Word: andes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke Rev. John Joseph Preston, a modest, retiring, 60-year-old Roman Catholic priest, at the outdoor Wayside Shrine of the Passion which he founded near his church in Kearny, N. J. Father Preston was well aware that on the Chilean-Argentine boundary is the great Christ of the Andes, 26 ft. high, that Brazil dedicated last year its 130-11. Christ the Redeemer, world's largest, on Corcovado Mountain near Rio de Janeiro (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931). Why not something even bigger for the U. S.-a bronze statue 150 ft. tall, to cost $500,000 which would...
...Annie Smith Peck, long-famed mountain climber who will be 82 next month, plodded to the summit of Mount Crescent (3,280 ft.) near Gorham, N. H. and down again. Her most conspicuous exploit occurred 24 years ago when she climbed Mount Huascaran (21,812 ft.) in the Peruvian Andes. In her honor a peak of the mountain was named Cumbre Ana Peck...
...last week Pan American was sending a different sort of expedition, with a less happy mission, into bitter, freezing weather. A Ford transport of Pan American-Grace Line had taken off from Santiago, Chile, with six passengers and a crew of three bound for Buenos Aires. Somewhere over the Andes in a winter blizzard the ship was lost. Hopelessly searchers tried to scour a storm-swept, chasm-striped area 220 mi. long, 150 mi. wide where the plane might have come down...
...knows what South America has to offer. It is also time that South Americans know another type of tourist than the one which religiously fails to survive the daily cocktail hour, snorts ceaselessly at the embryonic plumbing, and tries to carve his initials on the Lima cathedral. From the Andes to the Atlantic, northern South America offers: the world's largest untamed (but travel-easy) wilderness, peerless hunting, excellent fishing, real but tractable savages, colorful waterways and jungle paths, and altogether, the most vivid and exotic primitive scene left in this...
...think that Dr. Dickey's $5,000 fee for the trip across the Andes and down the Amazon is excessive: rather it is trading upon the glamour of the tropics for the uninitiated. I'll guarantee the same trip and conditions for less than half of thai: I happen to live right on the trail...