Show High HigI On OIl A f By LAURENCE BURTON Utah R-Utah With the heat of summer certainly here more and more of us would like to get getaway getaway getaway away from it all One way is to go up up a mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain where the cool breezes tend to stay And really mountain climbing is gett getting ng to be one of the most popular popular popular lar sports around THE INTERIOR Department i recently released mountaineering mountaineering mountaineering mountain statistics which showed nearly twice as many recorded ascents last year as compared to 1967 Our Utah peaks are scaled by many adventurous souls who enjoy climbing to the I tops of Mount Storm Mountain l or Mount Olympus They give a good goodday's goodday's goodday's I I days day's work but are not asI as I I treacherous as say Mount McKinley Me- Me j Kinley in Alaska or Mount I Whitney in the High Sierra I country of Sequoia National Park California WHITNEY was the most popular for mountaineers who like to pride themselves in being at the summit of I Whitney which is feet t the highest mountain in the i continental United States I j Whitney is somewhat like I our own Mt l in ini i i that climbers make an anI annual annual an an- I nual event out of reaching the top Last year I people of all ages walked I crawled and scrambled up without the aid of ropes i picks or even yodelers THEY TilEY USED a down beat-down trail to the summit a far farI I easier route than the mountains mountain's mountains mountain's moun moun- I tain's east cast face which found I only 48 experienced mountaineers mountaineers mountaineers moun moun- I conquering that route I Utah's annual Timp hike I captures the fancy of several I thousand who meet at the I foot of the mountain the evening evening evening eve eve- ning prior to the hike and andI I then rise in the early m morning n n i I I j hours to begin the foe traditional climb x FOR THOSE hardy t types pes who enjoy sheer rock scaling the favorite challenge is Disappointment Disappointment Disappointment Dis Dis- appointment Cleaver an outcropping outcropping outcropping out out- cropping of Mount Rainier in Washington Closer to the top of the world is Alaska's Mount McKinley feet Only 30 challengers reached the top of the highest mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain in North America last year IF YOURE YOU'RE really the adventurous adventurous adventurous ad ad- venturous type try some of the worlds world's highest peaks the Alps in Switzerland Austria Austria Austria Aus Aus- tria France and Italy A man named first scaled 1 Mont ant in the Alps in 1339 and another fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low named Hannibal trekked up and down the mount mountains ins not only with his army but with elephants to boot Napoleon Napoleon Napoleon Na Na- made it too as did a famous painter Leonardo da Vinci OF COURSE there are still those Europeans who mainI maintain maintain main main- tain that the gods devils and I dragons are still perched above the snow line in the highest I of the peaks I In fact if youre you're lucky you jOU jOUI j might be able to find a text I I which lists all the dragons 1 above the snow line It was I written by a man named about years ago j NO COLUMN on mountains I would be complete without mention of Sir Edmond Hillary's Hillary's Hillary's Hil Hil- I larys lary's conquest of the tallest I j I of them all Mt l Everest I I feet in Nepal I think j i he was the one who responded I I j seriously when asked why in ini i heavens heaven's name did he want to II I climb Mt l Everest with Because BeI Because Be I cause its it's there ItI It I But if youre you're like me you'll t p take the good ol of mountains of j I Utah any time Its It's fun to get to the top top where the theair theair air seems to be a bit cleaner I clearer cooler where you youcan youcan youcan can view the most beautiful I sight in the world the Utah landscape |