For the glissade, Nancy glided over a few feet to the left.

In the book, she glissades past this defining moment, which I would have liked to see her hold for a few more counts.

From hiking a few miles to learning how to use an ice ax and glissade down a mountain, we trained and grew stronger together to ultimately reach the summit.

As I contemplated how to avoid glissading down the mountain, my phone powered down due to the cold and I lost my GPS tracker.

At about 7 a.m., around 300 dancers — boys and girls, men and women — took turns glissading across the concrete at 44th Street and Seventh Avenue, which was transformed into a scene from “Fame.”