THE BACKPACK FROM HELL 

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			*The End Is Near*
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		*This Time you can Beleive It!*

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National Geographic Magazine, in conjunction with Time/Warner, LucasFilm, Lloyds of London, and Trojan inc., are pleased to announce:

The End.

of....

The exciting account of the 1990 Bruce/Gloria/Lois/Jim Mass/Mary expedition to the Wind Rivers, "The Backpack from Hell"

4 years in the making. $17 million dollar budget, 2000 extras, 12 bear handlers...Yes, it has come at last, it has arrived.

Galen Rowell will make his film directorial debut. Mel Gibson will play the part of Bruce Grossan, with his hair dyed red, and Michelle Pfeiffer will play the part of Lois.

To celebrate this glorious event, beginning on the Author's birthday, we will be releasing one chapter of this momentous literary peice per day, all the way through to THE CLIMAX. Beginning NOW:

For your own copy of TBFH, in handsome, leather-bound binding, personally signed and/or pawprinted by all the members of the expedition, send $100 to:

Bruce Grossan
Lawrence Berkeley Lab 50-232
1 Cyclotron Road
Berkeley, CA 94720
bruce@singu.lbl.gov
[PHONE] 510.486.5489