That night, as Sarah sat in her sleeping bag waiting for Frank to make his usual ten o’clock arrival, she thought about the education that had occurred earlier in the day regarding all that could go wrong on the mountain. Up until then, she’d tried to convince herself that Greg would be fine, but today her fear for him had struck back and was staring her right in the face, up close and personal. She fought to believe in what Frank had told her about the team approach of looking out for each other, but the fact was when you got above Camp 4, no one could protect you. Each person up there was on their own when it came to paying attention to how they felt. The problem with that was the psychosis of believing you were only feet away from your dream.
But for Greg it wasn’t so much the summit t
