Word: roadless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondent of the Times." Soon the expedition set out from the Nepal capital weighted down with 7½ tons of equipment. Izzard sadly watched his story climb away from him. It was going to take place three weeks away as a man walks (nearly 200 miles over murderously wild, roadless country), and the only way to get there was on foot. Resolutely, Izzard followed after the Hunt expedition with his own expedition...
Hill of the Toad. Flores duly reported his find, but nothing was done until two novice archeologists, Robin Mills and Morgan Smith of Florida, heard about it in Oaxaca City. By airplane, jeep and saddle horse, Mills and Smith worked their way to roadless Rio Grande, where proud villagers showed them the stone. Part of the stone was covered with hieroglyphics, and five square miles of ground around it was full of exciting traces of an ancient civilization...
...timed his attack between the end of the winter gales and the start of the summer monsoons. By the time Hunt and his team reached the foot of Everest, the expedition had swelled to almost 400 hands, most of them coolies to carry equipment and food across the roadless approaches...
...Today there is less communication between the great groups of man than there was in the roadless world of a thousand years...
...early afternoon when Dr. Shultz got the call: five-year-old Sara Sharr had been kicked in the head by a mule at Golden Trout Camp, 10,000 feet high in California's Sierra Nevada range. That was 25 roadless miles from the doctor's office in Lone Pine (elev. 3,728 ft.). No plane could land near the camp. Nothing to do but pack in. At 3 :30, Dr. Shultz set out on horseback, with a mule carrying a stretcher, an instrument bag and plasma...