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The closing line: "His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
Source: Snow Means Death - Falling into and miraculously escaping from a crevasse was one of the many trials that climber Joe Simpson had to go through during his descent from Siula Grande in the Andes.
Source: A Crack in the Ice -
In an unusual case of the craft doing the falling part, the second season finale of Justice League, "Starcrossed", has Batman piloting the Watchtower (the League's orbital base) on a kamikaze descent to destroy an alien engine.
Source: Catch a Falling Star
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