Word: everest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrate against pollution in Puget Sound. Environmentalists in West Bengal, India, are planning a bicycle procession. Schoolchildren on Mauritius, a tiny island in the Indian Ocean, will plant trees. And a team of climbers from the U.S., the Soviet Union and China intends to reach the summit of Mount Everest and clean up debris left by previous expeditions. If all goes as planned, at least 100 million people will take part in the largest global demonstration in history: Earth...
...stood as the ultimate authority on the tongue of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, not to mention the language of tradespeople and the slang of the streets. Relatively few speakers of English consulted it, to be sure; but many were reassured by the knowledge that it, an Everest of scholarship, was there...
...rate, Allison, who was weathered out on Everest in 1987 after reaching 26,000 ft., then retreating and spending five days in a snow cave, was by several days the first of three climbers from her expedition to reach the top last fall. (A male climber, Geoff Tabin, made it to the top just ahead of Luce.) Thus she settled what she somewhat dismissively refers to as "the American-woman-on-Eve rest thing." (Tired of hype and of fund raising, she had put $9,000 of her own money into the expedition pot.) No doubt she also quelled some...
...happened, had never seen Letterman's show, but friends had explained its tribal rituals. No 19th century explorer snacking on pickled sheep's eyes could have honored bizarre local customs more graciously. She took a rock out of her pocket, explained that it came from the top of Everest, and asked politely whether she could heave it through the studio window. "Of course," said Letterman. She chucked it with a good sidearm motion, and there was the familiar sound effect of breaking glass that Letterman fans have grown to love. Fade to commercial...
...Luce is a big, powerful, easygoing soul who for several years ran her own restaurant in Seattle. When the restaurant began to consume her life, she quit cold and took a job as a bicycle messenger. With nothing much in the way of climbing credentials, she volunteered for the Everest trip. "I've always wanted to do adventures," she says with a big grin...