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...about 7 a.m., on different sides of the world's tallest mountain, two pairs of U.S. climbers struggled out of their sleeping bags into brilliant sunshine, strapped on their oxygen tanks, and began the slow trek toward the windswept, 29,028-ft. summit. Working up the relatively friendly South Col route were Barry Bishop, 30, a National Geographic photographer, and Luther Jerstad, 26, a University of Oregon speech instructor, retracing the path of Everest's earlier conquerors, among them Teammate James Whittaker, 34, who planted the Stars and Stripes on the peak this month (TIME...
Into Tibet. Days before, a sudden gust of gale-force wind at the 25,000-ft. level had blown away their tents and spare oxygen bottles, knocked two members of their support party 100 ft. down Everest's flank. Hornbein and Unsoeld were dangerously low on supplies. The climbers had to pick their way around huge outcroppings of rock. Now and then, searching for a foothold, they disregarded passport restrictions and stepped across the Nepalese border into Communist Tibet. No one expected them to go all the way-just to climb as far as they could...
...summit searching for Bishop and Jerstad. Not until 9 p.m. did the rendezvous take place. By now it was so dark that the four climbers could not find Camp 6 on the South Col route. Huddled against each other they spent the night at 28,000 ft.-without proper oxygen, shelter or sleeping bags. The temperature was 18° below...
...fight much for air, and as a result he inhaled less water than he might have. The icy river soon dropped his body temperature-certainly below 75°, but how much lower, nobody knows-so that when he drowned and circulation stopped, his brain suffered less from oxygen deprivation than it would have at normal body heat...
...were booked on half a dozen jet flights home suddenly found their passages had been canceled. Instead, the airliners flew to Riyadh, picked up the ailing King and his huge retinue, and carried them off to Vienna. At week's end King Saud was reportedly in an oxygen tent, responding to treatment for a duodenal ulcer. Doctors predicted recovery within a few weeks, but rumors still filtered through Vienna that Saud was in fact quite ill. Should Saud die, Prince Feisal will become King in name as well as in fact...