{"id":62955,"date":"2024-05-31T09:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/for-women-climbers-dangers-go-beyond-avalanches-and-storms\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T09:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T09:04:04","slug":"for-women-climbers-dangers-go-beyond-avalanches-and-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/31\/for-women-climbers-dangers-go-beyond-avalanches-and-storms\/","title":{"rendered":"For Women Climbers, Dangers Go Beyond Avalanches and Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a memoir published in December, the professional mountaineer and former Miss Finland Lotta Hintsa briefly described an upsetting incident with a \u201cvery famous male climber\u201d whom she didn\u2019t name.<\/p>\n

During a March 2023 business discussion in the man\u2019s hotel suite in Kathmandu, Nepal, he \u201ckissed Lotta completely without warning,\u201d Ms. Hintsa and her co-author wrote in the Finnish-language book, \u201cThe Mountains of My Life 2.\u201d \u201cThe situation was absurd, unreal and unpleasant.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in interviews with The New York Times, Ms. Hintsa said her experience was more disturbing than she had described in the book. And her story highlights a concern that women in the climbing world are starting to talk about more openly.<\/p>\n

Ms. Hintsa said the man was Nirmal Purja, whose successful 2019 quest to climb all 14 of the world\u2019s 8,000-meter peaks in record time was chronicled in a popular Netflix documentary. She said he led her to the bedroom, pulled off her shirt, trekking shorts and underwear and tried to remove her bra. She said she repeatedly told him no and offered excuses to get him to stop without agitating him. The episode ended with him masturbating next to her, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n