Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expedition had climbed as high as it could go with all the supplies and paraphernalia and had established a base camp from which the final run for the top could be made. Two hundred yaks, nearly 500 native porters and 11 white men made up the caravan which worked its way from one supply camp to another and finally had to dig in, itself. A camp rapidly grew up and the yaks and porters were left there while a few of the best porters continued on to the 22,000 foot level. Curiously enough, one of the porters who reached...
...From where our highest camp was stationed we could watch them climbing and with the powerful telescopic lens of my camera I knew that I would be able to take pictures of them even at the very top. The lens were good for the distance of two and a half miles...
...tables of Mayfair has come a startling innovation. American residents have introduced poker as a rival of bridge in fashionable society, much to the discomfiture of stern old auctioneers. Newspaper report has it that bridge is hard put to compete with the western invader, so lately come from lumber camp and smoking...
That is the prehistory of the story's chaotic opening at his base camp in Rouen. He is seen as a tireless, compassionate company commander, faithfully inspecting his men's feet and toothbrushes, writing their complicated little wills, guarding them from and for their women. Through labyrinths of official tape, thickets of superior and subordinate officers' personalities, swamps of physical obstacles, weather, food, transportation, equipment, his mind and nerves are shown maintaining their stability, and threading at the same time the dark jungles of his own inward life. Over all is the shadow of the major obscenity in the trenches...
Sylvia appears in the camp to torture him afresh. Her incredible malice brings about a bedroom scene where he strikes a drunken general in pajamas. For the troops' morale he must be removed, but still he will not clear his name, will not "blab." "There used to be," he tells his own superior, an old friend, "in families of position, a certain ... on the part of the man ... a certain . . . call it parade...