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...happy Hart aides recalled that in the darkest days of 1983, when the campaign was broke, the press absent and Hart all too aloof, the candidate had assured them, "I'll peak at the right time. I'll be good in '84." Said slightly awed Press Aide Steve Morrison: "Everything he said would happen has happened." So far, at least. -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Sam Allis with Mondale and Richard Hornik/Manchester
...when he was making his first solo climb of an Alpine peak, Mont Blanc in France, Naomi Uemura found himself tumbling into a crevasse that had been hidden by a layer of snow. "I thought, 'What a place to die,' " the Japanese explorer later recalled." 'So far away from home.' " But he managed to struggle out, and thereafter on big climbs, he always carried a pair of sturdy 17-ft.-long bamboo poles to test the snow...
Those bamboo poles and an abandoned pair of snowshoes were the only traces late last week of the celebrated mountain climber. He was reported missing and feared lost on the west face of North America's highest peak, Mount McKinley in Alaska. His disappearance came just days after a spectacular success: on Feb. 12, his 43rd birthday, Uemura had become the first climber to make a solo ascent of the 20,320-ft. peak in midwinter...
...unassuming farmer's son took up mountain climbing while studying agriculture at Tokyo's Meiji University. He became a national hero in 1970 when, as a member of the first Japanese team to successfully climb Mount Everest, he was the first to reach the 29,028-ft. peak. But his most rewarding feats were those performed, as he once put it, "in all the splendor of solitude." He explained, "It is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people." Alone, he conquered Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania...
...been to attempt a solo 1,200-mile dogsled run across the South Pole from the Ross Sea to the Weddell Sea. But his early planning, which needed the cooperation of the Argentine government, was disrupted by the Falkland Islands war. Instead, Uemura set his sights on the Alaskan peak, which he had scaled alone before, in the summer of 1970. "I know that in the eyes of many people I would only look like a Don Quixote," Uemura once replied when asked what drove him. "But I always want to know the limits of human endurance-or the limits...