I have avoided it as well as the movie because of the outcome. Perhaps someday I will screw up my courage and read the book or watch the movie.
I did enjoy the book about the kid that went on walk-about in Alaska and lived in a bus only to be done in by some berries he ate. From: Bill Prince Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 7:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Irony You should read Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air". It's a first hand account of a climb up Everest back in 1996. It goes into some of those details about oxygen starvation, and the cold. There are parts that he doesn't remember and/or has a partial memory of. Quite a good read. http://www.amazon.com/Into-Thin-Air-Personal-Disaster/dp/0385494785 bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 5/22/2016 6:36 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: One of the Everest climbers that died from altitude sickness this week was a vegan on a mission to prove the vegans are as strong and robust as everyone else. Was attempting to prove the point by climbing mountains. I wonder if they are on oxygen all the way up and back down (above 15,000 feet or so)? That is a lot of oxygen. I know that if you neglect to put on your oxygen in a small plane, you go to sleep about 18,000. Happened to my wife once. I was too busy flying and complying to tell her I had left 13,000 for 23,000. She didn’t respond to gentle prodding or voice, so I put a cannula on her and she was fine a minute later. Everest is >29,000 feet. Hard to believe it can be done, even with oxygen.
