“What they searched for wouldn’t look like a body, not anymore.”
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A Mountain and a Range of Memories
“After Lathrop died, I could not bring myself to delete his phone number.”
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Where the Men are Scarier than the Minefield on the Mountain
“No longer should women feel weak.”
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Maintaining Mental Health as a Rescuer in the Grand Tetons
“What was important was that each of us had been there; we all, in another way, had blood on our hands—we had all shared the same experiences. We needed each other.”
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Bringing Home the Bodies: Deliverance From 27,000 Feet
How 12 sherpas recovered two bodies from the 27,000-foot mark of Mount Everest.
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Deliverance From 27,000 Feet
In May 2016, four Bengali mountaineers attempted to achieve a lifelong dream: to summit Mount Everest. After an egregiously late start to their summit attempt, they were abandoned by their guides and left to die on the mountain. Only one survived. John Branch reports on the ill-fated expedition and how a team of sherpas recovered […]
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Once You Reach the Top of Mt. Everest, There’s Nowhere to Go But Down
Climber and explorer Cory Richards shares his challenges with PTSD, alcoholism, and infidelity.
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Making Sense of Life In the Death Zone
At The Walrus, read an excerpt from The Escapist: Cheating Death on the World’s Highest Mountain, by Gabriel Filippi with Brett Popplewell.
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Making Sense of Life In the Death Zone
At The Walrus, read an excerpt from The Escapist: Cheating Death on the World’s Highest Mountain, by Gabriel Filippi with Brett Popplewell.
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Ethics on the World’s Highest Peak
The climber’s code of ethics, issued by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation, specifies “helping someone in trouble has absolute priority over reaching goals we set for ourselves in the mountain.” Most take this to heart. “Saving one life is more important than summiting Everest 100 times,” says Serap Jangbu Sherpa, the first person to climb all […]