Word: k2
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...part-HMC party set out to reconnoiter K2, the second largest mountain in the world. To their surprise they get 1000 feet from the top--and had to turn back because of a food shortage. A few years later a Harvard man and a Dartmouth man made headlines by rescuing a starving aviator from Devil's Tower, a fantastic-looking column jutting from the Wyoming desert. It seems that the flyer, who parachuted onto the tower on a bet, had imprudently neglected to make further plans...
Some of the boys started shooting craps in the washroom of car K2. The serious drinking went on in car K3. The boys had their wives' expectations and their reputation to live up to: after all, they had bragged as the years rolled by that they were the hell-raisingest outfit in the A.E.F. But after an hour or so the four sleeping cars became noisy with comfortable snores...
Unsuccessful stabs at conquering stratospheric crags have also found College participants out in full force. A peak in the Himalayas known only as "K2," but the second highest in the world, withstood all the efforts of Harvard mountaineers, in 1939, as it has all other aspiring climbers...
...most famous of which was the seven-man HMC trip to Mt. St. Elias in Alaska last summer the Harvard Mountaineers have participated in many of the most important large-scale expeditions of recent years. In 1938, several Club members joined the American Alpine Club's reconnaissance trip to K2 in the Himalayas. K2 is the second highest mountain in the world...
According to Robert H. Bates, who has scaled K2, the world's second highest mountain and who is a graduate member of the Club, "The climbing we get in Huntington Ravine is as severe as anything I have seen in the Himalyas on K2...