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...care. Mount Everest was still there, unconquered. Headed by Swiss Guide Raymond Lambert, 38, who had come within 900 ft. of Everest's summit last spring-the highest man has reached and lived to tell about it-the climbers clawed their way up the icy, rocky, windswept slope. They could no longer wait for the winds to abate...
...space men believe that the leap from the earth must be made in two jumps, with a resting and refueling spot partway up the slope of the earth's gravitational whirlpool...
...Marines sprayed the summit with automatic-carbine fire. Chinese on the ridge replied with burp guns. Amid the brush of the slope, Marines tumbled the bulky, bleeding form of the wounded sergeant on to a poncho and labored off in the darkness, a man hauling at each corner of the improvised litter. Bright, raucous mortar bursts followed along behind them. The bursts were short and above the din they heard a cheering sound-two alarmed Chinese patrols back on the ridge were busily trying to kill each other. The Marines reached their own lines safely by dawn...
...glittering patch of quartzite, high on Sheguindah Bay Hill, was just the thing to catch an archaeologist's eye. Knowing that Stone-Age Americans made primitive tools from the easily workable material, Thomas Lee, a dedicated digger from Ottawa's National Museum, scrambled up the rocky slope on Lake Huron's Canadian shore to have a look. Half an hour later, he was poking and prodding one of the richest diggings in North America. The forest floor was dotted with crude knives, scrapers, and quartz chips. "I felt drunk," he said. "It looked as though the Indians...
...later canonized as saints of skulduggery, that Sam executed his really important exploits. There was, for instance, the diligent excavation on Holliday Hill (the Cardiff Hill of the books) that freed at last the great boulder which, as Sam and a friend gazed in ecstasy, shot down the slope, scattered a woodpile, leaped over a passing dray and wrecked a cooper's shop-at which point the boys felt a call from elsewhere, and went there...