Word: shipton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of miracle to reach the top." British Alpinists, who have had a possessive feeling about Everest ever since 1924, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared in swirling mists less than 1,000 ft. from the summit, were not waiting for miracles. Britain's famed Himalayaman Eric Shipton promptly announced that British plans for a new assault next spring would go ahead full steam...
...route, through Nepal, leads to the southwest face. It was thoroughly reconnoitered by a British party last summer. Led by veteran Himalayaman Eric Shipton, the Britons climbed to a 20,000-ft. buttress on nearby Pumori for a glimpse of a new route. They found they could see right over the treacherous ice fall to the head of the Western Cwm,t about 2,500-ft. below the South Col* (see diagram). To Shipton it looked as if there was a direct route up to the 25,000-ft. mark on Lhotse, followed by a traverse to the South...
Christmas is no holiday at Harvard. Clifford K. Shipton '26 custodian of the University Archives pointed out yesterday that the University has never acknowledged the existence of a Yule recess. When students depart on Saturday, they will be celebrating their "mid-winter vacation"; presumably they will have nothing to do with trees, Santa Claus, or mistletoe...
...explorer's legend cropped up again last week-the "Abominable Snowmen" of the Himalayas. Reporting on his sixth expedition to Mt. Everest, British Explorer Eric Shipton described in the London Times a hard, four-day climb to a great glacier near the high peak of Menlungtse. There, in the thin snow, he found the well-marked footprints of a strange, four-toed creature. Sen Tensing, the native guide, identified the tracks as the spoor of two "Yetis"-the same weird ogres first reported by an Everest expedition of 30 years...
Last week Explorer Shipton was still not prepared to settle the argument once & for all. But he admitted that Sen Tensing, his porter, claimed to have seen one of the monsters once in Tyangbochi. It was about 5 ft. 6 in. tall, said Sen. It was covered with reddish-brown hair but had a hairless face. Explorer Shipton was "convinced "of Sen's sincerity...