Word: chamonix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Climb. Unlike the Matterhorn (14,780 ft.), a jagged spire of rock to which little snow clings, the white stairway of Mont Blanc looks deceptively accessible from Chamonix in the valley below. Any tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there...
Wounded & Captured. In Paris, Army Headquarters closed the Alpine leave center at Chamonix, listed the casualties: out of 2,785 G.I. visitors, nine broken legs, two marriages...
...autumn of 1836, tourists at Chamonix, Switzerland, were puzzled by a mysterious group of seven strangers who wore tight-fitting coats, slouch hats, vast cravats. It was next to impossible to tell which were men and which were women. The hotel blotter did not help. One of the strangers was registered simply as Fellowe; musical philosopher; birthplace-Parnassus; traveling from-Doubt to Truth. Others were registered as the Piffoel family; residence-Nature; Coming from-God; Going to-Heaven; Duration of passport-Eternity...