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Huge New Ice Route in Nepal - Ines Papert and Cory Richards have climbed a new route on the historic, 1,200-meter north face of Kwangde in Nepal. The German-American duo summited 6,093-meter Kwangde Shar in a four-and-a-half-day round trip, despite lean ice conditions in the Khumbu.