Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artful nets Sansom catches as much of the puffy anguishes and the razor-finned sorrows of middle-class life as any other story writer now at work. He makes many of his comments in metaphor. In The Vertical Ladder he describes a boy's slow ascent, in response to a dare, up a ladder on the outside of a six-story gas tower. The farther he climbs, the more terrified he becomes of the heaving ground below. When he reaches the top, he discovers that the last dozen rungs are missing. The dislocation he feels-suspended between earth...
...nineteen hundred, eighty-four, Those bricks of red were seen no more. With Jose Luis Sert's ascent, They changed the bricks to cold cement...
...work their way to the summit, 928 ft. above. It was, said Dyhrenfurth, "a miracle" that the two men made it. Whittaker and Gombu stayed at the summit 30 minutes, enjoying the view (they could pick out Rongbuk Monastery, 11,000 ft. below) and snapping photos to authenticate their ascent. Then they went back down to tell Dyhrenfurth the news. Bound to Change. At week's end the final chapter of the Everest climb was being written. Two other U.S. assault teams were on the mountain. One five-man squad was struggling toward the summit by way of Everest...
...nephew of Tenzing Xorkey, the famous Sherpa who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first successful Everest ascent...
...living the greatest adventure in history, and much of the outcome depends on the soundness of their minds and the stoutness of their hearts, whose beat is heard over loudspeakers around the world. Yet even more depends on thousands of people on the ground who control the spacemen's ascent, their course, their return or their death...