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High Up on the Lhotse Face

Written By Courtesy of The North Face Nov 02 2011

At 9:00 p.m. on May 27, Kris Erickson radioed down to base camp to get the final weather report for the next morning, not planning to radio again until departing at 1 a.m. Everything looked good. In a few hours, he and his climbing partner, Jamie Laidlaw, would leave for the summit. Excitement in the tent was high. They were so close to realizing one of their greatest dreams. But as Jamie lay in his sleeping bag over the course of the next hour and a half, he began to develop a low gurgle in his breathing accompanied by violent coughing fits and dry heaving, distinct symptoms of high-altitude pulmonary edema.
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