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For mountain climbers the news over Memorial Day weekend was grim but not really surprising. At Yosemite Valley in California, the body of Derek Hersey, a renowned Alpinist whose unforgiving specialty was rock-wall climbing done solo and without the protection of belays, was found below Sentinel Peak. And on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Mountaineering: No Room at the Top | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

Again, the Crimson lost the doubles point, but not without a fight. With the doubles' score even at one, Stovell and Burroughs fell behind in the third set but broke their Mountaineer opponents' serve twice to force a tiebreaker.

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: Road Warriors: Netmen Win Three | 4/21/1993 | See Source »

That sort of culture clash -- mountain man meets high society -- would have happened had Iceman ventured to meet his contemporaries on other continents. While the Alpine mountaineer and his people were foraging for berries and perhaps herding sheep or cattle, the Sumerians in what is now Iraq were already living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

Talks is hardly the word. Tokyo's goal was to negotiate a victory in China, Washington's goal to negotiate a Japanese withdrawal. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, nearly 70, a longtime power on Capitol Hill, was a log-cabin- born Tennessee mountaineer who knew little of the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day of Infamy | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

Chang was the only member of Harvard's top three singles players to have any success against West Virginia's fastballs. The 22ndranked Chang slapped back nearly every first serve Mountaineer Ron Mercer offered and won in straight sets, 7-6, 6-4.

Author: By J. HENRY Hudepohl, | Title: Netmen Put Away W. Virginia, Navy | 4/23/1991 | See Source »

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