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On July 8, 2016, I went on an expedition to Stok Kangri in Ladakh, a mountain on the Stok Range of the Himalayas measuring 6153 meters.  I started from the base camp commenced at 4:30 a.m., and with the weather on my side, everything was seemingly going according to plan.  However, just a few hundred meters before the summit, I saw a fellow climber falling 15-20 meters off a cliff.  Without my binoculars, I would have probably never seen him fall. I managed to spot him and rushed to his aid. His forehead was cut and bleeding badly, but he was fortunate enough not to have suffered any major fractures. His head had probably hit a rock. There were cuts on his eyebrows, lips, hands and the legs as well.   He (Utsav) was on his way down to the base camp when he fell.  I was carrying a fully-equipped first aid kit and allegedly took out pretty much everything I had to stop the bleeding. I even cut Utsav's hair a little bit to clean the wound and cover it with a bandage. We were perched a

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