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tools were better than one. By putting a hammerhead rather than an adze on an axe, you created a multi-purpose tool. Al ably demonstrated this
point by going up the wall and across the ceiling, using his ice tools and new twelve-point Grivel crampons to good effect. Of course, everyone else
then wanted a go. The revolutionary new system was a hit. There wasn't much plaster left anywhere on the walls or ceiling by midnight but the
slumbering ice heroes were too far gone to feel the lumps of plaster in their sleeping bags. The university caretaker arrived next morning and
threw them all out.
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