Word: mountainers
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Servitors flitted excitedly about the Hotel de la Ville, Milan. While an adept facchino hastily pasted the establishment's labels on a small mountain of luggage, he grinned to observe a dictatorial Roumanian gentleman who fumed with the proprietor over the last items of a considerable bill. Suddenly a petite red-haired young woman emerged from the hotel lift with the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania. Before them scurried the Roumanian gentleman, dictatorial no longer, to usher Mme. Magda Lupescu and the former Crown Prince into an automobile which sped to the great Stazione Centrale...
...world one step farther. The next time it will be done. We have proved one thing. It was never known before that human beings could, with time, acclimatize themselves to high altitudes. We accomplished this thing. Mallary did not die in vain. He showed that the heretofore unconquerable mountain can be conquered. Tonight I shall attempt to show you the romantic fascination and the semi-religious spirit that...
After visiting the filthy towns of the plateau, the party wended its way across swift-flowing rivers and by picturesque lakes, feudal castles on mountain peaks, and hermits' caves until they established a base camp at the foot of Everest...
...been gained. We watched them struggle on another 25 feet and again a blast of snow made it impossible for us to know where they were. The air was filled with snow for a long time. For how many minutes I couldn't say. When we again saw the mountain, however, there was not the slightest trace of either climber. Perhaps they were buried where we last saw them. Perhaps they went on up and reached the very top only to be overwhelmed there...
There live in rural territory 50,000,000 people. Those isolated especially in the mountain regions, suffer considerably from poor light and insufficient heat in their homes, ignorance of proper food preparations, ignorance of the transmission of diseases, absence of sanitation, early marriages with a high death rate for mothers and children, and the lack of doctors, nurses, hospitals, clinics and dispensaries. In one North Carolina county 5,000 people, half of the population, were examined for hookworm; 42% were infected. Trachoma, the highly infectious eye disease, was present in 2.3% of 816 children seen...