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...spots on earth to defy human explorers is the icy tip of Mt. Everest, 29,141 ft. high. Many expeditions have tried to claw their way up it. In 1924 G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine, who reached a point above 28,000 ft., may have reached the summit; they disappeared in a mist and were never seen again. All who have tried to climb Mt. Everest have been beaten by the near-stratospheric cold, the almost continual gales, the treacherous, sliding snow and the thin, high...
Snowy Plume. Dr. Houston and Major Tilman camped on a high ridge and climbed to about 19,000 ft. to study the south face of Mt. Everest. Even at this great height (about 3,000 ft. above the summit of Mt. Blanc), they saw tracks of rabbits, mice and snow leopards. There was no snow except in crevices, but above their heads a vast plume of snow whipped off the icy summit, blowing out miles downwind like a gigantic pennant. They made maps and took photographs. Then they rejoined the rest of the party and returned to New Delhi...
Other lavish methods of skyward travel are still available to the person who is in a hurry to get to the top so that he may get back to the bottom. The Skimobile at North Conway for example sends little cars nearly a mile to the summit of Cran-more Mountain at the rate of 1,000 passengers per hour. At Cannon Mountain the enthusiast goes up 2,000 feet in a cable car, if that's your idea...
According to present plans a small group of members will leave Cambridge on December 26 for Maine. Arriving at Millinocket they will snowshoe the two day trip to the base of the mountain and then spend another four or five days trying to gain the summit...
Skiing enthusiasts find plenty to keep them occupied. The trail, starting with the Headwall below the summit of Mt. Washington and ending with the S-turns of the Sherburne Trail, has been described as the toughest skiing in the East. The Inferno Race is run here each spring...