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Epics 11-Mar-2004 At 1:14:39 PM Steve M

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West Face of the three sister was going to be closed the next weekend so three of my friends and I were at the base at around 6am to get on before the masses. We were the second group on behind two dads and four kids. We thought that was pretty bad but after two hours of pain waiting for them we reached the halfway leadge to find 30 people in tour groups had traversed in and were on the next pitch. After 4 hours waiting on the ledge we finally got on the next pitch only to arrive in a cave with 20 people (!) already in it. The next pitch was mayhem three ropes going up the one route each party trying to find a line away from other. We finally summited at 7:30 in pitch black nearly 14 hours after starting. We had climbed about three hours of that 14.