The way we handled it was to stay at camp four, we figured resting would be more beneficial to us than anything at that point. The second biggest issue we had was when attempting to determine how many oxygen containers we needed. We all had different ideas on how to calculate the distance we needed to travel and how much oxygen it was going to require. Another thing that concerned us with this was that in the description it stated: “team members may not receive the amount of oxygen canisters requested”. At that point, we decided that it would be best for the people attempting to make it to the summit request more than the others that weren’t too concerned about making it all the way to the top. Unfortunately, our math was off, we took weight incorrectly into consideration and our marathoner didn’t take enough with him to reach the
The way we handled it was to stay at camp four, we figured resting would be more beneficial to us than anything at that point. The second biggest issue we had was when attempting to determine how many oxygen containers we needed. We all had different ideas on how to calculate the distance we needed to travel and how much oxygen it was going to require. Another thing that concerned us with this was that in the description it stated: “team members may not receive the amount of oxygen canisters requested”. At that point, we decided that it would be best for the people attempting to make it to the summit request more than the others that weren’t too concerned about making it all the way to the top. Unfortunately, our math was off, we took weight incorrectly into consideration and our marathoner didn’t take enough with him to reach the