Word: everest
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...radius is only 3,759 miles. That means that at the instant Venus 4 stopped transmitting, it must have been 15 miles above the planet's surface. The capsule, Kliore and Cain speculate, may have landed on a Venusian mountain three times as high as Mount Everest. Or more likely, it may have gone dead while still floating down through the atmosphere-a victim of electronic heat prostration. To back up their temperature estimate, the JPL men also point out that U.S. radio astronomy measurements and data from Mariner 2, which bypassed Venus in 1962, indicate a Venusian surface...
...weren't serving as Governor," says a friend of Washington's Daniel Jackson Evans, "he probably would go out and climb Mount Everest or sail around the world alone." Challenge is a key word in Dan Evans' vocabulary, to be used with intense, if low-pitched enthusiasm. Guided by the philosophy that "we have to act, not react," Evans has worked to prepare his richly forested state for the inevitable day when it moves "from a scattered open society to an urban society." Surrounded by a profusion of lakes and mountains, the Governor has the foresight to proclaim: "We have...
...Ocean ice from Point Barrow, Alaska, to the Spitsbergen archipelago, some 2,100 crevasse-ridden miles distant; last week the quartet was a third of the way along and having radio trouble. More lately, the Times has sponsored a nonstop, round-the-world solo sail, which Chichester calls "the Everest of the sea." Three yachtsmen, including two Britons who once rowed across the Atlantic together, have already set out; seven others are expected to cast off before the Oct. 31 deadline...
Last week, in two hospitals separated by almost 8,000 miles of Atlantic Ocean, the historic juxtaposition happened and the heart transplants were performed. The physicians who performed them thus reached the surgical equivalent of Mount Everest, followed automatically by the medical equivalent of the problem of how to get down-in other words, how to keep the patient and transplant alive...
Antarctica's Mount Herschel doesn't ring in the ear with quite the glory of an Everest, but the direction is up, and that's good enough for New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, 48. Hillary is leading a team of seven New Zealanders and an Aussie in an assault on the unclimbed 11,700-ft. peak, will then do a bit of "adventuring" in his first trip to the Antarctic since his journey to the South Pole in 1958. "I will be fit enough to chug about," said Everest's conqueror, "but I certainly...