Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekly quizzes help to digest a mountain of material which at times seems to be coming too fast. It is not a good idea to take Chem 2a and Physics B together, since both have biweekly quizzes which have a disgusting faculty of coming on the same...
When the supplies had been carried to a height of 6,300 feet, Washburn and Holcombe, whose places in the climbing party had been taken by Lincoln Washburn and Dow, started up the mountain, leaving the base camp at 8 o'clock on the night of July 14th. The high camp was reached at 9 o'clock the next morning and the day was spent in resting. The morning of the 16th at midnight the whole packing party, plus Washburn and Holcombe, started from the high camp and by 8 o'clock they had reached the base...
...storm, which had begun as a mere cap of clouds around the summit, settled rapidly down along the sides of the mountain and prevented the party on the plateau from attempting to follow Washburn's tracks...
Beside the long-sought conquest of the mountain the party accomplished much interesting and valuable scientific work Of particular interest in this respect was the measurement of glacial movement, not only over the course of weeks, but also in hours. Unexpected results were obtained, showing that the glacier suddenly slid forward during the evening around supper time, again about midnight, and once more early in the morning. The average movement of the Crillon glacier, the one studied most in detail, was two inches an hour. Dynamite blasting was also done to determine the depth of the ice by means...
Airplanes were also used to make many photographs of the mountain itself and to assist in the map-making, sponsored by the Geological Society of America. Over two hundred photographs were taken from the plane which was called in from Juneau four times during the course of the summer. Twenty-five hundred feet of full-sized motion picture film was also taken, both of the ascent of the mountain and the several serial flights