Word: snows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pres. Sidney Snow, Meadville Theological Schol, Chicago...
...Snow Thwarts First Attempt...
...resting. The morning of the 16th at midnight the whole packing party, plus Washburn and Holcombe, started from the high camp and by 8 o'clock they had reached the base of the 1000 foot cliff which the party scaled last year. At this point a two-day snow storm drove the party back and kept them in the high camp until the morning of the nineteenth. They left, however, before turning back at the foot of the cliff, crampons, rope, and other climbing supplies to be used as soon as the storm broke. It cleared the night...
...wands and miscellaneous supplies. They left with 35 pounds of climbing rope and extra clothing but no food except for two bars of chocolate. By 11 o'clock the final ridge leading to the summit had been reached and after an hour and a half of difficult rock and snow climbing the summit itself was made in the midst of a snow-cap snow storm which prevented anything being seen and forced the climbers to return as soon as they got there...
...airplanes flying about 1000 feet above the surface of the snowfields. Of the 1200 pounds of food dropped only two small boxes containing peas were lost and none of the other food was injured in the least Washburn said that the force of the box as it hit the snow, instead of burying it many feet, merely caused it to throw up a wide crater in the bottom of which could be found the box, sunk less than six inches...