Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kinds will be on demonstration and slides and movies of ce-climbing and rock climbing in New England will be shown. In addition there will be talks by the president and the officers of the club, as well as by Kenneth Henderson, member of the K-2 expedition to Tibet and president of the American Alpine Club...
Country's Man. "Let them come," the Gissimo said in the summer of 1940, when Chungking morale reached an all-war low, "let them drive me back into Tibet. In five years I will be back here and I will conquer all China again...
...engulfed the Soviets, shed a strange leftish light on the mysterious spiritual sources that steel Stalin's subjects to fortitude. There emerges a weird composite of child mentality, propaganda hallucination, semireligious selflessness and apparently bottomless intrepidity-a mixture as interesting but alien to U.S. understanding as Tibet...
Their road led across the highest tableland in the world, the Karakoram plateau of northern Tibet. The Kazaks set their faces toward the blue, snowcapped 20,000-foot wall of the Himalayas, worked their painful way through steep narrow gorges, over wind-filled passes like knife cuts in the rock...
...freedom from Japan and the past. This saga of a nation struggling to be born, of a people trying to unite and find greatness is the story of Chiang Kai-Shek and the young Republic of China. It is also the story of war fought from Burma to Tibet and culminating in the bombing of Chunking. It has the guts that no other movie has and shows how terrible this war into which we soon...