Flight 571: Survival in the Andes with Blair Braverman
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Climbing a Mountain
On the 11th of December, Numa dies. And that is what finally spurs Knessa to be ready to go. The boys have not eaten Nondo's mother and sister out of respect for him. But as he's leaving, he says, look, if you have to, you have to. And the three boys start up the mountain. They do not know how to climb a mountain. In the first morning, they climbed 2,000 feet - which is twice as far as you're supposed to climb in altitudes like that. Going too fast contributes to altitude sickness, which can cause things like pulmonary edimas, rapid death. It turns out that this mountain
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