WHAT'S A FEW HUNDRED FEET?

摘要

Ilie sweating in my silk sleeping sack, fighting the urge to itch. Sand fly, mosquito, and leech bites cover my body in tight braille dots. I am hotter than I've ever been in my life, stuffed with 17 men in a bamboo hut that feels like a kiln. And this is only the first day of our expedition to summit Gam-lang Razi. We still have 44 days, 300 miles, and 80,000 feet of climbing ahead of us. I lock the pillow over my head to dampen the sounds of a generator, snoring, and roosters, wondering whether traveling through remote tribal villages and dense forest to summit an unclimbed peak will be worth all of 100 feet.