Word: chamonix
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...almost a way of life. And last week, with the winter Olympics in Oslo only a month away, it was getting close to the climax of the skier's year. The baggage carrier at St. Anton, the bartender at Klosters, the woodcutter at Sestriere, the gendarme at Chamonix, the hotelkeeper at Oslo were all reading the ski news: the results of the Swiss National championships. And this dark-haired, blue-grey-eyed American girl was very much in the news. Every skier in Europe knew her name: Andrea Mead Lawrence...
Emotional Pitch. A happy blend of determination and high spirits-Dave was touring with her and their courtship was progressing-won Andy the Hannes Schneider Pokal at St. Anton. At Chamonix (where nets are rigged to keep racers from going over precipices), she won the slalom. Then she went back to Austria and in five days won one downhill, two slaloms, and two giant slaloms...
...days the wintry winds had howled about the high peaks of the French Alps, whipping the mountain snows into white fury, keeping skiers and tourists at home. In the valley below, one day last fortnight, the rival guides of fashionable Chamonix and humbler St. Gervais gathered as usual to down their morning grog and gripe about the weather. High over their heads, the pilot of an Air India...
...almost certain that nobody in the plane, even had he survived the crash, could have lived for two days on the mountain. In the valleys below Mont Blanc, however, there is an unwritten law that when a man is lost on the mountain, somebody must go after him. In Chamonix, sharp, energetic little Rene Payot, first Alpinist of France and chief instructor at the army's mountaineering school, put on his climbing clothes, greased his face well against the winds to come, rounded up 25 colleagues and announced simply, "On y ua [Let's go]." In St. Gervais...
...Chamonix group was close to a refuge hut at Grands-Mulets, more than halfway up, when Leader Payot untied himself from the main party to move a little ahead. A sudden gust swept him over a crevasse and buried him under 20 feet of snow. Two hours later a walkie-talkie notice of his death filtered down to his wife and two children in the valley. By radio the word came back from the French army ordering all men off the mountain...