Word: everest
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...Mexico, where Burton (see CINEMA) has the part of the tourist guide in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana, and started off pretty beastly by punching a photographer in the nose. At last everyone simmered down enough for Liz to announce in tones last tested on Mount Everest: "I'm here because Mr. Bur ton is here." Back in Manhattan, meanwhile, Sybil Burton, 33, had a better line: "My children and I have him tied hand and foot like so much lend-lease...
...already belonged to one of the most exclusive clubs on earth. And last week Norman Dyhrenfurth, 44, leader of last May's U.S. assault on Mount Everest, joined another rarefied company. At White House ceremonies, President Kennedy handed him the National Geographic Society's seldom awarded (only 21 times in 57 years) Hubbard Medal, which put him among such trail blazers as Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Colonel Charles Lindbergh and-fittingly-Sir Edmund Hillary. The president also passed out replicas of the gold medal to the rest of Dyhrenfurth's 20-man American team, and to Nawang...
...more big expeditions in mind, says William Unsoeld, 36, a Peace Corps official and one of the five U.S. climbers who scaled Mount Everest last month. Unsoeld and National Geo graphic Photographer Barry Bishop, 30, had to be carried pickaback from a base camp to Namche Bazar, where a helicopter hustled them to the United Mission Hospital at Katmandu. Now recovered from respiratory infections, both men are still under treatment for severe cases of frostbite-with doctors hoping that only the tips of their toes may have to be amputated. And was their victory Pyrrhic? "An experience like Everest," says...
Into Tibet. Days before, a sudden gust of gale-force wind at the 25,000-ft. level had blown away their tents and spare oxygen bottles, knocked two members of their support party 100 ft. down Everest's flank. Hornbein and Unsoeld were dangerously low on supplies. The climbers had to pick their way around huge outcroppings of rock. Now and then, searching for a foothold, they disregarded passport restrictions and stepped across the Nepalese border into Communist Tibet. No one expected them to go all the way-just to climb as far as they could...
Then down they came, frostbitten from their night in the open, but under their own power, and with an unprecedented record of mountaineering firsts. Dyhrenfurth & Co. had achieved every goal. All told, five Americans had reached Mount Everest's lofty summit. For the first time, Everest's "impassable" West Ridge had been conquered. When Hornbein and Unsoeld finished their return trip down the South Col, they completed the first transverse crossing in the history of Himalayan climbing. Only Sally Dyhrenfurth took it all calmly. "What," she asked her husband, "are you going to do for an encore...