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Mark Synnott is a twenty-five-year member of the North Face Global Athlete Team, an internationally certified mountain guide and a trainer for the Pararescuemen of the United States Air Force. A frequent contributor to National Geographic magazine, he is the author of The Impossible Climb and The Third Pole. He lives in the Mt. Washington Valley of New Hampshire.
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