Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months of dangerous climbing through unexplored mountains for two hours on a mountain peak was the announced plan of H. Bradford Washburn '33, as he left Cambridge Sunday for Portland, Oregon, to take ship for Alaska...
Three-hundred-pound Frank S. Leavitt, Man Mountain Dean of the wrestling profession, announced he would try to get himself elected to the Georgia Legislature on a platform which included the breaking up of filibusters. "I will undertake," said hirsute Candidate Leavitt, "to throw any ten members of the Legislature out at the same time if they start anything...
...mountain climbing made his African years memorable. First was the great, squat, "pudding-like" dome of Kilimanjaro, 19,710 feet, in Tanganyika, the highest mountain in Africa. Since the Germans built huts on it during the War, at 8,500 feet and at 11,500 feet, Author Tilman says cavalierly that Kilimanjaro offers ''no climbing difficulties whatsoever." The great jagged tower of Mount Kenya, 17.040 feet, buttressed with ridges and festooned with hanging glaciers, was a far tougher job. On the peak experienced climbers had violent attacks of vomiting, and on the descent Tilman fell 80 feet...
...high point of his African mountain climbing was a six-day ascent of the mysterious Ruwenzori Range in Uganda, anciently called the Mountains of the Moon, which had been climbed successfully only twice since Stanley discovered them in 1888. One of the eeriest regions known to man, the upper slopes of Ruwenzori "comprise a world of their own-a weird country of moss, bog, rotting vegetation, and mud, on which flourish grotesque plants that seem to have survived from a past era . . . and make more desirable the fresh purity of the snows which lie beyond." In the mists of Ruwenzori...
Matter-of-fact in his approach, making no attempt to conjure up literary terrors, Mountaineer Tilman pictures only two instances in which he was in genuine clanger, ascribes both to carelessness. Of a failure to reach a peak, he says, ''When a party fails to get to the top of a mountain, it is usual ... to have some picturesque excuse." But in his case it was the prosaic and common reason: "inability to go any further...