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Dogonomba Climbed for the First Time, Again

In late spring, a team from New Zealand summited Dogonomba (5962m), a day's travel from Chengdu and north of the impressive Minya Konka (7556m), in China's Daxue Shan mountain range. Over the course of four days, Tim Church and Yvonne Pflueger made--what they believed was--its first ascent. It wasn't until the climbers succeeded and returned to New Zealand that they discovered their ascent was not, in fact, Dogonomba's first summit. Research revealed that an American guide had soloed the peak in late 2008