Word: blancs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Underhill Ph.D. '16 will speak on the ascent of the three Courmeyeur ridges of Mont Blanc at a dinner of the Harvard Mountaineering Club at the Harvard Union tomorrow night at 6.30 o'clock. Dr. Underhill is the first American to have climbed these three ascents, notorious for their length and difficulty, and which only one other man has ever surmounted. Other members of the Club will show slides and motion pictures at the dinner, tickets for which may be obtained from the secretary at 57 Westmorly Hall...
Just before going on his holiday he had added to his "Hale's Tours" feature a moving picture he had seen in Pittsburgh, The Great Train Robbery, by Edwin S. Porter. "Hale's Tours" was only a travelog ?kinetic scenes of Mont Blanc projected on a screen in a gallery which rocked and swayed to simulate the movement of an observation car?but The Great Train Robbery was a real story that ran for twelve minutes. You saw the bandits riding on their raid, the station agent working in his office. "Hale's Tours" was in debt and Zukor...
...ascent of Monte Rosa will be shown in the Living Room of the Harvard Union on Sunday at 7.30 o'clock, under the joint auspices of the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Harvard Union. The pictures of the climbing of Grepon, which is a part of the Mont Blanc Massif at Chamonix, show the mountaineering technique of professional guides in their ascent of what is considered by tourists as one of the most difficult peaks in Chamonix...
Died. Assan Dina, Hindu owner of Mont Blanc Observatory; suddenly at Cruseilles, Switzerland. He had begun the construction of a larger observatory on Mont Saleve, France, to cost $6,250,000, to be equipped with the world's largest telescope (diameter 105 inches...
...lighthouse keeper carried their first message by walking across the Strait ice to the telegraph station at Lourdes de Blanc Sablon. A message went to Point Armour, where one William Barrett operated the wireless station. That first message announcing the Atlantic crossing was for the North German Lloyd steamship offices in Manhattan. The line had provided money for the flight...