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Word: kangchenjunga (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After climbing three more, Kangchenjunga (28,169 ft.), Gasherbrum II (26,361 ft.) and Broad Peak (26,401 ft.), it seemed that he had exhausted the possibilities. Or had he? "It was in 1982," he says, "after my hat trick, after the first time I was able to climb three mountains in one season, that I understood it was easy, or at least it was possible, for one human being to climb all the highest mountains in the world, all 14 eight- thousanders, in a lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinhold Messner: Hail to the Mountain King! | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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