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Specialists All. On that expedition was Norman Dyhrenfurth, a movie cameraman. In 1960, by then an American citizen and a producer of documentary films in Hollywood, Dyhrenfurth decided to have another go at Everest. He planned his assault with the precision of a man-in-space shot. First, he raised $326,000 (including $100,000 from the National Geographic Society), wheedled U.S. firms into supplying equipment at cut-rate prices: lightweight oxygen tanks, walkie-talkies, 13 tons of freeze-dried food, vitamins, Metrecal wafers. Then Dyhrenfurth picked his team: 20 men, each an experienced part-time mountain climber, each...
...Professor Guenther Oskar Dyhrenfurth of Zurich last week cabled Berlin that his party had made a successful ascent of 25,500-ft. Queen Mary Peak in the Himalayas. The message said that Professor Dyhrenfurth's wife Hettie accompanied the others to the top, surpassing the women's mountain climbing record (23,300 ft. up Pinnacle Peak in the Eastern Karakorum Range) established 18 years ago by the late Mrs. Fannie Bullock Workman of Worcester, Mass...
...years ago Dr. Paul Bauer took Bavarian mountain climbers to scale 28,146-ft. Kanchenjunga on the India-Thibet frontier. Blizzards and avalanches thwarted the party. Last year another German group under Professor Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth tried, failed, turned to and surmounted neighboring Jonsong Peak, altitude 24,340 ft. This summer Dr. Bauer again essayed Kanchenjunga...
...York Times pecked out the story on his typewriter in a tent 20,000 ft. up on Kanchenjunga, No. 3 peak (28,146 ft.) of the Himalaya range between India and Nepal, which is being essayed this season by a party under Geologist Günther 0. Dyhrenfurth of Zurich (TIME...
Less experienced is Frau Dyhrenfurth. whose good looks are only excelled by her tennis. In charge of supplies, she has in her train caviar, Swedish bread, 500 bottles of Munich beer, champagne, whiskey, brandy, a phonograph, 50,000 feet of motion picture film, three cameras, a dark room tent, a typewriter, face cream, a ton of Swiss chocolate...