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Huh. You're painfully right. It makes for a good story, but the mail carrier and the head guide that summited much, much too late weren't stupidly making fatal decisions (they were), but instead they were fated to keep going until they couldn't. Nobly (stupidly, because empathy) the guide stayed with the mail carrier to his demise. I hadn't thought about it, and you're clearly right.Regardless of the circumstances, Krakauer will arrange the narrative such that death is preordained, fates conspire and nobility is stamped out by an unthinking universe.