Back in Vulcan, he leads the way to an office just off his living room and opens a cupboard to reveal an astonishing collection - literally thousands - of slides, prints and videotapes of past expeditions, including the one to Everest. The departure of Mr. Legault and the broken leg that forced Ben Webster to abandon his climb a week ago, leaves only two of the original five mountaineers from Ottawa on Mount Everest: Shaunna Burke, who is climbing from the south side of the mountain and Peggy Foster, who is climbing from the north side. So does Pat Morrow, Canada's second man on Everest and a long-time critic of Smith's. Burke kept climbing the next step after Base Camp is Camp One, at 19,500 feet and she eventually reached the summit. Then, in keeping with local practice, they hoisted the man onto a yak, picked their way across the glacier, and buried him in the Khumbu moraine. "His leg was at a 90-degree angle," Burke said. If climbers don't give their bodies enough time to adjust to the lung-crushing conditions in the Himalayas, they could experience swelling in their brain and lungs. This article was originally published in Macleans magazine on November 27, 2006. If you get into 80-kilometre-an-hour winds with a -25-degree temperature, that is not a good situation to reach the summit. Eyewitness? Crystal realized that he was developing high-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), in which dangerous levels of fluid build-up in the lungs. In 2005, climber Shaunna Burke and her partner at the time, Ben Webster, were climbing near the Khumbu Icefall when Webster fell and broke his leg. But Kami Rita Sherpa said these traffic jams are nothing new. disconnecting from their thoughts and feelings in order to persevere. "function"===typeof document.currentScript.getAttribute?document.currentScript:null}var G=function(){return"function"===typeof Array.isArray?function(a){return Array.isArray(a)}:function(a){return"[object Array]"===Object.prototype.toString.call(a)}}(),y=function(){function a(a,b){var c=a.split("/");2>c.length?d(5,a):(c.pop(),b(c.join("/")))}function b(a,b){var c=a.split("/"),n=b.split("/");if(0 10s");g()},1E4)});"complete"===document.readyState&&(v(48,"isComplete"),g());"loaded"===document.readyState&&(v(48,"isLoaded"),k());l(document,"DOMContentLoaded",function(){v(48,"DOMContentLoaded");k();l(document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0],"pageshow",function(){v(48,"body pageshow");g()})});l(document,"readystatechange",function(){var a= if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {