The mid-1970s were a watershed moment in alpinism. This was the time when the mountaineering community began to move away from big expedition style climbs and adopted lightweight alpine style techniques. Certainly the Messner-Haebler route on Hidden Peak was important, as was the Tasker-Renshaw route on Dunagiri, however in many ways the purist and certainly the coldest was the Dougal Haston-Doug Scott line on the South Face of Denali in 1976.
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