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Im 19. Jahrhundert bewältigten Bergsteiger in Nagelschuhen 40 bis 50 Grad steile Eisflanken am Montblanc und den benachbarten Felsnadeln, den Aiguilles, indem sie mit plumpen, schweren Eispickeln in mühsamer Arbeit lange Stufenreihen und Griffe in den Hang schlugen.
By the nineteenth century, climbers shod in hobnailed boots were dispatching ice faces as steep as forty or fifty degrees on Mont Blanc and the neighboring Aiguilles by laboriously hewing long lines of steps and handholds up the slopes with crude, heavy ice axes.
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