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“Poverty is not a state of mind, and escaping concentrated and generational hardship is an unimaginable mountain to climb.”

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“I hear you, but it's not the process you should focus on; it's the joy you will feel after you go through the process.”

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Normally, it's more efficient to climb fast.

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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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