Suddenly even the toughest participants are snoring in ‘Kamp Waes’: what does lack of sleep do to a person and is it possible to resist it?

From walking for miles with heavy backpacks to night-time orientation tests to shaking from fear of heights on the ‘poutrelleke’, the participants of ‘Kamp Waes’ always kept going for it. But the hammer blow ultimately came – even for ‘superman’ Dries Borstlap – from too little sleep. Experts are not surprised: “Sleep deprivation can even be fatal.” Nevertheless: can’t fatigue be somewhat outpaced? And how?

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