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First ascent 1953: Hermann Buhl on Nanga Parbat
AWhen Hermann Buhl stood on the summit of Nanga Parbat on the evening of July 3, 1953, he had a problem. He had completed the summit stage alone. Nobody was there who could have photographed the Austrian in the minutes of this triumph; Selfies were not invented until many decades later. Buhl therefore rammed his…