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>only man alive who first-ascended an 8000-meter peak
>only man in history aside from legendary mountaineer Hermann Buhl to have first-ascended TWO 8000-meter peaks (Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri)
>denounces tourism industry and consumerist-oriented alpinism
>denounces speed ascents and the insatiable thirst to establish unimaginative mountaineering records
>denounces sponsoring and overly commercial exploitation of the outdoors
>explorer at heart; doesn't even think of mountaineering as a sport
>was best friends with fabled mountaineer Hermann Buhl and was present when the latter famously perished on Bride Peak
>pioneered alpine style on Himalayan giants which subsequently served as an inspiration for Reinhold Messner's later exploits.
This unbelievably based mountaineering legend is the last of his kind and the only living remnant of the golden age of alpinism.
>only man in history aside from legendary mountaineer Hermann Buhl to have first-ascended TWO 8000-meter peaks (Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri)
>denounces tourism industry and consumerist-oriented alpinism
>denounces speed ascents and the insatiable thirst to establish unimaginative mountaineering records
>denounces sponsoring and overly commercial exploitation of the outdoors
>explorer at heart; doesn't even think of mountaineering as a sport
>was best friends with fabled mountaineer Hermann Buhl and was present when the latter famously perished on Bride Peak
>pioneered alpine style on Himalayan giants which subsequently served as an inspiration for Reinhold Messner's later exploits.
This unbelievably based mountaineering legend is the last of his kind and the only living remnant of the golden age of alpinism.
