Word: everest
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Race (TIME, Feb. 9, Sept. 14, 1931). In 1933 she financed a flight over Mt. Everest to prove to India that "not all Englishmen are degenerate." Lately, the sympathies of "Britain's Fairy Godmother" have been aroused by the sorry case of handsome Captain George Black ("Dod") Orsborne and his brother Jim. From Great Grimsby on the Humber, last All Fools' Day, the Orsbornes and two other fishermen ran away with the new trawler Girl Pat, chugged south for an unknown destination (TIME, June 8 et seq.). Three months later, after a wild, zigzag cruise across the South...
...from Laurel, however, is the Masonite ownership. Majority of the stock is still in the hands of the original Wisconsin lumbermen who backed the inventor. These include such potent paper and lumber names as Clark Everest (Marathon Paper Mills Co.), Aytch P. Woodson (B. C. Spruce Mills), Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey, dean of Wisconsin lumbermen. Biggest stockholder at last report (33,000 shares) is President Ben Alexander...
Nanda Devi is 25,662 feet in height and located in the Sikhim Himalaya range, about 60 miles from the Tibetan border. Although there are nine higher peaks than Nandi Devi, including Everest, none have ever been climbed, and, unless Everest goes down to defeat this summer, success in reaching the summit of Nanda Devi would give the Harvard climbers the honor of scaling the highest peak ever reached...
...Emmons was a member of the Moore-Burdsall Expedition in the summer of 1934, and Loomis has climbed in Alaska, the Alps, and British Columbia. Brown, a noted English Alpinist, was a member of the Foraker party and Odell was one of the group which made the attempt on Everest in 1924. Odell and Brown have both climbed in the Alps with undergraduates in the Club and several years ago were elected honorary members. The other two men who make up the party are Peter Lloyd and Tilman, both of England...
This news was wirelessed from Camp No. 3 to Calcutta and to the world by Hugh Ruttledge, leader of the fifth British mountain-climbing assault in 15 years on Mt. Everest. It had taken the party more than three months to get from London to their present height. Mountaineers, aware that 14 men have so far lost their lives trying to scale Everest, were of the gloomy opinion that the worst was yet to come...