Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item 2-The cover of This Week showing a bird in the middle of presumably a mountain stream, with a fly rod well-bent and reeling in his fish. Ask any fly fisherman if he ever tried to reel in a fish...
Ascents are to be made of the principal peaks in the region visited. These will include the Weisshorn, the Breithorn, and Monta Rosa, the second loftiest mountain of Europe, which is considered one of the best of Alpine climbs and said to offer some of the finest snow work in Switzerland...
...entire Antarctic Ice Barrier is not afloat, as was commonly supposed, but is partly grounded; that the ice at the South Pole varies in thickness from two feet to two miles; that more meteors strike the earth's atmosphere than was formerly suspected; that the Edsel Ford Mountain Range may be a continuation of the great Andean Range; that a hitherto unknown area of 250,000 sq. mi. is part of the Pacific Ocean; that the inland fauna of Antarctica consists solely of skua gulls which live on 50 kinds of moss; that Antarctica is all one continent...
...beards because there is not water enough to shave in, our professor, who stands six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and carries some three hundred and nine pounds, made bold to ask the archbishop if he could take a bath. Through gratitude or fear of this man mountain, the archbishop murmured a Greek Orthodox assent through his archiepiscopal beard...
With the true fervour of a scientist, Professor Lake refused to half after the accident, and insisted on continuing to the top of the mountain, where the excavation work is proceeding. He remained three days, supervising the beginning of the work. At the end of that time, a lacerated kidney and internal hemorrhage, became so serious that he was rushed to a mining camp and later taken to a Jerusalem hospital...