The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 106National Geographic Society, 1954 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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Page 35
... tent . Pathetically feeble , we lunged about in a ludicrous tug of war with the gale . Down below we could have erected the tent in two minutes . Here it took us an hour . The wind snatched the canvas from our hands , flailed us with ...
... tent . Pathetically feeble , we lunged about in a ludicrous tug of war with the gale . Down below we could have erected the tent in two minutes . Here it took us an hour . The wind snatched the canvas from our hands , flailed us with ...
Page 45
... tent wall reads : -13 ° F. It is still pitch dark . I nudge Tenzing , mutter something about breakfast , and retreat callously to my bag . Pretty soon the primus has warmed the tent a few degrees - just enough to make it seem safe to ...
... tent wall reads : -13 ° F. It is still pitch dark . I nudge Tenzing , mutter something about breakfast , and retreat callously to my bag . Pretty soon the primus has warmed the tent a few degrees - just enough to make it seem safe to ...
Page 48
... tent is our first job . For two hours we scrape at the rocks and the snow and the frozen gravel , trying to make a platform for it . We settle for two terraces about a yard wide , six feet long , and about a foot different in height ...
... tent is our first job . For two hours we scrape at the rocks and the snow and the frozen gravel , trying to make a platform for it . We settle for two terraces about a yard wide , six feet long , and about a foot different in height ...
Contents
weums | v |
New National Geographic Map Depicts Northern Africa and the Mediter | vii |
Lured by the Grandeur of Distant Peaks Four | xii |
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