Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, an Army B-29 crashed and burned a few hundred feet from the granite summit of Hawks Mountain, Vt. Dead: twelve...
...toughest environments on earth is the high, thin-aired Andes. Lowland visitors puff & pant after trying to walk a few blocks in Oroya, Peru (12,000 feet) or La Paz, Bolivia (12,400 feet). Some get soroche (mountain sickness) so badly that they lose consciousness. Many lowlanders never get adjusted, and have to move back "down the hill...
Selective Process. These physical characteristics are the result of long-continued selection. Inca customs may have helped the process consciously. Young men who wanted to join the orejones (warrior caste) had to fast for four days, climb several mountains, and then wrestle on an empty stomach. There was also a system of genetic selection. During the avocado harvest, young men and girls danced naked among the avocado trees. Then the girls, given a head start, dashed up the nearest mountain. Any man might possess the girl he caught-if he had enough energy left by that time...
...Monge does not foresee the revival of such selective festivities, but he does hope to breed cattle and sheep for high altitudes. Rocky Mountain bulls will help. So will Mexican highland cattle...
Retreating Glaciers. Mountain glaciers, "very sensitive to climatic changes," also support Dr. Ahlmann's theory. In central Norway, Lapland and Greenland, the glaciers have been drawing back their long tongues of ice. Some have disappeared entirely. Icelandic glaciers are yielding up farmland which they have overridden for the last 600 years...