One of the heroes of last summer’s disaster on K2, Pemba Gyalje helped rescue two stricken climbers on the upper mountain. The Sowles Award is a rarely given AAC award that honors mountaineers who go to the assistance of fellow climbers despite great personal risk or the cost of their own objectives
Union of Asian Alpine Associations
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