Possible Clues:

• The height of a severe storm
• Krakauer's ''Into Thin Air'' locale
• Among the world's severest challenges
• Place in the news, June 1953
• That's always set askew at the very top
• At any time set out for peak
• Huge rear — about to slip into underwear, the biggest of its kind
• Metaphor for an ultimate challenge
• First woman to pause where there's a stiff climb
• Page One 58 Across, June 1953