Five Miles High: The Story of an Attack on the Second Highest Mountain in the World |
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Abruzzi ridge afternoon Ahdoo altitude Askole avalanches Baltis Baltistan Baltoro Glacier Base Camp Bates and House Biafo Glacier boots Broad Peak Burdsall Camp II Captain carried cliff climbers climbing clouds cook coolies crevasses crossed descended dried expedition feet foot Gasherbrum Ghaffar Sheikh Godwin-Austen Glacier gully Himalaya House and Petzoldt Houston Houston and Petzoldt Indus Kangchenjunga Karakoram Kashmir ledges loads looked lunch Matayan miles morning mountain Muztagh Nanga Parbat night north-east ridge pack Parkutta party Pasang Peak pemmican Petzoldt pitons pony porters reached reconnaissance river rock rope route sahibs Savoia Glacier Savoia Pass seemed Sherpas Shigar shouts side Skardu Skyang Kangri slabs sleeping bags slope snow soon Srinagar started steep storm stove stream Streatfeild summit cone Tehsildar tent three Sherpas trail trip turned upper valley village walls Wazir weather wind Yuno