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Into Thin Air
1 into thin AirInto thin AirInto thin AirInto thin Air by Jon Krakauer I stood atop Mount Everest, gasping for air at the topmost limit of earth s atmosphere. Standing on the top of the world, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, put my shoulder against the wind, and stared at the vast view of earth below. I understood on some dim level that it was a spectacular sight. I'd been dreaming about this moment for many months. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just didn t have the energy to care. It was the afternoon of May 10, 1996. I hadn't slept in 57 hours. The only food I'd been able to force down over the last three days was a bowl of soup and a handful of peanut M&M's. Weeks of violent coughing had left me with two separated ribs, making it painful to breathe.
3 planet with photos and high-fives, all the while using up precious ticks of the clock. None of them imagined that a horrible ordeal was drawing near.
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