Sebastian Junger BornJanuary 17, 1962 (age 53) Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. OccupationAuthor, journalist and documentary filmmaker. Book by S. Junger American.

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Sebastian Junger BornJanuary 17, 1962 (age 53) Belmont, Massachusetts, U.S. OccupationAuthor, journalist and documentary filmmaker. Book by S. Junger American journalist, most famous for the best- selling book The Perfect Storm: A true Story of Men Against the Sea. (1997), his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the documentary films Restrepo (2010), Korengal (2014), and his book War (2010).

BLOWUP: What went wrong at Storm King Mountain. Junger says he felt compelled to write about “situations where people are in one form or another being confronted with forces that are way beyond their control”.

One of the biggest firefighting disasters in the United States occurred on Storm King Mountain in Colorado on July 6th Firefighters died in a Blowup, or sudden explosion of flames on the dry and windy slopes. Today the dead are memorialized with crosses at the spots where they fell and plaques along the route of the fire.

conceivably: possibly. conspire: to plan or plot secretly. contingent: gathering of prople representative of a larger group. deflect: to tend off or avert the direction of something. timeline: chronological order. diagram: for spatial order or position in space. flare: to burn with unsteady flame. avert: to turn away/aside. blaze: bright flame or fire.