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The Ogre: Biography of a Mountain and the Dramatic Story of the First Ascent

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'One of the greatest mountaineering survival stories never told.'The Sunday Times

Some mountains are high; some mountains are hard. Few are both.

On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse.

Rising to over...