Word: twicetold
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Dates: during 1955-1955
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...high-priced writers in the mountaineering business. James Ramsey Ullman (The White Tower, The Age of Mountaineering) has filled Tenzing's book with plenty of good writing, cliff hangs, avalanches, frostbite and windy nights on bald mountains. The result is polished, often deeply moving, but rather on the twicetold side. Tenzing, however, has saved for this book one bit of information he has never hitherto confirmed: "Hillary stepped on top first...
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