Epic Cycle

"Epic" is a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water, and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. This program offers a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions.

A Darkness Has Fallen Over Valindar. Twenty years ago, the god of Light abandoned his order of elite channelers, the Luminar, leaving them scattered and hunted to extinction. In their absence, the Eternum Syndicate rose from the shadows, erasing every trace of the old power. Salvynd and Rogue want nothing to do with any of it. Two street gamblers in the rotting Lower District of Meridas, they survive on luck, charm, and keeping their heads down. Until a chance encounter with Vee, a noble-born girl who doesn’t belong in their world, ignites something forbidden: the Light, long thought dead.

A cycling race from frost to palm trees, this is the untold story of the celebrated Paris–Nice where the world’s greatest riders are made The annual Paris–Nice race – aka the Race to the Sun – takes frostbitten riders from the chill of the Paris suburbs to the palm tree-fringed balm of...