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K2: The Savage Mountain | The Final Descent | 3

Against The Odds

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Pemba, Sherpa Rom, the Dutch Norten. We're Bringing Him Down.

It's early afternoon when pemba finds italian climber marco comfortola. Pemba crouches over marko and grabs onto his suit to kee from sliding down the mountain. There are two bodies wrapped in ropes; their suits are ripped, their faces are bruised. The death zone has wilko von ruen by the throat. But he made it through another night on the mountain at 25 thousand feet in sub zero temperatures.

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