He climbed into the death zone with a hangover, no sleep, and a man dying in his arms—and still kept going. Not to summit. But to save. The mountain was never the hardest part. Being human was. I’ve never stood on top of a Himalayan peak. Not one of the giants, at least. But I have walked paths where the air is thin, the fatigue is real, and you start to meet the quieter voices inside your own head—the ones that ask, "Why the hell are you doing this?" Which is why Nimsdai Purja’s story didn’t just move me. It rearranged something …
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