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“I felt at times as if I wasn’t really climbing the mountain—that surrogates were doing it for me.”
“But it would end up being one of many little things—a slow accural, compounding steadily and imperceptibly toward critical mass.”
“Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin. This the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.”
— 19 hours, 40 min ago
“But it would end up being one of many little things—a slow accural, compounding steadily and imperceptibly toward critical mass.”
“Above 26,000 feet, moreover, the line between appropriate zeal and reckless summit fever becomes grievously thin. This the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.”
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“Herds of puffy cumulus raced beneath the sun, imprinting the landscape with a shifting matrix of shadow and blinding light.”
— Jan 25, 2026 04:05AM
