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...students to their physical limits is Roy Smith, 28, a robust English-born mountaineer, who has led students on skindiving trips to the Gulf of California, and on explorations of caves in the Grand Canyon, and organized a student mountain-rescue team. This spring he plans a kayak trip down the Colorado River and eventually hopes to lead an archaeological expedition to Peru and an 1,800-mile journey over Canada's Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean. So far the students have taken enthusiastically to the challenge. "I was really scared, admits Mary Burns, 17, after...
...swim will start in just a few minutes, as soon as we get the kayaks out of the pool," Mrs. Alice McCabe, the spry, attractive director of Radcliffe swimming, said. A student with neatly combed blond hair and a blond moustache paddled by. "The Harvard-Radcliffe Kayak Club didn't have a home," Mrs. McCabe explained, "so we welcomed them to ours...
...kayakist rights himself after tipping over. Jennifer, under the direction of a red-headed boy named Tom, tipped over at will, but had not yet mastered the difficult stroke for completing the roll. The clock above the pool showed 8 p.m., and Jennifer and Tom reluctantly pulled their kayak out of the water...
...trick is to push hard with your upper arm," Tom, the treasurer of the Kayak Club, was enthusiastically telling his admirers. 'To roll a kayak, you have to make a wide sweep with your upper arm." Jennifer dove into the water with a resounding smack. "The water's great," she cried...
Early in the week, the fastest thing in the world was an Israeli in a kayak in the Aqaba Gulf; by week's end, it was an Arab with his shoes...