Brave Or Mad Fingerless Climber

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Well, maybe a slight exaggeration, he does actually have one useable finger, which,incredibly he is using to reach the summit of Everest. Nobukazu Kuriki, has already lost 9 of his fingers to Frostbite in a previous climbing attempt, and this year is the only climber out on that usually popular slope, probably something to do with the recent earthquake that hit the area. This will be his fifth attempt to reach the summit in six years, but never before with such a handicap...which doesn't seem quite the right phrase, for a man with less than ten fingers, to help him on his way. Mr Kuriki is following the same route that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay used, in 1953, becoming the first to reach the summit.