do find yourself fearing for them. Minute by minute the climbers' situation is revealed and with it their thoughts, feelings and responses - all from that unique teenage persepctive. Fiva breaks the modern trend of psyco-analysing everything from "why I climb" to family relationships in being a pure adventure story in the best traditions of "Boys Own" but in it's own unique way it answers those questions like no other book.
Fiva may be a book about a mountaineering epic, but in reality it's far more. It's a doorway into the mind of not just the author and his brother, but into the glow of youth. The quality of the writing superb, the pace slowly builds as the story unfolds making it almost impossible to put down. Gordon Stainforth will be at next week's Keswick Mountain Festival - I, for one, will search him out just to say thank you. Fiva is a work of art, a superbly crafted story that once read will never be forgotten.
Dave Mycroft, MyOutdoors.co.uk, 9 May 2012
The horror, the emptiness, the hope, the despair, the belief, the love and the salvation of big face climbing
Gordon does a great job of painting the Fiva and the Trollveggen in all their dark and dank glory, the face the third main character in the book ... the first person and minute by minute account - means that the reader is as blind as the leader to what is unfolding, and you get a very real sense of what it is to climb such a face; the mountain unfolding bit by bit; that unique excitement and terror of new ground ... And at times I was unsure if they would actually make it to the top, or if they would be forced to retreat, or maybe never escape, and as an epic climb this one really delivers the goods, and as near-death goes, they got as near as you can and write a book about it ...
Ultimately he conveys the horror, the emptiness, the hope, the despair, the belief, the love and the salvation of big face climbing ...
Andy Kirkpatrick, UKClimbing.com, 25 April 2012
A high octane read
Fiva, by Gordon Stainforth falls squarely into the 'sticky book' category - a book so adhesive that no matter how hard you try, you simply can't put it down until you've finished it…. The pace is flat out from the very first page. This is not a book you'll slowly meander through over a period of months, it's a high octane read that you'll get through in less than a week.
If big, bold, bum twitching adventures are your cup of tea, you will certainly not be disappointed.
Gareth Hanson, Rock Climbing UK, March 30, 2012
Full review
Climber's brush with death is a thrilling read
Every step of the terrifying, life-changing journey, from leaving their tent onwards, has been chronicled in thrilling and frank fashion in Gordon's latest book. Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong, which hit the shelves yesterday, has already garnered significant praise from reviewers, whether they know about climbing or not; testament to Gordon's ability to write in an engaging and accessible way.
Jonny Birkin, The Derby Telegraph, March 30, 2012
Full review
What a story!
What a story! … As it becomes clear they have bitten off more than they can chew - which is pretty serious hanging 3000 feet above certain death - the fear is palpable…. Things get bad, and then they get worse. By a third of the way through the book, I was absorbed, finishing it in one sitting and worn out by the end.
What this book conveys most, however, is how youthful enthusiasm, combined with poor planning and preparation, can have disastrous results…. What it is is a rollicking adventure story.
Daniel Neilson, The Great Outdoors, May 2012 (published March 29, 2012)
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