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...over more than 11 months of the year, there is only a brief window of time when the peak can be reached. Thus, the second time the team heads up the mountain, time is as much an enemy as the mountainous terrain itself. The climbers cross the avalanche-ridden Khumbu Icefall for a second time en route to the top. When they reach their previous camp, the climbers split up with Vesturs taking the lead sans oxygen. Finally, the climbers reach the top but, as is often true of hard-earned achievements, they can only celebrate briefly before retreating...
...getting there the year before did. Yeah, failure teaches you things." Luce says, "Maybe I'm calmer. Friends say I seem more mature. Maybe just tired." She and some partners heard the beat of great wings when they were cuffed by the edge of a large avalanche at the Khumbu Icefall. Being in peril, she says, "sharpens your senses for life...
...Along the way, team doctors took time out to battle a Nepalese smallpox epidemic, flying in vaccine and administering it themselves. At last the climbers neared the looming Everest itself. They set up their base camp at 17,000 ft., cautiously began to feel their way through the treacherous Khumbu icefall...
Never Silent, Never Still. A restless mass of ice that is never silent and never still, Khumbu is a frozen cataract, gashed by echoing crevasses and crisscrossed with cliffs that cannot be scaled. As the men struggled upward, cracks opened and little avalanches plunged down the slopes. On March 23, disaster struck: without warning, an ice wall collapsed and buried Wyoming's John Breitenbach, 27, as he was working to improve the trail. Breitenbach was the first American ever killed scaling Everest...
...proprietor of a Wyoming mountaineering equipment store and member of a 20-man U.S. expedition sponsored by the National Geographic Society and several others, now climbing Mount Everest; when an ice wall collapsed and buried him as he worked to improve an ice route cut the previous day on Khumbu Glacier at 17,500 feet. He was the first American to die while trying to climb the world's highest mountain...