The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996 when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend...
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Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling nonfiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It details Krakauer's experience in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster,...
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Everest disaster is the term for the avalanche death of six Nepalese Sherpa porters on 5 April 1970, who were killed on the Khumbu Icefall of Mount Everest...
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1996 Mount Everest disaster. It was broadcast on ABC on November 9, 1997. Guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer lead two groups who plan to reach Mount Everest's...
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before 1996, one in four climbers died making the ascent, while in 1996, one in seven died. But it also includes the 1996 Mount Everest disaster on May...
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Anatoli Boukreev (category Deceased Everest summiters)
more widely known for saving the lives of climbers during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. In 1997, Boukreev was killed in an avalanche during a winter...
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The 1996 Indo-Tibetan Border Police Expedition to Mount Everest in May 1996 was a climbing expedition mounted by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP)...
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Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay. Everest was in production at the mountain during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which another group of climbers...
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for their summit bid, eight climbers were killed during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Despite this, two weeks later, Woodall and O'Dowd made their...
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Beck Weathers (section Mount Everest)
1996 Mount Everest disaster. His story was covered in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air (1997), its film adaptation Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997)...
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sherpa 1965 Indian Everest Expedition 1970 Japanese Alpine Club Mount Everest Expedition (1970 Mount Everest disaster) 1973 Italian Everest Expedition (I.E...
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Ed Viesturs (category American summiters of Mount Everest)
including Mount Everest seven times. Viesturs took part in the 1996 IMAX filming of Everest shortly after the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which became...
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Henderson and Emily Watson. It is based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster and focuses on the survival attempts of two expedition groups...
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Sandy Hill (mountaineer) (category American summiters of Mount Everest)
fashion editor. She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster shortly after becoming the 34th woman to reach the Mount Everest summit and the second American...
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Yasuko Namba (category Japanese summiters of Mount Everest)
but died during her descent in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Prior to her involvement in the Everest disaster, Yasuko Namba had been employed by Federal...
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Andy Harris (mountain guide) (category Mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest)
1964 – 11 May 1996), commonly known by his nickname Andy Harris, was a New Zealand mountain guide who died in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Harris was...
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Gau Ming-ho (category Summiters of Mount Everest)
mountaineer. He was a leader of a Taiwanese expedition to Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Gau was born in 1949 in Ruifang District, Taipei...
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Neal Beidleman (category Mount Everest)
mountaineer and climbing guide, known for surviving the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. After the disaster, Beidleman's stories were featured on the U.S. television...
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an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall (see 1970 Mount Everest disaster). Other bad years were 1982 and 1996, although none of these years claimed as many...
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Charlotte Fox (mountaineer) (category American summiters of Mount Everest)
the summit of three eight thousander peaks. She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster as a member of Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness expedition. She...
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Rob Hall (category Mountaineering deaths on Mount Everest)
NZBS MBE (14 January 1961 – 11 May 1996) was a New Zealand mountaineer. He was the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition during which he, a fellow...
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in the Khumbu Icefall. This was the same icefall where the 1970 Mount Everest disaster had taken place. Thirteen bodies were recovered within two days...
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related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", meaning to reach the highest elevation point on Mount Everest. This...
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climber who has climbed Mount Everest several times. In 1996 Woodall was the leader of the controversial first South African Mount Everest expedition, during...
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Camp on Mount Everest. At least twenty-two people were killed, surpassing the toll of an avalanche that occurred in 2014 as the deadliest disaster on the...
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South Summit (redirect from South Summit (Mount Everest))
The South Summit is a subsidiary peak of Mount Everest in the Himalayas between the South Col (at 7,906 metres (25,938 ft)) and the main summit (at 8...
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Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft) and thus a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list...
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explosion of popularity of Everest is provided by the numbers of daily ascents. Analysis of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster shows that part of the blame...
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the Unreal 4 game engine Mount Everest, a board game Ratcliffe, Graham (2013). A day to die for : 1996 : Everest's worst disaster : one survivor's personal...
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Jon Krakauer (category American summiters of Mount Everest)
ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest. Krakauer was born in Brookline...
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