Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last spring was on his way up Everest again last week. With five other Swiss Alpinists, Raymond Lambert was somewhere on the mountain's massive southern face. His party had approached Everest from Nepal, the only country through which climbers from the free world may pass, now that Tibet is barred to them by its Chinese Communist overlords. The Swiss are now setting up a string of base camps, assembling supplies of food, rope, sleeping bags, clothing and fuel. They are thrusting their lifeline ever higher to a last outpost from which Lambert and one companion will...
Even now, winter is creeping down the Himalayas and, with it, a rumor is snowballing from the north. A big Soviet party is said to be getting set for a try at Everest next spring by the easier northern-face route, through Tibet...
...Asiatic periphery the Kremlin has made captive China and Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Northern Korea . . . the northern half of Indo-China . . . It has added 500 million people to its arsenal of manpower. Most of these peoples of the Far East have been our friends . . . Through a dismal decade of false starts, fractional measures, loud policies and faint deeds, we have lost them. Again I can hear you say the conscience of America shall never be free until these peoples have opportunity to choose their own path...
...century ago, British surveyors, measuring the towering Himalayas on the Nepal-Tibet border, found the world's highest mountain: 29,141 feet. Tibetan natives called it Chomolungma, meaning "Goddess Mother of Mountains," but the British named it after Sir George Everest, the crack surveyor who charted much of India. Last week Red Peking, which recently gobbled up Tibet, decreed that Everest (which no one has ever climbed to the summit) will hereafter be known by its ancient name, Chomolungma...
...convinced the people in remote Gangtok, capital of the northern province of Sikkim, that he really wanted to see them. He arrived for a visit grim and weary after a 27-mile pony ride, which included crossing a 15,000-foot Himalayan pass on the old trade route to Tibet...