Hurry up and wait. On May 22, 2019, dozens of people endure the hours-long line to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Up here, in the so-called Death Zone, climbers are confronted by temperatures as low as 50 degrees below zero, high winds, and dangerously low levels of oxygen.
When I was a young man, I worked briefly with the elvish Doug Osheroff, a Nobel Prize winning scientist who taught me something about myself that I didn't know.