Word: ventoux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dauphiné Alps to Toulon, some 250 miles south, on the Mediterranean. Paul and his borrowed French Breguet-901 were towed aloft by a powered biplane, released at about 2,500 ft. With the rest of the pack he circled the field and eased gently toward the Alps. Mt. Ventoux (6,011 ft.) separated the men from the boys; many contestants turned back. To Paul, the problem seemed familiar-it was no tougher than soaring along the lee side of the Sierra Nevadas back home, where he had once reached a dramatic 30,000 ft. (the record...