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How to summit an 8,000 meter peak – choose your day wisely

We were a week into our Shishipangma expedition, in the less than predictable post-monsoon season. Yet the weather was perfect.

  We were up pre-dawn and climbing higher every day. In 10 days we had Camp 1 and 2 ready, with plans to skip 3. Weather reports were good. Gear was packed, food in place, no oxygen to worry about. It is Shishipangma after all, the lowest of the 8,000rs, where extra air…