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“Because of what I did and where I came from, people just assumed I'd climbed every mountain in my country.”

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I genuinely feel like, when people climb K2, it's everywhere in the news, everybody covers it.

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When people are in stressful situations, they do shout.

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My father was a Gurkha, as well as my brothers, and I appreciated the attitude I saw coming from them after they joined. The…

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Sherpa were always involved with the setting of the lines, but they never got the platform to tell any story, I think. And so…

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You definitely need a really decent bomb-proof summit suit, because that's what you wear in these extreme conditions and at extreme altitude.

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We all have fear in life. I don't let that fear control me. I control it, manage it, use it as a positive.

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The hardest climb for me was Kangchenjunga, at 28,169 feet the world's third-highest mountain. The first thing that made this summit difficult was the…

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Rescuing people from 8,450 meters is way harder than climbing a mountain.

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There were no good schools in my village. So my family moved so that my siblings and I would get a better education.

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I was head of the Cold Weather Warfare unit within the Special Boat Service. My job was to do extreme climbs, learn about new…

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I summited four mountains - Kangchenjunga, Makalu, Broad Peak and Gasherbrum I - in one push. I didn't camp anywhere. Just went boom, summit,…

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I was born in Nepal, I grew up in the Gurkhas, and I became a man in the SBS.

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