This week’s puzzle:

A not-entirely-unpredictable catastrophe changes two men’s lives, though perhaps not as much as they might have hoped. An uncoordinated man and a woman with a medical condition travel to a precarious place, where she imparts to him some life-changing information.

Last week’s puzzle:

A man who is famous but not rich has spent his entire life surrounded by people who tell him what he can’t do. He is nearly killed while doing something he hasn’t attempted since he was a child, and afterward he decides that a normal life is probably best, after all.

And the answer is . . . ▼