Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Irresistible Challenge. Popo, as even the Indians call the tongue-twisting peak, exacts its toll nowadays from the young and the strong who, year after year, feel the irresistible challenge to climb the mountain. After eleven climbers had lost their lives in 1953, government authorities stepped in to regulate the traffic of alpinists. They prohibited ascents when the weather was threatening, and required each climber to have a safe minimum of alpine gear for the venture. The precautions seemed to work; ten months passed without a casualty on Popo...
...Middle West who is soul-sick for no clearly apparent reason; a flapper who literally sinks her teeth into nice young men; a nice young man; a Jewish intellectual who can't make up his mind whether he wants to be a quarter-miler or just a social climber. Comes the dawn, and the "lone eagles" turn into "a covey of sitting ducks." One of them also turns into a dead pigeon. The others boozing, cynical or hitting the Prufrock-bottom of resignation-live by remembering. Almost everybody sooner or later tries to shoot himself or else to write...
...perished, so Mamma wants to keep her son grounded, but the boy has alpenstocks in his blood. By the bottom of the first page, he has played hooky from his dishwashing job and is off clambering from rock to rock. Seventeen pages later, he has rescued the famous English climber, Captain Winter, and even Rudi's Uncle Franz must admit this is an auspicious beginning; in his 20 years as a professional guide, Franz grumbles, "for me, there has never been a rich Englishman waiting in a crevasse." Before the reader can say "Grüss Gott!" the three...
Citation: "You are a mountain climber ... but the long, slow ascent from war-born confusion in which you have played so significant a role, has shown that man-made obstacles are far more challenging than those raised by nature...
...Baked Ham. By starting time, they numbered 37 in all-newsmen, photographers, a radio broadcaster (who made tape recordings of birdcalls and water sounds along the way) and newsreel cameramen, as well as bird watchers and nature lovers of every hue and stripe. The Justice, an oldtime Western mountain climber, set a brisk pace. Despite wet brush and the fact that the old canal path was washed out in sections, the motley group seemed to enjoy itself...