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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tough Terrain. Abiding by Banff National Park regulations, the group registered with authorities to climb Mount Rundle (9,675 ft.). When the boys and their leaders saw Mount Temple, 11,636 ft. high with its craggy, seamed and snow-capped summit towering above Moraine Lake, they decided to climb it. But this time they did not tell the park authorities of their plan-if they had, they probably would have been denied permission because of the dangerous snow conditions of summertime. They did not ask guidance on the route or conditions for scaling Temple's tough terrain. They were...
With William Oeser to lead them, 16 of the boys started up the southwest face one morning at 11. In four hours they reached 8,500 ft., just above the snow line. Oeser, bothered by blistered feet, decided to go back down; five of the boys followed him. The remaining eleven wanted to go on, and Oeser raised no objection. Lightheartedly, they set out for the summit, 3,000 ft. above, planning to come down before nightfall...
...snow-maned elders, Carl Milles, though a U.S. citizen, lives in Rome with his 81-year-old wife Olga. He still accepts new commissions and diligently puts in a six-hour day in his studio in the American Academy. "Great art has to be youthful . . . I am still a boy," he explains. One of Milles' latest undertakings is a large memorial group for Kansas City's Nelson Gallery. Recently, an inspection committee from the museum showed up to see the nearly finished work. "Why are there angels?" one asked. Replied Milles: "Don't you think God sends...
...decide which pass was crossed by Hannibal. Old accounts say that from its summit, the invading Carthaginians could see the plains of Piedmont. This ruled out all except three passes. To pick the one that Hannibal took, Sir Gavin used ancient evidence that the army found new snow in the pass and also old snow from the preceding year. Climatological data, based on pollen grains found in ocean-bottom mud, prove that the climate of Europe in Hannibal's time was slightly warmer than it is today. This being the case, only the pass of Traversette, 10,000 feet...
...woods of central Sweden, begins a picture that with passion, awe and tender intuition takes the watcher deep into the primeval forest, and there turns him loose among the beasts of the field. The film was made under fearful difficulties by Arne Sucksdorff (Struggle for Survival, Shadows on the Snow), a 38-year-old Swede who is clearly one of the world's finest film artists...