Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of remarkably interesting geological phenomena splendidly displayed in a high and rugged mountain region, combined with numerous experiences in camp and along the trail, was the lot of the members of the Harvard Summer School of Field Geology during June and July of last year. To the customary work of the field geologists was added the zest of mountain climbing and the photographing of wild animals, as the region selected for the annual trip of the Department of Geology was in Jasper and Robson National Parks in Alberta and British Columbia. This portion of the Canadian Rocky mountains...
This camp was admirably located to provide access to the geological features of the easternmost range of the Canadian Rockies. Here also the men could be initiated into the technicalities of mountain climbing, as Roche Miette towered 4000 feet above the camp and gave splendid preparatory training for those who hoped later to scale the glacier-hung and snow-capped mountains a few miles farther west...
...first interest of the students, and many hours were spent on the ice of Ghost Glacier. Ten members of the party left the Cavell camp Sunday afternoon and four and a half hours later had established a temporary camp above timber line on the west ridge of the mountain. From this point the summit of Mount Edith Cavell, 11,033 feet above sea level, was reached the next morning. It was the second ascent of the 1929 season and made in record time, less than four hours from the shelter camp to the crest. Although the weather was extremely unfavorable...
...manikins parading pompously in a Pharaoh's circus, a Roman lady's ebony toy boy, a living statuette of jet in a Chinese garden-vestiges of their pigmy race peered from New Guinea bushes when Smithsonian's Matthew Williams Stirling flew to the island's mountain reaches. The little men overcame their suspicions of the big explorer. They offered him their bananas, sugar cane and taro, cultivated and prepared with the only three tools they knew of-an axe, a flat, curved knife, a chisel, all made of stone. They made him fire by rubbing sticks...
...Rabbit Jarrett of North Dakota got in the game at Denver whispering ''Give me the ball." Rocky Mountain stopped him 20 yards up the field but the North Central team-pick-ups from the Dakotas and Iowa-went on to a touchdown, playing as if they had trained together all season. Rocky Mountain was a scramble of uncoordinated tricks until the last period when it turned into a team and Thorn of Brigham Young pricked North Central's side. North Central 13, Rocky Mountain...