The Escapist by Gabriel Filippi5/30/2023 ![]() The following day, those same horses would carry some of the climbers on our team higher still while I shook and shuddered in my tent, utterly drained.įor Gabriel Filippi, one of the most accomplished alpinists in Canadian history, the stakes are higher, the brushes more ominous. Feet turned to sludge, stomach thrashing, lungs constricting, I slipped in and out of consciousness before vomiting under the watchful (read: judgmental) eyes of the horses tied up in the rubble. For me, it was altitude sickness, which I felt, acutely, for the first time two years ago at 13,000 feet, high in the Peruvian Andes. ![]() No aspiring alpinist ever forgets their first brush with mountain danger. ![]()
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