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ButterflyEffect  ·  1459 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: His tale of crossing Antarctica was riveting. But how much was fiction?

You put in many more words what I was going to respond with: “he’s a fucking asshole and, if you can believe it, this article is being incredibly generous to him”.

Part of the reason I posted this is the dude has been on K2 for a while now attempting a winter summit. I would’ve been super pissed if he was the first person in recorded human history to pull off that mountain in winter.

Instead, I am beyond thrilled to report that nine(?) sherpas (your brown folks in the above comment) were the ones to pull it off.