04_SouthCol.mov

Camp 4, at 26000 feet sits on the massive saddle between Everest and Lhotse, the fourth highest mountain in the world. Scoured bare by relentless wind this is the final outpost before the final push to the summit. Beyond the point, climbers enter the death zone, the altitude at which your body stops trying to acclimatize and you are slowly dying until you can descend. The South Col is a literally a junkyard of debris from fifty years of expeditions, oxygen bottles, candy bar wrappers, ...

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YouTube | December 4, 2009

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