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A Winter in Pakistan
For the Love of Climbing
English - January 01, 2020 17:02 - 50 minutes - 115 MB - ★★★★★ - 564 ratingsWilderness Sports Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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When you go on a climbing trip, everybody thinks it’s a vacation. And you can’t get PTSD from a vacation, right? Except that a winter in the Himalaya nearly destroyed Ian. He survived unroped crevasse falls, an avalanche, bivouacs in negative forty-degree weather, high altitude cerebral edema, Hepatitis A, an earthquake, oh—and also, nearly being eaten alive by fleas. When he returned to the states, he couldn’t cope with society and suffered from severe depression and PTSD.