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The First Ascent of Everest - Part 3: Into the unknown
They called it the Icefall, a realm of moving architecture where the mountain's rhythm was both visible and deadly. Blocks of ice the size of houses leaned precariously, grinding against one another. To cross it was to embrace unpredictability: seracs that could topple without warning and snow-bridged crevasses ready to swallow a man whole. The light in the ice corridors was strange — a deep, clean blue where fractures reflected the morning light and a dull white where snow had become powder.
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