To many, he is the supreme German dramatist and poet of the 20th century: the great explorer - in plays like Mother Courage and Galileo - of the difficulty of survival in an imperfect world.
That day-to-day difficulty of survival, and the lack of real infrastructure, explains in part why so much tourism waste remains on the mountain.
After all, when every breath and step is a cold challenge, the sheer difficulty of survival trumps everything – which is why, further up, there are still some 200 bodies on the way to the mountain's summit that have not been hauled down, or even identified.
Yet one idea about the age of adventure in a mainly unspoiled landscape dominates the film throughout and determines its very mode of production: the cruel physical difficulties of mere survival.
Despite the difficulties of basic survival on Mars, our rotation has been overwhelmingly productive.
There is an urgent need for a reliable and accurate prognostic test for patients with prostate cancer, given the difficulties of predicting survival outcomes for patients diagnosed with early-stage cancer and the resulting overtreatment.
Their length of stay is thought to quantify the difficulties in prognostication of survival in this cohort of patients, particularly when it comes to the secondary brain injury.
Physician-related barriers include a reluctance to discuss hospice care because of fears about the patient's/family's reaction, difficulty in survival prediction, feelings of professional failure, and loss of control [ 43– 43].
The oncologist acknowledged the difficulties of being precise about survival gain but did indicate that the "average" was "not great".
Today, families have difficulties not only of employment, but of survival".
An additional difficulty with analyses dependent upon durations of survival is that in the elderly population typical of SQCC, patient deaths not infrequently result from co-morbidities [ 44], such as infection, heart disease, stroke, emphysema and diabetes, rather than from cancer.
