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...Alpinist, mountain climbing is the most dangerous and exhilarating sport in the world. To a climber of the towering Himalayas, it is chiefly dangerous. Above the Alpine altitudes, the rarefied atmosphere brings on an overwhelming lassitude and an indifference to danger. Such a fate may well have overcome Britain's George Leigh-Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine, when the swirling mountain mists cut them off from view in 1924 as they struggled up the last 1,000 feet of towering, forbidding Mt. Everest.* Why do men tackle a forbidding mountain? Mallory had his own understated explanation: "Because...
Sloping Strata. Though the new route appears more hazardous in many ways than the old, it has certain advantages. The climbers will not have to cope with the full force of the prevailing northwesterly gales; the rock strata dip down from south to north, making the south side more suitable for camp sites, and eliminating overhangs; and most important, the climber's morale, which ebbs dramatically at the 27,000-ft. level, will be aided by the full force of the sun's rays, which are quickly blanketed on the north face...
Notwithstanding the overzealous efforts of the female co-stars, Van does surprisingly well. His performance as a weak Long Island social climber, which fortunately requires no difficult facial expressions, is excellent. He sustains a convincing dapper-heel effect, which is his bonanza, until the traditionally gooey ending...
...jets scored their biggest one-day kill of the war: 13 MIGs destroyed, two probables, one damaged. Only one Sabre was lost. , Although the Sabres have consistently given the MIGs a bad beating, the Red jet is a first-class military fighter, a nimbler craft in maneuver, a faster climber, with more speed above 32,000 feet than the heavier, longer-ranged Sabre. Among reasons for the Sabre's performance in battle: superior speed below 25,000 feet, better diving speed, a fine electronic computing gunsight, better pilots. "If I could have a couple of sessions against those characters...
Back home in England, scientists decided that these latest tracks belonged to some kind of bear-Ursus arctos isabellinus, perhaps. One Everest climber suggested that the prints had been made with snowshoes manufactured by the Snowmen. Yet no one was really satisfied...