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You capture the harrowing event well, but my favorite part was her memories of the first time he climbed and the exhilaration he felt and how it propelled him to want to try more challenging climbs. That added a human element to the tale, and it ceased to be about a climb, but about a woman and her passion.
There is one part I am a little confused about, you state:

although this trip would be fatal

A fatality brings death, yet at the end of this story you write:

I was just about ready to embrace death, when warmth, though the slightest bit, appeared.{/i)

Which to me means he was rescued and didn’t die. So stating that the trip would be fatal isn’t right. True it’s her opinion of the moment, but since this is told in past tense, he knows what happened to him, so it might be better to say, “although this trip would likely prove fatal” or something of that nature that leaves the outcome still undecided.

In sentence one you write:

The wind whips around, blocking out all sound, as I raised my head

The story wavers in that first sentence between present and past tense.

Sometimes your sentences are choppy, just fragments, one example being:

All for this. Climbing Mount Everest.

You could add a colon here and make it more complete: All for this: climbing Mount Everest.

There are also a couple minor spelling issues:

and trudged foward.

“forward”

Also,

thankful for the winds absence.

The possessive: “wind’s”

And,

it had been exilhirating.

“Exhilarating.”

Final Thoughts:

Despite those minor issues and the lack of a back story which could have aided the reader with a fuller storyline, it’s a good story that captures the emotions of the moment and tries to turn them into something beyond the mere excitement of the moment. That was what I liked best, the human element here, which showed us more depth into the character, something I think all important fiction must contain.

Review from "Let's help each other grow- Closed"