TIL that Aleister Crowley, who helped pioneer attempts on K2 and Kanchenjunga, was also an English occultist who called himself “The Beast 666,” founded his own religion, studied yoga in India, allegedly worked as a spy, played chess, wrote poetry, and ran a sex-and-magic commune in Sicily as well.

Aleister Crowley was a multifaceted British figure known for mountaineering, occultism, and controversial lifestyle.

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