Timeline: Jon Krakauer Timeline

Mar 22, 1996

First news recieved about base camp

Mar 24, 1996

Reports of heavy snows, propmt delays

Mar 25, 1996

Still in Kathmandu

Mar 27, 1996

Working over final details

These are some things you need when your going to climb Mount Everest. You have to go to a doctor before and make sure your healthy and have great cardiac to climb Mount Everest. You should take some sort of physical training and learn how to climb different surfaces in different tempratures. You have to plan six months in advanced and make sure you have propper equipment. Like warm clothes, and medicine in case. Most carry radios or some sort of a retriever too.

Mar 31, 1996

Fisher describes team and his plan

Mar 31, 1996

Journey began

Apr 5, 1996

Reach 9,200 ft

Apr 8, 1996

Reach 16,200 ft, the Lobuji

Apr 9, 1996

Arriving in basecamp; Puja Ceremony

A Puja Ceremony is for blessingsof the expedition on the trip. People pray and celebrate with foods and drinks.They have an altar and 3 large peices of stone are on it with yellow ribbon around each one. They eat fruit, fried dough, chocolate, cake, yak milk butter, and drinks. Everyone just has a good time before they really start their long journey.

Apr 11, 1996

into the Khumbu Icefall, 12 miof ice

Apr 12, 1996

Resting after passage through icefall

Apr 13, 1996

Spending the night at camp 1; decent the lower icefall

The camps are just heated tents all around eachother and on a flat surface. (Or small hotel like buildings beforse you start the trip). You get one night at each camp. They serve you restaraunt meals and round trip airport transfers. It also comes with group cooking gear for when you get to the camps. All the camps are safe and you can always turn back around to go to camps for medical issues.

Apr 17, 1996

Ran into icecaps

An ice cap is a mass of ice. It is usually located on high elevations or heights. They can be over 100,000 years old. Most of ice caps and glaciers occur along the poles and Antartica. Almost 10 percent of earth ic covered with ice caps and glaciers.

Apr 19, 1996

Team acclimatizes at camp 2, 21,300 ft

Apr 23, 1996

Nawang nailed by severe bout of edema

Edema

Apr 24, 1996

Scotts weary call from base camp

Apr 25, 1996

Nawang in bad condition; ropes to be fixed in South Col

Apr 26, 1996

Nawang was rushed back to base camp

Apr 28, 1996

Team heads for camp 3, 34,000 ft

May 2, 1996

Nawang Back to base camp

May 6, 1996

Fischer crew looking strong way up

Scott Ficher was born on December 24, 1995. He took climbing classes and courses. He had his own company Mountain Madness. He finally got to where he could do his dream and climb Mount Everest. Everyone thought he would for sure make it all the was up and back down. He was an expert at climbing. When no one could reach him theey said it was too late. They think he suffered from an altitude sickness either HACE or HAPE. They have his own Memorial set up on Mount Everest.

May 7, 1996

resting at camp 2

May 8, 1996

Left camp 2

May 10, 1996

Team summits Mount Everest! 27,600 ft at Balcony, 1:17 pm starts going down.

May 11, 1996

Scott Fischer and Rob Hall stranded on mountain

May 12, 1996

Eight dead on Everest as rescue effforts continue

There is memorials and ceremonies people held at Mount Everest for people who died while climbing. The weather is really unpredictable on Mount Everest or and mountains. When climbers get really high and a snow storm strikes, some are too high up to be saved. The altitudes are high and it makes it hard for some people to make it back. Some people suffer from not enough oxygen or frost bite. Mount Everest is the Mountain with the most lost lives on it.

May 13, 1996