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...Leary was an unlikely candidate from the start. He was a civilian. He was myopic ("Astronauts don't wear glasses, and there I was wearing glasses"). His personality smacked more of Berkeley than of Houston. Nevertheless, at 27, a Ph.D. in astronomy and a skilled mountain climber, he was selected as a member of the sixth space-training program, the second group of scientist-astronauts. He resigned after seven months' intensive training because, ha decided, he wanted to go to the moon, not spend his time training to fly T-38 jets...
...year-old ursine friend "Archibald Ormsby-Gore" in his work Summoned by Bells ("Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world/When I turned to Archibald, my safe old bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed records with his "Mr. Woppit" along for the ride, and Mountain Climber Walter Bonnati got through one low point on his solitary trek up the Matterhorn's north slopes by confessing his "sins" to Zissi, a tiny Teddy in his knapsack. Princess Alexandra of Kent became almost inconsolable when her Teddy got lost on a good-will tour of the Far East...
Clifford K. Shipton, archivist and bibliographer, who once described himself as "a climber of family trees," is retiring as Custodian of the Harvard University Archives, a position he has held since...
...then this cat named Robert Greenfield comes along in the October issue of Cavalier and tries to tell us that Richard Farina was an ambitious grubby little punk or at best was a pitifully insecure social climber...
Everett, an experienced climber and the first American to scale the four major peaks of North America, had one serious gap in his expertise: he had never climbed in the Himalayas. Neither had the other U.S. members of his team, though all were skilled climbers. Everett was determined to scale Dhaulagiri I by its knifelike southeast ridge, a route never before attempted. He was racing a deadline: because the arrival of monsoon rains in early June would make further climbing immensely risky, the climb had to be accomplished in April and May. The team gathered in Katmandu early last month...