Word: peaked
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...surprise survivors of one of the worst alpine disasters in recent memory. On the night of May 10 a storm swept the summit's fearsome "Death Zone" with snow, bitter cold and hurricane-force winds. Within 24 hours, eight of the more than 30 climbers on the peak were dead, among them Hall and Scott Fischer of Seattle, who was also running a commercial tour...
...Everest had become the accessible behemoth, or so it seemed. Never as murderously tricky to climb as K-2, the world's second-highest peak, its challenge lay in the brute facts of its extreme altitude, occasional storms and inaccessibility. As clothing and equipment manufacturers mitigated the first problem, and a sprawling base camp sprang up at 5,340 meters to provide warmth and food to dozens of would-be peak beaters, the issue for elite climbers was no longer whether they could reach Everest's pinnacle but rather how many paying customers they could take with them...
...Despite delays due to the number of people crowding through narrow passes, the mood was good. The daughter of Washington State postal worker Douglass Hansen had earlier faxed in her support: "Come on, Dad, do it." By 2:30 p.m., he and more than 20 others had reached the peak...
...northern approach to the peak, three members of an Indian expedition were stranded on their way down from the top. Their frantic comrades thought they had persuaded a late-departing Japanese group to forgo its summit attempt and stage a rescue. But when next heard from, the Japanese were announcing their successful climb. The appalled Indians believe the Japanese found all three men and left at least two to die. The Japanese called the allegations "contrary to the truth, one-sided and unjustified." Responded an adviser to the Indians: "They [the Japanese] will have to live with their consciences...
...produce a tornado while others seemingly just like it do not? This question has dogged tornado experts for years, and the VORTEX project was launched to answer it. First in 1994 and again in 1995, VORTEX brought dozens of meteorologists to Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas during May and June--peak tornado season in that part of the country. Every few days for nearly 10 weeks, chase teams piled into planes, vans and cars equipped with every measuring device imaginable--satellite positioning systems, state-of-the-art radar, rooftop weather stations--and raced hundreds of miles to catch up with...