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Question
What did Hillary do with his wet boots?
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Solution
Hillary cooked his wet boots over the fierce flame of the Primus and managed to soften them.
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neighbour Makalu, unexplored and
unclimbed. Far away across the clouds,
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on the horizon. To the west, we could
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