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Winter 8000: Climbing the World's Highest Mountains in the Coldest Season BOTY_2025 Why cultivating a rugged yetNo one says that climbing 8000 meter peaks is ever easy, but tackling these mountains in winter takes the challenge to a whole new level: temperatures of 40 degrees are the norm, the winds seem to never let up, and, due to the low barometric pressure, there is even less oxygen in the air than in other seasons. Climber Voytek Kurtyka characterizes such expeditions as the "art of suffering." What pushes men and women to subject themselves to such