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Nearly every climber I met knew some climber who had died, and all had had close calls themselves.
For an amateur climber, I recommend the Northwest route: various companies organise a 21-day trip (which includes time to acclimatise).
Bob Dowling of Rowayton, Conn., recognized its unusual quality but would prefer The Times to spend its efforts on meatier topics: As a skier and mountain climber I care a lot about avalanches.
A Spanish climber I spoke to later died on Gasherbrum II, and a South Korean woman I interviewed in Islamabad for my book died a week or so later on another mountain, Nanga Parbat.
"I'm not a climber, I'm an adventurer," he said.
As a rock climber, I'm around a one or two.
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Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.
Not if the climbers I was with were anything to go by: Ian, Mary, Nick, Richard, Steve, a hundred years of mountain experience between them, grounded, extremely fit and savvy.
Beside the climbers, I got to know the other group of people traveling with us — our local Balti porters, drawn from the mud-brick shacks in the Karakoram foothills.
As a climbing partner of his wrote to me once, in a dismissal of the skeptics, "Climbers I find are assholes at the end of the day!" On a visit to New York a few years ago (he ran in the marathon and then joined me for a first ascent of One World Trade Center, via the stairwell route), he said that his new mantra was "Slow down and stay alive".
Even the climbers I had featured on the website were getting fan mail.
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