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Into Thin Air (review puzzle)

Across
to spend or use wastefully or foolishly (10)
pure; not spoiled or diluted in any way (32)
ethnic group which, for almost a hundred years, has supplied porters and guides to help other climbers reach the summit
name of Scott Fischer's guiding company (sponsored by Red Bull . . . JK)
to increase rapidly (or to cause to increase); to grow (or to cause to grow)
Dude got an ice pick through his calf during a fall . . . and he didn't even go to the doctor! (67)
said "Because it is there" when he was asked why he wanted to climb Everest (18)
enormous; huge; extreme
full name of the client who had been forced to turn around just 330 feet from the summit in a previous year (72)
He says, "With so many incompetent people on the mountain, I think it's pretty unlikely that we'll get through this season without something bad happening up high" (104).
last name of the man who is "in the habit of turning his monologhues into scathing, Limbaughesque rants against bed-wetting liberals" (45)
Down
name of the icefall that climbers have to pass through multiple times, up and down, as they acclimatize
He's a Kiwi (not a kiwi) and a carpenter, and he guides for Rob Hall (51).
Everything above 25,000' of altitude is known as the ______.
Impoverished; having little or no money (80)
the magazine that Jon Krakauer is on assignment for as he climbs this mountain
steep and dangerous ice slope far above Basecamp and just below the "Death Zone" (56)
sociable; fond of company (33)
one of the most dangerous elements that climbers face -- a fissure in the ice that can be hundreds of feet deep
first man on top of the world (36).