🇦🇺 Australia 2d ago · Lucy Shepherd

A moment that changed me: I was desperate to get off the mountain – and that gut instinct saved my life

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A moment that changed me: I was desperate to get off the mountain – and that gut instinct saved my life
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From the moment I started climbing the 7,000-metre peaks of the Pamir mountains in Tajikistan, something felt off. What followed will stay with me for everI didn’t have a reason for my terrible feeling of dread – and that was part of the problem. From the moment I arrived in Tajikistan with my boyfriend, Tim, to climb two 7,000-metre (23,000ft) peaks, something felt off. It wasn’t a fear I could name: it was more like a constant, unnerving low hum.A helicopter dropped us off – landing on a jagge

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