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Lane Christenson and Dalton Borton of the U.S. have called off their attempt to climb Alaska’s Mt. McKinley in winter just two days after being dropped on the ice.<\/p>\n

The pair set off<\/a> from the base of Heartbreak Hill up the Kahiltna Glacier yesterday, fighting high winds, their team told the Alpymon<\/em> blog. At the end of the day, they dug a snow cave to shelter from the wind.<\/p>\n

At around 4 pm, the wind rose suddenly to nearly 145kph, with a temperature of -16\u00baC. The forecast confirmed that conditions would remain bad for several days, so the pair decided to abort the expedition.<\/p>\n

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A bush plane dropped the climbers on the shadowed Kahiltna Glacier on Wednesday. Photo: Talkeetna Air<\/p><\/div>\n

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They have called for a pickup, but the air taxi service needs to wait for better conditions for a safe flight. Meanwhile, Christenson and Borton have pitched their tent and sheltered it from the high winds with a wall of snow and are now in waiting mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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