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Oxygen is ‘the doping’ of mountaineering, says Urubko

by Dave Makichuk January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

The great alpinist Denis Urubko has waded into the supplemental oxygen debate that has clouded the winter climb at K2. And the Russian-Polish mountaineer, who became the 15th person to climb all 14 8000ers without the use of supplementary oxygen, plus two winter peaks — Makalu in 2009 and Gasherbrum II in 2011 — is kicking ass. In a […]

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