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The year was 1996 and the world was awash with news from the greatest tragedy in Everest history. We were in camp 2 and sent a message with one of the descending climbers to a fellow climber in BC, asking him to call our parents and say that we were OK.Instead, the next morning a media report said that we were dead. Our families fell apart. Source; the climber, in repeated calls to mainstream media claiming to be leading rescues on Mount Everest while in fact hanging out in BC. Three days later, we came down the icefall....
Ready, steady... preliminary list of expeditions to Pakistan
