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Under the cloak of twilight and a bright moon, Frank led his team across the moraine to the glacier. As they threaded their way through the sea of erratics with their headlamps shining, Frank’s mind was a mess of conflicting thoughts. What was he going do about Aldan and Rene? He had spoken with them about their condition and warned them that if things didn’t improve for them after the acclimatization hikes, he would pull them off the mountain. He hoped it wouldn’t come down to a test of wills with the two men, that they would see for themselves the impossibility of going on if it came to that.
And then there was John and his determination to drive Khum Jung Mountaineering off the mountain, and who knew how that would turn out? Last of all was Sarah. He’d gone back and forth over his
