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holy crap!!!!!!!!!I am sure you wrote that with no pun intended...
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Our main priority was to get to the bathroom though.They may have actually been aided by being inside the tent with those tent poles arched over them. The aluminum would provide something of a Faraday Cage, directing the escaping electrical charge past them, rather than through them. Refer to Alan K's post regarding lightning and the summit hut.
Lightning: Thunderstorms on Whitney?
