Word: hornbein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other side, Thomas Hornbein. 32, a San Diego anesthesiologist, and William Unsoeld, 36, a Peace Corps official, were picking their way up a vastly more difficult route-the forbidding West Ridge, a narrow spur so dangerous that nobody else had dared even try. If all went well, the two teams would meet at the summit. But for those on the West Ridge, it seemed hopeless...
Into Tibet. Days before, a sudden gust of gale-force wind at the 25,000-ft. level had blown away their tents and spare oxygen bottles, knocked two members of their support party 100 ft. down Everest's flank. Hornbein and Unsoeld were dangerously low on supplies. The climbers had to pick their way around huge outcroppings of rock. Now and then, searching for a foothold, they disregarded passport restrictions and stepped across the Nepalese border into Communist Tibet. No one expected them to go all the way-just to climb as far as they could...