Word: everest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read the books you take with you." One of his own favorite unopened authors is Toynbee. Rule No. 2 is that you don't have to finish anything. Indeed, half the charm of vacation bookmanship is in returning to the same unconquered magnum opus as if to Everest. A Madison Avenue executive back from Martha's Vineyard this month confessed that he had attacked Dante's Divine Comedy for the fifth straight year, only to bog down once again in the first canto. "But," he added bravely, "I'm getting sort of fond of Inferno...
Thus, early last week, Bobby was airlifted by a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter to the 9,000-ft.-high base camp on Mount Kennedy. With him were Seattle Sports Shop Proprietor James W. Whittaker and Ellensburg Glaciologist Barry Prather, both members of the successful American Mount Everest expedition in 1963. After an hour's elementary instruction for Bobby, the three, roped together with Bobby in the middle, set out to the high camp at 12,000 ft. The weather closed in, and it was a hard upward grind...
...North America. The temperature is likely to be in the neighborhood of 30° below zero, and Bobby's previous mountaineering is confined to the sand dunes at Hyannis Port. But Jim Whittaker, 35, member of the National Geographic Society expedition and the first American to climb Mt. Everest, thinks the Senator will make it. In fact, says he, eying the political pitons, "I would step aside and let Senator Kennedy lead...
...facts are worth considering: it was students who carried banners for Sayre; Sayre's book on his adventures on Everest, published in March, is already in its third printing...
Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 45, a ruggedly handsome fellow with boyish charm, is President Wilson's grandson as well as a mountain climber, best-selling author (Four Against Everest), playwright, pianist, amateur architect, and onetime Democratic congressional candidate from California. He is also a hero to his philosophy students at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Sayre, in fact, is just about everything except a scholar who can measure his monographs by the pound, and for that reason he was fighting for his job last week...