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ear the top of Mount Everest, a single step
requires at least fi ve breaths. The desolate
peak's freezing temperatures-even in the
summer, the summit is minus two degrees
Fahrenheit on average, before wind chill-
and high altitude can be deadly to climbers.
As their lungs struggle to fi ll with air, the cells
in their bodies begin to break down and die.
In 2002, Alison Levine found herself in this " death zone, "
an area that awaits climbers fi ve miles up on the mountain,
yet 3,000 vertical feet from its top-the highest point on
earth. As the captain of the fi rst American Women's Everest
Expedition, it was her job to get the group of experienced
climbers to the summit and then, most importantly, to
get them back down alive. Here, the altitude complicates
sleeping or eating, so the climbers didn't slow down. With
the trail ahead lit by a lamp fi xed onto her gear, Levine and
her team climbed through the night to the summit.
By the morning, they hit the mountain's south summit,
only a few hundred feet from the true summit, which is an
area the size of a dining room table. Yet, their worst fears
were realized. They were hit by a storm, which slashed
their visibility and put their lives in jeopardy. Levine had a
tough decision to make. If they went for the true summit,
all their hard work would pay off . But they also risked
plummeting 8,000 feet on one side of the trail or 10,000
feet on the other.
Being the fi rst American women's expedition team of its
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