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The fire sequences alone, captured in the hellish fuzz of Pål Ulvik Rokseth’s cinematography, are pinnacles of this practical-meets-digital-effects discipline.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

He struck on an idea to carve representations of the American West into the granite pinnacles of the Central Black Hills: The Lakota leader Red Cloud, Lewis and Clark, George Armstrong Custer.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2025

Thompson emphatically opened the past as a living resource while claiming one of the pinnacles of white, male Western culture for future use by others.

From New York Times • Jun. 15, 2023

"Those two pinnacles of the professional tennis world have always been there as goals for me. So I do want to make more history of this sport, no doubt," he said.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2023

In midafternoon we reached a bizarre procession of freestanding ice pinnacles, the largest nearly 100 feet high, known as Phantom Alley.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer