Word: dittert
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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When the news reached Switzerland last week, veteran Alpinist René Dittert, who had been with Lambert last spring, summed up what every Everest veteran knows: "It will require a kind of miracle to reach the top." British Alpinists, who have had a possessive feeling about Everest ever since 1924, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared in swirling mists less than 1,000 ft. from the summit, were not waiting for miracles. Britain's famed Himalayaman Eric Shipton promptly announced that British plans for a new assault next spring would go ahead full steam...
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