Word: frostbitten
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Later, on his way back to Seattle, Stevenson was marooned on the mountainside when his car stalled. By the time he had walked back to the lodge again, his right ear was painfully frostbitten. The next morning, at Seattle's Boeing Field, his plane screamed to a stop on the runway as it was bowling toward a takeoff. Back to the hangar rolled the plane, with a defective engine, and Stevenson transferred to another airliner. By that time, said an aide, "the governor was taking odds we'd never make...
WORCERSTER, Mass., April 27--Holy Cross pitcher Joe Liebler held the Crimson to four hits and collected three himself, as the Crusaders broke the varsity nine's eight game winning streak, 6-5, on a frostbitten Fitton Field here today...
...first clear days of fall. Then the wind veers into the northeast, the barometer drops, grey clouds scud into rain, and that old feeling returns. It is fine duck weather-time for a man to be paddling out into the marshes in the predawn cold, waiting with frostbitten impatience for a long V of honkers, watching them wing into the breeze and flare out as they drop down to feed...
...until Barbacki had spent three days and nights on his ledge did the rescue party reach him. For 70 hours, with only a few ounces of honey to eat, he had clung to the ledge with frostbitten hands. Veteran Chamonix guides, who hauled Barbacki to safety, thought that Chulliat might have lived had the two men tried the descent roped together. Amateur Climber Barbacki merely said: "I guess I was lucky to stay where...
...below. Miraculously, he broke no bones, but he had suffered a concussion, and all four spent a dreadful, storm-whipped night in tiny tents. Going down the next morning, they lost their way. By then, both Herzog's and Lachenal's feet were frostbitten, and Herzog's hands were useless. That night, still at a mankilling height of more than 23,000 ft., they slept in a crevasse. The next day an avalanche smashed over them and threw Herzog 500 ft. By the time rescuers got to him, Herzog's hands were strips of flesh...