Climbing Mount Elbrus, Europe’s highest peak in Russia, can be a bruising, tearful affair. But it’s possible to cheat in the climb thanks to something called a snowcat.
I WAS slipping and falling off the ridge and down... the sheer cliff. The slope was too steep and my crampons couldn’t take hold on the ice.
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