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...around the world converged on Everest's slopes to attempt their own groundbreaking firsts. In 1978, Reinhold Messner's ascent without bottled oxygen defied the conventional wisdom that time spent without artificial oxygen above 7,900 meters?in the "death zone"?would cause irreparable brain damage. In 2000, Babu Chiri Sherpa?the most famous Sherpa?climbed from base camp to the top of Everest in just under 16 hours...
...Hillary Step and finally, after two-and-a-half months, struggled onto the summit of Everest, it was impossible to shake the feeling that I was surrounded by ghosts. The recent fame of modern Sherpa climbers like Apa Sherpa, who has reached the summit 11 times, and Babu Chiri Sherpa who, before he was killed in 2001, completed a speed ascent in less than 17 hours, rests on decades of accumulated knowledge and sacrifice by the Sherpas who came before them: men like Tenzing Norgay, who braved the slopes seven times before becoming, along with Edmund Hillary, the first...
Today's battle against Brown (3-5 overall, 2-1 Ivy), who lost to Adelphi in overtime last week, at Chiri Field will be crucial...
...sophomore's goal gave him a total of 16 for the season, second highest in Harvard history. Only the legendary Chris Chiri '64 chalked up a larger total for one season, 17 in 1961, also his sophomore season...
...Crimson will have to go without sophomore Pete Bogovich. Bogovich, whose two goals against Princeton brought him within two of Chris Chiri's single season record, played the entire game with a sore knee which he injured in the Penn game. He wrenched the other knee so badly against Princeton that he was unable to walk on it after the game, Coach Bruce Munro said, and is not expected to return for Brown or Yale...