Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Famed Alpinist George Mallory was once asked: "Why do you climb this mountain?" His answer has been the climbers' answer ever since: "Because it's there...
...razor edge; beyond, Everest itself, plumed in a wisp of vapor that streams from the summit at 29,002 ft. The three giants together enclose a vast glacial basin known as the Western Cwm (a Welsh word that rhymes with tomb). This was the key to the climb...
...Climb to the Col. Thus, fully accoutred, they struck at the face of Lhotse. Heavy icing is dangerous on a slope of 30°; Lhotse, in many places, is close to vertical. Wilfred Noyce, a Charterhouse schoolmaster, took two days to hack an ice staircase diagonally up to the -col. Camp VI and Camp VII were established on the face; finally, Noyce and a Sherpa gang reached the col and stood in a clear sky on the threshold of Everest. Here they made Camp VIII...
...last climb was 3,000 ft. No one man could have tried it if Hunt had not planned well. In the last exhausting stages, two assault teams (two men to each) had been "babied" for the final attack. Team No. 1 got the order...
...tiny, tireless old British lady named Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott began to collect them. By the time she died in 1938, she owned more than 450, and not one had cost her more than $125. Just before World War II, many collectors got interested and prices began to climb. By last week, Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott's collection had been auctioned off in London. Total price: about $50,000. No one knows how many more weights were brought back by tourists to Britain or the U.S., or how many may still be tucked away in dusty old trunks...