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The Mountain Rarely Tests You at Your Freshest
Most people train to reach the top. Mountains demand more than that. A guide to understanding reserve capacity and why it's the ultimate safety metric.

The Mountains Keep Sending the Right People
Buran Pass, Chandranahan, and the Strangers Who Made It Real

Six Thousand Metres and a Porter Who Carried Me
September 2018. Gangotri to Badrinath via Kalindikhal pass at 6000m. I got AMS, lost my hiking stick, and a porter carried me on his shoulders. This is that trip.
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