Word: snow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with Dior. Other buyers were uncertain or hostile. Snapped Adolph Schuman, president of San Francisco's Lilli Ann Corp.: "The psychology of the American woman is not ready for a change." Bergdorf Goodman's Andrew Goodman cabled his New York office to ignore the change. Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar, the doyenne of U.S. fashion arbiters, supported him. Said she: "Perfectly marvelous publicity for Dior, but you can't find any woman who wants skirts riding up around her knees...
...cathedral spire might be lost, crisscrossed by sharp seracs (ice towers) that no man can scale. In the deepest ice corridors, the air is foul and weakening; often as the climbers moved, ice blocks the size of houses vanished into chasms that yawned at their feet. Always, there was snow...
Camp V was at 22,600 ft. at the head of the Western Cwm. Here the South Col rose 3,000 ft. sheer. Ice boots were changed for high-altitude footwear soled with microcellular rubber (to keep out - 50° cold). Goggles protected the men from snow blindness; padded smocks enclosed their bodies. One by one, Hunt and Hillary, Bourdillon and Evans, Noyce, Wilson and Tenzing, put on their oxygen masks and learned to sleep in them...
...they stumbled, like flies on a whitewashed wall. An unmapped ice ridge stopped them, as it had stopped Team No. i. On one side, the ridge's gables projected over a face that fell 12,000 ft. Opposite was snow, firm enough for footholds, but guarded by a sheer rock face, 40 ft. high and holdless. At sea level this would be a minor obstacle to a trained mountaineer, but at 29,000 ft., neither Hillary nor Tenzing could attempt it. Instead they found a chimney that opened to the top. Hillary went first and crabbled his way upward...
They got up and plodded on. As fast as one hump was cleared, the next blocked the view. Both men were slowing down when suddenly it loomed into view-one last narrow snow ridge running up to a peak beyond which nothing was higher...