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Ayan Omar

Renowned mountaineer stripped of two Guinness World Records after claim he was short of summit

A legendary mountaineer has been stripped of his two Guinness World records, after an amateur cartographer claimed he was five metres short from the peak of the mountain he climbed in 1985.

Reinhold Messner, 79, known as one of the greatest climbers of all time, said cartographer Eberhard Jurgalski was “clueless” and “not an expert.”

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