The Conquest of Everest
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Everest - The Rocky Outcrop
There was a crack in the middle of this feature and he wiggled his way up with his kind of back against one side of the crack. His hands on the other. He knew that if he pushed too hard, one half of this, what you call nice chimney, potentially could break off. If it broke off, he'd be hurled down thousands of feet below. Very dangerous, very risky thing to do. But Hillary had this idea that on Everest, you had to take more risks. They still hadn't reached the summit, but you still got to slow over what at the time seemed like an endless succession of rises and falls and bumps. The Rocky Outcrop would become
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