Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subject, and the subject makes the film one of the most fascinating ever made. In it, the camera records a passing event and its permanent meaning in a single enormous symbol: man against mountain. Yet the saving grace of the film is its unpretentiousness. The mountaineers move through the snow world in their bright blue suits, not so much like symbols through an allegory, or heroes through a legend, as like common men through a hard day's work at a job they love...
...long wait. Sherpas sit brown and still as little Buddhas in the snow; the white men crack sharp glances at the heights; the bold English head of Colonel Hunt, snow-grizzled and weary, turns upward. Eleven hours later, the two are back. They have made the south summit; beyond, it was too rough. A camp is now established by Hillary. Tenzing and George Lowe at 27,900 ft. They spend the night there, and next day Hillary and Tenzing, the second assault team, try for the victory. Again the waiting at the lower camp, longer than before. Suddenly three figures...
...Light snow along the Atlantic coast is expected to slow up car traffic south only slightly, and no flight cancellations are anticipated by major airlines...
Only exceptions to this general forecast will be snow flurries along the Appalachian Mountains, rain in Oregon and Washington, and warm and sunny weather in Southern California, the Weather Bureau reported last night...
Harvard students will have a unique opportunity in has weeks following the Christmas holidays, to take advantage of the snow-covered ski-slopes only a few hours away train, but or car from Cambridge--in New Hampshire and Vermont...