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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 from the summit.
- Anatoli Boukreev
Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (Kazakh: Анато́лий Никола́евич...
- Charlotte Fox
Charlotte Conant Fox (May 10, 1957 – May 24, 2018) was an...
- Scott Fischer
Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) was...
- Mountain Madness
After 23 years of mountaineering and 12 years of guiding...
- Adventure Consultants
Everest's peak from Gokyo Ri. Adventure Consultants,...
- Hillary Step
In this pre-2015 view of Mount Everest, the high point is...
- Gau Ming-Ho
1996 Mount Everest disaster. On 10 May 1996, Gau reached the...
- Anatoli Boukreev
Dec 31, 2016 · The 1996 Everest Disaster occurred on May 10, 1996, when four groups of climbers set out to summit Mount Everest. One group was led by Rob Hall of Adventure Consultants, another was led by Scott Fischer of Mountain Madness, an expedition was organized by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and there was a Taiwanese expedition.
Learn about the worst disaster on Everest in 1996, when eight people died in a storm during the spring climbing season. Read about the causes, the survivors and the aftermath of the tragedy.
- Yasuko Namba. A businesswoman from Japan, Namba summited Everest in 1996 to become the second Japanese woman to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents.
- Rob Hall. The owner of Adventure Consultants, Hall had made a name for himself in mountaineering when, in 1990, he and Gary Ball summited the seven highest mountains in the world in seven months.
- Andy Harris. A guide for Adventure Consultants and helicopter skiing guide in the winter, Harris was making his first Everest summit attempt with the 1996 expedition.
- Doug Hansen. A postal worker from Washington state who had been climbing for 12 years, Hansen turned back just short of Everest's summit in 1995. Lou Kasischke: Doug was a very likeable, easygoing person.
Feb 15, 2024 · Learn about the real-life events that inspired the film Everest, one of the deadliest single seasons in Everest's history. Find out how many climbers died, what caused the disaster, and who survived the blizzard.
- Baltasar Kormakur
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- Jason Clarke
Apr 2, 2021 · May 11th 1996, a fast moving storm trapped three climbing teams high atop Mt Everest. The exhausted climbers were soon lost in a fierce blizzard and far from the safety of Camp 4 at 26,000 feeet...
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- David Snow
Apr 29, 2020 · Learn about the harrowing events of 10 May 1996, when 15 climbers died on Mount Everest due to a blizzard and a bottleneck at the summit. Read how Anatoli Boukreev, a Russian guide, saved some lives and was criticised by Jon Krakauer in his book.
