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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

The Climb Days 7,8, And The After: The Guy Who Summits With No Legs Is Allowed My Thunder

The last 48 hours of the climb are a blur. It has been four days since we completed the summit and came down about 15,000 feet over two…

15 min readDec 14, 2022

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The Climb Days 7,8, And The After: The Guy Who Summits With No Legs Is Allowed My Thunder

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

Day Six Part 2: We Beat the Porters To Base Camp and They Seem As Surprised As We Are

It’s probably nothing to brag about. These guys are carrying incredible loads and we’re packing nothing but our own water and a few changes…

4 min readDec 14, 2022

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Day Six Part 2: We Beat the Porters To Base Camp and They Seem As Surprised As We Are

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

The Climb Day Six Part 1: It’s 3:30 am and I Refuse To Leave This Tent To Pee

The hot water bottles they give us at night to stay warm in our mummy fart bags somehow hold heat until morning. It’s some kind of mountain…

4 min readDec 13, 2022

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The Climb Day Six Part 1: It’s 3:30 am and I Refuse To Leave This Tent To Pee

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

The Climb Day Five: I’m Dressed Like a Ninja To Climb a Huge Fucking Wall

I don’t want to brag but I am no longer decorating trees with my recycled underwear and today I put on clean pants. Black climbing pants…

5 min readDec 13, 2022

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The Climb Day Five: I’m Dressed Like a Ninja To Climb a Huge Fucking Wall

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

The Climb Day Four: Diamox Makes My Face Hot and My Fingers Tingle

It’s so weird. I thought I was having a stroke when my fingers tips went completely numb and my face felt like it was on fire.

6 min readDec 12, 2022

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The Climb Day Four: Diamox Makes My Face Hot and My Fingers Tingle

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

The Climb Day Three: It’s Cold In My Fart Bag

Holy crap it’s cold sleeping up here at 10,000 feet. We fell asleep last night to the most astonishing views of the miraculously cleared up…

4 min readDec 11, 2022

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The Climb Day Three: It’s Cold In My Fart Bag

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

The Climb Day Two: Let The Benevolent Forced Feedings Commence

“I don’t know how much I’m really going to be able to eat at this hour,” Carrie said to me. She sat across from me in the dark little green…

5 min readDec 11, 2022

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The Climb Day Two: Let The Benevolent Forced Feedings Commence

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

The Climb Day One: I Guess We’re Really Doing This?

I’m told that today was the easy day. Now that I’ve finally seen the mountain in daytime framed by a clear blue sky, I can believe that.

6 min readDec 9, 2022

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The Climb Day One: I Guess We’re Really Doing This?

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

I Definitely Did It Wrong

Fucking jet lag. It has punched a hole through my tried and true drugging strategy of the past. Maybe that’s because three years ago when I…

7 min readDec 2, 2022

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I Definitely Did It Wrong

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

Wait Seriously Where Are We?

So Interesting news- I’m still a really shitty flyer.

5 min readDec 1, 2022

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Wait Seriously Where Are We?

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Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

Leslie Kleinberg Zacks

Writing about whatever I feel like. Mom with a career. Filled with love and rage. It’s cool- I’m not for everyone. twitter @lesliezacks zacks.leslie@gmail.com

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