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Bradford Washburn, An Extraordinary Life
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Baker and what we thought was Mount Sanford. But we also had some unexpected fireworks. One night at about 10:00 P.M., an experimental pressure cooker at full boil with water and instant rice blew up. The cover hit my head-which, luckily, was covered by a fur hat, but the red-hot rice hit the back of Terry Moore's neck, burning him severely. The rice fell between his shirt and back, at 212 degrees, and he just screamed with pain.
We made an emergency trip down for treatment for Terry, covering two horizontal miles and sixteen hundred vertical feet in about fifty minutes. We were both mighty lucky we didn't lose our eyes and get scalded to a crisp. The next day Terry had several bad blisters on his neck, and we named the site Explosion Camp.
At 13,000 feet, or camp was blizzard-bound. What began as snow flurries became a first-class blizzard, blowing up the hillside so hard it rolled us gently to and fro in our sleeping bags. I sincerely hoped we were free of avalanche danger. As we moved higher on the mountain we had trouble maintaining radio contact, and we were running low on supplies by July 8. If we had to retreat for lack of supplies then, the entire venture could be defeated.
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About Bradford Washburn
Bradford Washburn was an explorer, mountaineer, photographer, cartographer, and former director of the Boston Museum of Science. Washburn gathered many awards over the course of his career, including nine honorary doctorates, the Centennial Award of the National Geographic Society (shared with his wife Barbara, the first woman to summit Mount McKinley), and the King Albert Medal of Merit.
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Lew Freedman
Award-winning writer Lew Freedman has written more than twenty books on sports and personalities in traditional and adventure sports. He has won nearly three hundred journalism awards for his work for the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Anchorage Daily News.
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