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...scaled Nanga Parbat (26,657 ft.) in the glacier-shrouded western bastion of the chain. Then he climbed Manaslu (26,781 ft.) in central Nepal and Pakistan's Gasherbrum I (26,470 ft.) with Peter Habeler, a longtime climbing partner. In 1978 Messner and Habeler, now 44, climbed oxygenless to the summit of Mount Everest (29,028 ft.), and the mountaineering world gasped. In 1979 Messner went back to the Pakistan-China border and conquered K2 (28,251 ft.), the world's second highest mountain, and, to top that, lumbered up Everest again in 1980, this time all by himself...
...gold from becoming brittle and breaking while it was being worked, the goldsmiths annealed it-heating it and quenching it rapidly in water. For joining different pieces, they developed several methods, including a sophisticated process also known to Etruscan and Greek goldsmiths; it is called granulation, a form of oxygenless welding in which a drop of copper acetate (made by dissolving copper in vinegar) and glue was used to fuse the gold...
...life-style and genetic structure of Woese's archaebacteria tend to support the theory; because the strange bugs now live only in remote, airless niches of the environment and die when exposed to free oxygen, they may be little different today from ancestors that evolved in the oxygenless primeval atmosphere...
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