Word: everest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Think of it: through the alchemy of imagination, the oceans disappear. Suddenly, the world would gain some 140 million sq. mi. of land, including mountains higher than Everest, volcanoes more powerful than Etna, chasms deeper than the Grand Canyon. By far the most pleasant scenery to man's eye-assuming anyone could survive in a world without water-would be the delicately terraced hills and snug valleys on the gently sloping continental shelves. The rest of the ocean floor would be mostly a vast wasteland of muddy ooze, as bleak in its way as the Sahara...
...life anew in a skirt. A brilliant writer, celebrated and comfortably off, he was the apparently happy father of four children. Morris had been an intelligence officer in a crack British cavalry regiment and a glamorous globetrotting correspondent. In 1953, for instance, he climbed 20,000 feet up Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary's group and scooped the world for the Times of London...
...sherpa that accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the first ascent of Mt. Everest...
Twenty years ago, when the British made the extraordinary first conquest of Mount Everest, it seemed like one of the last great adventures left...
...helicopters, to put eight men at the top. "A very competent military operation which had nothing to do with mountaineering," huffed Sir Edmund Hillary, who with Tenzing Norgay had raised the British flag on the summit. Hillary, who devotes himself to building schools for Nepali Sherpa children in the Everest region, said he hoped the crest would be left to small parties of climbers. "It's now reached the height of the ridiculous...