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As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing Everest has always been a dangerous mountain. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, as the storm finally passed, five of his fellow climbers would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that he would have to have his right hand amputated. By the time all expeditions had quit the mountain and departed Nepal, twelve people had perished on the roof of the planet's highest mountain.
From the first British expeditions in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen deprivation. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.
Everest has always been a dangerous mountain. From the first British expeditions in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen deprivation. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, as the storm finally passed, five of his companions hadn't made it back to their camp, and were in a desperate struggle for No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds.
By the time all expeditions had quit the mountain and departed Nepal, twelve people had perished on the roof of the planet's highest mountain. Everest has always been a dangerous mountain. From the first British expeditions in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen deprivation. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous decent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds.
Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, as the storm finally passed, five of his fellow climbers would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that he would have to have his right hand amputated.
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