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- What's a foehn?
- Warm air, then rain, then a freeze, like all in a flash.
- Is that bad?

8 seconds sound clip from the The Eiger Sanction movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:47:16 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You have a defeatist mentality. We won't retreat. We'll go straight on up.

- You didn't know we were in trouble?

- No.

- That's not good.

- Oh, it sounds exciting. Pity I slept through it.

- That's the spirit. Come on, up we go.

- Shit!

- What is it?

- It's a foehn moving in.

- What's a foehn?

- Warm air, then rain, then a freeze, like all in a flash.

- Is that bad?

- It's frigging awful. That entire mother of a rock is gonna be covered with ice. But you can't walk on it, and you can't see through it to find a crack in the rocks to drive your pitons. The snow is all glazed over.

- But you'll be able to drop through up to your neck at any time.

- Worse thing, it's coming from the south. They won't even know it's coming until it hits.

- Then they must come down.

- Lady, by the time they find out, they won't be able to come down. They won't be able to go up. They're just gonna be stuck.

[...]

The Eiger Sanction Sound Clip

The Eiger Sanction poster

Quotes from The Eiger Sanction (1975 film based on Trevanian's novel), featuring short sound clips and sfx.

Actors: Clint Eastwood (Jonathan Hemlock), George Kennedy (Ben Bowman), Vonetta McGee (Jemima Brown), Jack Cassidy (Miles Mellough)

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