Word: andes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Andrew Kaufman '43 will give an illustrated lecture on the Club's first Peruvian expedition, which last August attempted to climb 19,000 foot Mr Huagerruche. He will then discuss organization of the second expedition, aiming to tackle a new and higher peak in the Andes...
...sideshow to these "Little Olympics," the Argentina Auto Club has challenged U.S. auto racers to a 14,000-mile dash from Washington to Buenos Aires-via the Pan American Highway to Mexico City and Panama, by boat to Venezuela, thence through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and across the Andes to Buenos Aires...
...thousand feet up in the Andes* lives a race of men with enormous energy and cast-iron hearts. Dr. Carlos Monge of Lima, Peru last week described that race, the highest in the world, to scientists at the University of Chicago's 50th anniversary meeting (see p. 63). For his research he received an honorary degree. The thin Andes air kills weaklings. So the 12,000,000 Andes strong-hearts are the product of centuries of painful adaptation to scarcity of oxygen. In years of laboratory study. Dr. Monge found...
...Andes natives have hearts remarkably long and thick. They beat very slowly, can do 20% more work than hearts of lowlanders. Even hard labor does not speed up a native's heart; in many cases, Dr. Monge discovered, a double load of work slows down the pulse. A native's blood volume is larger than that of lowlanders, his veins are somewhat distended. His heart and circulation, said Dr. Monge, are like that of an athlete in training; about half the Andean men have noticeably greater strength than men at sea level. Most of them can climb...
From two miles up in the Andes last weekend came word of a Putsch that failed. In La Paz, Bolivia's President General Enrique Peñaranda suddenly announced that his country was in a state of siege after the discovery of plans for a Nazi-led revolution...