They stopped for an hour to reset the fixed ropes.
He took no oxygen, and avoided using fixed ropes.
"For the first time since the late 1990s there were fixed ropes on all three mountains.
They climbed a hundred and fifty feet to the left of the fixed ropes.
When the fixed ropes were swept away by falling ice, some climbers were unable to cope — with deadly results.
At the same time Sherpas were laying fixed ropes for guided climbers to use on their way to the summit.
We needed fixed ropes to negotiate exposed rocks, then had to avoid crevasses on the Margherita Glacier.
Climbers now use fixed ropes to ascend this section, but Hillary and Tenzing had only ice-climbing equipment.
He did this by rigging up a kind of mountain-climbing harness and ascending, Spider-Man fashion, between two fixed ropes.
Article 8 talks about climbing style and ends with a powerful declaration: "Good style on big mountains implies not using fixed ropes, performance enhancing drugs, or bottled oxygen".
Just a few hundred yards below the summit, as climbers were descending on the fixed ropes down the Bottleneck, an ice ledge above them snapped.
