In a mountain emergency, sometimes there’s no one on the other end of the rope. There is no helicopter and no nearby rescue team. It’s just you. In those moments, survival becomes about willpower and luck, as we saw recently with Hillary Dawa Sherpa, who was abandoned on Everest. Today, we revisit several epic self-rescues in mountaineering in which climbers became their own rescue teams, dragging their shattered bodies through hell to safety. A…
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