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Keith Jacobsen became a husky 17-year-old who lived, like many of his friends, for little but the challenge of the peaks. A fortnight ago, just after dawn, he climbed out of an automobile at the summit of Washington's crag-hung Snoqualmie Pass. He slipped on his pack, snapped on his skis and, with two teen-age pals behind him, set off on an overnight climb to Snow -Lake in the untracked high Cascades. The boys toiled steadily; by half past twelve they had passed through a draw at 4,200 feet and were beginning the last...
...mile front. To the east lie the clear blue waters of the Sea of Japan. But" the South Koreans deeply dug in on Anchor's top seldom get a look at the sea or at anything else, for the enemy's artillery is zeroed in on the summit...
...ordinary mountain, no well-worn Mont Blanc. Annapurna, in the Nepalese Himalayas, soars 26,493 ft., and when Herzog and his pal, Louis Lachenal, reached the summit, they had scaled the highest peak ever topped by man. In Annapurna, Herzog's story of the expedition in the spring of 1950, the victory becomes a literary anticlimax. What is vastly more exciting than the climb is the return trip, the harrowing ordeal-by-nature calculated to shiver the spirit of the toughest armchair explorer. Author Herzog-an engineer by profession, a mountain climber by religion-is no great shakes...
...unofficial report had it that the team of Lambert, Ernest Reiss, 32, a Swiss military aviation mechanic, and Nepalese Mountaineer Bhotia Tensing, 44, came within 150 ft. of the summit. But it turned out last week that the tenth assault on unassailable Mount Everest- the first time an attempt had been made after the monsoon rains-had ended in failure again. The climbers, despite their new, improved oxygen equipment, never got beyond the 25,850-ft.. mark, were still some 3,700 windswept feet from their goal* when they gave...
...spring, summed up what every Everest veteran knows: "It will require a kind of miracle to reach the top." British Alpinists, who have had a possessive feeling about Everest ever since 1924, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared in swirling mists less than 1,000 ft. from the summit, were not waiting for miracles. Britain's famed Himalayaman Eric Shipton promptly announced that British plans for a new assault next spring would go ahead full steam...