Sixty-four years later, writer Matthew Power and photographer Bobby Model retrace one of climbing's most extraordinary escapades. Photograph by Bobby Model
Alex Fiksman, our guide, is hacking his way up through a ring of Africanrose wood with a panga, the African machete. This misty, Tolkienesque landscape was really overgrown, so we had to improvise a lot. —Contributing Editor Matthew Power
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