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It getting too dark to ascend or descend, Mehdi and Bonatti had been compelled to overnight devoid of shelter higher than 8,000 metres (26,000 ft), leaving the oxygen tanks guiding as asked for after they descended. Bonatti and Mehdi survived, but Mehdi was hospitalised for months and experienced to get his toes amputated thanks to frostbite. Effo