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Five men are attempting a world record this weekend by climbing five peaks in Britain and Ireland in less than 24 hours. The group will be led by wealthy property developer Brian Scowcroft, 46, from the Lake District, who is using his personal helicopter to ferry the climbers between mountains.

They start their climb at 4am on Sunday with Carrantuohill, 1,041m (3,415ft), in the Republic of Ireland, followed by Slieve Donard in Northern Ireland, which stands at 852m (2,795ft).

The team then fly at 130mph across the Irish Sea to Wales to climb Snowdon, 1,085m (3,560ft), fly north to conquer Scafell Pike 978m (3,210ft) in Cumbria and complete their challenge with the 1,344m (4,409ft) Ben Nevis in Scotland.

The climbers hope to complete their challenge which has been officially accepted by Guinness World Records just before 3.30am on Monday.

If successful, the climbers will have raised £100,000 for the Kingmoor Park Properties Charitable Trust, a charity named after a development site Mr Scowcroft owns in Carlisle.

I read in the book High Exposure by David Brashears that Cliffhanger is actually loosely based on a true story. There is also an entire book written up on the events (I don't remember the title). The word loosley is used because it was actually a drug plane that crashed in Yosemite in the 1960's rather than a bunch of money hijacked and dropped in the mountains. The events on trying to reach the drugs were the basis of the story. Since the true story is so interesting, it is a surprise that Hollywood had to change it so much. I think that the movie would have been more interesting had the actual story been told and if people knew the events actually happened in real life.

Nvidia (and ATI to a lesser extent) has become renowned for their completely blatant and cynical cheating in both synthetic and game benchmarks, has single-handedly brought 3DMark to its knees and turned the subject of benchmarking into an industry private joke. Their latest drivers have defeated the latest anti-cheat patch put out by 3DMark, and it is clear they intend to cheat at every opportunity in every benchmark possible for the forseeable future.

What is Aquamark3's position with regards to videocard drivers cheating in Aquamark3 by using application recognition to tell when Aquamark3 is running and then lower IQ or replace builtin benchmark code to inflate scores ?

Does Aquamark3 incorporate any anti-cheat capabilities right now, such as preventing common application recognition techniques? Are there legal statements in the benchmark agreement that give Aquamark any recourse should
such cheating occur ? Does Aquamark3 intend to release anti-cheat patches when such driver cheats inevitably appear? Aquamark3 will quickly become irrelevant unless these issues are addressed publically. I hope they will do so.

But the third, and my main reason for crossing, is that its just plain fun! Nothing beats the quick handling and lively feel of the cross bike on the quickest descents and trickiest singletrack. In his Feb. '93 Bicycle Guide article "Mountain Bikes: Who Needs Them?" Chris Kostman called these modified road bikes "the first and only real all-terrain bike." And he's right! I believe they're also the perfect commuter, or, as Grant Peterson would call them, all-rounder bikes. No throw-back balloon tires, elastomer bumpers, springs and OPEC drippings to separate you from the feel of the Earth. Just you, your wits and the perfect trail bike. The simplicity of a cross bike, and the very act of riding, running and walking, enable you, as Robert Oubron and Rene Chesal write in their book Cycliste 100%, serie cyclo-cross (Paris, 1967), "to discover hundreds of interesting things which you would have ridden straight past is you had not been tempted into hitching the bike over your shoulder, or simply pushing it along, and following a riverbed, or a footpath that may end in a spring or an unexpected view, or a lane that suddenly yields up some unexpected historical monument, or a lake you did not know existed.

...Just try doing this on a bridal path in Savoy or in the Pyrenees and I'll be surprised if you don't find yourself singing for sheer joy. And when you're back down again, after clattering through streams and gullies and stony paths, sometimes on the bike, sometimes on your feet, you will have enjoyed a wonderful experience."

The main bikes of my wife, Melanie, and I are 'cross bikes. In the country area where we live there are too many dirt roads to just jump on our road bikes and ride - and way too much asphalt to lug cumbersome mountain bikes around on. With the sluggish and unresponsive geometry of the common hybrid, what's left? If you want a machine that has precision slo-mo handling and can really pull out the speed when you want it, the cyclo-cross bike is the answer.

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