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Cerro Fitz Roy 1952: The French-Italian First Ascent
Lionel Terray and Guido Magnone climbed Cerro Fitz Roy in February 1952 in conditions that the Patagonian guides of the period considered unclimbable.
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The 1953 Everest expedition revisited, Walter Bonatti at K2, the first ascent of Mt. Logan, the Eigerwand recoveries of 1936 and 1957.

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Lionel Terray and Guido Magnone climbed Cerro Fitz Roy in February 1952 in conditions that the Patagonian guides of the period considered unclimbable.

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A small American party climbed a 7,556-metre peak in Sichuan during a Chinese civil war and walked the trade route out to French Indochina. The climb is barely remembered.

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A reading of the Mallory family correspondence at Magdalene College, Cambridge, which holds the unresolved last chapter of the 1924 Everest expedition.

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Maurice Herzog's French expedition put two men on the first 8,000-metre summit on 3 June 1950. The descent took the next month and cost most of their fingers.

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Two failed attempts on the north face of the Eiger left bodies on the wall. The recoveries — twenty-one years apart — became part of what the route now means.

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A forty-four-day approach, a tent at 5,400 metres, and the climb that effectively founded Canadian mountaineering as a national project.

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An Italian expedition placed two men on the summit of K2 in July 1954. The dispute about how they got there took the next fifty-three years to resolve.

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Seventy-three years after Hillary and Tenzing stepped onto the summit, a quiet reading of the expedition's logistics, oxygen sets, and the men whose names sit on the second page.