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It turned out that Kropp had been fooled by his Slovenian colleagues who had decided to leave him off their climbing plans.

Kropp settled instead to join with David Sharman, who hoped to become the first Englishman to come down alive from the top.

During the Slovenians ' summit bid, a violent storm arose and stranded them at high altitude.

Kropp gave himself up to save those he could.

A week after this incident he stuck with his British colleague, but Sharman fell, had a fractured leg and went back down.

Kropp climbed on and reached the peak solo, without bottled oxygen.

On the way down another storm on the mountain marooned Kropp at 8000 meters above sea level.

Kropp escaped later to base camp.