How 8 women climbers died one by one on peak linen climbing.

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45 years ago, eight Soviet women climbers were pinned on top of a high mountain in the USSR in the worst storm in 25 years.
It was June 1974.
Though the Watergate affair overshadowed the Moscow Summit between President Richard Nixon and his Soviet Union counterpart, Leonid Brezhnev, the Cold War was on the verge of ending.
Just a month later, thousands of miles away in Central Asia, close to the Himalayas in the shadow of Peak Lenin, another meeting took place between an American and a Russian.
Just a month later, another meeting between an American and a Russian took place, but this time it was thousands of miles away, in Central Asia, among the Himalayas, under the shadow of Peak Lenin.
In 1974, 170 climbers from a number of countries occupied a huge mountaineering camp in the southern part of the Soviet Union, on the border of what is now Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. They were all camping in the Pamir Mountains, a range with some of the world's highest mountains.
Peak Lenin the stage of our show today. 7,134 meter or 23,406 feet in height. Second-highest Mountain of the country. Neither it is considered too steep nor too technical. But definitely it is high and succumbs to severe weather.
A bend in the High Pamirs Mountain range also known as the roof of the world, is where Molly Higgins first saw Elvira Shatayeva. An Outward-Bound instructor traveling the Colorado Rockies, living out of a faded white sedan, Higgins had been asked to a month-long international mountaineering gathering hosted by the Russians. Nineteen Americans, including two women, attended as part of the 1974 American Pamirs-USSR Expedition. Higgins was 24 and she was the last-minute invitee for the expeditions.
Once in the expedition, she was with a crew carrying loads up to Camp II then Crevasse Camp and then towards Krylenko Pass on the shoulder of Peak Lenin. While moving up Molly Higgins heard a creaking sound and in the next moment an avalanche roared overhead, launching off the top of an ice tower above the camp. The avalanche darkened the air, scattered gear, and partially buried one person, with at least two others jumping into the pit nearby to escape. 4 among the crew had descended earlier to resupply, and for hours those in both groups dreaded that the others had died. But this was not the time for their souls to leave their body. They all had survived, though in the lower group Allen Steck, a pioneering climber from Berkeley, California, was buried up to his neck. The two groups joyfully reunited at Camp 1, on the Krylenko moraine, and retreated to a base camp in an alpine meadow.
The retreat after the avalanche was a tough challenge again. Higgins along with her group came down through the huge boulders, around a corner, and there, she saw this absolutely gorgeous, bright-blue-eyed, muscular, hot girl on a boulder ordering the four Russian guys around her. This woman was in her mid-30s.

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