Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reynolds shows Lady Cecil Rice, the work painted in 1762, at a time when he was near the peak of his skill. It was only a month before that he had turned out his master portrait, "his perfect Nelly O'Brien." But Lady Rice resembles a very different person, who by the turn and tilt of her head, her sidewise and dreamy look, is distinguished and gentle. Reynolds' subdued colors, the faint blues for her gown, and the gray-greens for the trees and sky, suit her perfectly...
...months of dangerous climbing through unexplored mountains for two hours on a mountain peak was the announced plan of H. Bradford Washburn '33, as he left Cambridge Sunday for Portland, Oregon, to take ship for Alaska...
...main trouble is expected to come from the weather conditions. Washburn said that the advance party reported less than three hours good weather in the last month. The goal of the present trip is Mt. St. Agues, 13,250 feet high dwarfed by a neighboring 17,500 foot peak which Washburn sealed last summer with Robert R. Bates...
...during the War, at 8,500 feet and at 11,500 feet, Author Tilman says cavalierly that Kilimanjaro offers ''no climbing difficulties whatsoever." The great jagged tower of Mount Kenya, 17.040 feet, buttressed with ridges and festooned with hanging glaciers, was a far tougher job. On the peak experienced climbers had violent attacks of vomiting, and on the descent Tilman fell 80 feet to a rock ledge, landed physically unhurt, but with his mind wandering...
Matter-of-fact in his approach, making no attempt to conjure up literary terrors, Mountaineer Tilman pictures only two instances in which he was in genuine clanger, ascribes both to carelessness. Of a failure to reach a peak, he says, ''When a party fails to get to the top of a mountain, it is usual ... to have some picturesque excuse." But in his case it was the prosaic and common reason: "inability to go any further...