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The Next Everest by Jim Davidson6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Pausing to pay them his respects, Davidson contemplates other ice fields above him on the trail and thinks, “stopping for even a second might give gravity an opening to drop an ice building on us.” The giant mountain offers countless ways to die, including slipping off the rickety ladders that span breaks in the ice. The year before his first effort, “a glacial block the size of a ten-story building sheared away from an ice ramp,” killing 16 Nepali workers below. Even in tamer weather, the mountain can be deadly: In one key moment, the author contemplates the body of a climber who, like him, survived the earthquake only to return the next year and die within sight of the summit. He trained hard for it, arriving at base camp in 2015 and making his way up icefalls and over crevasses only to experience the devastating avalanche following a massive earthquake. A practiced mountaineer recounts his fraught efforts to scale the world’s tallest mountain.įor Colorado-based climber and speaker Davidson, summiting Mount Everest was a longtime dream. ![]()
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