Both Uses of
claustrophobia
in
Into Thin Air
- Unable to grasp the benefits of the inflatable chamber and terrified of it, Ngawang asked that a Buddhist lama be summoned, and before consenting to being zipped into its claustrophobic interior, he requested that prayer books be placed in the bag with him.
Chpt 8 *claustrophobic = causing fear of being closed in a confined space
- I tried to heed Rob's advice, but my latent claustrophobia prevailed. When I clamped the mask over my nose and mouth I kept imagining that it was suffocating me, so after a miserable hour I took it off and spent the rest of the night without gas, breathlessly flopping and fidgeting, checking my watch every twenty minutes to see if it was time to get up yet.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(claustrophobia) abnormal fear of being closed in a confined space