Word: glaciered
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Undoubtedly we are vanquished, overcome by that glacier of tradition, which defies us. But the reviewer may triumph in the end by reproaching the Lampoon as if it were a small...
...United States, to whomever it might concern, it was proclaimed that Calvin Coolidge, by virtue of his office and powers conferred upon him, did set aside 1,820 square miles of the public domain and consecrate it to the uses of a national monument, to be known as Glacier Bay National Monument. The new monument, on the south-east coast of Alaska, includes several tidewater glaciers...
...Glacier National Park, heavy snows drove elk and deer into the lower valleys, out of the park. Some 15 are known to have been killed...
...nearer the summit than the record of the 1922 expedition (27,250 feet).* There was no official communique from Colonel Norton, but his last one, written on May 26 in collaboration with Mallory himself, said: "The issue will shortly be decided. The third time we walk up East Rongbuk glacier will be the last, for better or worse." All other members of the party were reported safe. But the 1924 expedition was over...
Since then, however, official dispatches from Lieut. Col. E. F. Norton, the new leader, have been published by The London Times and The New York Times. Written from the base camp on Rongbuk Glacier, May 18, they gave no intimation that members of the party had any immediate likelihood of attaining the peak. Indeed, tentative starts by two parties which had established advance camps were ruined by frightful storms, temperatures of 22 degrees below zero, injuries, illness, death among the native helpers and the latters' fear and reluctance to go on. At the time of the dispatch, the whole...