Word: summits
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...Denali" (Home of the Sun) is the Kuskokwim Indians' name for Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mt. McKinley, highest point in North America. Few miles distant is the summit of Mt. Foraker, 17,000 ft. high, whose two breastlike peaks the Kuskokwim call "Denali's Wife." "Denali" had been climbed to the top but "Denali's Wife" had not last July when Dr. T. Graham Brown of the University of South Wales & party set up their base camp on the Foraker River. From there the climbers struggled to the ice-clad summit of Mt. Foraker...
...edge huge fragments occasionally break off and start avalanches. A Bostonian named Henry S. Hall and his Swiss guide had the pluck to defy this danger, the luck to escape it, were last week picking their way down from Mt. Robson's glittering summit...
Highest place in the world is the summit of Mt. Everest, 29,140 ft. above sea level. If any man has set foot on that white pinnacle of the Himalayas none has returned to tell the tale. Up to last week 13 persons were known to have perished in 13 years of trying. Last week the world heard of a 14th victim when three Indian porters arrived in Darjeeling with the story of one man's lone assault...
...General Charles Granville Bruce in 1922, pushed a series of camps up from the glacier. Using oxygen, Capt. J. Geoffrey Bruce and another man reached 27,300 ft., turned back utterly spent. The wet monsoons came early that year, bringing heavy snow to the bare windswept rocks near the summit. When the snow had hardened somewhat a group of five started up across the precarious North Col where the temperature probably averages -50°. An avalanche swept nine porters into a crevasse. Only two were rescued...
...party set out from Srinagar on May 2. Early in July they had pitched a camp at 23,000 ft., in sight of the heavily buttressed summit. Here screaming gales caught Merkl and two others. They and their porters started down. The Germans stopped at Camp No. 7. Nine porters reached Camp No. 5. Two of these died and three others were abandoned before the four survivors, frost-bitten and exhausted, reached Camp No. 4. From that point a rescue party of three started up the Mountain of Horror to look for Merkl and his two comrades, hardly hoping...