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<p>Frank Smythe's mountaineering achievements in the decade before the Second World War became a part of climbing history. His intensive Alpine climbing, followed by two Himalayan expeditions ? to Kangchenjunga in 1930 and success the following year on Kamet, the highest summit then reached ? became the prelude to Everest. And in 1933 on that great mountain, climbing alone and without supplementary oxygen he got to within 820 feet of the top, a r...Seguir leyendo