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Less than 40 miles out of Las Vegas, Charleston Peak, as it’s also known, feels like a completely different world.

The AEC said that the cloud traveled at 40,000 ft., but on Charleston Peak a reporter at the 8,000-ft. level said the cloud passed directly over him about 1,000 ft. up.

Landsberg's daring plan: � From cameras on News Nob, the signal was beamed to the Atomic Energy Commission's control point a quarter of a mile away, then to a second relay near the top of snow-covered Charleston Peak, about 46 miles farther on.

The AEC's power supply at the test site failed, so the telecast switched to a camera on Charleston Peak.

When it came back, there was a new camera angle, this time from Charleston Peak, 57 miles away.