Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...beginning the conquest of the air. It was only after the lifting power of the atmosphere and the heating power of gas were discovered that man first rose in the air. Only two years after the discovery of the balloon, Dr. Jeffries of Boston made an ascent for a scientific study of the atmosphere, and soon after crossed the English Channel in his balloon. As was found out after these experiments, the upper strata of the air at a distance of more than five or six miles from the earth, were both too cold and too rarefled for human beings...
...captain in the Italian navy. In 1900 he conducted an Arctic excursion, which penetrated nearer to the North Pole than had been reached before Peary's recent expedition. The party reached latitude 86 degrees, 33 minutes, north, thus beating Nansen's previous record. He is the author of "The Ascent of Mount St. Elias...
...Matthes will give a lecture on "Some Little Known Glaclers in the Montans Rockies" under the auspices of the Natural History Society in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8 o'clock. In the lecture Mr. Matthes will describe his ascent of the Blackfoot glacier...
...tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The talk will include a brief reference to the development of Alpine climbing as a sport, and will then take up the more practical problems of equipment for camping and climbing in the mountains, with suggestions on snow and ice work and the ascent of rocky crags. The risks and the precautions of mountaineering will be set forth. The more important articles of equipment will be shown, and the various aspects of the subject will be illustrated by lantern pictures and by anecdotes from personal experience. The great opportunity for Americans to combine mountaineering...
...over the Andes and down the Amazon; this meeting will be open to members of the club and invited guests. On May 1, a lecture will probably be given by Professor I. C. Russell, lately of the U. S. Geological Survey, now of the University of Michigan, on his ascent of Mt. Rainier, this being one of the series of public lectures that the club hopes to arrange; Professor Russell will probably also address the club members on "Practical Methods of Exploration." A "Round the World" meeting is planned for May 29, when several members of the club who have...