Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buildup. Hunt began by hand-picking eleven mountaineers to work as a team in overcoming the tricky terrain and getting two of their number to the top. He timed his attack between the end of the winter gales and the start of the summer monsoons. By the time Hunt and his team reached the foot of Everest, the expedition had swelled to almost 400 hands, most of them coolies to carry equipment and food across the roadless approaches...
...inspired by the stark mountain peaks on the book-jacket, who will decipher formulae for luminosity of the sun in order to lay bare an astronomer's scientific reasoning. The book would be improved by several additional papers on the earth's climate, how it molds the earth's terrain, and whether storminess is essential for human invigoration. Such essays could give Climatic Change the popular appeal Rachael Carson gave The Sea Around...
Everest begins, as all good epics should, before the beginning. Earlier attempts to climb the peak are described; the terrain is analyzed in a general way. Then, at a footpace, the script proceeds with the 1953 expedition-how it was organized in England, how the men were picked and trained, how the equipment was tested-and at a footpace, it continues every step of the way to the top of Everest...
...miles), then a short (79.5 miles), nightmare stretch girdling a volcano at a height of nearly two miles and then plunging in murderous curves down to Mexico City. Again the Lancias led the pack, and Italy's "King of the Mountains," Piero Taruff, relishing his favorite sort of terrain, hung up lap records of 88 m.p.h. on the long leg, 102.8 m.p.h. on the treacherous short one. Late that night, in a hospital far back on the route, another Italian died of injuries received in the Ferrari crash of the day before...
...relentless and growing infiltration of the border states now constitutes a military threat to India's hard-won freedom. The border states will not let Indian troops come in to guard their passes, and neither their own forces nor the mountains can keep the infiltrators away. Furthermore, the terrain is perfectly suited for guerrilla warfare, with deep-cut gorges and forests to hide the guerrillas, and hillside villages which can serve as listening posts, strongpoints, and arms depots...