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By Walker Loetscher Few mountaineers ever summit Mount Everest, and those who do often have some combination of fortune and finance — rather than skill — to thank for it. Far, far fewer reach all 14 of the world’s tallest mountains, which are scattered throughout the Himalayan and Karakoram ranges in China, Tibet, Pakistan and Nepal. They’re the only peaks in the world that climb above 8,000 meters, and scaling them in aggregate is regarded as one of the sport’s greatest and most dangerous achievements. In 2019, Nepali mountaineerNirmal “Nims” Purja and his team set out on what he called the P…