Word: couloirs
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...mountaineer who was trying to be the first American woman to conquer Mount Everest; of injuries in a fall on May 15; in the Himalayas, 2,600 ft. short of the 5½-mile-high summit. Hoey was the only woman on a team scaling the rarely climbed Great Couloir of the mountain's north face...
Unlike long novels, long poems are firmly out of fashion, and in some ways the fact is regrettable. There is an exhilaration, a knowledge of manliness gained by the reader who establishes his base camps on, say, Milton's Paradise Lost, climbs from couloir to crag, and at last reaches the summit. Now Poet Kenneth Koch, an instructor in humanities at Columbia College, has defied the trend by writing a 115-page comic poem, a kind of lesser Catskill among epics, which offers a not very strenuous practice climb with hot-dog stands every hundred yards...
...eight years ago, Jack Webb was an unknown news announcer in a San Francisco radio station. Only six years ago he was a "starving" motion picture bit-player. But even then, he was seeking compulsively for handholds, eyes fixed unblinkingly on the heights. No ledge was too narrow, no couloir too deep to halt him. The traveling companions who could not keep up he left behind. Some grabbed for his ankles or coattails. He shook them off. He bounded up to fame almost overnight as Sergeant Joe Friday, the quiet, dark-haired, jug-eared hero of Dragnet (NBC, Thurs...
...They can mount the pinnacle by way of the notorious First & Second Steps, the latter of which rises smooth and sheer for 100 ft. like a battle-cruiser's bow. Or they can follow a long band of rocks skirting the summit and leading to a long, shallow couloir which points straight up the face to the top. George Leigh Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine are thought to have climbed the First Step before they met their death in 1924. In 1933 Smythe struggled 50 ft. up the couloir, stopped 1,000 ft. short of the summit, convinced that...
...days later] we found both at the base of the couloir and it was evident they had been killed at once. The couloir breaks sheer for several hundred metres...