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K7 Campsite

During an attempt to climb a new route on the southwest face of K7, the climbers were battered by a five-day storm high on the mountain. Conrad Anker, Brady Robinson and Jimmy Chin were confined to their undersize two-person portal edge several thousand feet up on the face. Due to wind and snow, their visibility had been nearly zero when they put up the portaledge. When the storm finally broke, and they could see their position, Chin crawled out of the portaledge and traversed out on a small snowfield to snap this photo.

Photograph by Jimmy Chin