Word: summits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Place: on the summit of a knoll located on my father's farm, nine miles from town in Greene County, Tenn...
...clock that morning Camp No. 2 had been pitched on the landing. Our guides, accustomed to the long grind, were so industrious that at four that afternoon the white tent of Camp No. 3, which was to be our highest camp, had been pitched on the landing nearest the summit. From this camp Fritz and Murgatroyd were to make the final dash. By seven o'clock the tent was full of meteorological instruments and empty bottles. At nine o'clock Fritz bought back his watch for ten blue chips, looked at it and at Murgatroyd, snapped it shut, rose...
...attempted" because somewhere up there, at the Top of the Widener, swept by the mighty corridor drafts that are forever playing about the summit, stained by the thousand changes of weather and the weekly change of floor-mops, lie the bones of two gallant gentlemen, my friends, two of the bravest explorers that ever cheated a native...
Different explanations have been advanced for the tragedy, which has come to be known as "the Child Memorial Climb affair". Some have said they lost their way, wandered around the peak, and died in the deep bernhardts of the Theatre Collection. Others have said they reached the summit, only to meet the white card that had already broken so many slout hearts: "Open only from 8 to 6 on misty, moisty mornings...
...great question was whether or not oxygen should be used on the mountain for climbing. Norton and Somervell were opposed, and finally made the world's record ascent without oxygen tanks, reaching 28,200 feet. Mallory and Irvine next tried with the aid of oxygen to reach the summit. Through a rift in the clouds Odell saw them 600 feet from the summit, but beyond that we know nothing of these two unfortunate mountaineers...