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

Leslie Kleinberg Zacks
4 min readDec 13, 2022

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 magic, we think.

Every day we have a wake up call at either 5:00 or 6:00 am depending on how far we have to go. I strongly prefer 5 because after getting into my bag at 8:00pm my body is simply…

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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