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...climber who got within a bare 900 ft. of the goal last spring was on his way up Everest again last week. With five other Swiss Alpinists, Raymond Lambert was somewhere on the mountain's massive southern face. His party had approached Everest from Nepal, the only country through which climbers from the free world may pass, now that Tibet is barred to them by its Chinese Communist overlords. The Swiss are now setting up a string of base camps, assembling supplies of food, rope, sleeping bags, clothing and fuel. They are thrusting their lifeline ever higher...
Alberse was in Peru when Correspondent Tom Loayza was getting the story on Swiss Mountain Climber Marcus Broennimann and his conquest of formidable Salcantay (TIME, July 28). Loayza, in Lima, had an assistant stationed closer to the scene at Cuzco, two hours from Lima by plane. Loayza was trying to get a 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...
Calif., Mountain Climber Dan O'Neill...
Even back in West Virginia, where the family lived before coming to Indiana, says his mother, "everybody knowed he was a climber. He'd worry the life out of me goin' up on to some knoll and then riding a sapling down into the gulch." Reflecting on this one afternoon last week, while munching on a jelly sandwich Roger felt a little dissatisfied with himself. School had been out a week and the weather was warm, but he still hadn't "worked up some of his big ideas...
...Contrary to widespread opinion, there is nothing unsporting about using oxygen, though some British mountaineers might consider it "going soft." Heretofore, it has simply been considered impractical or impossible to haul the added burden. The new lightweight (22 Ibs.) Swiss lung, complete with plastic mouthpiece, is worked by the climber's own breath, which releases the precious oxygen...