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first ascent of Eiffel Peak. In 1955 he went with Joseph Murphy to
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surface photography team on its mission to Mars in 1976. He is quoted as commenting on the first pictures: "This is just an incredible scene. It truly is. Nothing before or after can compare. It is transparent, brilliant, boundless. An explorer would understand. We have stood on the surface of Mars."
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Tim Mutch was an explorer in the traditional sense as a mountain climber and in a modern sense as a planetary scientist. He began mountain climbing in the 1950s in the Tetons and subsequently
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