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The death zone refers to altitudes above about 26,000 feet, above which there isn’t enough oxygen to sustain human life for long periods. Zopa warns Peak and Sun-jo, for instance, that they only have 18 hours to reach Everest’s summit and get back to Camp Six (or reach the first camp on the Nepal side) once they enter the death zone, or they’ll risk death.
Death Zone Quotes in Peak
The Peak quotes below are all either spoken by Death Zone or refer to Death Zone. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16 Quotes
“You can never tell who the mountain will allow and who it will not.”
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Death Zone Term Timeline in Peak
The timeline below shows where the term Death Zone appears in Peak. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 27
...1:35 p.m. on the day they leave Camp Six, or they could die in the death zone —and it would be better to let the Chinese catch them. He promises to see...
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...need to pace themselves as they pass more corpses. In the afternoon, they reach the death zone and then Camp Six. Yogi, who looks awful himself, tells Sun-jo to start the stove...
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