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According to veteran climbers, Parysko died ironically. After miraculously escaping the avalanche which buried the students' igloo. Parysko, lightly-clad, bypassed numerous places where he could have been saved. He was found only 20 yards away from a cabin occupied by eight University students on a skiing trip...
Searches later discovered Longenecker buried under about four feet of snow, still in his sleeping bag, amid the icy remains of the igloo. It appeared that a failing ice block from the igloo had previously knocked him unconscious...
They also believed that if the two climbers had built their igloo in a more favorable location, the tragedy would have been averted. They said that the igloo was constructed on the exposed floor of Tuckerman's Ravine, directly below the cliffs loaded with snow with snow ready to avalanche...
...balloons reinforced with wire mesh and sprayed with concrete, then deflated to leave a concrete shell. A few such houses were built in the U.S., Latin America, Africa and Pakistan, but they were bulky, unattractive affairs. Noyes asked Airform to let him take a crack at redesigning the concrete igloo...
...house design? Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, which makes a specialty of scanning the horizon, last week displayed two from the horizon-or a bit beyond. Both were still in the model stage. ¶ The Geodesic House, which looks at quick glance like an airy, latticework igloo, is the work of ingenious Designer R. Buckminster Fuller (TIME, Nov. 7, 1946, et seq.). Fuller's new design-aims at economy and simplicity. He chose the dome shape in order to cover the largest area with the least surface, and because such a house should be easier to cool...