Survivor guilt haunts climbers from "summary" of Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
It's an insidious thing, this guilt. It creeps into your thoughts when you least expect it, a silent specter that whispers in your ear at night. You look at photographs of your friends - the ones who didn't make it back down the mountain - and you can't help but feel a pang of regret. Why them and not you? It's a question that haunts you, that gnaws at your conscience like a hungry rat. You try to push the thoughts away, to focus on the present and the future, but the guilt lingers. You find yourself questioning your decisions, wondering if you could have done more to help, to save them. Maybe if you had been stronger, faster, more prepared, things would have turned out differently. Maybe if you had just been in a different place at a different time, they would still be alive. You talk to other climbers, to friends and family, but the guilt remains. They tell you that it's not your fault, that you did everything you could, but y...
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