Word: icing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climbers in the world -the handsome, brooding hero of a dramatic rescue on France's Mont Blanc, the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2 in 1954, the fellow who in 1955 spent six days and five nights alone clawing his way up sheer rock and ice to become the only man ever to conquer Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru singlehanded...
...Drop of Water. For Bonatti, the trick now is to find new ways to climb the familiar old hills. And he had a really novel idea for the Matterhorn: a "direttissima" assault, straight up the mountain's ice-coated, practically vertical north wall, a climb that had been tried (without success) only once before-in the summer. It was, shuddered a Swiss guide, "the route that a drop of water would follow...
...mountain. As soon as the plane banked away, clouds swept in. At 3 a.m. it began snowing, and 60-m.p.h. gusts lashed at the climbers, clinging like cocoons to the cliff in their sleeping bags. One gust ripped the tent off Bonatti's head, and tiny slivers of ice, sharp as thumbtacks, dug at his eyes. "I found myself at 13,000 feet in a terrible position," Bonatti said later. His face was rimmed with ice, and he was in excruciating pain. "But we all three had to remain absolutely immobile, because the slightest movement could have been fatal...
...Harvard's general hustle that propelled it past Dartmouth. During the numerous Crimson penalties. Pete Miller was all over the ice, and Burnes checked the husky Indians with no regard for his own health...
...League, the Indians have to be rated the favorite over the Crimson, which is 6-14 overall and 1-5 in the league. But Dartmouth needed three third-period goals to pull out a 5-3 victory over Harvard at Hanover last month, and the home ice advantage could produce a Crimson upset...