Word: luce
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some weeks ago, as the press and TV uproar began to subside, the two women spent a couple of days sorting photos in the Portland house Allison shares with her boyfriend, a local doctor. Allison and Luce did not know each other before the expedition, and though they are friendly enough, it seems doubtful that their lives from this point will take them in similar directions. The contrast in character is too great. Even the extraordinary physical and mental strengths that each possesses are of sharply divergent kinds. Luce is a big, powerful, easygoing soul who for several years...
High winds battered the mountain on the day of Luce's summit try, and she hung back, breaking off from Tabin, her climbing partner, and her summit group's Sherpas. Then Luce (no relation to TIME's co-founder) decided to try for the top. At some point her goggles fogged, so she took them off. By that time the men had passed her on their way down. She reached the top alone, dulled and sluggish, and stayed about five minutes, not bothering with photos. As she started down, she realized her unprotected eyes were going snow blind. What...
...experience taken either woman into unexplored places in her character? "No," says Allison, not surprisingly. But then she adds, "Getting to the summit didn't. Winning's easy. Not getting there the year before did. Yeah, failure teaches you things." Luce says, "Maybe I'm calmer. Friends say I seem more mature. Maybe just tired." She and some partners heard the beat of great wings when they were cuffed by the edge of a large avalanche at the Khumbu Icefall. Being in peril, she says, "sharpens your senses for life...
...think so," Allison says. She is not a contentious person, but she can't abide what seems to be imprecision. "That implies that people who don't climb don't feel life sharply. Children feel life sharply . . ." "O.K., you're probably right," says Luce amiably. "Strike that last answer." What next? Allison, the house framer, has gone back into contracting. She and her boyfriend want to spend a lot of time kayaking. And there is some $60,000 still owing (of the $250,000 total cost) on the expedition...
...Luce has quit her messenger job. She and Carl Jones, a Seattle filmmaker, plan to pedal mountain bikes from Vladivostok to Leningrad, camping or sleeping in the houses of ordinary folk along the way, in a five-month tour starting in May. Four Americans and four Soviets will make the trip with cameras rolling, and then they will do a similar tour in the U.S. next year. The Soviets are enthusiastic, says Luce. Only one element is still uncertain. Right the first time. So it is back, with smile and mandolin, to the powerful- legs, powerful-suits scene. Back...