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The Story of ‘Historical Badass’ Ned Gillette | From Skiing Earth’s Highest Summits to Being Shot to Death in Pakistan

August 1998, deep in the northern Pakistani controlled sector of Kashmir, Ned Gillette and his wife Olympic skier Suzy Patterson set out with the hopes of accomplishing the “trek along the flanks of Nanga Parbat (at 25,660 feet, the world’s 10th-highest mountain) and then making their way across a 16,000-foot pass at the edge of the Chogo Lungma.” An ambitious journey to say the least, however Gillette and his wife Patterson were accustomed to such adventures in their time, skiing, sailing, and climbing all over the globe. […]

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Jesse Cassidy | May 24, 2021
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