Word: treks
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...OPERA (June 26-Aug. 24) commands a magnificent site in the foothills of New Mexico's dramatic Sangre de Cristo mountain range. When General Director John Crosby, 36, began the venture in 1957, his Eastern friends told him he was dizzy from the altitude. The skeptics now trek west to see his dizzying success. The present season will see polished performances ranging from Don Giovanni and Madame Butterfly to Honegger's Joan of Arc, combined with a flair for the new. In the much-anticipated American premiere of the late Alban Berg's unfinished, powerful and grittily...
During the long and uncertain trek westward over the plains in 1847, Brigham Young's Mormon pioneers obeyed this admonition, never beginning a day without a song or meeting the night without a hymn of thanks. So ingrained did the joyful habit of singing become that Young founded a choir at journey's end. This week the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, having long since won world renown, starts its 35th year of radio broadcasting-the longest sustained network program in history...
Happy Miracle. When their trek to freedom began 18 years ago, few thought that quick resettlement was possible. In one of the worst forced migrations of modern times, 9,400,000 ethnic Germans were abruptly expelled from Communist Europe, snowed up in West Germany in tattered covered wagons and with empty rucksacks. After the Iron Curtain snapped shut, 3,600,000 more Germans made their way West and heightened the crisis. The new arrivals were penniless, homeless and embittered. In the immediate postwar days, West Germans themselves were not much better off. The fierce competition between natives and "aliens...
...about 7 a.m., on different sides of the world's tallest mountain, two pairs of U.S. climbers struggled out of their sleeping bags into brilliant sunshine, strapped on their oxygen tanks, and began the slow trek toward the windswept, 29,028-ft. summit. Working up the relatively friendly South Col route were Barry Bishop, 30, a National Geographic photographer, and Luther Jerstad, 26, a University of Oregon speech instructor, retracing the path of Everest's earlier conquerors, among them Teammate James Whittaker, 34, who planted the Stars and Stripes on the peak this month (TIME...
Preparations took two years. The U.S. expedition assembled at Katmandu, capital of Nepal. Finally, late in February with 895 Nepalese porters and 32 Sherpa tribesmen (for high-altitude work), the climbers set out on an 180-mile northward trek. Along the way, team doctors took time out to battle a Nepalese smallpox epidemic, flying in vaccine and administering it themselves. At last the climbers neared the looming Everest itself. They set up their base camp at 17,000 ft., cautiously began to feel their way through the treacherous Khumbu icefall...