As far as I was concerned, there were no set rules when climbing through the Death Zone. Everyone worked differently and I hadn’t complained that some of those same critics had stepped into my footfalls, or used the lines I’d set on their own summit push, hours after my drive to the top, but the snobbery was still annoying, so I worked to make it inspiring. I used it as fuel and in the post-expedition buzz of my climbs through the Himalayas, I decided to up my game. If I could take three of the world’s largest mountains in five days, maybe I had it in me to climb the five tallest peaks in an
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