Word: gervaise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ At St.-Gervais, France, Penny Pitou of Gilford, N.H., competing against some of Europe's leading women skiers, scored an eighth in the slalom, then barreled down the 1.6-mile slope through a thick fog to win the downhill race in 2 min. 6.34 sec. -two full seconds...
But on the upper floors flames raced to the old women's quarters before firemen could head them off. The Mother Superior, Sister Rita Gervais, dashed in with a fire extinguisher; she never came back. The blind, bedridden and crippled were trapped. All hope of rescue went when the...
For days the wintry winds had howled about the high peaks of the French Alps, whipping the mountain snows into white fury, keeping skiers and tourists at home. In the valley below, one day last fortnight, the rival guides of fashionable Chamonix and humbler St. Gervais gathered as usual to...
A Mountain Law. In the winter thick snows rest on Mont Blanc so lightly that the vibration of a man's voice can bring them cascading down in lethal tons. It was almost certain that nobody in the plane, even had he survived the crash, could have lived for...
A Mountain Mouse. By then the fog had lifted, leaving the air crystal clear. Villagers below could now see tiny lights still moving up and up along the mountain. Lacking radios and fortified with grog, the St. Gervais party was pushing on. They spent the night in a refuge hut...