Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quiet, Icy Death." The temperature at the base of the peak was 5°F. as the climbers began their ascent. Siegert and his companions hammered in a piton every 3 ft., averaged only 100 ft. a day. Fearful of the "quiet, icy death that sneaks up on you when you sleep at 20° below," Siegert allowed his men to sleep only in the late afternoons, and only in turns; at night, the Germans anchored their sleeping bags to the wall at 30-ft. intervals, shouted and sang to keep awake...
Last week, on the 17th day of their ascent, the three men stumbled up a sloping snow field, into blinding sunlight, and fell tearfully into the arms of Italian guides who had gone up Cima Grande's easy south wall to meet them at the summit. "We want to sleep," mumbled Siegert. "It was rough...
Died. Jean Felix Piccard, 79, bushy-haired cosmic ray scientist and pioneer high-altitude balloonist, whose 1934 ascent to 57,579 ft. broke the record set by his late twin brother Auguste (a deep-sea explorer as well) and brought back data that helped confirm the increase of cosmic rays at higher altitudes; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
...will bring up the fuel, rocket engines and other gear needed for the remainder of the earth-moon trip. The two payloads will rendezvous on orbit and prepare for departure for the moon. If preliminary tests make this system look too difficult. Webb proposes to fall back on direct ascent, using a giant Nova booster with 12 million Ibs. of thrust to toss a manned spaceship to the moon without the complication of orbital rendezvous. In either case, the spaceship will land on the moon after braking its descent with retrorockets. then take off for the earth from the moon...
Describing the successful ascent of Albert W. Nickerson '62 and Leif-Norman Patterson, a graduate student at M.I.T., Everett said that "the work was physically and mentally straining, but no one ever complained about the scenery." Located in the Yukon, Mount Logan, almost 20,000 feet high, is the second highest mountain in North America...