Peter Athans, a mountaineer who has summited Everest seven times on 16 expeditions to the mountain, looks back on his adventures as a young climber taking risks that, he admits, he would never consider now. Athans tells the story of one such expedition to Alaska where he and two other climbers packed for a four-day climb that turned out to be a 13-day "gross miscalculation." Athans lost 30 pounds, but all three men survived the expedition. He explains that he's still able to be a mountaineer and a father, but it involves preparing more carefully and avoiding situations with unnecessarily high risk.
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