A First Ascent for History

Recently Pete Athans led a National Geographic team on a first ascent in Nepal.  What is unique about this is they were climbing to an ancient set of ruins to recover ancient manuscripts.  At one point setting three foot deep anchors only to watch them crumble.  (Via National Geographic Adventure) http://ngadventure.typepad.com/blog/2009/11/relics-recovered-a-pair-of-worldclass-climbers-goes-where-archaeologists-cant.html