Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Q2 Post 5
In Chapters 9 and 10 of Into Thin Air, Krakauer's team continues with their acclimatization by climing from Camp 2 to Camp 3. Krakauer is feeling terrible the entire time, and so is Doug Hansen, suffering from things like frostbite and migranes. To me, it seems impossible that someone would want to climb the mountain with those symptoms, even if its just to do their acclimitization. I know they have to in order to climb the mountain, but it still seems that they would turn back if someone had the types of symptoms Krakauer and Hansen had. Later on on their acclimitization trip, the weather becomes bad, and they have to turn back. May of them got frostbite, and Hansen got an infection in his lung, so he thinks he is going to have to go home. Again. After the last time coming within a couple hundred feet of the top, now he has to turn back. THese events would really turn down the morale of the team, and I can't imagine continuing the climb after these events.
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