A brutally painful chronicle of why a summit is really only halfway.
Here is what the first American woman to summit Everest said about that:
Celebrating seemed a bit premature, considering how easy it would be to die on the way down. Stacy Allison,
Beyond the Limits, page 252
and from K2, the famous Polish female climber:
I didn't know in the sunshine that death was following us down Wanda Rutkiewicz, in
Jim Curran,
K2: The Story of the Savage Mountain.
