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Old 05-12-2008, 08:44 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by MikeWaters View Post
Damning, damning, damning.

http://dir.salon.com/story/travel/fe...8/07/featurea/

Who slept while Boukreev risked his life and saved three people?

Krakauer.
Don't know where your comment about JK sleeping comes from, though he was just a reporter and not paid to look after anyone. In any event, per Beck Weathers and this letter, the only person who stepped over a body was Boukreev--Weathers'!

But this letter is so much ado about nothing. Here's the order of arguments: 1) Boukreev didn't use oxygen but he wasn't impaired; 2) Fischer authorized Boukreev's rapid descent; 3) Boukreev feels bad about failing to save a climber. Still, he admits he didn't use oxygen, and made a rapid descent. Glad we got that settled.

Going for the capillary.
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