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'Just doing my job': Nepali climber sets record by climbing 14 highest peaks twice

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Summiting the world's 8,000-metre mountains is the ultimate bucket list dream for ambitious climbers, a feat managed by fewer than 50 people, and Sanu Sherpa is the first to do it twice.

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