Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite several days of storm and blizzard that had stopped trains, sent ships to port, at Bardonecchia (some eight miles from the French border) three companies of Alpine troops with jaunty eagle feathers in their hats and skis slung over their shoulders marched out of barracks for a practice ascent of Monte Galambra. Snowfall was so heavy that two companies turned back. The leading company, officered by a Major and two Captains, pushed through the blizzard, attained the summit. Halfway down they were forced to take shelter in a rest house, were marooned there nearly 36 hours without food...
Proudly Professor Lowe made his first official ascent on July 24, 1861, and had the satisfaction of watching the movements of the Confederates after the battle of Manassas, and of being shot at. By the following May, the Professor had perfected telegraph communication with ground forces and the last doubting footsoldier was convinced. Professor Lowe detected a Confederate maneuver to attack the troops of General Heintzleman, who was separated from the main force at Fair Oaks. Warning was flashed just in time to save the entire Army of the Potomac. In many a later engagement Professor Lowe observed artillery fire...
...centuries the stark silent height of the Matterhorn uttered no challenge. Like the Greek Gods of Olympus, like the Firegoddess Pele of Kilauea, a legendary monster of the Matterhorn threatened and forbade. In the middle of the last century Englishmen came, applied cold geological calculations to the possibility of ascent, exploded the monster forever. Since then the Matterhorn has often been scaled, though hundreds have perished in the attempts. Last week an American, Leon Goodrich of Manhattan, set a record by climbing from a low outstation to the peak and back...
Last week dispatches to the New York Times told how, on June 3, two German climbers had reached Jonsong's pinnacle, highest yet scaled by man. Five days later another four made the ascent. As the latter group climbed they could see Everest, 50 mi. away, down whose appalling sides six years ago Arthur Comyn Irvine and George Leigh Mallory tumbled to their death after attaining higher ground (over 28,000 ft.) than any man before or since...
...club has been active this season, with a mountain climbing or skiing trip each week end. To be an active member of the club one must have made the ascent of two major glacier-hung peaks. By "major" is meant a difficult climb...