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When New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mount Everest, quests for the Abominable Snowman in the high Himalaya next winter, there is an outside chance that he will bump into his wife: Lady Hillary announced last week that she and a female friend will take a mountain stroll on their own this February, trek some 170 miles from Katmandu to Thyangboche over some rugged territory. Discussing her project as casually as if it were a Girl Scout hike, Louise Hillary said: "We intend to climb a ridge or two and have a look at the view...
...Washington last week, that policy was being tested in Nepal's capital of Katmandu. Red China's Premier Chou En-lai arrived for talks on China's claim to a slice of Nepal containing the world's highest peak, was greeted by paintings of Mount Everest prominently labeled "Nepal." Meanwhile, half a world away. King Mahendra earnestly told a joint session of Congress: "Our policy of nonalignment does not arise from our desire to sit on the fence . . . We shall certainly not be neutral when we are confronted with a choice between good and evil...
Nepal's border squabble with China was smoothed over by week's end by a return to the traditional split of Mount Everest between Nepal and Tibet. But Nepal's Prime Minister flatly refused Chou's offer of a nonaggression pact. As for Nepal's bedrock problems. King Mahendra. during a month-long tour of the U.S. and Canada, hoped to expand Western sympathy for an awakening land hampered by feudal poverty and widespread (94%) illiteracy...
...Space capsule. 71. The U.S. Navy sent its bathyscaph to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and found that the trench is all but one of the following: a) 1.7 miles deeper than Mount Everest is high...
...looked like dust clouds when the lights were turned on. When the clouds cleared, Piccard and Walsh could see living creatures that moved unbothered by the pressure of more than eight tons per sq. in. The depth was 37,800 ft., which is 1.7 miles deeper than Mount Everest is high, and half a mile deeper than expected...