Word: sherpa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human: the mountaineer. Since 1920, when Tibet first agreed to let foolhardy foreigners gamble their lives against an instant of immortality at the rooftop of the world, 15 expeditions have started for the summit. Two, perhaps three, made it: New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing, first conquered Everest in 1953; a Swiss party followed in 1956; and Soviet-Chinese climbers say they planted a statue of Mao Tse-tung at the top in 1960-a claim that most experts do not believe. Other expeditions met only heartbreak or death. In 1924, just...
Preparations took two years. The U.S. expedition assembled at Katmandu, capital of Nepal. Finally, late in February with 895 Nepalese porters and 32 Sherpa tribesmen (for high-altitude work), the climbers set out on an 180-mile northward trek. Along the way, team doctors took time out to battle a Nepalese smallpox epidemic, flying in vaccine and administering it themselves. At last the climbers neared the looming Everest itself. They set up their base camp at 17,000 ft., cautiously began to feel their way through the treacherous Khumbu icefall...
...Katmandu, officials cursed bad weather that had blacked out communications with the U.S. climbers. Where were they? Were they safe? Had they reached the summit? Suddenly, the radio crackled. The message was laconic: at exactly 8 a.m. (Greenwich Time) on May 1, two men-an American and his Sherpa guide-had stumbled out of the mist onto the top of Mount Everest. A second assault team was waiting to start on its way. Then the radio went silent. Until both teams returned, Expedition Leader Dyhrenfurth refused to identify the men who had planted the Stars and Stripes at the summit...
...also features the 100 per cent camel hair wool blazer. This natural shoulder model with three pearl buttons and flap pockets sells for $69.50. Topping off a three piece camel ensemble is a handsome cotton or heek suede outerwear jacket with up sleeves and a full sherpa lining. The shawl collar, raglan shoulder, slash pockets, and leather buttons light this imported jacket from mark. It comes in old gold and olive and is priced at only...
...days' rations. Led by Tufts University Philosophy Professor Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 43, grandson of the late U.S. President, the amateur foursome-including a geology student, a Boston attorney, a Swiss schoolteacher-had cocksurely attempted to climb the unsealed 25,910-ft. Gyachung Kang peak without either oxygen or Sherpa guides...