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...ordeal began on Jan. 30, when a party of eight climbers headed by Colorado's Gregg Blomberg, 25, landed by airplane on Kahiltna Glacier, 7,250 ft. up McKinley's west slope. Less than 24 hours later, France's Jacques Batkin, who was bringing supplies to the base camp at 7,600 ft., plunged 50 ft. to his death in a crevasse hidden by snow and ice. Dr. George Wichman, an orthopedic surgeon and amateur mountaineer from Anchorage, Alaska, saw him fall. "One minute Jacques was there," recalls Wichman. "He was hauling his load, chest thrown...
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