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...Novellón, both experienced alpinists from Spain's mountainous province of Huesca, began their first attempt of Latok on July 27. A collection of four rocky peaks renowned for their extreme technical difficulty, the mountain group is considered one of the most challenging in the world - some alpinists believe it is even more difficult than the more famous Himalayan peak K2. When bad weather forced them to abandon their attempt to summit Latok I, the two retreated to their base camp. (See pictures of Mount Everest...
...stove and a sleeping bag, as well as a realistic assessment of how long it might take for help to come. "Oscar knew it would take six or seven days for a rescue team to reach him," says Alfonso Uriel, spokesman for Peña Guara, the Huesca climbing club that has been organizing the effort. "So psychologically, he's prepared. He knows not to give up hope after just a couple of days." (Read "Blind to Failure," the story of a sightless mountaineer...
...first sign came from the northern provincial capital of Huesca, a traditionally conservative area, where the early returns showed the Socialists well ahead. Next came coastal Pontevedra, a longtime franquista stronghold in Galicia, which the Socialists came surprisingly close to carrying. Then the southern province of Alrneria, another conservative bastion, fell to the Socialists. Finally the rose-colored tide rolled across the plains of Old Castile...
Officers of the Leftist Army, to each of whom is attached a "political commissar" as in the Russian Army, appeared in court accompanied by their commissars as witnesses for the State. Officers and commissars testified that in 1937 Poum soldiers on the Huesca front had for some time a "pact of nonaggression'' with the Rightist soldiers facing them, that a Leftist staff officer who "denounced such trafficking with the enemy" was found murdered in a ditch...
...rail route from Valencia just a few miles outside Madrid, communication with the coast has been by road or by rail and then truck in from suburban Alcala de Henares. This route is now being made the course of a new railroad and the line from Madrid northeast to Huesca is being extended southeast to Utise for another rail connection to Valencia...