Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rescue party reach him. For 70 hours, with only a few ounces of honey to eat, he had clung to the ledge with frostbitten hands. Veteran Chamonix guides, who hauled Barbacki to safety, thought that Chulliat might have lived had the two men tried the descent roped together. Amateur Climber Barbacki merely said: "I guess I was lucky to stay where...
...gained the summit, then hauled up the New Zealander, who was too weak to make it alone. This provoked Colonel Hunt to turn rumor into row by insisting that it was Hillary who led all the way. Hunt also observed, with a patronizing qualification, that "Tenzing is a brilliant climber, within the limitations of his experience...
Alcide de Gasperi has been in tight spots before. For a good part of his life he was, by hobby, a mountain climber. Once, many years ago, he slipped from a ledge in the Dolomites and twirled for 20 minutes at the end of a rope before he pulled himself to safety...
...secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, is the one through which Stalin fashioned his real control over Russia, and Malenkov his claims to the succession. Now it will be occupied by a reorganized secretariat of five men, headed by Nikita S. Khrushchev, 58, the tough, slow but steady climber in the hierarchy of Soviet power, who won notoriety by his ruthlessness in putting down discontent in the Ukraine...
...Alec Guinness spoofs the "climber...