Word: camped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gone home to enlist as a private in Lee's Battery of Virginia Light Artillery, was fighting shoulder-to-shoulder with the flower of Southern chivalry against the invading hordes of Yankee "nigger lovers." With the exception of one court-martial and two months in a Federal prison camp in 1865, little is known of Lucian Fletcher's Civil War record. His amatory progress after Appomattox, however, was crystal clear...
...North Col. Still farther above them towered the glaring white summit, with its snow plume blowing far out into space. But in sleeping bags within their tiny tents a group of Englishmen and tough Tibetan porters out to conquer unconquered Mt. Everest (29,140 ft.) rested contentedly last week. Camp No. 3 had been safely established at 21,500 ft. Francis Sydney Smythe and Eric Earle Shipton,both crack Alpinists and members of the unsuccessful...
This news was wirelessed from Camp No. 3 to Calcutta and to the world by Hugh Ruttledge, leader of the fifth British mountain-climbing assault in 15 years on Mt. Everest. It had taken the party more than three months to get from London to their present height. Mountaineers, aware that 14 men have so far lost their lives trying to scale Everest, were of the gloomy opinion that the worst was yet to come...
...treacherous col and beyond the party must climb to try to establish camp at 27,800 ft. Once there, they have two choices. They can mount the pinnacle by way of the notorious First & Second Steps, the latter of which rises smooth and sheer for 100 ft. like a battle-cruiser's bow. Or they can follow a long band of rocks skirting the summit and leading to a long, shallow couloir which points straight up the face to the top. George Leigh Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine are thought to have climbed the First Step before they...
Last week, waiting at Camp No. 3 for supplies, dogged Leader Ruttledge announced: "If the first attempt fails . . . it is planned to go on trying until the monsoon breaks...