Ascent

Take one man with a dream of the past, let him face the future on the sheer cliffs of a towering mountain. That's our story, Ascent, taken from the vials of John Steele, adventurer.

Friends, this is John Steele. We're back this week to bring you another story of action and excitement.

And this is one of my favorites. Some of my guests I've known quite well and others only slightly. But this week's guests I know very well. Larry and I have been friends ever since he was an awkward kid.

I've watched him grow into young manhood. Believe me, I'm quite proud of them. Suppose you take over from here Larry before I tell the whole story. Folks, this is Larry Marshall. I guess not in climbing fever runs in families.

That's the only explanation I could find because believe me nobody was more surprised than I was. You see, my dad was killed in 1938 just before the war. He and four friends set out to climb the Durnellberg, one of the lesser peaks of the Swiss Alps, and, well, they just disappeared.

I was a kid away in prep school at the time, so I got all my information second-hand from my mother. It seems they sent out search parties, but they never found them. I wanted to go home, but the mother said it wasn't necessary.

I remember lying in my bunker but school ate at night crying, swearing that someday I'd climb that mountain and find out what happened to my dad. the war came along post on my plans after the war i took my discharge in europe wrote the families of all of dad's original party asking them to help finance the expedition