Climbing legend Peter Croft was the first to do it in under 24 hours, ... Somewhere on the southwest face of Clyde Minaret, a Class 4 scramble up the crown jewel of the range, I fell.

“Had a de luxe trip up with ice pick,” he’d written, dating the climb to July 31. ... One by one, Clyde took on each Minaret, looking particularly for spots where a fall seemed likely.