pg 36 "As I gazed across the sky at this contrail, it occurred to me that the top of Everest was precisely the same height as the pressurized jet bearing me through the heavens...My palms felt clammy." This quote tells us a lot and has a hint of foreshadowing. We can assume that right now he finally realizes how big this climb is going to be, it hits him. From this quote it seems that he feels small and he is about to tackle something that most people can just dream about. In early chapters he was talking about great climbers and how they were traveling up this mountain and he felt as if it wasn't real for him to be there. The quote in a way tells us that in the future they will soon run thin of oxygen because it is so high above ground.
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