bikemax: uptownsteiner: First ascent of the Matterhorn, 1865. Up and down.  4 men died on the descent, when they fell down a rock face, one of the climbers was forced to cut the rope leaving the four men falling to their death. Allegedly the four men on that rope told the climber to do it, believing it would save the rest of the climbers
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bikemax: uptownsteiner: First ascent of the Matterhorn, 1865. Up and down.  4 men died on the descent, when they fell down a rock face, one of the climbers was forced to cut the rope leaving the four men falling to their death. Allegedly the four men on that rope told the climber to do it, believing it would save the rest of the climbers
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First ascent of the Matterhorn, 1865. Up and down. 

4 men died on the descent, when they fell down a rock face, one of the climbers was forced to cut the rope leaving the four men falling to their death. Allegedly the four men on that rope told the climber to do it, believing it would save the rest of the climbers

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