With selfies, the world turns the camera on itself

WASHINGTON: Stuck on a ledge halfway up a 3,000ft (1,000m) cliff in Oman, his climbing rope sliced in two by sharp rocks, Jimmy Chin did what anyone else would have done in his predicament. 

He took a selfie. 

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