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A week after four died on Mount Everest, two climbers from Golden have abandoned their goal to climb the mountain’s West Ridge because conditions on the mountain are so dangerous.
Charley Mace and Jake Norton were attempting to re-trace the steps of Americans Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, who pioneered a new route on the West Ridge in 1963. Less snow on the mountain than usual this year has created unusually hazardous conditions.
“Conditions in general were very problematic, blue ice instead of cruiser neve (hardened snow) and too much rock fall from the get go,” Mace said in an email.
