Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project to mount flowers on trees around Harvard Yard and the revival of a ballet based on the comic strip "Krazy Kat" were among the 10 offbeat proposals selected this week to receive funds from the Harvard-Radcliffe Arts Council...
...DUNSTER AND MATHER HOUSES AND LEVERETT TOWERS) 6 4 Putnam Apartments, Lobby, 2 Mount Auburn...
Only 14 summits, all of them in the crescent of mountains that runs from northern Pakistan southeast along the Himalayan chain to Sikkim, exceed this mysterious boundary between life and death. To climbers they are known as the eight-thousanders. And many of them, including Mount Everest, were conquered by mountaineers who fudged a little: they used bottled air. No one had ever conquered all 14 -- much less without oxygen -- until last week, when Reinhold Messner, 42, a brash, blond-bearded native of Italy's South Tirol, stood triumphantly atop Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain. Having conquered...
...glacier-shrouded western bastion of the chain. Then he climbed Manaslu (26,781 ft.) in central Nepal and Pakistan's Gasherbrum I (26,470 ft.) with Peter Habeler, a longtime climbing partner. In 1978 Messner and Habeler, now 44, climbed oxygenless to the summit of Mount Everest (29,028 ft.), and the mountaineering world gasped. In 1979 Messner went back to the Pakistan-China border and conquered K2 (28,251 ft.), the world's second highest mountain, and, to top that, lumbered up Everest again in 1980, this time all by himself...
...barrier proved to have what Oelz calls a "rather active respiratory center," meaning that as the air gets thinner, their rate of breathing involuntarily increases. "He's obviously got a superb high-altitude physique," says Chris Bonington, who in 1975 led a successful British expedition to Mount Everest, "but what has given him the edge over everyone is creative innovation. There is a wall called 'impossible' that the great mass of people in any field face. Then one person who's got a kind of extra imaginative drive jumps that wall. That's Reinhold Messner...