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This news comes only two weeks after the prediction of Edward Hunt, instructor of Antropology, which announced that girls, too, are becoming tall and lanky...
...three decades, at least 16 men died trying to scale Everest, and eleven expeditions failed to reach its 29,002-foot virgin summit, although at least six men got within the last, breathless 1,000 feet. What was needed to conquer it? That was the question facing Colonel John Hunt in the autumn of 1952, when he took the leadership of a British climbing expedition. In The Conquest of Everest, Mountaineer Hunt gives a cleanly written, technician's answer, and describes the behind-the-scenes planning that led to victory...
Everest, writes Planner Hunt, rises above an icefall resembling "a gigantic cascade . . . Almost, you might expect to hear the roar of that immense volume of foaming water . . . plunging down with terrifying power. But it has been gripped by the intense cold, frozen into immobility ... [Yet] this labyrinth of broken ice is moving, its surface changing." High over the monumental, 2,000-foot icefall, with its treacherously shifting crevasses and its crashing, house-high blocks of ice, stands a greater obstacle-a steep slope of ice and snow rising a vertical distance of 4,000 feet. Beyond that lies the last...
...Buildup. Hunt began by hand-picking eleven mountaineers to work as a team in overcoming the tricky terrain and getting two of their number to the top. He timed his attack between the end of the winter gales and the start of the summer monsoons. By the time Hunt and his team reached the foot of Everest, the expedition had swelled to almost 400 hands, most of them coolies to carry equipment and food across the roadless approaches...
...mountain, Hunt directed all his efforts at one supreme objective: to enable his summit climbers to mount the final 500 yards and 400 vertical feet with lucid minds and enough reserve strength to get down again...