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:10:07
That altitude, you dehydrate enormously.
:10:11
You have to drink a lot
of fluid, 4-5 liters a day.

:10:14
And the only way you can
get it, is by melting snow.

:10:19
Everything is so time-consuming.
:10:21
To make a single brew at that
altitude takes a very long time,

:10:25
You're perhaps looking at an hour
just to make a couple of cups.

:10:29
For that reason, we perhaps didn't
brew up as much as we should have done

:10:32
but we didn't have an awful lot
of spare gas with us, either.

:10:47
There's not a lot of risk
in our lives normally now.

:10:54
And to put an element of risk back
into it takes us out of the humdrum.

:11:01
In that sense, it makes
you feel more alive.

:11:11
I've never been that
high before, and it's

:11:13
very very strenuous
to climb ice like that.

:11:21
Not only is it technically difficult
and unstable and frightening,

:11:23
but your heart is going like
crazy because of the altitude.


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