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Imagine a night at 8300 meters… without a sleeping bag and in total darkness. For Maurice and Liliane Barrard, the legendary “world’s highest couple,” this extreme decision on the slopes of K2 was not a mistake, but part of a cold strategy. In the summer of 1986, they bet on speed and light weight, boldly challenging the “death zone” and the laws of human physiology. But how did this attempt to rewrite the main rules of survival turn out for the elite of world mountaineering in a place where the air is thin to the limit?
