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...Jonathan Krakauer, a journalist covering the climb for Outside magazine, stood at the top of the world, he noticed something ominous: clouds were approaching from the valley below. Within two hours they had arrived and metastasized into a monster: shrieking winds blew sheets of snow horizontally at 65 knots. A "whiteout" dropped visibility to zero, and wind chill plunged to -140[degrees] F. "It was chaos up there," says Krakauer. "The storm was like a hurricane, only it had a triple-digit wind chill. You don't have your oxygen on, you're out of breath, you can't think...
...mountain no longer seems so accessible. Krakauer, one of the two survivors in Hall's summiting party, believes commercial expeditions "need to be reconsidered" both because the customers put the guides' lives in additional danger and because "when the s----- hits the fan, there is nothing any guide can do for any client...
...March graduates include: George C. Adams '44, of Charlotte, North Carolina and Lowell House; James E. Connor, Jr. '44, of New Haven, Connecticut and Lowell House; Peter Frank '44, of Cambridge; Henry R. Krakauer '44, of Paterson, New Jersey and Adams House; Kurt Lessen, of Cawnpore, India and Lowell House; Cornelius J. Peck '44, V-12, of Iron Mountain, Michigan; and Alan T. Wenzell '44, NROTC, of New York City...
Kidner, C. M. Knowles, J. T.; Krakauer, H. R.; Lane L., Jr.; Langner, T. S.; Lansing, C.; Lanzarus...
...supplementary keyboard is a strip of flexible material, played by depressing it with the thumb and forefinger, the pressure determining the volume. The Krakauer creation, using piano strings for its fundamental tones, has no sounding board and (like the Hammond) imitates other instruments, or invents new tone colors, by electrically mixed overtones. By pushing the proper combination of its ten buttons, it can even be made to sound like a plain piano. It contains a radio and phonograph. Price...