Word: glaciered
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...eastward end of the Cwm is sealed by the South Col, a 25,850 ft. ridge that joins Everest to Lhotse. Westward, the Cwm falls away in a giant ice fall that leaps precipitously down 4,000 ft. Beyond, at the foot of Nuptse, is the Khumbu glacier, the only known entrance...
Tenzing, who at the age of ten was herding Tibetan yaks above 20,000 ft., was riled at his leader's remark. Egged on by Nepalese hotheads (including Communists), he was induced to sign a statement, which he could not read, saying: "I practically directed operations from Khumbu Glacier...
...from Alaska. Back of double doors in another lab, a circular saw slices paper-thin samples from huge ice crystals chopped from Alaska's Mendenhall glacier. In still other labs, at even colder temperatures (down to -77° F.), other work is getting under way: food preservation, sewage disposal, all the endless problems of human survival in the cold...
Their scientific curiosity aroused, Professor & Mrs. Rudge began scouting the area, soon came across another pudding stone. After questioning villagers and gamekeepers of Epping Forest, they found three more. All five of the stones were in a line, which made it unlikely that they had been left by a glacier or other accident of nature. Here was a mystery to delight any scientist...
That night at the foot of St. Helens, 170 miles to the south, Jessett and his wife heard the story from their son's three companions. Crossing a glacier at the 8,000-ft. level, Arthur had shouted, "I'm slipping!" and then dropped through a snow bridge. With him went their only rope. Two boys set out for help; the third stayed at the scene. From the depths of the crevasse, young Jessett shouted that his arm was broken. The hours dragged by. "The snow is getting me all wet," Jessett called. "My fingers and toes...