Quotation

There was suddenly a blue luminescence to the rocks all around them. The white of the glacier looked like glass over a Tahitian sea. Saint Elmo’s fire. The eerie light that had haunted sailors for centuries, scaling the masts of tall ships in empty oceans. Now, far inland, it crackled on the high rocks to their left, sparked upward in a cobalt cloud that climbed and then was snuffed out in blackness, overeager in its attempt to claim the sky. === Survivor-mentality requirement: an open mind. Rigidity was the door to death. === …they aren’t the kind you run from. They’re the kind you have to kill.” === Lost-Person Behavior 101: Those in need of rescue in the mountains tend to walk down even though they should walk up. Why walk up? Because you were far more visible to searchers. === He didn’t have to kill them, just outlast them. === We only need to consider that she lied.