Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture which another mountain climber had taken of Broennimann on the mountaintop. Loayza tried to phone Cuzco. waited six hours to get a call through. Then his assistant had to travel 60 miles along mountain roads to a farm where Broennimann was resting with injuries he suffered during his climb. The mountain climber was reluctant to give up his pictures (he had only the negatives), because he wanted them as proof of his feat...
...second part talks about the climbing of the mountain itself, and it is not funny at all. Twice the two men who finally surmounted the Butcher fell off, saved only by some extraordinary skill and guts. Both were severely frostbitten, one staking his life against the tentative Peruvian transportation network in a race to get his frozen feet under medical care. Both men spent a night huddled in a crevasse far up the 21,000 foot mountain, warmed only by the heat of a candle. Sack does a jarringly vivid job of describing first the fight to climb the mountain...
...Mach 1.5. American designers, say their British colleagues, have neglected delta-wings because they are necessarily preoccupied with long range. To get range, they designed planes with long, slender wings and high wing-loading. These tend to be fine for range, but not so good for takeoff, climb, ceiling and maneuverability. Many British designers believe that they are also inferior to delta-wings for speeds up to Mach 1.5 (1½ times the speed of sound...
...tips, great puffs of smoke and flame shot out. The explosions were the blasts from showers of rockets shot from the pods. They gave the "Scorpion," said the Air Force, the heaviest firepower of any U.S. fighter. Although the big, heavy Scorpion is full of radar equipment, it can climb higher than 40,000 ft. Its radar eyes can search out an enemy plane in night or thick weather, "lock" the Scorpion on a collision course with the enemy, and when within range, automatically fire its rockets. The new interceptor, which the" Air Force expects to be in the first...
...President's athletic pretensions have not always lain along such hap-hazard lines. In the summer of 1937 he went with a group to climb in the Sierra Nevadas--"real rope stuff" Conant refers to it. The next two summers he climbed in the Canadian Rockies and then was elected to the American Alphine Club. A wrenched back ship plan, the CRIMSON decided that it would be appropriate to cease talking about the Age of Lowell and begin to realize the Age of Conant had arrived. Even abolition of the beer plan in Since 1760 men living in the Yard...