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At such times he seemed more than ever the indefatigable walker. He once told me that he was good for only a turn just out of the town. But in city clothes and with bowler hat carefully under his arm (as though he had just crossed into Brattle Street) he...
It's like a human-fly act. The mountaineer reaches two feet above his head and pulls himself up by his fingertips; he stands with one foot on an inch-wide ledge looking for another-inch-wide ledge; he jams his fist into a crack for a hold fast. From...
With its rock-climbs at Quincy and its ice-climbs at Mt. Washington, HMC promises to prepare a novice for mountain conditions anywhere in the Alps. Just why a man should want to travel 4000 miles to climb an obscure pinnacle in Liechtenstein, of course, is a question that even...
A New Twist. A mountaineer, asked why he persistently tried to scale Mt. Everest, answered with some surprise: "Because it is there." The same answer could be made by many explorers. But with the growth of science, the most romantic impulses were given a stringent, practical twist.
* Scene: a mountaineer's cabin. On stage: the mountaineer. Enter an exile. Exile: "Whoever you are, have pity on a hunted man. There is a price on my head." Mountaineer: "How much?" Curtain.