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By Shweta Shah, 10/21/2013 10:33:41 AM
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Jon Krakauer was supposed to write an article on ‘Commercialization of Everest’, so he became a part of a commercial expedition. It can be surmised safely that he wrote the memoir Into Thin Air to exorcise the ghosts that must have haunted him after the death-strewn, accident-prone Everest climb. He writes about the ‘survivor’s guilt’ and how he will never come to terms with the way events unfolded on that fateful (though some critics claim that the teams knew beforehand about the bad weather conditions) day. After the tragedy, peaceful sleep seemed evasive and it came to him only in nightmarish segments. I can only imagine - lying there in the sub-zero temperatures, almost dead but not dead yet; breathing, perhaps looking around and when at last you see someone, there’s a tiny flicker of hope in your heart, it warms you for a nanosecond; before the person decides that you are a gone case or is too indifferent to even stop. What drives people to choose the mountain over humans?
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