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  1. The Everest is not about emotions. Above 8000 meters you are on your own and it becomes a march of survival. There is not place for mistakes. When I was there 3 years ago the Sherpa and my guide made it clear: at the first sign of something going wrong TURN BACK or YOU WILL DIE. There is no energy in one for two at that altitude. Everyone goes there knowing this. No one is romanticizing anything. If you can't walk, you will die. Period. That's why the area after Camp 4 is called The Death Zone. No help there. Most climbers died on the way back from exhaustion. When you're climbing the adrenaline pumped by the idea of reaching the summit is helping, but after that you're left on your basic strength and power. When we started climbing down, after the Hillary step a woman set down to rest because she felt exhausted. We've been waiting for 30 minutes and she still couldn't walk. She laid back and gave up. We had to leave her there. It broke out hearts but we couldn't do anything. There are around 200 bodies on the Everest to this day. There even is a valley called The Rainbow Valley, named after their colorful clothes. It's hard to understand what an almost 9 km high mountain means. You're spending days, weeks in total only to prepare your body (acclimatization). Only after that you can make the final push to the summit. Our group encountered bodies two, on top of what happened to that woman I was talking about earlier. You just have to walk past them, there is no other way. Everyone going there is assuming the risk of never turning back. That's Everest and most 8000+ meter summits' unwritten cruel rule.
  2. This is not some silly internet story this is reality.
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