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...scaled. In 1953, so much of modern mountaineering was still to be discovered. Archaic clothing and tents made Everest's frigid temperatures lethal. Oxygen bottles were three times heavier than today's. Deadly altitude illnesses, little understood, caused brains to swell and lungs to fill with fluid. Because lightweight radios had yet to be invented, it wasn't until Hillary and Tenzing had descended to within a few hundred meters of advanced base camp and Hillary held up two fingers in victory that the world learned Everest had finally been conquered...
...highly contested field of evenly-matched teams, the Harvard men’s lightweight crew team could not live up to its billing at top seed, taking fourth place at the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges (EARC) Sprints Championships...
...second varsity eight race featured an added twist, as Radcliffe’s top lightweight crew competed against the heavyweight boats from both the Black and White and BU. The Black and White was scheduled to race MIT, but the Engineers didn’t have a lightweight eight...
Radcliffe’s lightweight boat finished in 6:59.4—4.5 seconds behind its teammates in the heavyweight boat and more than 15 ahead...
...only lightweight matchup of the day, Radcliffe’s ‘B’ four fell to the MIT four by 22 seconds to finish second out of four teams...