Rows of brass butter lamps burning with small yellow flames in a dark temple interior.

Butter lamps burning at a Buddhist temple in Kathmandu, Nepal

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I am not aware of the significance of the moment, nor do I feel anything of victory joy, I don't even feel like a winner. I'm just glad that I'm up there and that all these exertions have come to an end for the time being.
Hermann Buhl, on reaching the summit of Nanga Parbat
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