MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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lucky seven!
By ocean-kat on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 4:22pm |After six failed attempts to commit suicide by mountain Tomasz “Tomek” Mackiewicz achieved his long sought goal and died on Nanga Parbat. Nanga Parbat has been killing European climbers since the West discovered it in the late 19th century. The locals in North Pakistan call it diamir, or “huge mountain.” But the mountaineering community has another name for it: Killer Mountain.
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