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The moment at which
                                                                                                       the safety rope linking
                                                                                                   Edward Whymper’s group of
                                                                                                    climbers snapped, sending
                                                                                                      four of the men hurtling
                                                                                                    to their deaths, is depicted
                                                                                                        in Gustave Doré’s s
                                                                                                         engraving of 1865
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