I was way more certain than not that we were probably about to die.''
Do you run the other way and unknowingly run towards the danger? All we could do was sit in our tent and wait for the avalanche blast. "You don’t know where to run to get to safety. "It was like being on a highway at nighttime and hearing trucks blaring their horn at you,'' he said. Terror gripped Davidson, who braved the exhaustive training, travel and terrain to live out a dream. The tent was bobbing and weaving spasmodically from the ferocious winds created in front of the advancing avalanches. The icy tomb included walls 4,000 to 6,000 vertical feet high.ĭavidson and his tent mate scrambled outside to see what death they might be facing. But like the other climbers at Camp 1, they were forced to retreat to their tent to avoid suffocating ice shards clogging their throats and nostrils. There was no escape in the dead-end valley perched at nearly 20,000 feet.
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