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When James Lester found out he was going on an expedition to climb Mount Everest he decided to go for a practice climb in the Sierra Nevadas of California. Lester pooped out at around 11,000 feet, and decided to turn back...
Lester, a behavioral scientist, went on the 1963 expedition that climbed Mount Everest to study stress among the participants. He spoke Monday to a seminar at the Ed. School on human behavior in extreme environments, following a slide presentation of the expedition...
According to Lester, Everest expeditions average 2.5 fatalities apiece...
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...