After the expedition, Odell was privately certain that Mallory and Irvine had reached the summit of Mount Everest. Key to this belief was the spot where he had seen the two climbers, and his evaluation of their fitness and strength.
Carbohydrate is stored in limited amounts as blood glucose, liverglycogen, and muscle glycogen. The largest amount of energy isstored in the body as fats. Fats are stored as triglycerides in bothmuscle tissue and adipose (fat) tissue; triglycerides and free fattyacids (FFA) in the blood are a limited supply.
7.1 Fat is the major storage form of fuel. Fat is required for human life. In chapter 5 we noted that the amount of glycogen that is. stored in the body is limited. You can survive, perhaps, for only about one day on stored. glycogen. With fat, you can survive for weeks. Eating more and more will make you fatter.