“All I wanted was a status symbol. What I got was a $31,000 lesson in the downside of payment apps.”
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Death On The Savage Mountain: What Really Happened On K2, And Why 100 Climbers Stepped Over A Dying Man On Their Way To The Summit
“They would find him upside down that night, dangling at 27,000 feet, hanging above an abyss, his face buried in the snow.”
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The Case of the Lego Bandit
“Playing with Star Wars Lego bricks made them famous. Then a mysterious crime drove them apart.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, our editors recommend longreads by Kelsey Vlamis, Brian Feldman, Skip Hollandsworth, Tessa Somberg, and Alison Espach.