Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week still another expedition, led by Oscar R. Houston of New York, returned to New Delhi after making a preliminary pass at the defiant peak. All earlier expeditions had attacked the north slope, which lies in Tibet. Houston's group decided to investigate the unexplored south slope, which lies in friendly and comparatively accessible Nepal. From a distance, the south side of the mountain looked considerably more favorable for climbing. The slope of the strata looked gentler, and there was a promising formation something like huge stairs. Even more important was the fact that the southern side...
...this pessimistic judgment is correct, Mt. Everest may remain unconquered for a long time. Tibet, which owns the easier northern slope, is in the process of becoming a part of Communist China. It is not likely to welcome U.S. or British alpinists, and Asians have never shown much interest in climbing difficult mountains...
...Advancing!" Like many a dictator before him, Mao tries to divert the minds of his people from his unkept promises by emphasizing "foreign encirclement." His press keeps up a din for the conquest of Formosa and Tibet...
...prayer stones, hoping to assure the ungrateful animal a better birth-perhaps even human-in its next incarnation. The daily grind for U.S. Scholar Joseph Rock, who was chased out of China by the Reds and settled in Kalimpong, consists of work on a new system of spelling Tibet's tongue-twisting place names. Austrian Baron Rene Nebesky, who helps Rock, is boning up on Tibetan demonology...
...where he can't spread the disease." Last year anthropologist Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark breezed into Kalimpong with his wife to study a unique form of Tibetan polyandry called za-sum-pa, the sharing of wives between fathers and sons, and (occasionally) between uncles and nephews. Tibet would not admit the prince and princess. She is studying witchcraft and wizards and has collected 500 recipes for brewing love, hate, illness and death potions. While waiting for something better, she seems charmed with Kalimpong...