Everest Climbing Window Summer Summit Push Poem by Terence George Craddock

winter is approaching
other universes are waiting
where ice crawls into veins
makes homes in soft tissues...
climbers of mammoth rooftop peaks
cannot start at sand seashore waves
take a helicopter if you could from sea level
to Everest Summit straight fly land dizzy reel...

within seconds air starved breathing impossible
within two minutes asphyxia oxygen deprived dead
Everest base camp climbing acclimatization rapid...
takes a month survival red blood cell count doubles
oxygen starved cells require double red blood cell oxygen carriers
peak push clear blue sky no jet wind white tails snow dancing off summit...


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