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When news broke that Nirmal Purja had lost his life in the Karakoram, the world mourned one of its greatest mountaineers. The mountains, one imagines, remained unmoved. They have witnessed too many triumphs and too many tragedies to distinguish between them. Yet Purja’s untimely death is more than the loss of an extraordinary climber. ItContinue reading “Nirmal Purja: A Mountain’s Measure”