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HAPE is an acronym for high altitude pulmonary edema, which occurs when a person climbs too high in altitude before their body has acclimatized to the thin air. A sick person’s lungs fill with fluid, and they eventually go into a coma and die.
HAPE Quotes in Peak
The Peak quotes below are all either spoken by HAPE or refer to HAPE. 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 15 Quotes
You might be thinking that the above conversation was a little coldhearted. And you’d be right. It was ten below zero outside, slightly warmer in the mess tent but not by much. When you are exhausted, having a hard time catching your breath, freezing, starving, waiting for your little toe to drop off, you have other things on your mind than the welfare of your fellow climbers.
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Chapter 21 Quotes
It’s hard to think straight at that altitude, but I had enough feeling in my oxygen-starved brain to feel a little shame over the way I had been thinking about Sun-jo. Climbing Everest is not a competition. It’s life and death.
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HAPE Term Timeline in Peak
The timeline below shows where the term HAPE appears in Peak. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 8
...because you have to properly acclimatize, or you’ll die of high altitude pulmonary edema, or HAPE. He also explains that there are only two weeks out of the year when the...
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Chapter 13
...actor William Blade’s summit attempt, and talking about climbers who have already come down with HAPE or died.
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Chapter 14
...They’re stuck there in a snowstorm, and things will soon get dire: several people have HAPE, the storm has knocked out the radio, and they don’t have food to stay longer....
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Chapter 15
...their tents. In the morning, he checks in with the news that they have two HAPE cases; one man, Francis, will require a Gamow bag. They have until seven at night...
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...unzips Francis from the Gamow bag. He looks like a corpse, and he still has HAPE—he isn’t going to the summit.
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...opening on his climbing permit, and he’s even more disappointed to learn that the other HAPE sufferer doesn’t want to go any further. In the mess tent, Zopa tells Josh that...
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Chapter 21
...Zopa tells him he must. JR shares with Peak that there are two or three HAPE cases at Camp Five and Camp Six, and two climbers who left for the summit...
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...dusk, five German and Italian climbers arrive at ABC, severely injured. The two Germans with HAPE died at Camp Six yesterday, and the two who tried to summit are presumed dead....
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...Shek). Peak offers to stay and help with the climbers coming down. One climber with HAPE is too sick to come down; he’ll be rescued at Camp Four. Everyone else needs...
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