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...Fisherman Got Away. In Las Vegas, Nev., Colonel Alfred Lambert Jr. cast his fishing line into Lake Mead, pulled in a new, spun-glass fishing rod with a 2-lb. catfish on its hook...
Illegal. In Albany, N.Y., Attorney John Ford, representing Ralph Lambert in a stolen car case, swore out a warrant for his client's arrest, charging that Lambert had stolen his lawyer's automobile...
...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...
When the news reached Switzerland last week, veteran Alpinist René Dittert, who had been with Lambert last spring, summed up what every Everest veteran knows: "It will require a kind of miracle to reach the top." British Alpinists, who have had a possessive feeling about Everest ever since 1924, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared in swirling mists less than 1,000 ft. from the summit, were not waiting for miracles. Britain's famed Himalayaman Eric Shipton promptly announced that British plans for a new assault next spring would go ahead full steam...