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I hacked my axes into snow which gave way like cotton wool. With neither axe taking any weight I pushed up on my feet and delicately stepped forward up the gully. Earlier, at the foot of Curved Ridge, we found ourselves with quite a few other groups of climbers. Someone had the brain-wave to climb D-Gully and then traverse right, onto the ridge,...