Hell Is Above Us: The Epic Race To The Top Of Fumu, The World's Tallest Mountain - Plot & Excerpts
At night it became the darkest place on God’s Earth. It seemed haunted. Wind blowing up from the massive hole in the middle of the cave made whistling sounds that were communications from the Dead who had shared a common Doom long ago. River Leaf had set up her tent and shared it with McGee, the latter remaining mindful and respectful of her gender at all times. McGee spent his waking hours despondent, waiting for the end. River Leaf spent hers thinking, looking up at the Oculus, sizing up the walls, testing the integrity of the ice floor. She did not seem to have any plan, but she was not going to stop thinking until she did, or until death pre-empted her. “Why does she bother” McGee wrote. “With time thats [sic] left, she should do like me and think about good stuff from her life.” But McGee was probably not ruminating on the joys of his life as much as he claimed, for most of his entries from the cave are more of the “Oh my God, we are going to die” sort. At one point during their imprisonment, McGee wondered aloud whether Junk might make it to the summit.
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