Outdoor Research
Mar 17, 2020
3 minutes
James McCormack
t was the year 1980, and Ron Gregg was climbing Alaska’s Denali. Actually, to be more precise, he was not climbing Denali; rather, he was on Muldrow Glacier on the flanks of North America’s highest peak waiting for his partner Ernie Shiwanov to be airlifted to safety. Shiwanov was suffering from frostbite. The pair had earlier been climbing higher on the mountain, and had stayed in open bivouac on a night when the temps dropped to nearly -30°C. To make matters worse, Shiwanov’s supergaiters
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