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<p><strong>Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature.</strong></p><p>In the summer of 2012, a team of six climbers set out to attempt the first ascent of one of the great unclimbed lines of the Himalaya - the giant <strong>Mazeno Ridge</strong> on <strong>Nanga Parbat</strong>, the world's ninth highest mountain. At ten kilometres in length, the Mazeno is the longest route to the summit of an 8,000-metre peak. Ten expeditions had tried and failed to climb this enormous ridge. Eleven days later two of the team, <strong>Sandy Allan</strong> and <strong>Rick Allen</strong>, both in their late fifties, reached the summit. They had run out of food and water and began hallucinating wildly from the effects of altitude and exhaustion. Heavy snow conditions meant they would need another three days to descend the far side of the 'killer mountain'.</p><p><em>'I began to wonder whether what we were doing was humanly possible. We had climbed the Mazeno and re
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