Word: glaciered
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...summertime hike-and-climb outfit. Led by Oliver D. Dickerson, 29, a University of Pennsylvania instructor, and William Oeser, 29, a Baltimore schoolteacher, the Wilderness Campers (at $270 a head) drove out West in a Ford station wagon and a made-over secondhand hearse, stopped in Montana's Glacier Park, then moved on to Banff, 85 miles west of Calgary, for high adventure in the Canadian Rockies...
...Times, as hard to move, in its lordly way, as a glacier, was nevertheless showing signs of change. Managing Editor Turner Catledge has ordered sprightlier heads (sample: JAZZ PIANIST DIGS THE SONATA FORM) and shorter and sharper writing. Said one Catledge memo: "The composing room has an unlimited supply of periods available to terminate short, simple sentences." Where the Times had once wanted only "objectivity'' (i.e., facts) in reporting, now objectivity means facts plus interpretation...
...rafts, threaded their way through gorges whose walls rose sheer to pinnacles two miles above them. In May they left behind the last green spikes of living vegetation, and entered into a land where no birds sing. In their faces was a biting wind, boring relentlessly down from Baltoro glacier...
Climbing the glacier was agony. At such altitudes, sweat and tears can turn to frost. One day Desio radioed (by portable transmitter) that his Hunza porters had deserted, fearful of the gaping crevasses. the toppling pillars of ice. For the next 23 days, nothing more was heard from...
...crags, searching, but she did not see them. Avalanches hurtled down the open slopes on both sides of their exposed ledge. On the sixth day they wrapped Argus in the air mattress and tents, tugged and slid him down another 1,000 ft. to the floor of Muldrow Glacier and set up camp there, away from the avalanches. Supplies were running...