Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Allied authorities hunted him, Kusunose went to the foot of Fujiyama, to a deserted army barracks, where he had soldiered as a youth. He sat down facing the great mountain, which rose so steeply above him that he had to bend his head back to see the splendor of the sunlit, snowcapped summit. Kusunose sat down on Dec. 9. On Dec. 17 or 18, Death, which had been creeping nearer for nine days, sat down beside...
...addition to its own expeditions, the most famous of which was the seven-man HMC trip to Mt. St. Elias in Alaska last summer the Harvard Mountaineers have participated in many of the most important large-scale expeditions of recent years. In 1938, several Club members joined the American Alpine Club's reconnaissance trip to K2 in the Himalayas. K2 is the second highest mountain in the world...
...member of the American Alpine Club, stressed the fact that no HMC man has ever been hurt while on a Club trip, and that students totally ignorant of the rope and rock techniques are welcomed by the Club, if they show some interest in mountain-climbing...
...paying the check. From anonymous sources came $528,000 to buy London's topnotch Westminster Theater for Buchmanite theatricals. And as a continental HQ, the Group acquired (for $250,000) the sumptuous, turreted Palace Hotel in the Swiss resort town of Caux, high above Lake Geneva. Renaming it "Mountain House," the Buchmanites moved in last summer and say they have kept it filled to its 700-person capacity ever since...
...Journalist Robert Root recently visited Mountain House, wrote his impressions for last week's Christian Century. Excerpts...