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Forgoing Wimbledon for a small island in the Pacific, Argentine Tennis Ace Guillermo Vilas, 29, has chosen a new partner: Princess Caroline, 25, daughter of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier of Monaco. The doubles team started playing, according to Paris-Match, after a tennis tournament in Reno, and were spotted on a flight together from Los Angeles. Since her divorce from Philippe Junot, 42, in 1980, Caroline has reportedly dallied with Robertino Rossellini, son of Ingrid Bergman and the late Italian film maker Roberto Rossellini, and Robert Shriver III, offspring of Sargent and Eunice...
...first rays of dawn conquered the peaks of the Cascade Range last week, 23 climbers and six guides paused before attempting their final assault on the 14,410-ft. pinnacle of Washington's Mount Rainier. "The view was awesome," recalled Larry Martinson, 39, an insurance agent from Seattle. Then, while the climbers munched candy bars and took photographs some 2,000 ft. above the clouds, the morning stillness was shattered by what is surely the nation's worst mountaineering disaster.* It was only the first of two major accidents that Father's Day, the darkest...
Larry St. Peter, 40, a Seattle insurance broker, was among those perched at the edge of Mount Rainier's Ingraham Glacier, about 3,000 ft. from the peak, discussing the climb ahead. He recalled, "Suddenly there was a crashing sound and a thunderous roar behind us. It was as if one side of the mountain were coming down on us, an 800-ft. wall with thousands of blocks of ice tumbling down. Everybody was going 'Ooooh,' as if they were watching a Fourth 2 of July display. All I could think about was running...
...Mount Rainier, a dormant volcano about 55 miles north of Mount St. Helens, is a favorite objective of amateur climbers. But the mountain has claimed the lives of at least 66 climbers since it was first conquered in 1870. Lou Whittaker, one of the organizers of last week's ill-fated expedition, is a veteran climber whose twin brother Jim was the first American to conquer Mount Everest...
Only hours later, another group of mountaineers met disaster on Oregon's Mount Hood, roughly 100 miles south of Mount Rainier. The victims were on an outing sponsored by the Portland-based Mazamas Club, a mountaineering group founded in 1894 and specializing in assaults on Mount Hood's 11,235-ft. peak. At the 10,500-ft. level on the dormant volcano's northeast face, one or more of the 17-member party slipped. The climbers, roped together in groups for safety, tumbled 2,000 ft. down the slope...