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Great reading, the thing that struck me was how similar the experience was 70-odd years later, somehow you would think back then you wouldn't have the snake of headtorches ahead of you and so on.. But the descriptions of the early start, struggling to get the breakfast down and forgetting all that once you're underway and the sun comes up, brilliant when I've not been able to get out to the alps this year.