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Into the Bottleneck
Cecilia is 34 years old, with cornflower blue eyes and a mane of curly blond hair tucked into her climbing helmet. At home in norway, she is known as the polar princess. She has stood on both poles and conquered the highest mountains on all seven continents. Katu is her last big goal. Up ahead is one of the toughest challenges of the climb, that deadly corridor of ice and rock that's known as the bottle neck. It's shaped like a long, narrow tube tilted at a dizzying angle. The climbers will have to pull themselves up through it.