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TIL about Walter Bonatti and Amir Mehdi, forced to spend a night on K2 without a tent because the first ascenders were afraid of being overshadowed. Bonatti upstaged them 4 years later summitting the even harder Gasherbrum IV; Mehdi was maimed by frostbite and never climbed again.

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