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Fall Himalayan Wrap-up
The fall Himalayan climbing season ends with hundreds of summits on Manaslu (plus one casualty), a fistful of successes but mostly failures on snowy Dhaulagiri and some sought-after new lines on Everest that never quite came off because of a giant serac poised menacingly above the Icefall. Finally, ...
Angela Benavides
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