Most of the participants were aware that Buschow was having problems. One remembered Buschow saying that he was not a wuss but that “something was not right”. His breathing was laboured, he was vomiting, falling and hallucinating and he consistently complained of cramping pains in his legs. The instructors advised him to eat pine needles.
Hallucinating, vomiting and unable to stand, but guides refused water to dying trekker (Guardian)