Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their triumph last week, Mahendra ordered his subjects to prepare a proper reception. Not since the collapse of their "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" had any Japanese been greeted as conquerors. But now three of them had become the first to top Manaslu, world's ninth tallest mountain (26,658 ft.) and one of the toughest to climb...
Barley for Horses. In all the Orient the Japanese are the only mountaineering exceptions. At the turn of the century Japanese army officers were poling around the rugged terrain of Korea and Manchuria, even Siberia, picking up information for their military maps. In 1941, with war just ahead, the Japanese had a large expedition climbing the Himalayas of India's Punjab, hunting hardy wild mountain barley for the horses and men of their cavalry, and at home the sport of mountaineering kept abreast of political and military needs. The Japanese alps crawled with amateur climbers. Biggest goal of civilian...
...winter of 1952 an exploratory expedition tackled Manaslu, but the Japanese had a tough time even reaching the base of the mountain, because the Indians were reluctant to let foreigners get close to sensitive Tibet and its Red Chinese visitors. By spring, though, the advance guard had chosen the north col near the Sherpa village of Sama as the only possible route, and the first climbers started upward. Monsoons slowed them and they finally quit, their supplies exhausted. In the spring of 1954 the Japanese returned. They had doubled their supplies but this time their opposition was tougher. Outside Sama...
Most of the Viscianesi do not seem to mind, but it bothered the mayor of Visciano to be chief of a community so regarded. He badgered the government in Rome into replacing the mountain mule track with a real road down to Nola and arranged for a rickety bus to make the run once a day. But the people of Visciano thought he was slightly mad to wish them onto such a terrifying machine, and they stuck to their mules...
Lately the Mau Mau terror there has been reduced by police drives and by surrenders induced by government promises of good treatment. But a diehard gang of natives still hides out in the mountain forests, and Missionary Devitt decided to appeal to them directly. With little thought for his own safety, Devitt gathered eight surrendered terrorists and a Kikuyu clerk and went up the mountain, unarmed, with his portable sound equipment...