IRP Post 4 - Cited Passage

"He'd already made special trips to assist Tim Meadows, Pete Schoening, and Dale Kruse. And now, on what should have been a badly needed day and a half of rest, Fischer had just been forced to make a hasty round-trip from Camp Two to Base Camp and back to help his good friend Kruse after he had came down with what appeared to be a relapse of HACE*." (192) *(High Altitude Cerebral Edema)

While they are all enduring the hardships of the climb, they are faced with having to go back and forth to make sure everyone is safe and on the same climbing schedule. Being sick as a dog is not even an unusual feeling when climbing Mt. Everest, which may be why it is one of the toughest things to do on this earth. Sickness/Illness is a ket symbol that I found throughout this third section. With a majority of the team feeling somewhat ill and many members having to stay behind, the treck up becomes even harder as the number deplete and the group feels weaker as a whole. One of the main questions that I can pull from this section is the simple one, why? Why would you put your life in danger and keep going on if you are ill? Why would they ignore the signs of an approaching storm? Why were they all so stubborn? The first two are legitimate and the last one is just my opinionated question. You have to be a pretty stubborn person to do anything just for the rush to be at the top, but maybe that is why they are there and I am here sitting at my desk writing about them.