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Some of us got to talking last night about the rescue of the U.S. Army plane survivors off that ledge of the Wetterhorn [TIME...
...like the opening scene from Lost Horizon. En route from Munich to Marseilles, a U.S. Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a yawning ice bowl just ten miles from Switzerland's famous peak, the 13,670-foot Jungfrau. Marooned at 9,800 feet on the slopes of Rosenlaui glacier was a curious company of twelve people, including an eleven-year-old girl, four women (three were wives of U.S. generals...
...Matterhorn, Wetterhorn, Finsteraarhorn, Grosscherkhorn, Schreckhorn, Engelhorn, Zinalrothorn, Monte Rosa, Lyskamm...
Having scaled the Wetterhorn (12,149 ft.) a fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 30), His Royal Highness declared last week that he would next clamber up the Matterhorn...
...narrow slanting eyes peeped last week above the topmost crag of the famed Wetterhorn.* Seven hours before, three Japanese and five Swiss guides had set out from Grindelwald. He who peeped royally from the summit, was Prince Chichibu of Japan, second son of the Mikado. As everyone knows, he has wintered and disported himself in Switzerland, has survived an ankle strained while skating and ensuing measles (TIME...
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