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PRESUMED DEAD. Naomi Uemura, 43, intrepid Japanese mountain climber and adventurer; after the National Park Service ended an eight-day search for him on Mount McKinley; in Alaska. Three weeks ago Uemura became the first climber to make a solo ascent of North America's highest peak (20,320 ft.) in midwinter, but he lost radio contact the next day and was last spotted by a pilot on Feb. 16. The only remnants found by searchers were his snowshoes, a diary and the two 17-ft.-long bamboo poles he used to test the firmness of snow...
...mountain climber. He was reported missing and feared lost on the west face of North America's highest peak, Mount McKinley in Alaska. His disappearance came just days after a spectacular success: on Feb. 12, his 43rd birthday, Uemura had become the first climber to make a solo ascent of the 20,320-ft. peak in midwinter...
Stuart describes his ascent to the MacArthur as "a gradual process," because his interest in archaeology "always seemed like just sort of a hobby." Although he has not yet earmarked any of the grant money he will be receiving, he will use some to return to Mexico and Guatemala. Also, he will definitely attend college within the next few years, and says that the fine quality of Harvard's Anthropology Department may draw him to Cambridge...
...climb speed is slower than a cruise speed. However, seconds later, Pilot 805 reports that the airliner is at an altitude of 10,000 km (33,000 ft.), indicating that either the Su-15's instruments were in error or 007 had not yet started its ascent...
...gratifying to learn that Tabin, 27, who carried off his stunt with several other members of something called the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club, has moved on to more mature concerns. He is in fact a member of an American mountaineering expedition in Tibet that intends to make an ascent without oxygen of Everest's forbidding and unclimbed East Face. George Leigh Mallory, the great British climber who died on Everest while making a summit attempt in 1924, had written of the East Face that "other men, less wise, might attempt this way if they would, but, emphatically...