Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many observers said they were just as concerned over Bingham's precarious ascent on the ladder as Warmerdam's jump to the same height on only a slender pole. But Bingham's statement, "it was a good big quarter of an inch over 15:7 inches constituted the final record-making verdict...
...mystic of recent ascent, Friedkin follows the Floating Power theory of crystal-balling, sitting on eight cushions placed on top of an easy chair in order to shield himself from mundane vibrations. The pillows put his chin about on the level of the top of a bookcase, and there, resting on a piece of black velvet, sits the instrument itself...
...club will culminate its winter activities during the spring vacation from March 29 to April 5 with ice-climbing and skiing on Mount Washington and a possible first ascent of one of the gullies in Huntington Ravine...
...craft instruction for beginners will be given from December 28 to January 4 t Huntington Ravine and Tuckerman's Headwall, where the Club has a cabin, and parties under Maynard Miller '43 and Andrew Kaulman '43 will ascent various gullies. From January 28 to February 2 there will be ice bivouacs there...
Many graduates are returning for the meeting, among them Henry Hall '19, treasurer of the American Alpine Club, and H. Adams Carter '36, a member of the party which climbed Nanda Devi in India in 1936, the highest ascent yet made...