Thanks. It’s a bit embarassing that half the comments on my top-rated post of all time are about typos. I suppose that’s what I should expect given I wrote half this story at midnight.
Incidentally, you might get more (reddit) comments if you crosspost this essay on the r/slatestarcodex subreddit. The interests of LW and SSC have some decent overlap, and it’s sometimes easier to get comments on reddit than on LW.
You’re welcome :). Anyway, feel free to delete my typo comments once you’ve read them; it’s not like they serve any further purpose in the comment threads once they’re fixed.
Typos:
a third of the up the mountain → of the way up
Histerstoisser Traverse → Hinterstoisser
Almen immediately phone Eigergletscher Station → phoned
the head of the mountain rescue committee rules that → ruled that
Finally, willy finished his makeshift guide rope → Toni finished
in case Edi needed to climb down the cliff face → Toni
Are these urges to go forth and conquer, to take great risk for little practical benefit simply evolutionary vestiges? → benefit, simply
of a world since the past → ? (something like: “of a world long gone”)
Kleine Sheidegg → Kleine Scheidegg
Thanks. It’s a bit embarassing that half the comments on my top-rated post of all time are about typos. I suppose that’s what I should expect given I wrote half this story at midnight.
Incidentally, you might get more (reddit) comments if you crosspost this essay on the r/slatestarcodex subreddit. The interests of LW and SSC have some decent overlap, and it’s sometimes easier to get comments on reddit than on LW.
You’re welcome :). Anyway, feel free to delete my typo comments once you’ve read them; it’s not like they serve any further purpose in the comment threads once they’re fixed.
Also: The last name is “Von Almen” not “Almen”
Repel → Rapel (or abseil)
I think it’s actually rappel! https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rappel, no ‘rapel’ entry.