On the K2, above 7.000 meters you can’t eat, drink or sleep. During a summit attempt of 72 hours your heart rate is constantly higher than 180 beats per minute and this by 18 hours of physical hard work a day. Low oxygen levels make even the simplest cognitive tasks difficult. How do you make hard lifethreatening decisions in these conditions? Jelle explains how crucial decision making saved his life and how others lost theirs.
Jelle Staleman is a mountain guide. From age 7 he climbed every tree he could find and at age 12 he crossed the Pyrenees and the mountains of Norway. His passion inevitably lead to the Dutch Marine Corps after which he fully concentrated his career on mountaineering.
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