Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moving pictures of a rock climb on the Aiguille du Grepon and of a ski ascent of Monte Rosa will be shown in the Living Room of the Harvard Union on Sunday at 7.30 o'clock, under the joint auspices of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Harvard Union. The pictures of the climbing of Grepon, which is a part of the Mont Blanc Massif at Chamonix, show the mountaineering technique of professional guides in their ascent of what is considered by tourists as one of the most difficult peaks in Chamonix...
...called, rises in close proximity to the one ascended and the pictures were taken from the first tooth looking toward the second. The peak of Grepon is composed of rock, and though it is relatively small it offers plenty of opportunity for skillful climbing. The second reel of the ascent shows much of the technical difficulties of mountaineering and this one will be run again in slow motion at the end of the showing...
...small wings projected from it, and it had a propeller, but the huge four bladed pinwheel surmounting the fuselage, deriving power not directly from the motor but from the forward motion of the plane, gave five times the lift of the conventional propeller. This device permitted almost vertical ascent or descent. It also increased immunity from the dangers of motor trouble over unlevel country...
...Hans helping me admirably, with knee and shoulder, and guiding my metal peg to its foothold with the precision of a chess player moving a pawn. We . . . arrived upon the summit at 7:30 a. m. . . . Then came the long terrors of the grim descent-always worse than the ascent for the legless man ... it was over at last...
Free balloon: An aerostat without a propelling system whose ascent and descent may be controlled by use of ballast or with a loss of the contained gas, whose direction is determined by wind...