Surgery complete. Six of Konstantin Smirnov's fingers are gone. He believes the man whose job was to bring him down Makalu left him to die in the death zone. Today, for the first time, he tells the whole story — and he is not asking for your sympathy.

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On August 26th, the Himalaya came apart. The disaster began high along the Lende Khola near the Nepal Tibet border, then poured south into the Trishuli River system heading downstream toward the lower valleys of central Nepal. A wall of water and debris. Communities were destroyed. Roads and bridges disappeared. Hydropower facilities were overwhelmed and destroyed and people disappeared with them.

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CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS FOR FLOOD RELIEF

IFRC / Nepal Red Cross Society:
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After the Broad Peak avalanche that took ten lives, the municipality where Nirmal Purja was born proposed renaming Annapurna I in his honor, to Nimsdai Annapurna. In this video I trace the epic of the mountain itself — the 1950 French first ascent and the cost it took from Maurice Herzog — and the right way to honor Nimsdai without un-naming a goddess.

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RESOURCES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

Nims Purja, the Broad Peak Avalanche, and the Questions No One Wants to Ask:
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NEWS FLASH: Nimsdai's Troubles HEAT UP & 2024 Season Recap:
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