University Daily Kansan Thursday, Dec. 7, 1961
The Lighter Side
U.S. Group Plans Try at Mt.Everest
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Mountain climbers, as someone may have observed before, are a breed apart from ordinary mortals.
Once a person has sealed a peak, he tends to think in lofty terms, which equate what is essentially a sport with mankind's noblest aspirations.
WHEN HE WRITES of his adventures he uses lofty language filled with wind-swept adverbs and snow-capped metaphors.
A group of part-time mountaineers gathered here this week seeking to drum up support for an all-American expedition to Mt. Everest in the spring of 1963.
They naturally called on Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, knowing he could be sympathetic toward the project. Udall recently climbed the 12,000-foot Mt. Fuji in Japan, a height heretofore unreached by any U.S. Cabinet meffiber without benefit of a pogo stick. The discussion being open to the press, I decided to attend, although I am not cut out for that sort of thing. Just the elevator ride to Udall's sixth floor office made me feel a bit giddy.
And when I saw the length o corridor that I had to traverse to reach the meeting place, I began looking around for a Sherpa guide
I must say, however, that they made the venture sound exciting, and even patriotic. Norman G. Dyrenfurth, leader of the proposed expedition, said American climbers can compete with those of other nations, provided they get the backing.
He noted that the Chinese Communists claimed to have scaled the north face of Mt. Everest last year and that one of them was barefooted when he reached the summit.
FURTHERMORE, they are supposed to have decorated the peak with a plaster bust of Mao Tsetung.
Dyhrenfurth, who produces documentary movies when not climbing mountains, indicated he did not believe these claims. But he said it was time our country had a go at the mountain.
The U.S. group plans not only to conquer Mt. Everest, the world's highest elevation, but two sister peaks as well. This sort of tripleheader has never been done before.
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3 Military Queen Hopefuls Announced
The ball will be held at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
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