Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bradford Washburn '33 youthful explorer and mountain-climber, will speak in the Living Room of the Harvard Union at 8 o'clock tonight on "The Exploration of Mount Fairweather." The story of the unsuccessful attempt to climb this 15,330 foot Alaskan mountain will be illustrated by motion pictures. The speaker will be introduced by H. J. Coolidge '92, assistant curator in charge of mammals at the Zoological Museum...
Last summer Washburn and five companions undertook the exploration of the west coast of Fairweather Peninsula in southern Alaska. The trip also included a nearly successful attempt to scale Mount Fairweather, the highest coastal mountain in the world. No previous expeditions have been able to make the ascent...
...mentioned (TIME, Jan. 19) Alfonso XIII, and learned reader Noss recalled (TIME, Feb. 9) Sassanid Shapur II (310-379 A. D.): add a third, more amazing than the others, the son of Alexander the Great. There is no need to remind your readers that Alexander had married an Asiatic mountain princess, Roxane. Little known, however, is their son, born after Alexander's death in 323 B. C. Emperor of the better half of the known world, a position he shared with Alexander's halfbrother, the half-wit Philip Arrhidaeus, the young Alexander might also expect to be deified...
...highest peak in Western Europe (15,780 feet high) will be filmed. This summer, H. B. Washburn '33, and W. C. Everett '33 will make the arduous ascent. The filming will include scenes in the valley as well as a complete narrative account of the climbing of the famous mountain...
Four men who hope some day to flit from planet to planet in rocket planes were last week making preparations to leave the earth. Inventor Maurice Poirer of Burbank, Calif., fired a miniature moon-plane from the top of a mountain, watched it crash to the bottom of San Francisquito Canyon. In Italy a 132-lb. rocket designed by another U. S. rocketeer, Dr. Darwin O. Lyon, exploded, seriously injured four mechanics. In Vienna, the Meteorological Institute of Urania heard Professor Hermann Oberth tell how he hoped to reach Mars or Jupiter within 15 years. In Manhattan the Interplanetary Society...