Word: summits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joint Harvard-U. S. Weather Bureau weather station at the summit of Mt. Washington, N. H., which since 1932 has supplied important observations used in forecasting for the Boston area, will be enabled to continue this winter as a result of recent financial support from the state of New Hampshire totaling about...
Until recently, U. S. golfers made a habit of winning British championships as well as their own. This season, the situation has been reversed. Scot Jack McLean was a finalist in the U. S. Amateur at Garden City last month. Last week, at Summit, N. J., England's Pamela Barton was a finalist for the U. S. Women's Championship...
...Garden City, McLean's bad putting lost him the title when he had apparently won it. At Summit last week, this situation was also reversed. "Pam" won her match, 4 & 3, against square-jawed Maureen Orcutt Crews when, after putting brilliantly all week, she sank a 35-footer...
...feet in height and located in the Sikhim Himalaya range, about 60 miles from the Tibetan border. Although there are nine higher peaks than Nandi Devi, including Everest, none have ever been climbed, and, unless Everest goes down to defeat this summer, success in reaching the summit of Nanda Devi would give the Harvard climbers the honor of scaling the highest peak ever reached...
...Once there, they have two choices. They can mount the pinnacle by way of the notorious First & Second Steps, the latter of which rises smooth and sheer for 100 ft. like a battle-cruiser's bow. Or they can follow a long band of rocks skirting the summit and leading to a long, shallow couloir which points straight up the face to the top. George Leigh Mallory and Andrew C. Irvine are thought to have climbed the First Step before they met their death in 1924. In 1933 Smythe struggled 50 ft. up the couloir, stopped...