Word: unered
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...scrape his remnants off the wall with a spoon." Not if Siegert could help it. For his team, he recruited two Munich friends with whom he had escaped from East Germany seven years ago: a lightning-rod fitter named Rainer Kauschke, 24, and a tough, muscular carpenter named Gerd Uner, 22. Taking unpaid leaves from their jobs, the three each chipped in $1,000 for food and medical supplies, down-lined clothes, lightweight nylon ropes and 1,000 special pitons, designed by Kauschke. On the sheer slate and limestone of the "elevator," Siegert knew they would find few natural handholds...
...Gerd Uner was sent back to Munich for amputation of several frostbitten toes. Rainer Kauschke was suffering from an "acute rheumatic disorder." Team Lead er Siegert complained of uncontrollable trembling in his arms and feet. It will never be so hard again, said one Italian alpinist. "The Germans blazed the vertical trail-and their pitons are still in the rock. This summer, you will see climbers do the same thing in a single...
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