Word: massif
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...army of Lebanon and the Palestinian Al-Fatah guerrillas-not the intervention of Gamal Abdel Nasser, not the warnings of the U.S. and the Soviet Union, not the menace of an uneasy Israel. From Tripoli south to Sidon, from dusty villages on the edge of the Mount Hermon massif in the east to the fashionable sea front of Beirut in the west, violence continued as Arab fought Arab. In Tripoli alone, at least 18 were dead...
Ominous Evidence. Crazy Horse began quite by accident when a patrol of Montagnard mercenaries, led by a U.S. Special Forces sergeant, "zapped" a North Vietnamese platoon in the mountain massif to the rear of the Air Cav's An Khe headquarters. In a tin box on one of the Communist bodies was a Chinese mortar sight, on others a compass, quadrant and binoculars: ominous evidence that the North Vietnamese might be preparing to clobber An Khe with mortar fire in preparation for an assault. Into the mountains swept chopper loads of Air Cavalrymen to "spoil" the Red attack before...
...mountains go, Antarctica's Vinson Massif* is not particularly awe-inspiring in its height. A humpbacked hunk of granite that rises to 16,860 ft., Vinson is the highest known peak on the continent, but it is still lower than ten mountains in North America. For an accomplished alpinist, the hike to the summit would seem like a Sunday stroll -if only it weren't for a couple of complications...
...fact that no man had ever before set foot on the slopes of Vinson-and the laconic announcement from the U.S. Navy base at McMurdo Sound had to qualify as a masterpiece of understatement: "A U.S. climbing party planted the flags of twelve nations on the summit of Vinson Massif, Antarctica's highest mountain...
...ever attempted. Explained Clinch before the climb: "Antarctica is not like the Himalayas, where you can always retreat to a native village if something goes wrong." From the moment that a Navy plane deposited them on a lifeless plateau 20 miles from the base of the Vinson Massif, the climbers' only lifeline to the outside world was an emergency radio hookup with McMurdo Sound, 1,300 miles away. Their sole comfort was that nobody needed to be afraid of the dark. In December, the sun shines 24 hours...