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Michael Cooper reflects in his memoir that most outdoor tragedies stem from “cumulative miscalculations” rather than sheer recklessness. He reveals how experienced adventurers fall into subtle cognitive traps: normalizing deviance, over-trusting familiarity, underestimating compounding small errors, and succumbing to social pressures like summit fever. These nuanced insights dismantle the “daredevil” stereotype, showing that fatal risks often arise from disciplined, rational minds incrementally drifting off course—making the book a profound lesson in humility and heuristic awareness
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