Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 70, an energetic mountain climber, wood splitter, bicycle rider and whale hunter (to take their pulses), welcomed a snowstorm to help demonstrate one of his favorite maxims: "Hard work never killed a healthy man." Unpuffingly shoveling snow piled behind his Beacon Street office, Dr. White advised all healthy folks to take exercise in keeping with their age and general physical tone, build up to exertion slowly if they're soft, certainly not refrain from snow shoveling if their only ailment is just being 70. Said the doctor with some concern...
...summertime the queen of the Alps, 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc, puts only minor difficulties in the path of those who would woo and conquer her. Each year in the climbing season some 75,000 mountaineers flock to the resort town of Chamonix to have a try at scaling her heights, and most of them succeed. But in the winter, when her steep slopes are swept by gales often reaching 100 miles an hour and the temperature drops below zero, the icy-hearted mountain becomes a fickle and merciless termagant. Few, even among expert mountain climbers, care to risk...
...airmen up as best they could, but in the attempt the injured sergeant slipped into a Crevasse and hung there unconscious. Saving his life cost the others all the strength they had left. In answer to radio calls for help, the air force dropped more guides on the mountain, but their problem was soon less a matter of rescue of the two climbers than of simple survival for themselves...
...half-dead boys up the slopes to the refuge hut or to save themselves by making the ascent alone. They chose to leave the boys behind. Day by day the storms raged about their hut; then at last the angry skies cleared, and two more helicopters whirred over the mountain. In three hazardous trips to the Grand Plateau, 13,126 ft. up on the mountain, the helicopters brought down the stranded men, but the pilot decided that he dare not try to land near the two boys who still lay, possibly still alive, abandoned in the wreck of the first...
...always remain astonishing-how Cortés scuttled his ten ships (not "burned behind him," but dismantled and sunk, despite legend and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) and with his Aztec mistress, 400 Spaniards, 15 horses and ten cannons, advanced against the unknown things that lay behind an 18,000-ft. mountain wall. The fantastic outcome-in which Spanish chivalry and Christian faith matched themselves against the Mexican capital, set like a city of legend amid its lagoons in the mountains-takes on the nature of both myth and history. Armored knight met priest-warrior, each masked in the symbols...