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(K2Climb.net) It's the one good fight that never ends - the quest for Mastery. The eighties are long gone but a warrior's soul never dies: The tough bunch of climbers who wrote the coolest pages of mountaineering history 20 years back are still kicking - and more. In only a few months, they will take on any mountaineer's ultimate nightmare: A winter climb on a Pakistan 8000er. The fifth Polish attempt to winter Nanga ParbatNot even Messner could beat them: Polish climbers have all the first winter ascents on Himalayan...