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The Greatest Climb

Climbing Gold

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How to Repell on a Mountain Like That

I remember that bivwack was out in the open. We were just basically sitting on the ledge next to each other. The spinders' appliances came down all night long. Jim told me later that he thought he was going to wake up to a dead body. I woke up and looked over to Jeff. He was slumped over, covered in snow. But by the time we got to the bottom, he was probably in better shape than the rest of us. It's an absurd amount of repel. Like 90 pitches of repelling is insane.

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