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martyrs of the Antarctic.
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The Matterhorn's summit ridge is not quite what excited journalists like to call "a knife-edge ridge." Our boot prints in the snow along the actual ridge prove this. Had it been a knife-edge ridge, with snow, our boot prints would have been on both sides, since the smart way to traverse a true knife edge is to hobble slowly along like a ruptured duck, one leg on the west side of the narrow summit ridge, one on the east. A slip then will lead to bruised testicles but not-God and fate willing-a 4,000-foot fall.
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Mountaineers know that all mountains are in a constant state of collapse-their verticality being inescapably and inevitably worn down every moment by wind, water, weather, and gravity-but
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