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Day 5<br />
It is 12:45 pm on Thursday, August 1st.<br />
We just arrived to the final camp. On<br />
our way up we passed through the<br />
alpine zone and entered the lifeless<br />
zone where lichens are one of the<br />
few signs of life. We began the day<br />
with brilliant sun and everchanging<br />
landscape. On our way up, we ran<br />
into a 29-year-old man climbing<br />
this mountain in memory of his two<br />
friends, suffering pulmonary edema.<br />
We encouraged him to descend<br />
as soon as possible. He was very<br />
ill and crying tears of sadness, as<br />
he considered his illness a failure.<br />
Clouds soon rolled in and enveloped<br />
all by the time we reached Barafu.<br />
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