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The Alps. Going for Gold, Round Two

Jeremy Jones

Everything was going as planned.  We did the 3Am rappel, climbed to the col, down climbed into “no mans land,” crossed under multiple seracs, climbed over half a dozen bergschrundsand and just as we made it over our last barrier and were getting ready to hammer down to the peak we realized it was not [...]

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The Alps. Going for Gold

Jeremy Jones

The hike to our bivouac was suppose to take 2 to 3 hours.  An exposed knife edge ridge turned it into 6.  I thought for sure we were lost only to find the bivouac, a glorified portaledge, bolted to the side of the cliff.  I guess this is their way of crowd control over here.  [...]

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