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...Yorker cartoon of some months ago pictured a perpendicular mountain peak, with two puffing, heavily loaded climbers just reaching the top. Standing at the summit was a third gentleman, dressed in business suit and Alpine hat. He was shouting excitedly into a walkie-talkie...
...through, by any means. At 1a.m. one night last week, they attacked Triangle with two or three battalions in line. This first sally was beaten off, but the ROKs on the crest were weakened. An hour later the enemy reformed and came on again; this time he overran the summit. Of three ROK companies which disappeared under the Red tide, 175 survivors were rounded up later. The Chinese were finally stopped at the southern foot of Triangle's steep slopes. If they advanced any farther, they would imperil the U.N. supply bases and communication lines around Kumhwa...
Mount Everest is still there to be climbed, its 29,610-ft.* summit a standing challenge to all hardy mountain fighters, who cannot abide the thought of an unconquered peak. Twice in 1924, once in 1933 and again last May, pairs of climbers have struggled to within a scant 1,000 ft. of its top, but no one has made it all the way and lived to come down again (TIME, March...
...week's end the summit of White Horse was a churned and stinking shambles, littered with the dead of both sides. Under the torrent of shells, trenches and bunkers had disappeared. "Nobody," said a U.N. officer, "can hold the top of that hill." So long as nobody held it, White Horse was a U.N. victory...
...enclose a reproduction of Hansen's photo of his depot. The mountain seen in the background of his picture is the summit of the Cooper Key Mountain...