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The Ascent of F6
poetic drama by Auden and Isherwood
The Ascent of F6, poetic drama by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, published in 1936 and performed in 1937.
F6 is an unconquered mountain in the Himalayan range. An experienced and renowned climber named Michael Ransom leads an expedition of fellow Britons up the slope of F6 in competition with a group of climbers from a different (unnamed) country. En route, all Ransom’s climbers perish; Ransom dies when he reaches the peak, after realizing that his accession to other people’s ambitions has contributed to his destruction.
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