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The recipe for disaster: Seven steps leading to goalodicy

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Today you set out to achieve your goal, the summit of Everest. You have now spent weeks climbing up and down the side of the world’s highest mountain, setting up ropes, establishing continually higher camps, and working through the treacherous pillars of ice in the Khumbu ice fall. At base camp you are now taking about 20 breaths a minute, and your body can barely stay hydrated. You need to eat over 6,000 calories a day just to maintain your weight.

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Kayes, D.C. (2006). The recipe for disaster: Seven steps leading to goalodicy. In: Destructive goal pursuit: The mount everest disaster. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230503472_7

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