How To Use Nanga Parbat In A Sentence
- A photo of Reinhold Messner's feet minus seven toes lost to frostbite during a climb of Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas (his brother also died on the climb) raises the question of whether alpinism can actually be called a real sport at all, assuming sport to be a game in which losing doesn't necessarily equal death or disfigurement. Why Climb a Mountain?
- Uprising from this blue interminable distance, the first crumplings of the foothills showed like purple velvet, and from these again the giant Himalayas -- the "home of the greater gods" -- sprang aloft, in a medley of lovely lines and hues, till they reached the uttermost north where the hoar head of Nanga Parbat soared twenty-five thousand feet into the blue. The Great Amulet
