Last week was one of those weeks when a mountaineering story is so big that it makes it into the popular press. On the face of it, it was a straightforward story of someone smashing a record to smithereens. But if you dig a little deeper, there is another side to it.
Read moreNirmal Purja’s ascent of all fourteen 8,000m peaks: why is it controversial?
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