ego skilled self-esteem <br />may summit Mt Everest <br />in heights rarified inflated... <br />feeling approach supremacy <br />climb into thin air past... <br /> <br />death zone 8000 metres <br />temperatures chill low level <br />frostbite extremities body parts... <br />exposed to contact ice air <br />snow shaded well-frozen... <br /> <br />deaths injury mistake slipping <br />falling stalks pounces high winds <br />threatens life diced changeable... <br />potential threat stalks climbers <br />baited breath altitude on Everest... <br /> <br />low atmospheric pressure <br />at summit alluring on Everest <br />about a third of sea level... <br />low pressure resulting in <br />availability in limited about... <br /> <br />a deprivation starved third oxygen <br />left to breathe in blood oxygen level <br />summit plummets expunged depleted... <br />vastly increased pace breathing rate <br />times three four hundred percent... <br /> <br />exhaustion attempting to breathe <br />lacking oxygen extreme cold <br />climbing hazards all contribute... <br />to death zone death toll an injured <br />climber who cannot walk is in... <br /> <br />serious threatening life trouble <br />rescue by helicopter death zone <br />too high cannot peak fly carrying... <br />a climber off death zone heights <br />reaper Everest is extremely risky... <br /> <br />only skilled egos climb Everest <br />battle fierce three harsh masters <br />consciousness mind edge memory <br />to reconcile claims demands weary <br />control planning confirming reality <br /> <br />unconscious psyche source deep <br />primitive impulses drives id fears <br />superego conscience morals forms <br />standards rules ethical choice society <br />summit triumph or rescue lost attempt <br /> <br /> <br />Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br /><br />Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/summit-mt-everest-death-zone-tested/
