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...Larry Washburn '40, experienced mountain climber, had brought a nanny goat and her two babies into the formerly serene theatre in order to find out whether or not they would be adaptable for enhancing the mountain scenery of the play...
Lionel S. Marks Gordon Mckay professor of Mechanical Engineering, who will retire September 1, is not only a noted scientist, but has become a mountain climber, a great traveller, and an intimate of such figures as John Masefield, Thomas Hardy, and Julian Huxley...
...airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets him work 20 hours a day for weeks at a stretch. His shock of water-spaniel hair is greying but he still looks young at 37. Coffee with lots of sugar instead of alcohol for a bracer is one of his rules, though he does drink sociably. He doesn...
Accompanied by Mme Zay, 14 porters, 15 guides, 20 photographers, Mountain-climber Zay set out from St. Gervais, at the foot of Mt. Blanc, in midmorning. He arrived at the Tete Rousse shelter, 10,390 feet high, at 3 p. m. After a night's sleep he rose at 3 a. m., started up the last 4,000 feet of sheer, snow-clad rocks to the Vallot shelter. Then rain and fog set in. Guides declared further climbing dangerous. So Minister Zay, from 3,000 feet below, dedicated a glistening hospice constructed of duraluminum* erected at 14,312 feet...
...good book on mountain climbing can give almost any non-climber an attack of armchair vertigo. In The Ascent of Nando. Devi Mountain-Climber Tilman dizzied many a reader with his account of his climb, in 1936, to the summit of India's Nanda Devi (25,660 ft.), the highest mountain ever scaled by man. Last week, while Mountaineer Tilman was on his way to try another climb of Mt. Everest, he dizzied U. S. readers again, in a book that told of his slides, falls and narrow escapes in the mountains of equatorial Africa...