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Article: THIS EUROPE: Climber from the Low Countries denies telling tall story
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 6, 2003
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A NASTY rumour has been doing the rounds among the burgeoning
mountaineering community of the Netherlands.
Ronald Naar, the most successful mountaineer Europe's flattest
country has known to date and who has conquered every big peak,
including Everest, lied about his ascent of the Himalayan peak Nanga
Parbat in 1981, if two of his fellow expedition members and ex-
friends are to be believed.
Few sporting feats fire the Dutch - two thirds of whom live on
land below sea level - quite like mountaineering prowess. Ronald
Naar's solo scaling of the 8,125m mountain in Pakistan at the age of
26 was lauded as one of the greatest sporting achievements on record.
After almost dying in the effort - ...