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...Claudio Corti, 29, the Eiger was an obsession. An Italian truck driver who had had many brushes with death on mountains, he was "Ahab-like" in his determination to scale the Eiger's north wall, a 6,000-ft.-high slab of rock raked by avalanches and lashed by storms. The Eiger can be scaled with only moderate difficulty from the west or south. But mountaineers, with typically contrary bravado, are inevitably lured to its north wall, where more than 100 people have managed to make it to the top and 25 others have been killed in the attempt...
...Prayer for a Miracle. A zealot who scorned careful preparation, Corti could find no experienced climber to go with him up the Eiger. He had to settle for a good-natured, 44-year-old factory worker, Stefano Longhi, who had never made a strenuous climb. Without so much as glancing at a map of the route, Corti and Longhi impetuously started climbing. Part way up they met two Germans also making the climb and joined forces. Trouble began. One of the Germans developed stomach cramps, and Longhi ran out of breath...
...were alerted. Improvising as best they could, the rescuers began an ordeal as harrowing as that of the climbers. They struggled up the slope with heavy equipment. Some of them fell into deep crevasses along the way, seriously injured. By this time both Germans had fallen to their deaths; Corti and Longhi were stranded on different ledges on the wall. Securing a winch to the ice on the razor-thin summit, the rescuers lowered a man on cable down the north wall. After three agonizing hours, he managed to bring back Corti. But storms kept rescuers from reaching Longhi. When...
...with a high level of male sex hor mones in the patients. Adenocarcinoma, less common, is the usual form in women and in men with high outputs of female hormones. A third type, called "oat-cell" or undifferentiated, occurs in men whose adrenal glands put out an excess of corti sone-type hormones...
...humans are ever exposed to such severe noise intensities. But some occupations (e.g., airline pilots, aircraft workers, riveters, boilermakers) require constant exposure to dangerously high sound levels. Such prolonged exposure, says Knudsen, results in a degeneration of the organ of Corti-part of the middle ear's acoustic apparatus-and a decrease in the number of ganglia, or nerve cells, in the ear. The U.S. Air Force's Dr. Henning E. von Gierke warns that continued exposure to 135 decibels of noise for longer than ten seconds once a day, or to 100 decibels for more than eight...