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Tough Terrain. Abiding by Banff National Park regulations, the group registered with authorities to climb Mount Rundle (9,675 ft.). When the boys and their leaders saw Mount Temple, 11,636 ft. high with its craggy, seamed and snow-capped summit towering above Moraine Lake, they decided to climb it. But this time they did not tell the park authorities of their plan-if they had, they probably would have been denied permission because of the dangerous snow conditions of summertime. They did not ask guidance on the route or conditions for scaling Temple's tough terrain. They were...
Juan de Fuca Strait, a frigid, 18-mile channel that separates Vancouver Island from the state of Washington, challenges distance swimmers with the same fierce fascination that Mount Everest arouses in mountaineers. Since last April, when the Victoria Times offered $1,000 to the first swimmer to cross the strait, four men and three women have tried for the prize, have been defeated by the channel's fierce tides and unrelenting chop. Last week a barrel-shaped Tacoma logger named Bert Thomas, 29, slipped into the water at Port Angeles, Wash., swam through the night, and eleven hours...
Maria de Jesus Victoriano, a peasant woman of Carvalhinho, was on her way to the top of 2,800-ft. Mount Carvalho one day last week to gather hay. "I was looking at the sky and hoping the sun would drive the fog away," she said later. "Then I heard a great hissing and roaring overhead. I thought the mountain below me had exploded." For the next few seconds, shock after shock rent the earth all around her, sending ribbons and streams of flame and debris in all directions. "It was terrible," she said, "but the silence that followed...
...Plateau, published by the Museum of Northern Arizona. William C. Miller of Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories reported a novel collaboration of astronomers and archaeologists. Miller's avocation is to look for Indian remains in Arizona, and he was immediately interested when a survey party from the Museum of Northern Arizona found two Indian rock drawings, each showing the crescent moon and near it a large round object. Crescents are rare in Indian drawings, and the round objects were hard to explain...
...drop in beer sales is surprising. Ever since the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, with "our victuals much spent, especially our beer," beer has been one of the staples of U.S. life. Revolutionary War soldiers got a daily ration; George Washington had his own small home brewery at Mount Vernon. To the sun-baked fisherman, the lawn-mowing suburbanite, the baseball fan, beer has always been the symbol of inexpensive relaxation. This week, as July ushered in the height of the beer-drinking season, Americans were pouring upwards of 100 million bottles...