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The Contest

  • Tilt's Establishing Character Moment is leapfrogging over Dominic during the middle of a run while they're both wearing full packs. Dick move or not, it's pretty impressive.
  • Dominic taking off at a running start to reach a good handhold for climbing "the mushroom", the boulder that no one else at camp could climb. This is what seals his place on the expedition when Cap came close to cutting him three times earlier.
  • Dominic and Cap rescue an injured Brynn from a crevasse and use their ice axes to make a wide enough hole just minutes before the rescue window would have ended.

The Climb

  • Pemba Babu saves Sammi's life when she falls the height of a five-story building by bumping into her at just the right moment (trying to catch her would just crush him) to divert the momentum of the fall and turn a fatal landing into a mere bruising one.
  • When Ethan Zaph is dangling from a cliff, Tillt, a fourteen-year-old, pulls him part of the way up singlehandedly.
  • Dominic gets an injured Nestor down the mountain in time to get him medical attention, even after they run out of rope, by sliding down the mountain slope while hanging onto Nestor as if they were tobogganing.

The Summit

  • After Sammi's boyfriend dumps her through email, she takes the picture of the two of them that he'd asked her to put on the summit, tears out his half of the picture, and makes it into a paper airplane.

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