Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rate, Allison, who was weathered out on Everest in 1987 after reaching 26,000 ft., then retreating and spending five days in a snow cave, was by several days the first of three climbers from her expedition to reach the top last fall. (A male climber, Geoff Tabin, made it to the top just ahead of Luce.) Thus she settled what she somewhat dismissively refers to as "the American-woman-on-Eve rest thing." (Tired of hype and of fund raising, she had put $9,000 of her own money into the expedition pot.) No doubt she also quelled some...
...point her goggles fogged, so she took them off. By that time the men had passed her on their way down. She reached the top alone, dulled and sluggish, and stayed about five minutes, not bothering with photos. As she started down, she realized her unprotected eyes were going snow blind. What she did not realize was that she had run out of oxygen. And on a steep slope just below the summit, she leaned over to try to see a foothold through the blazing retinal glare. The empty oxygen tank overbalanced her. She somersaulted downward...
Then strength and her adventurer's enchanted luck took over. She swung her ice ax, sunk it into the snow face and performed a perfect self-arrest, just the way they teach it in climbing school. She ditched the oxygen bottle and found her Sherpa. The only thing she could see by this time was the blue of his boots, so she followed the moving blue blobs. The next day her eyes were swollen shut...
...frantic phone call from my roommate, who urged me to get down to Harvard Hall right away. I rolled over and went back to sleep. Ten minutes later she called again, this time sounding really concerned. So I threw on a pair of sweats and dragged myself through the snow to Harvard Hall, cursing all the way and wondering why I became such a hockey freak...
...hunt during which 13 hunters slaughtered 204 birds (139 over the limit for that group). When a guide yelled to spook hundreds of geese clumped together in a pond, hunters fired blindly into the rising cloud of birds. After the fusillade, the water was littered with dead and wounded snow geese...