Hamid’s Reviews > Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster > Status Update
Hamid
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During my thirty-four-year tenure as a climber, I’d found that the most rewarding aspects of mountaineering derive from the “sport’s emphasis on self-reliance, on making critical decisions and dealing with the consequences, on personal responsibility. When you sign on as a client, I discovered, you are forced to give up all of that, and more.
— Aug 28, 2023 12:51PM
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Hamid
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At Base Camp there was approximately half as much oxygen as at sea level; at the summit only a third as much. When confronted with an increase in altitude, the human body adjusts in manifold ways, from increasing respiration, to changing the pH of the blood, to radically boosting the number of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, a conversion that takes weeks to complete.
— Aug 23, 2023 03:03PM
Hamid
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“I want you all to remember we would have absolutely no chance of getting to the summit of Everest without their help. I’m going to repeat that: Without the support of our Sherpas none of us has any chance of climbing the mountain.”
— Aug 23, 2023 04:38AM
