A "nasty fluted overhung snowy grave" thwarted British alpinists
Nick Bullock and
Kenton Cool on their attempt to climb the North Face of
Kalanka (6,931 m) in the Garhwal region of India. Bullock said on confronting this feature,
"I have no idea how to climb this."
Five times Everest summiteer Kenton Cool writes (21.09.07),
"I'm sitting in Joshimath with Nick thinking over what may have been.
I suppose it is hard to ask for success all the time but its always disappointing when it's not the way you dream.
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