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Kazakh climbers showed their true colors last week: Vassily Pivtsov and Maxut Zhumayev summited Everest well ahead of any other foreign climber and without O2. Denis Urubko reached the top of Dhaulagiri, after aborting his speed ascent to help another mountaineer. Most 8000ers are less famous but more dangerous than the big E and last week they claimed yet another soul: Italian Sergio Dalla Longa died in an accident near Dhaula summit. Spaniard Jorge Egocheaga fell into a crevasse there after getting hit by avalanche, and...
Ready, steady... preliminary list of expeditions to Pakistan
