Word: glaciered
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...congress of Free Thinkers is being held. As the convention is meeting a young man walks in, announces himself as Jehovah visiting his earth. At first he is laughed at, then curious and portentous things begin to happen. A blizzard cuts the hotel off from the outside world. A glacier moves down on the hostelry, assuring certain death to all the guests. The Free Thinkers reconsider, elect "Monsieur God" president. Then the cooks rebel, led by a Napoleonic elevator man (Claude Rains). The scullery boys rebel against the cooks, lock up the head chef in the icebox. Whip in hand...
Last week his men-Germans, Indians and Thibetans-were high up the Zemu Glacier. They had rounded its crumbling snout the previous fortnight. The party had been cheery. Now they were plodding on, apathetic from the sight of double-dealing Death...
...Hartmann and Dr. Wien, for the whole party to descend and search for our poor friends. Six in all passed the night on an ice ledge a metre wide on the range of the couloir. Next day almost the entire expedition gathered in the highest basin of the Zemu Glacier...
...grave was planted over and over with green flowers. From a height of 5.400 metres it looks out over the Zemu Glacier and behind rise the ruddy sheer walls of Kanchenjunga. At the head we have erected a gigantic cairn...
Last week a grizzly bear ransacked the Burton Kendall Wheelers' summer home in Glacier National Park...