THE 2-MINUTE RULE FOR ALGERIAN BLEND

It remaining way too dark to ascend or descend, Mehdi and Bonatti have been pressured to overnight without the need of shelter earlier mentioned eight,000 metres (26,000 ft), leaving the oxygen tanks guiding as requested whenever they descended. Bonatti and Mehdi survived, but Mehdi was hospitalised for months and had to acquire his toes amputated