I noticed the 4317m and realized this likely was the meter height of Mt. Shasta and ran it through a meter to feet converter and it came up 14,163 plus feet.
It is likely that someone that has climbed or knew someone who had climbed it wrote this. If you have ever climbed Mt. Shasta it is known as the hardest easy climb or the easiest of the hard climbs in the U.S. Many people die climbing it or being buried by avalanches ever year. Another thing that regularly kills climbers is rocks that get knocked loose between 10,000 and 12,000 feet especially if you climb up from Horse Camp Sierra Club emergency lodge. A climber above you in the scree can knock loose a pebble the size of the tip of your little finger. However, because of the steepness between 10,000 and 12,000 feet that pebble will knock lose bigger and bigger rocks. You only need one rock the size of your fist to end your life if you don't see it coming or hear it in time if it hits you in the head or face. And sometimes the chain reaction brings down rocks the size of your hips or torso as well that you have to get out of the way of. This is one reason why people climb before May so much because this only happens in Summer and fall climbs.
But if you climb sometimes between January and May you have to watch out for avalanches in the same area of steepness.
Mount Shasta Weather Forecast (4317m)
https://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-Shasta/forecasts/4317
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