Word: everests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bites Deep. Voluble as can be when arguing whether a bird is a Bohemian or a cedar waxwing, birders become strangely inarticulate when pressed to explain their sport. They have no simple motto like the Everest climbers' "Because it is there." They usually mumble something about liking birds since childhood, or about the thrill of hunting without its element of cruelty, or just the great outdoors. Whatever its origin, the birding bug bites deep. Wives picture themselves dolefully as "birding widows." A golfer trying to wave his ball into the cup for an eagle at the 18th hole when...
Born. To Sir Edmund Hillary, 35, New Zealand beekeeper knighted for his successful 1953 conquest (with Tenzing, the Sherpa guide) of Mt. Everest, and Lady Louise Hillary, 24: their first child, a son; in Auckland, New Zealand. Name: Edmund. Weight...
...CONQUEST OF EVEREST, by Sir John Hunt, was the high point in mountain-climbing literature, an impressively solid description of the planning and the kind of men it took to conquer Everest...
...EVEREST, compiled by the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research (Dutton; $7.50), and THE PICTURE OF EVEREST, edited by Alfred Gregory (Dutton; $10), are two of the best picture books on the subject, the first dealing with the luckless Swiss attempts in 1952, the second an all-color stunner on the successful British expedition...
...breed is Colonel Ewart Grogan, now 80 and living in Kenya, who started in 1898 to walk from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sudan to map out a railroad route dreamed of by Cecil Rhodes. He made it in a year after hardships that make climbing Everest seem like a lark. Driving off a party of cannibals, Grogan captured two of the women and a couple of children, all emaciated. Complained one of the ladies: "Things are very hard with us ... in the last week, our men have only been able to catch two people...