Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tied together with a rope, the two reached a tiny ledge at 10,000 ft. and paused to rest. The weather changed and storms swept the mountain flanks. The temperature fell below freezing. They huddled together, miserable and scared on the uncomfortable ledge. As time passed, one of the pair, Frenchman Claude Chulliat, 25, decided to risk his way down; his companion, George Barbacki, 23, a Pole, refused to budge. Chulliat started down alone...
High above the French village of Chamonix towers 15,781-ft. Mont Blanc, a permanent challenge to mountain climbers. Nearby is the even more difficult and dangerous crag, Aiguille du Fou (Fool's Needle), which only the more experienced mountaineers attempt. Last week Mont Blanc delivered up the bodies of four Spanish Alpinists who had disdained guides and paid with their lives. Two other lone climbers started up the rocky crag of Fool's Needle...
Perched atop a hill 500 feet above the Austrian city of Salzburg (pop. 100,096), the Hohensalzburg Fortress looks for all the world like a candy castle in some fairy tale. A tiny railway scrambles to the top, and tourists flock to the terrace for a breath of mountain air and a view of the Salzburg valley below. Last week the tourists had an extra surprise in store for them. Oskar Kokoschka, one of the most furious individualists in modern art (TIME, July 12, 1948), had taken over the barracks of the old fortress for a summer art school...
Divorced. William Orville Douglas, 54, New-Dealing, Roosevelt-appointed (1939) U.S. Supreme Court Justice and globetrotting, mountain-climbing author (North from Malaya); by Mildred Riddle Douglas, 50, who charged that her husband had left her "abandoned and alone while engaged in his work and in travels to remote places"; after 30 years of marriage, two children; in Baker...
...record: 2,158 ft. into the Dent de Crolles, a mountain in the western Alps, held by French Speleologist Pierre Chevalier since...