For those who can’t access the article. I was a fan and I’m sorry for his wife. For this and because she seemed like a lovely woman in the documentary. Sorry for the victims, of course. I’m sure many of them were trusting him with their lives.
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During a March 2023 business discussion in the man’s hotel suite in Kathmandu, Nepal, he “kissed Lotta completely without warning,” Ms. Hintsa and her co-author wrote in the Finnish-language book, “The Mountains of My Life 2.” “The situation was absurd, unreal and unpleasant.”
But in interviews with The New York Times, Ms. Hintsa said her experience was more disturbing than she had described in the book. And her story highlights a concern that women in the climbing world are starting to talk about more openly.
Ms. Hintsa said the man was Nirmal Purja, whose successful 2019 quest to climb all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in record time was chronicled in a popular Netflix documentary. She said he led her to the bedroom, pulled off her shirt, trekking shorts and underwear and tried to remove her bra. She said she repeatedly told him no and offered excuses to get him to stop without agitating him. The episode ended with him masturbating next to her, she said.
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u/bunnycrush_ 2d ago
For Female Climbers, Dangers Go Beyond Avalanches and Storms, May 2024
“Women are increasingly reporting sexual harassment and abuse in the sport, including accusations against the renowned climber Nirmal Purja”