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WanderingEng  ·  2248 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 31, 2018

I hope I helped you feel engaged and doing something yesterday. I hope you feel better, too.

Not to reopen a debate, but does Krakauer-style mean people like Krakauer or people Krakauer wrote about? I think his experience on Everest put him in your boat about high altitude climbing. I think in the afterward of Into Thin Air he spoke harshly of it. Somewhere I saw an interview of Beck Weathers where he said probably no one has done more to discourage high altitude climbing than he and Jon. Beck was the client who was left for dead, lost both hands and his nose, escorted down the mountain by the IMAX climbers, and helicoptered out from Camp I.