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| Table of Contents |  |
| 1. | Summer of ’75—Falling in Love with High Places | 1 |
| 2. | Who I Am...and Who I’m Not | 5 |
| 3. | Baby Steps | 10 |
| 4. | Making the List | 16 |
| 5. | The Decision—Don’t Tell Anyone...Yet | 18 |
| 6. | FWA | 21 |
| 7. | I’m Going to Climb Mt. Everest—Now What? | 25 |
| 8. | Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? | 30 |
| 9. | Playing Lhotse Face in New Hampshire | 33 |
| 10. | If I Make High Camp, It Will Be A Success | 36 |
| 11. | Tears at the Airport | 39 |
| 12. | K-K-K-Kathmandu | 42 |
| 13. | Nepal’s Mountain of Sorrow | 45 |
| 14. | Heading to Base Camp and the Dead Yak in Room 5 | 48 |
| 15. | I’m Not Going to Make it to Base Camp | 52 |
| 16. | A Khumbu Wake-Up Call | 57 |
| 17. | A Camp 3 Wake-Up Call | 64 |
| 18. | Death on Everest—Our Dirty Little Secret (And How It Could Never Happen to Me) |
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| 19. | Big Head Todd, the Monster | 78 |
| 20. | When to Go? Or, Hurry Up and Wait | 81 |
| 21. | Camp 3 to Camp 4—The Major Miscalculation | 85 |
| 22. | May 16, 2002—The Day I Stayed in the Tent | 90 |
| 23. | Injury to Insult | 95 |
| 24. | I’m Through with Big Mountains Forever—I’m Finally Cured | 99 |
| 25. | Cheesedick at LAX—Welcome Home | 102 |
| 26. | Maggie’s Rebuttal | 107 |
| 27. | The Cure Doesn’t Take | 109 |
| 28. | Anger Turns into Resolution | 112 |
| 29. | Preparing for Everest—An Adirondack Adventure | 115 |
| 30. | The Advantages of Failure | 119 |
| 31. | To Russia with Love | 121 |
| 32. | My Dad’s Dying | 125 |
| 33. | Here We Go Again | 131 |
| 34. | Old Home Week | 134 |
| 35. | Trekking with a Purpose | 140 |
| 36. | Reindeer Copulation Hat | 144 |
| 37. | April Fool’s Day on Chukhung Ri—Or Dan’s Disappointment | 146 |
| 38. | Back at Base Camp (Puja Time Again) | 151 |
| 39. | The Team | 155 |
| 40. | It Sucks Being Sick | 159 |
| 41. | First Foray | 162 |
| 42. | Beating Base Camp Boredom | 168 |
| 43. | Potty Talk | 172 |
| 44. | Second Foray | 176 |
| 45. | Life at the Khumbu Country Club | 181 |
| 46. | Rockin’ Through the Icefall | 185 |
| 47. | To Camp 3 | 188 |
| 48. | Camp 3 to Camp 4 | 191 |
| 49. | Countdown at High Camp | 194 |
| 50. | Windy City | 199 |
| 51. | Out of the Tent | 202 |
| 52. | It All Started Out So Well | 205 |
| 53. | A Couple of Little Things Go Wrong | 209 |
| 54. | My Watch Says 10:30 A.M. Already | 211 |
| 55. | South Summit | 215 |
| 56. | True Summit | 217 |
| 57. | I’ll Just Bivy Here | 222 |
| 58. | Kevin, Please... | 226 |
| 59. | Headlamps at the Balcony | 228 |
| 60. | High Camp at Last | 232 |
| 61. | The Long, Slow Trip to Base Camp | 234 |
| 62. | Grown Men Crying | 238 |
| 63. | Permission to Feel Good | 242 |
| 64. | First Helicopter Ride | 247 |
| 65. | Don’t Rot in Kathmandu | 252 |
| 66. | More Tears at the Airport | 255 |
| 67. | The True Heroes of Everest | 260 |
| 68. | That Guy Who Climbed Everest | 263 |
| 69. | Postscript: The Goodness of So Many People | 267 |
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