In a Hemingway tale, Harry gets gangrene; before he dies, has a vision of flying in a plane toward this mountain
Either that or Kip 
has a vision of St. Abillard (any saint will do, but our imaginary... [DOC] [TLE] The Problematics of Creative Writing in Hemingway's The Snows of ... [PAR] Snows of Kilimanjaro in 1938, twenty-three years before he committed suicide.