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Show V 4C The Suit La k e Tribune. N Thursddv Mav I l Bass Earns Utahs Highest Praise By Craig Mansell Tribune Spirts Writer SNOW BIRD - Martv Huey blurted u She look I)uk Buss the DuF.j-- , business nun whu owns this Ltflle Cottonwood Canyon resort, nd turned him into a man of mount,ns Wednesday was the day Utah Ju Norm Bangerler proclaimed Kichard D Bass Achievement Day in the state Bd'S was not only honored for fas contributions to Utah skiing and arts l fit Snowbird Arts Institute) but also for his mountaineering achievements On April 30. 1185. Bass at age 55. Mounti-lveresstood atop 2 9 on and became the first man ihe highest summits on earn of the world s seven continents His "Seven Summits" challenge began to unfold w hen the latelMs. Hoev. a Mount Rainier and McKinley guide who wintered as the Snowbird safety puirul chief, guided his party to the roof of North America. Mount Mc- , AUTO SERVICE CENTERS WE DARE YOU TO COMPARE!! OUR PRICES any legitimate tire price or refund you the difference. tcy-tan- Kinley (20,3211 feet ; Although Bass really ywasn't that moth of a stranger to the mountains after climbing the Matterhorn in moun1949 he wasn't the world-clastaineer one would assuf jate with an undertaking of this nugmtude Ms Hoey had peaked hi" interest and threw out a verbal challenge that Bass grabbed like a hungry trout tak' ing a prized fly t Bass, your hot air wbn t get you up that mountain McKjnley." Hoey reportedly told him BiSss. the successful business man who took over the dream of Snowbird frdm Ted Johnson and invested $120 million to create a world-clas- s resort, w asn't used to one his employees speaking to him in itUrt'tone and he set out to prove him-il- f worthy of the title mountaineer. Bass has climbed McKinley, AConcagua (the highest peak in the All Snowbird owner Dick Bass completed Seven Summits ascent standing at 29,029 feet on the crest of Mount Everest in 1985. s ;jw Western Hemisphere), Africa's Kilimanjaro. Mount. Elbrus (Soviet Antarctica's Vinson Massif. Justrailias Mount Kosciusko and fluent Everest. The quest wasn't, &nw jver. without cost. ? Probably the biggest blow was the $s$ of Ms. Hoey, who fell to her death 0 the first of Bass' four trips to fcverest ! But in the same way Hoey had of taking people believe they could achieve anything, Bass continued his $even Summits quest as she would fOve wanted. Bass had help He and Seven Summits compatriot Frank Wells, who retired from the presidency of Warner Brothers to devote full time to the challenge, sur- rounded themselves with expertise for their mountaineering task in the same way they do in their businesses Bass also had some additional assistance from a couple of guys named Kipling and Service and a woman named Marian. Bass limped (hurt while taking some of his climbing friends helicopter skiing last weekend) to the podium to narrate slides of his Everest trips. "I'm certainly most honored and Bass told Gov.Ban-gerte- r appreciative, and a Cottonwood Conference Center full of guests. He proceeded to repay everyone by recalling his climb to 29.029 feet. Wednesday, "You have your tail puckered up pretty good and get through there . . i'm telling you it s scary." Bass . said of the dangerous trip through Everest's Khumbu Icefall. "Poems got me up the seven summits," Bass said about his use of memorized Kipling and Robert Service verse to overcome "negative thought" and succeed under the most difficult conditions. He revealed that even Kipling and Service weren't enough on the final pitches of the Hillary Step on Everest laxt year "I remembered three things my w ife Marian said before I left: 'Never let your guard down. Remember what you have to lose. And I love you. "I was frozen with fear," Bass said t of the wide summit ridge, which dropped 7,000 and 8.000 feet on the sides. "I made up my mind, if I'm going to fall, it's going to be going down, after I've made the summit." Bass penned this poem about his adventure, which is chronicled in the book "Seven Summits" by Dick Bass. Frank Wells and Rick Ridgeway: one-foo- Gabriel . To For B.nm rxm control mstaauon Avaiaa. 'i095 " t, t; first-roun- J Uj Cffli7rc I pTW 1 Utahn Sets World Mark "l Brake Special Front dtsc or rear drum. Add $10 tor metallic I pads. 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Mice-Walkin- g race-walkin- 0 4 Former Trappers Faring Well After just two weeks of play, several former members of the 1985 Pio2-- neer League Champion Salt Lake Trappers have gotten off to good starts for the teams they hooked on ViTihr this season. Outfielder Chuck Heist, now in the .Kansas City organization, has already moved up a notch, as he was assigned to the Royals' Fort Myers after spending two weeks at Buffington. .1 Heist hit just .229 for the club tjiat Kansas City shares with Montreal. but Royals' officials had apparently seen enough to convince them to (Jiove him up. 'Club- co-o- Another Trapper on the rise in the Donors is outfielder Jay Slotnick. w ho e- - hitting .333 with four doubles and a burner in the early going at Burlington Salt Lake hurlers Ed , Former fV Big Sky Tennis Meet Weber State ColRENO. Nev. lege's tennis team will be shooting for its fourth straight Big Sky title starting Thursday. It will be a three-tearace between us. 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