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...Rothschild ocC, speaking of the group which climbed through ley rain and snow on Mount Adams, where the weather took a toll of one camper's life this weekend. While the mercury dropped close to zero on the mountain top the Outing Club boys found sung haven in the Crag Camp, below freeline...
While the tanks were tangled, Indian infantry stormed Hellfire. These wiry veterans of crag warfare on India's North-West Frontier sneaked into defiles and crevasses as obscurely as rock-dwelling lizards. They stormed post after post, took many, and by night felt confident of taking the rest...
Therefore he rejected the British terms, retired with 7,000 Italians and 31,000 Ethiopians to the highest fortress he could find-Amba Alagi, a 10,000-foot crag near the Addis Abaha-Eritrea road-and waited...
...tough little Frenchmen were landed south as well as north of Narvik. Dragging their mountain artillery through profound snowdrifts, up incredible declivities, they slowly encircled Rombak Heights, moving patiently from crag to crag to blast German machine-gun nests on crags opposite...
...clear except for a few flaky, high clouds, the climbers left the lodge, 16 on skis with "climbers,"* four on snowshoes. They followed a snow-tractor's broad track for two miles, then cached snowshoes and skis and began to hike. At a chute near a crag called Crater Rock, they affixed crampons (spikes) to their boots to insure their footing on ice. Split into three strings, they followed two trailbreakers, cutting steps ahead, up Zig Zag draw to the west of Crater Rock, to within 50 feet of the top ridge...