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Show MB MY MOST INSPIRING MOMENT - - EVEREST v y t) 1 I.J 4 ff r I,' Sir ., . 4 . '? ' t :::t Every month Sue wis iod because offuncthndl about the king of mountains. With wild surmise, I followed Mallory and Irvine to. .within 1,000 feet' of its summit, where they vanished forever into the mists of space. Vicariously but voraciously, I followed the sue cessive expeditions of the 1930s until I felt that I knew Everest as well as if I had actually climbed it. Meanwhile I was able to become something of a mountaineer on my own. I climbed the Rockies, the Alps, the Andes, in Africa, learning much of mountain lore and mountain craft. But the Himalayas, thegreatest peaks, remained remote and unacces--siblThe Depression years were "scarceTythe time for breaking loose into a dream world, the war years even less so. And by the time the war was over, I was a man of almost 40. Increasingly I lived with mountains at second hand as' a writer. About half my 17 books to date, factual and fictional, have dealt with earh's high places, and not a few of tthem with Everest. But still the hope, the dream, persisted that I would sometime, somehow, get to Everest myself. In 1952, while the British were e. . By JAMES RAMSEY ULLMAN Author of "Americans on Everest' "Tiger of the Snows," "Window's Way," and "The White Tower" preparing their final great assault on the peak, I made application to join them as correspondent and historian but was politely turned down. And ! s . on that day of days, May 29, 1953, whejijtheJking oLmountains was finally surmounted, I was, of all places, in Bermuda! but again Subsequently, foot into the back door. It was arranged that-- I would ant. i - . i i:1 write the story of Tenzing, the great Sherpa who, with Edmund Hillary, had scaled Everest. On this assignment I at least reached the Hi- IT, i rem 1-- . vi jf- a -- . 'r mm: w - , -- r, ganizing tion to Everest," he said. "Would you K I malayas, spending several weeks in the foothill country of northern India and Nepal. I was even granted my first glimpse or Everest but only from' an'Indian hilltop as a remote - white vision in the northern sky. More years passed . Then, in the fall of 1960ri was in my New York apartment when the phone rang and at the other end was my old friend Norman Dyhrenf urth, one of the finest of American mountaineers and a four-tim- e veteran of Himalayan expeditions. "Jim, I'm or- -- mmm. i ILLUSTRATION BY NOEL SICKLES PurinHIr Pain ::: like to go along?" For a while, the only sound in the room was the thumping of my heart. By now, to be sure, it was a heart, encased in a body of which, id M - 't menstrual distrtss.ri ow she iust takes MlDOL and goes her way in comfort because .! Midol tablets contain: M exclusive anti-spasmod- that ic helps Stop Clamping . . . Medically-approve- d ingredients that Reuevb Headache, Low Backache . . . Calm Jumpy Neeves . 53-year-- old for some time past, I had taken no great care. Even in younger days I had not been truly a climber of Everest caliber. That I could now, in middle age, reach its top, or even go high on its slopes, was as unthinkable as that I could fly through space. A special, mood-brighteni- med- ng ication that Chases "Blues. -- - WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW" Ft EE I book, Frank, revealing plain menstruatioa. Send IOC to eovr cost , of moiling and handling to Dept.39. Box 280. . New York 18. N.Y. (Sent In plain wrapper J 32-po- ::: always there was that nsurely I could get to the base of the mountainJ(I yet And 18,000-fo- ot - had been higher than that already) ; perhaps even to the advance camp, feet higher, at the very take-o- ff for the final push. As diarist, historian, and camp mother, I would at least be an integral part of the great enterprise I would enter at last, not in dream but injact, into that high, hidden world above the 3,-5- 00 ex-offic- -- y - - ::: io ::s world. "What-d- o we do first?" Tasked Norman. First, second, and third, for the next twoyears-plus- 7 turn hope into fulfillment. There was the team to be assembled, money to be raised, a thousand-and-on- e politi-- . cal, economic, and logistical problems to be met and overcomeTButTTn the end they were overcome. The Ameri-- : Shrinks Hemorrhoids New Way " 4 Without Surgery - can Mount Everest Expedition, scheduled-forthe spring of 1963, was a STOPS ITCH fact, an entity. In September, 1962, its membership assembled for the first time for a week of trial and shakedown on Washington's Mount Rainier. As we headed up its snowy slopes, I felt a lift and thrill of, anticipation that I had not known for many years. ' For the first hour, that is. 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