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...when it was busy accumulating radios which refused to work and storing breakfast food--eagerly pressed into the hands of the climbers by an enterprising cereal manufacturer--in the living room of the unhappy mother of one of the expedition's members. The expedition moves through the intricacies of Peruvian Customs, through dysentary, polluted drinking water, and a platoon of shifty-eyed mule skinners, solicitously endeavoring to part Los Alpinistos from their money...
Empty Sea. After 17 days for repairs at Rapa Island, far to the north of her course, the Miru headed again for the Peruvian coast. The sea was utterly empty; in 68 days of sailing the voyagers saw not one ship or airplane. Food and water ran low. There were no fish to catch. Another storm blew the Miru north again. Then, 350 miles off the coast of South America, the sea turned ice-cold because of the rapid Peru Current which sweeps northward out of the Antarctic. By this time all the adults were getting one slim meal...
Comb Land. The rest of the voyage to Callao was easy. As Dr. Davis neared the Peruvian coast, he recalled an old tale of the islands. A Polynesian expedition under Chief Maui Marumamao, says the legend, sailed east from Easter Island and came to "a land with ridges like a comb." The Peruvian coast is like that, with steep, barren ridges running down to the sea. There the Polynesians built a temple, but they did not stay long because they did not find what they needed: fertile land near the sea. This description also matches Peru, for most...
...First climb Kanchenjunga," runs a well-known mountaineering challenge, "then Yerupaja." Since no one has ever scaled Himalayan Kanchenjunga (though eight men have died trying), anybody in his right mind might conclude that Peruvian Yerupaja ("The Butcher") is strictly for the birds...
...exhausting scramble. Dry snow, fine as sand, and rock, crumbled by the unending freeze-and-thaw, gave no firm foothold. But at 11:55 a.m., sucking at the thin, cold air, they were at the center of the long, narrow summit, where they planted a Peruvian flag...