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\nPaul Schweizer and Simon Yates\u00a0\u00a0recently made the first ascent of the South West Spur of Good Neighbor Peak (4,850m), Mt Vancouver’s South Summit, at the border between Alaska and Yukon.
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\nThe pair had originally planned to attempt the nearby West Ridge of Mt Hubbard but\u00a0they discovered it had already been climbed so thanks to the area experienced Jack Tackle they found an alternative line on Mount Vancouver.
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\nAfter 5 days and 2400 meters \u00a0of climbing, they reached the summit in perfect weather. Sections of the route had involved Scottish V ice and Scottish 6 mixed, and an overall grade of ED was thought appropriate.
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\nFor Yates and Schweizer this is second major success in the region. In 2005 they climbed a new route on the 1,800m West Face of Alverstone (4,439m), making a complex and committing descent to the north.
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\nSimon Yates is a successful british alpinist; he \u00a0first became known as \u201cthe man who cut the rope\u201d holding Joe Simpson during a disastrous descent from Peru’s Siula Grande in 1985, a story immortalised in the BAFTA award winning film \u2018Touching the Void\u2019.
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