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in a solo effort on 27 September 1971, after he had second-ascended the
Carstensz Pyramid with his client Sergio Bigarella earlier in the week. A year later Leo Murray, Jack Baines, and Dick Isherwood climbed both peaks of Ngga Pulu and found the peg that Meisner had left behind on top of the North
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from the SE peak of Ngga Pulu, this summit is now the highest point of the north ridge of Mount
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