Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown was afraid of rain, which is likely to turn exposed fossils into meaningless brown powder. In sizzling heat that reached a 140° peak, the diggers dug drainage ditches, got tarpaulins and blankets ready, rushed work on a seven-mile road to the main highway...
...Walter Kohler, the true paternalist in industry, such demands represented the peak of Labor's ingratitude. On wages and hours he might have compromised but he was ready to risk a bitter labor deadlock rather than recognize the A. F. of L. as the sole representative of his workers. The first crisis came when Kohler Co. ran low on coal, after strikers had blocked three coal cars being switched to the plant. Since the plant furnishes the town with water, Kohler's whole water supply was threatened. Father John Maguire, Federal Labor Mediator, with difficulty persuaded the strikers...
...Buddhist priests look on Everest as the abode of potent gods. Not until 1920 was permission for a climb obtained from the Dalai Lama, religious and temporal monarch who ruled the bleak uplands from Lhasa. The first expedition spotted the rock shoulder zig-zagging down from the peak to the saddle which was later called the North Col, but wasted its time on a heart-breaking approach to the saddle before discovering the more feasible access from East Rongbuk Glacier...
...Somervell stopped, gasping horribly. Norton struggled on a few yards, reached the highest point from which any man has returned alive. He was snow-blind for days. The same year G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine started up from Camp No. 6. As they approached the peak a lone observer below saw them enveloped by a mist cloud. No one ever saw them again. It was Mallory who had answered for all Everest climbers when someone asked him why men risked their lives to scale the mountain: "Because it's there...
Sixth tallest measured peak in the world is 26,620-ft. Nanga-Parbat ("Mountain of Horror"), 900 mi. northwest of Everest.* A British army officer named A. F. Mummery tried to scale it in 1895. He and two Ghurka porters disappeared crossing a high pass. No one attacked Nanga-Parbat again for nearly 40 years...