Word: merkl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last spring crowds in a Munich railroad station threw flowers at a group of German climbers leaving to attempt the Mountain of Horror. The party was led by Willi Merkl, who had failed to reach the top two years before when his porters, mountain-sick and frightened, balked. This year pains were taken to find the hardiest and pluckiest hillmen obtainable. Last week came news of disaster...