Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Herzog and his pal, Louis Lachenal, reached the summit, they had scaled the highest peak ever topped by man. In Annapurna, Herzog's story of the expedition in the spring of 1950, the victory becomes a literary anticlimax. What is vastly more exciting than the climb is the return trip, the harrowing ordeal-by-nature calculated to shiver the spirit of the toughest armchair explorer. Author Herzog-an engineer by profession, a mountain climber by religion-is no great shakes as a writer. His account of the trip to Nepal, the organization of the expedition, and the search...
...especially considering the steady climb in prices? Actually the climb has not been any more outrageous this year than a percent or so over last year's, and what is more important, the prices of most commodities are nowhere near their ceilings. Coffee, for example has sold consistently several cents below the government's limit. With other products, moreover, the price has been set so artificially low as to create shortages. DiSalle's decision last year on the price of fuel oil for homes on the Eastern seaboard is a case in point. The Gulf Company's refusal to sell...
...only possible to conclude that the crash was the result of tragic negligence on the part of the pilot. He had gone down the runway with rudder and elevators still locked up. The plane took off. and went into a steep climb. In the minute after it was airborne, probably the pilot tried to get the nose down, found to his horror that the controls were rigid, perhaps even grabbed for the knob at his right knee. But by then the Globemaster had stalled, had crashed and was being hammered into blazing wreckage on the hard desert floor...
...critic: "Most of the younger Swiss artists behave like goldfish in a sheltered pond . . . Gubler stands out among these goldfish like a pike." A visitor, who had flown from Paris to see the show, more aptly compared Gubler to a salmon that has produced remarkably after a terrific uphill climb...
...course of his climb, Gubler resolutely refused to do anything for money. He painted as he pleased, and only occasionally sold a canvas to one of the few friends (mostly doctors and dentists) who admired his work. "I don't know how we lived," says Mrs. Gubler. "Often we had to make the difficult choice between buying food or colors and canvases. We always finished by buying the colors and canvases first and somehow we survived." In 1937 they reached the quiet pool where Gubler was to do his best work: a studio home overlooking the Limmat valley, outside...