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Captain George Leigh Mallory, just three years ago, gave a lecture at the Union in which he showed pictures of Mt. Everest in the Himalayas and said that his next expedition would win the hard fight and reach the top of the mountain. Shortly afterward he tried again to reach the summit and 800 feet from his goal the swirling snow hid him from those far below who were watching with powerful telescopes and he has never been seen since. Captain John Baptist Noel who was with the expedition will give a lecture at 8 o'clock next Thursday evening...
...night one of his comrades, Pilot Charles H. Ames, crashed into an Alleghany mountain (TIME, Oct. 19). The boy helped in the long search for Ames' remains. One night last week the boy, Pilot Art Smith, aged 32, whizzing eastward, got two miles out of his course crossing Ohio. Near Montpelier there grew a tree. How, why, one cannot say, a committee of the Service is investigating, but the tree was invisible to him. Night echoed a rending crash, flames leapt out of the wreckage. Pilot Art Smith of the Air Mail was no more, the second...
...Significance. As an intellectual feat, the book has few peers. As human literature it contains too much stark psychology to be immortal, though consummate art has converted a mountain of material into a story taut as a humming wire, though the spiritual current conducted has terrific voltage
Announcement was made last night by L. U. Harris '26, President of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, that a dozen members of the club will leave tomorrow on the third expedition in its history, the ultimate goal being the top of Whiteface Mountain in the White Mountain Range...
...trip will take two days, and will include a journey in snowmobiles from the railroad station to the destination. All the equipment used by mountain climbers will be taken along, such as ice axes, ropes and crimpons...