Word: alpiniste
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...veteran Alpinist, Benuzzi conceived the scheme of walking out of the poorly guarded camp, scaling Mount Kenya, and then-since there was little prospect of getting back to Italian-controlled areas-of blandly returning to captivity. His scheme had no practical end: it was simply Benuzzi's idea of self-expression...
When the news reached Switzerland last week, veteran Alpinist René Dittert, who had been with Lambert last spring, summed up what every Everest veteran knows: "It will require a kind of miracle to reach the top." British Alpinists, who have had a possessive feeling about Everest ever since 1924, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared in swirling mists less than 1,000 ft. from the summit, were not waiting for miracles. Britain's famed Himalayaman Eric Shipton promptly announced that British plans for a new assault next spring would go ahead full steam...
...Alpinist, mountain climbing is the most dangerous and exhilarating sport in the world. To a climber of the towering Himalayas, it is chiefly dangerous. Above the Alpine altitudes, the rarefied atmosphere brings on an overwhelming lassitude and an indifference to danger. Such a fate may well have overcome Britain's George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine, when the swirling mountain mists cut them off from view in 1924 as they struggled up the last 1,000 feet of towering, forbidding Mt. Everest.* Why do men tackle a forbidding mountain? Mallory had his own understated explanation: "Because...
...actual Swiss assault on Everest is expected to come in May. Avalanche Expert Roch, echoing the aspirations of mountaineers the world over, hopes to climb Everest for other reasons than Mallory's simple "because it's there." Alpinist Roch is also imaginatively challenged by other inaccessible Himalaya buttresses and spires. Says Roch: "The great attraction of the Himalayas lies not only in reaching a summit, but also in the simple contemplation of the wild flanks which probably never can be climbed...
...weather and five inches of snow in the past few days and permitted the Dartmouth fraternities to compete sculpturing the mammoth snow and ice figures which mark the annual Carnival One of these, symbolizing the "call of the wild" Carnival theme, is a 30-foot statue depicting a Swiss Alpinist with a horn 35 feet long...