Ann Wroe
speaker
865 appearances
15 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 21 Aug
Ann Wroe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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had been quite a bit more than seven years.
Critics were very scathing about his methods.
For a start, he used bottled oxygen a good deal.
And they thought that proper high mountain climbing should be done without additional oxygen.
He also used fixed ropes.
They thought there should be more free climbing.
And he used helicopters to get from one base camp to another.
But Nirma Burja simply brushed off all this criticism.
He said that if he didn't take bottled oxygen, then the many people he discovered who'd been abandoned by their parties and left to die because their oxygen had run out.
Could not be rescued.
He rescued many of them.
And it was his army ethos that made him feel he couldn't possibly leave any person to die alone on the mountain.
He also
wanted to make it quite clear that he too could do without bottled oxygen.
He didn't need it at all, and he did his famous fourteen peak climb without it.
And also many, many other claims.
Often his team members would want some, but he would do without it deliberately to confound his critics.
When people said too that this project was all about his ego, he would rebuff them and say no it was not about him, not about his name.
It was telling everybody that whatever mountains were being obstacles in their way, they could conquer them.
There was no limit to what they could do if they set their minds to it.
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