Word: lamberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined party of Swiss climbers still did care. Mount Everest was still there, unconquered. Headed by Swiss Guide Raymond Lambert, 38, who had come within 900 ft. of Everest's summit last spring-the highest man has reached and lived to tell about it-the climbers clawed their way up the icy, rocky, windswept slope. They could no longer wait for the winds to abate...
...unofficial report had it that the team of Lambert, Ernest Reiss, 32, a Swiss military aviation mechanic, and Nepalese Mountaineer Bhotia Tensing, 44, came within 150 ft. of the summit. But it turned out last week that the tenth assault on unassailable Mount Everest- the first time an attempt had been made after the monsoon rains-had ended in failure again. The climbers, despite their new, improved oxygen equipment, never got beyond the 25,850-ft.. mark, were still some 3,700 windswept feet from their goal* when they gave...
Evan G. Galbraith and James S. Gratton will argue for the Scott Club, upholding the law's constitutionality. The other third year members of the Scott Club are Milton C. Boesel, Jr., Donn W. Carlsmith, Thomas R. H. Howarth, Paul C. Lambert, Richard L. Ottinger, and Charles C. Wright...
...climber who got within a bare 900 ft. of the goal last spring was on his way up Everest again last week. With five other Swiss Alpinists, Raymond Lambert was somewhere on the mountain's massive southern face. His party had approached Everest from Nepal, the only country through which climbers from the free world may pass, now that Tibet is barred to them by its Chinese Communist overlords. The Swiss are now setting up a string of base camps, assembling supplies of food, rope, sleeping bags, clothing and fuel. They are thrusting their lifeline ever higher...
...Patsy Santo, local farmers, housewives and schoolchildren. Prices began at $15 and ran up to $3,500. Many buyers were year-round citizens. There were also some big-name summer people who showed up with their checkbooks ready, among them Merck & Co.'s George Merck (TIME, Aug. 18), Lambert Co.'s Gerard Lambert...