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On October 9, 1983 Jay Cassell, and fellow Americans Dan Reid and George Lowe stood atop Mount Everest their team having done what no one else had ever done. They had climbed Everest via the Eastern (or Kangshung) Face. The climb had take five and a half weeks following the path of an unsuccessful 1981 attempt by many of the same team members. This included 28 days to climb a 3,500 foot wall of crumbling rock and ice which became known as Lowe's Buttress. The expedition's triumphant summiting of six Americans in total was tempered by the falling deaths of two Japanese climbers and a sherpa who had just climbed up from the Nepalese side of the mountain. The sherpa fell to his death tumbling down the mountain directly past teammate Lou Reichardt.
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