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...team was up to the traverse called the Hinterstois-ser. after a German climber who died there in 1936. The ice was too shallow for their ice pitoris, too deep for their rock pitons. Anchored only by their hand picks, the four were inching upwards when Kinshofer suddenly fell. Sorhehow the other three managed to absorb his shock when he hit the end of the rope. Gingerly the team passed "death bivouac," where two members of the first north wall team froze to death in 1935. The fourth night out, watching his tiny, portable barometer fall ominously, Hiebeler began...
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