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...Presented the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal to British Explorers Sir John Hunt and Sir Edmund Hillary for their successful expedition to the summit of Mt. Everest. ¶ Prepared a message to be delivered to Congress this week, asking leave to 1) share U.S. atomic information with other NATO countries, and 2) permit private industry to develop atomic energy for peaceful purposes. ¶ Announced that he and the First Lady would leave this week for a flying, five-day work-and-play vacation in Palm Springs, Calif, as the guests of his old friend Paul G. Hoffman...
Mountains, when high enough and tough enough, measure men. In three decades, at least 16 men died trying to scale Everest, and eleven expeditions failed to reach its 29,002-foot virgin summit, although at least six men got within the last, breathless 1,000 feet. What was needed to conquer it? That was the question facing Colonel John Hunt in the autumn of 1952, when he took the leadership of a British climbing expedition. In The Conquest of Everest, Mountaineer Hunt gives a cleanly written, technician's answer, and describes the behind-the-scenes planning that...
...mountain, Hunt directed all his efforts at one supreme objective: to enable his summit climbers to mount the final 500 yards and 400 vertical feet with lucid minds and enough reserve strength to get down again...
...Lhotse, the second witch, a moon-cold, 4,000-ft. cheek of ice and blackish stones. Ten days of chopping here, with every breath a ton to lift, and then a breakthrough-two tiny figures bobbing far above through the ice glare, like spots before the eyes-to the summit ridge. The excitement rises; the onlooker, tensed like the climbers for so long against so many obstacles, pushes forward out of his seat to be with the first assault team, Bourdillon and Evans, as they slog out for the south summit at least, and, God willing, the peak...
...long wait. Sherpas sit brown and still as little Buddhas in the snow; the white men crack sharp glances at the heights; the bold English head of Colonel Hunt, snow-grizzled and weary, turns upward. Eleven hours later, the two are back. They have made the south summit; beyond, it was too rough. A camp is now established by Hillary. Tenzing and George Lowe at 27,900 ft. They spend the night there, and next day Hillary and Tenzing, the second assault team, try for the victory. Again the waiting at the lower camp, longer than before. Suddenly three figures...