Jon Krakauer Climbing Everest

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  • The team started climbing Everest

    The team started climbing Everest

    There were 15 people on the trip in the beginning. There were 3 guides, 4 sherpas, and 8 clients. There was another group, Mountain Madness, with 16 people. There were 5 sherpas, 3 guides, and 8 clients.
  • Arrive at the lower end of the Kuhumbu glacier, a 12-mile block of ice.

    Arrive at the lower end of the Kuhumbu glacier, a 12-mile block of ice.

  • Tensiing falls into 150 foot crevice

  • Reached Loubje (16,200 ft)

    Reached Loubje (16,200 ft)

  • Puja ceremony held at base camp

  • Reach base camp (17,600 ft)

  • Reach the end of Ice Fall after 4 hours

    The Khumbu ice fall is 5, 486 meters (18,000 feet) long. The ice fall is considered one of the most dangerous parts og Mount Everest. Huge pieces of ice can randomly fall down the mountain, ranging in size from cars to houses.

  • Expedition reaches Camp 1 (19,500 ft)

  • Reach camp 2 to acclimate

  • Nawang gets sick with edema

  • Guide ropes need to be fixed on South Col

    Guide ropes need to be fixed on South Col

  • Nawang rushed down the mountain to Katmandu for treatment

    Nawang rushed down the mountain to Katmandu for treatment

  • Reached Camp 2 (25,900 ft.)

  • Set out for camp 3 (4,000 ft.)

  • Reach camp 3 and get Oxygen

  • Reached Lhotse face (23,400 ft.)

    Reached Lhotse face (23,400 ft.)

  • Descend to base camp 2 to rest

  • 4:30am, Leave base camp at 17,600ft to climb again

  • Ascending to the 4th base camp

  • 7:30 36-year-old steel worker hurtles down Lhotes face and lives

  • Major snow storm hits, killing 8 climbers and stranding several more

  • 3:45pm Scott Fischer reaches the summit

    Fischer is ill when he reaches the summit, and it believed that he has HACE or HAPE. HACE means High Altitude Cerebral Edema. HAPE means High Altitude Pulmonary Edema. That means he had excessive liquids causing swelling in his lungs (pulmonary) or on his brain (cerebral).
  • 1:07pm Boukreev reaches the mountain summit

    1:07pm Boukreev reaches the mountain summit

  • 2:30pm Boukreev begins his descent to camp 6

  • 6:00am Climbers realize that Andy Harris, the guide from New Zealand, is missing. It is believed he walked off the side of a cliff

  • Beck Weathers is left for dead in sub-zero temperatures on the mountain

    Beck Weathers is left for dead in sub-zero temperatures on the mountain

    Weathers lives, but suffers bad frostbite on his hands and face. Many parts of his body he had to have amputated because they were so frostbitten. He lost his right arm up half to his elbow, all 4 fingers and his thumb on his left hand, his nose, and parts of both of his feet. All of his injuries made people think he wouldn't live.

  • Boukreev found the frozen body of Fischer at 7:00pm.

  • Krakauer finds Namba and Weathers close to death

    Krakauer finds Namba and Weathers close to death

  • Rob Hall dies

    Hall had died because he didn't want to leave Harris and Hansen alone. Harris went missing when trying to reach camp, and Hansen had died due to hypothermia. Hall couldn't breathe bottled oxygen, since his regulator was too choked with ice, and the air on the higher parts of Mount Everest has very little oxygen in it.
  • 9:45am Reached Geneva Spur (25,900 ft.)

    9:45am Reached Geneva Spur (25,900 ft.)

  • Reached base camp at 17,600 ft. while descending

    Reached base camp at 17,600 ft. while descending

    Magazine Article

  • Climbers from the IMAX expedition found the body of Rob Hall on the mountain