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Character: Jay Gatsby—“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald Caricature: Finals Club Guy An ostentatious social climber with a penchant for extravagant parties, Jay Gatsby would fit right in at any of Harvard’s social organizations for fine young gentlemen. Of course, if Jay Gatsby were at Harvard, his “parties” would consist of chugging half a fifth of vodka and hooking up with Daisy’s blockmate on a pool table at the Spee. Which is to say there are about a thousand...
Professional alpine climber Micah Dash scaled a different kind of peak last night—Harvard’s ivory tower—to speak to students about his worldwide climbing adventures. Sponsored by the Harvard Mountaineering Club, Dash’s multimedia presentation in the Fong Auditorium featured a set of videos and a photo slideshow from his experiences, as well as a raffle of Mountain Hardware climbing gear. Mountaineering Club President Kevin F. Jones ’10 said the goal of the event was to “inspire members to think bigger and broader?...
...further up the world's tallest peak. In 1953 a team led by British Colonel John Hunt planned another assault on the mountain the Nepalese call Sagarmatha, "head of the sky." Hillary signed on. The 15-man expedition also included Hillary's friend George Lowe, the renowned Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay, eight other British climbers, a cameraman, a doctor and James (now Jan) Morris, a reporter from the London Times...
...really enjoyed climbing with most was George Lowe, and I still believe that if George and I had been in the final summit push, we would have made it because we were a very strong combination. But John decided George and I were both useful as snow and ice climbers, and he split us up and used us with different groups. So I realized I simply wasn't going to be able to climb with George. I looked around and decided that the best and fastest mover around the place, apart from myself, was Tenzing. I remember once at lower...
...your son Peter's continuing to climb? That was entirely up to him. He decided he wanted to do it and he went off. I've never climbed with Peter on a big mountain. He did more and more of it and became surer, a much better technical climber than ever I was. He was always trying difficult routes, wasn't interested in climbing easy routes. He had quite a few accidents. He nearly killed himself once, and I think four members of his parties died on the mountains. So I felt relieved when he finally did climb Everest...