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Originally Posted by beren
From memory after Scott and Haston summited at 6pm in the evening they descended down to the south summit and decided to make camp in a small snow cave and endure a night above 8000m.
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What's more at that point, without working headlamps, without sleeping bags, without
oxygen and without food.
It always strikes you when reading those Bonnington books how despite the fact
the team would arrive with tons of food and equipment and go through a massive logistical
exercise of ferrying supplies up to the camps, the final climbers making the push to
the top could still be short one or more vital pieces of kit.