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uh oh the shit about to hit the fan...

“If client cannot climb Everest without big help from guide,” Boukreev told me, “this client should not be on Everest. Otherwise there can be big problems up high.”

finally someone with a sane position

I’d never experienced anything like it: crushing pain between my temples—pain so severe that it was accompanied by shuddering waves of nausea and made it impossible for me to speak in coherent sentences.

AMS sounds just lovely. the fact that there are people who put themselves through this by choice will never stop being fascinating to me.

I passed a large four-color poster titled “Himalayan Trilogy,” depicting Everest, K2, and Lhotse—the planet’s highest, second-highest, and fourth-highest mountains, respectively.

ur gonna tell me that the second highest peak in the world is just called K2???

Why did veteran Himalayan guides keep moving upwards, ushering a gaggle of relatively inexperienced amateurs - each of whom had paid as much as $65,000 to be taken safely up Everest - into an apparent death trap?

excuse me, how much????