Word: everest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter where they travel, American tourists usually take a bit of the old country with them. One day last week, they took a traffic jam to the top of Mount Everest...
...brilliant sunshine, strapped on their oxygen tanks, and began the slow trek toward the windswept, 29,028-ft. summit. Working up the relatively friendly South Col route were Barry Bishop, 30, a National Geographic photographer, and Luther Jerstad, 26, a University of Oregon speech instructor, retracing the path of Everest's earlier conquerors, among them Teammate James Whittaker, 34, who planted the Stars and Stripes on the peak this month (TIME...
...world learned that James Warren Whittaker, 34, had gone as high as a man can and still cling to earth. From Katmandu, Nepal, came word that it was Whittaker, together with a Sherpa guide named Nwang Gombu,* who planted a U.S. flag at the summit of Mount Everest on May 1. The Best in a Person. Manager of a Seattle store that sells mountaineering equipment, towering (6 ft. 5 in., 210 Ibs.) Jim Whittaker started climbing as a Boy Scout in the early 1940s. By the time he and his twin brother Lou were in high school, they were expert...
...nephew of Tenzing Xorkey, the famous Sherpa who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first successful Everest ascent...
...climbers. Where were they? Were they safe? Had they reached the summit? Suddenly, the radio crackled. The message was laconic: at exactly 8 a.m. (Greenwich Time) on May 1, two men-an American and his Sherpa guide-had stumbled out of the mist onto the top of Mount Everest. A second assault team was waiting to start on its way. Then the radio went silent. Until both teams returned, Expedition Leader Dyhrenfurth refused to identify the men who had planted the Stars and Stripes at the summit of the world...