Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...high. Many expeditions have tried to claw their way up it. In 1924 G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine, who reached a point above 28,000 ft., may have reached the summit; they disappeared in a mist and were never seen again. All who have tried to climb Mt. Everest have been beaten by the near-stratospheric cold, the almost continual gales, the treacherous, sliding snow and the thin, high...
...mankind. Kelly, who spent five years as a cartoon animator for Walt Disney, began drawing Pogo in a daily strip in 1948, while he was art director of the New York Star. After the Star folded, the Post-Hall Syndicate rescued Pogo and started him on his rapid climb...
Other students began to attempt the climb, but were stopped by the arrival of Yard police...
Tuckerman's Ravine, a quarter of a mile from the cabin, provides most of the practice in ice climbing. Members climb up and above the side of the Ravine and over to Lion's Head on the other side...
...primary purpose of the trip is to practice for the spring and summer excursions, such as last summer's three member expedition to the Selkirk Range in British Columbia. A forthcoming Saturday Evening Post story will describe the highlight of last summer, the six man climb of Peru's "unconquerable Carnicero...