Word: summits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frank Baldwin Jewett, 70, who as head of Bell Telephone Laboratories led the development of the dial system and the transocean telephone, helped develop movies with sound, the modern electric phonograph, and the coaxial cable for television; after an operation; in Summit...
...White Goddess" in 1936 and (1) ran into a glacial flood, (2) lost half of their local porters in a mass mutiny, (3) had to make six trips down a 12-mile gorge to carry in supplies, and (4) had a case of ptomaine poisoning 1000 feet from the summit. After half a year of work, only two of the party reached the peak. They spent an hour there and left...
...tourist with an urge can hire guides and make the one-day ascent by cable car and a trek across the Bossons Glacier to the Grands-Mulets Hotel. If he still wants more, he can be awakened at 1 a.m. next morning for the big climb to the summit, more than a mile higher over treacherous snow crevasses, where high winds blow unceasingly and there is a constant threat of avalanches...
...still did not get the pitch, the program notes explained: "Dali sees the whole romantic philosophy of Wagner as an uninterrupted complex of impotence. An exasperating procession of wheelbarrows, heavy with the earth of reality, struggling up toward the inaccessible heaven of the ecstasy of love, at the summit of which there is only a precipice-love in death and death in love . . ." Only the New Statesman and Nation had the wit to smile at such Daliance and say the sanest thing heard in the hubbub: "How odd that people should have taken Mad Tristan ... so seriously...
...disease contracted in The Himalaya; in Sussex, England. Graduating from. Swiss Alpine feats to bigger things (Kinchinjunga, 28,146 ft, 1930; Kamet, 25,447 ft., 1931), Smythe tackled Everest (29,141 ft.) in 1933, reached the 28,000-ft. level, had to turn back after trying alone for the summit. During the war he trained U.S. and British troops in mountain warfare...