Word: mountain
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Great Highway. More significantly for Venezuela's economy, Pérez Jiménez snipped a silk ribbon to open the spectacular new motor speedway running from mountain-girdled Caracas to the sea. The journey to the capital from its seaport, La Guaira, and the neighboring airport Maiquetia, has traditionally been a fatiguing, sometimes hair-raising ride over an insane 18½-mile highway with 311 curves. The $60 million, four-lane autopista is Venezuela's most daring piece of engineering. It sweeps up to the capital in 10½ miles, tunneling mountains and leaping deep chasms...
...rapture of the depths is much like the mountain climber's euphoria, the exuberant dizziness that blinds the climber to danger when the supply of blood oxygen gets thin. Divers fear narcosis. One came back from a record 306 ft. down, and lived to tell about it. Another, Maurice Fargues, plunged down to 396 ft., scribbled his name on a marker, and was pulled to the surface drowned, his Aqua-Lung mouthpiece dangling uselessly. Miami's Skin Diver Root determined to learn more. Why take the risks? Said 52-year-old Diver Root: "I'm going...
...climb was the climax of a weekend of skiing and mountain climbing by the Stanford University Alpine Club. In charge was a young (21) but expert mountaineer, Jon Lindbergh, son of the famed flyer and a marine biology student at Stanford. By 12,200 ft., all except Edgar Hopf had switched to spiked crampons. He was still on skis and in the lead when he slipped and tumbled backwards...
Lindbergh ordered one member of the party full speed down the mountain for help. As the sun went down, they cut ice blocks to make a rude shelter against the wind in the 11,000-ft.-high snow fields. For ten hours Lindbergh and other members of the party took turns at artificial respiration...
Rangers found them in the morning, but it was too late. Lindbergh helped lash the body on the rescuers' toboggan and led the way back down the mountain. Newsmen and photographers were waiting, but he ignored them as he pulled his friend's body toward the coroner's truck. Then, turning his back on newsmen, he sprinted-down the slippery road to a friend's car and sped away...