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Solo Ascent
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"I am nothing more than a single, narrow, gasping lung, floating over the mists and the summits," wrote Reinhold Messner after becoming the first person to reach the top of Mount Everest alone with no supplemental oxygen.
Photograph by Reinhold Messner

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