Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Smoky Mountains lie between Tennessee and North Carolina, a primitive wilderness of virgin forests, fast-flowing streams, sky-tumbling peaks. Clingman Dome rises 6,619 rocky feet in the air.* Besides swarms of game, the woods shelter hundreds of mountaineer families, clannish, illiterate, strongly Anglo-Saxon, who preserve their tradition of armed feuds and moonshine. Six years ago lowlanders who had enjoyed vacations in the Great Smokies formed the Great Smoky Mountains Conservation Association, asked the U. S. Department of the Interior to create a national park on the tract. Congress marked off 704,000 acres as suitable, promised...
Tennessee Great Smoky Mountain Park Commission announced that it would need about a year more to collect its half of the required land. Land-rooted mountaineers refuse to sell their ancestral acres, have to be displaced by slow court condemnation proceedings...
...Balch Hill, toward the dark skirt of pinewoods and the scattered crowd plunged the slalomers with a spiked pole in each hand. A slalom race is an obstacle race on skis; all the way down the course little red flags nailed to stakes on the white curve of the mountain pointed the racers to sudden curves around tree-stumps, past rocks, through the beds of hidden brooks. Slalomer Joseph Whyte of New Hampshire was too good for young Bryce Grayson-Bell of McGill, and the best Sander of Dartmouth could do was third. Pederson won the straight one-mile...
...club has been active this season, with a mountain climbing or skiing trip each week end. To be an active member of the club one must have made the ascent of two major glacier-hung peaks. By "major" is meant a difficult climb...
Fayal has a population of 20,000; Horta, its main port, 7,000. The island is owned by Portugal. The 69 square miles of Fayal is very mountainous and should furnish plenty of exercise for any aspiring mountain climbers among the R. O. T. C. unit...