Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cathedral and the cardinal's palace." Others argued that the sword-brandishing statue was "too warlike a figure to stand in front of a church." And Peru's inarticulate Indians never saw any reason to glorify the man they still consider no better than a heroic butcher. But the church-front spot for the statue also had its defenders, who thought it a "commanding position from which he could seem to keep watch over the city he had laid out and founded 400 years before...
...BUTCHER: THE ASCENT OF YERUPAJA (213 pp.)-John Sack-Rinehart
...First climb Kanchenjunga," runs a well-known mountaineering challenge, "then Yerupaja." Since no one has ever scaled Himalayan Kanchenjunga (though eight men have died trying), anybody in his right mind might conclude that Peruvian Yerupaja ("The Butcher") is strictly for the birds...
...climb it. In 1950, for their summer vacation, they tossed away reason with their razors and hauled off to Peru as casually as if one of the highest unsealed peaks in the hemisphere were no more than a library ladder. What happened to them is described in The Butcher, by John Sack, news editor of the Harvard Crimson at the time, who tagged along as the expedition historian. "What started out as great fun," he truly relates, "turned into great adventure...
...July 31, their friends below saw them disappear into the clouds that hid the sky-cutting edge of The Butcher...