Word: crag
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High above the French village of Chamonix towers 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc, a permanent challenge to mountain climbers. Nearby is the even more difficult and dangerous crag, Aiguille du Fou (Fool's Needle), which only the more experienced mountaineers attempt. Last week Mont Blanc delivered up the bodies of four Spanish Alpinists who had disdained guides and paid with their lives. Two other lone climbers started up the rocky crag of Fool's Needle...
...occupation headquarters. Up in the mountains, three German soldiers had been found wandering in a bloody daze. They said that they, with 74 fellow prisoners, had been taken up one of the highest mountains in the vicinity to die. There the guerrillas stripped them, then pushed them off a crag. Only these three survived...
Keith Jacobsen became a husky 17-year-old who lived, like many of his friends, for little but the challenge of the peaks. A fortnight ago, just after dawn, he climbed out of an automobile at the summit of Washington's crag-hung Snoqualmie Pass. He slipped on his pack, snapped on his skis and, with two teen-age pals behind him, set off on an overnight climb to Snow -Lake in the untracked high Cascades. The boys toiled steadily; by half past twelve they had passed through a draw at 4,200 feet and were beginning the last...
...whole dreadful business comes to an epic climax in another fine scene in which cad Boone and bounder Peter Lawford fight it out with bullwhips, while on a crag high above them, the bush bobby stands like an ibex and dispassionately sees that justice is done...
...born 1930) was a few hours old, his maternal grandmother, Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, held him up before a cabinet meeting and said: "See how well-developed he is already! He is almost as big as a Premier!" When Baudouin was four, his grandfather Albert slipped on a mountain crag. The mourning bells for the beloved monarch were among the first impressions in the boy's mind. A year later, his mother, radiantly beautiful Queen Astrid, was killed in an automobile accident on a vacation in Switzerland (the King himself had been driving). Haggard with grief, Leopold returned...