Word: mountain
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...like skiing, though, the snowy hinterlands report generally good to excellent conditions. New Hampshire is one of the most accessible areas for the Harvard skier. North Conway's Cranmore Mountain, whose trails are served more Mountain, whose trails are served by their famous skimobile, offers a variety of trails for most beginning and intermediate skiers. A few miles past North Conway, in the increasingly popular Jackson area, are Balack and thorn Mountains. At Black Mountain there is a 2500-foot Alpine lift, and at Thorn a 4000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows which give access...
...Cannon Mountain in Franconia there are many trails easily reached by the 2000-foot Aerial Tramway. Laconia, Intervale, Mt. Sunapee and Peterborough also offer good skiing...
...base with five inches of backed power. Stowe has the longest chair lift in the East, in addition to a T-bar lift and a whole slew of rope tows, providing many excellent trails for novice to expert. Nearby, Mad River Glen, With its mile long lift, sports a mountain almost as big as Stowe's, but with waiting lines much shorter. Big Bromley and Pico Peak always have snow and good skiing...
Inexperience, panic, and a snowslide combined to cause the deaths of two mountain-climbing University students, Jacques Parysko '54 and Phill W. Longenecker 3G, who perished in Tuckerman's Ravine on Mt. Washington, N.H., over the week...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought foot by foot to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...