Toni Kurz and the Insanity of Climbing Mountains - LessWrong

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x Toni Kurz and the Insanity of Climbing Mountains — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2022 Death History World Modeling Curated 296 Toni Kurz and the Insanity of Climbing Mountains by GeneSmith 3rd Jul 2022 13 min read 73 296 This post has been recorded as part of the LessWrong Curated Podcast, and can be listened to on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , and Libsyn . Content warning: death I've been on a YouTube binge lately. My current favorite genre is disaster stories about mountain climbing. The death statistics for some of these mountains, especially ones in the Himalayas are truly insane. To give an

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