Toni: Gora Mamay, Russia
by JOHN CLARY DAVIES
Oct 02, 2017
2 minutes
I was following a Russian woman toward a couloir deep in the backcountry somewhere in the middle of her country. I barely knew her, but she seemed good-natured. Toni was a schoolteacher in her 30s from Irkutsk who spoke conversational English with a British accent. Midway into the two-hour, 2,000-foot climb, I paused and wiped sweat from my brow as
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