Word: boulderer
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...Quietly and surely Schaller cleared the steps formerly cut. Passang, the second man on the rope, elderly and reliable, followed for a few metres, and a third man, Tsain Narboo, stood on the boulder at the beginning of the couloir and managed the rope...
Last February the body of pretty young Ellen O'Sullivan was found in a bog. Ellen was a dairymaid employed by the Rathmore Creamery in County Kerry. The clothes were torn from her body, her head was bashed in by a boulder. All in all it looked pretty bad for Jeremiah Cronin, a neighboring farmer. He was Ellen's acknowledged sweetheart, and his bicycle was found not far from the scene of the crime...
...Manhattan, his bright-eyed, hard-muscled little wife, and four men companions, after a three-month struggle up the hot, muggy Orinoco, reached the top of a "gigantic" peak of the Parima Mountains. From here they saw the second largest river in South America as a 20-ft., boulder-strewn torrent, "fed by myriad brooks which emanate from the surrounding mountains...
...have been a reader of your publication for some time and have a keen appreciation of your outlook on national problems. I have just been talking to a man who has been on the job at "Boulder [Hoover] Dam." His contention is as follows...
...real unbiased answer from your staff. I cannot believe that this problem has not been solved, but would like to know, inasmuch as I am a tax payer in Los Angeles, which city is contemplating a large bond issue to construct an aqueduct to bring some of the Boulder Dam water to Los Angeles...