Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stubborn as Sin. Desio's was the sixth attempt to conquer the "killer mountain," as K-2 is often called. The Duke of the Abruzzi tried and failed in 1909; so did the Duke of Spoleto in 1929. Always before, men were driven back by cold as severe as Everest's, gales that can stop a man's breathing, rock falls that roar like siege guns, flinging boulders the size of trucks...
...became known as the "Italian mountain," as Everest was the British, Nanga Parbat the German, Annapurna the French. (In the '305, Americans joined in on K2. reached 26,000 feet in 1938, 27,000 in 1939, 25,800 in 1953.) Professor Ardito Desio had climbed with the Duke of Spoleto. The professor is a mild-mannered little man with a Punch-andJudy nose and a mountaineer's reputation of being "stubborn as sin." Last spring Desio organized another Italian expedition, with eleven mountaineers, five scientists and a Pakistani army colonel...
...wilds of northern British Colum bia last week, the touring Duke of Edinburgh was taken inside a 7,000-ft. mountain where a powerhouse bigger than a cathedral had been blasted out of the solid granite. Water from glacial lakes poured down through a ten-mile tunnel to turn the turbines and set in motion the vast Kitimat project built by the Aluminum Co. of Canada. "Does it work?" shouted the duke above the machines' roar. Said a proud Alcan engineer: "You bet it does...
...Philip watched, the $275 million Kitimat project,* which includes the world's biggest aluminum factory and the biggest power development ever built by private enterprise, went into operation for the first time. Power from a mountain generating station was cabled 50 miles overland to a new aluminum smelter on the site of the old Indian village of Kitimat. The alumina ore came in Alcan freighters from Jamaica through the Panama Canal to Kitimat's newly dredged harbor. In the Kitimat smelter, the power processed the alumina into the first 4O-lb. ingot of Kitimat aluminum...
...greatest force of construction machinery ever assembled in peacetime went into the building of Kitimat. The work was spread over an area bigger than the state of Massachusetts. Deep in the Canadian Rockies, 400 miles north of Vancouver, Alcan harnessed a chain of mountain lakes and eastward-flowing rivers by throwing one of the world's biggest dams - a 317-ft. dike of rock and clay-across a canyon to create a great reservoir in the hills. Then Alcan drillers drove a ten-mile tunnel through the rock to sluice the water down the west side of the mountains...