Word: bonington
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...runner. He and other mountaineers who had successfully penetrated the 8,000-m barrier proved to have what Oelz calls a "rather active respiratory center," meaning that as the air gets thinner, their rate of breathing involuntarily increases. "He's obviously got a superb high-altitude physique," says Chris Bonington, who in 1975 led a successful British expedition to Mount Everest, "but what has given him the edge over everyone is creative innovation. There is a wall called 'impossible' that the great mass of people in any field face. Then one person who's got a kind of extra imaginative...