Jon Krakauer's Everest Expedition

By ktheune
  • Expedition Started

    Expedition Started

    Into Thin Air
    Jon Krakauer gets a call from Rob Hall telling him that there is a spot for him on the expedition. Jon took the spot paid $65,000 to go on the trip. Krakauer was a jornalest and a moutianeer. After the Everest trip was over he wrote a book about the adventure, Into Thin Air.
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  • Krakauer took helicopter to Lukla, or Base Camp at 9,200 feet

    Krakauer took helicopter to Lukla, or Base Camp at 9,200 feet

  • Team reached 16,200 feet, the Lobju

    Team reached 16,200 feet, the Lobju

  • The team climbs to Base Camp

    The team climbs to Base Camp

  • Hall gives a turn-around time of 10:00am, meaning if they hadn't reached camp the need to turn around

  • Only half the team is at camp at 10:00am and they all head back to Base Camp

    Only half the team is at camp at 10:00am and they all head back to Base Camp

  • Team begins second climb from Base Camp to Camp One

    Team begins second climb from Base Camp to Camp One

  • Jon finds a frozen body of a Sherpa

  • Nawang has trouble walking

  • Jon Krakauer sees another dead body, which was probobly from years before

  • Doug Hansen has a frozen larynx

  • Team begins to climb to Camp Two, which is at 21,300 feet

  • Everyone is experiencng Edema

  • Team climbs to Camp Three at 24,000 feet

  • Nawang becomes very sick with Edema

  • Guide ropes need to be fixed at the South Col

  • Nawang is rushed down to Kathmandu

  • Descended back to Camp Two

  • At 4:30 the group leaves Base Camp for the last time

    They had to return to Base Camp because there had been two cases of HAPE, or High Altitude Pulmonary Edema. HAPE is an illness caused by climbing too high, too quickly and fills the lungs with fluids.
  • They reach 16,000 feet at Khumbu Glacier, which is twelve miles long of ice

    They reach 16,000 feet at Khumbu Glacier, which is twelve miles long of ice

    At some parts in Khumbu the teams had to cross crevasses. They did this by using ladders. They usually did the crossing at night and were attached to the ladder.

  • Jon separates ribs while he is coughing

  • Andy Harris is hit by a boulder while climbing, but claims to be okay

  • Left Camp Two at 21,300 feet

  • Hall and Fischer's teams leave Camp Two and begin to climb Lhotse Face

    Hall and Fischer's teams leave Camp Two and begin to climb Lhotse Face

    Lhotse Face is the fourth highest mountian in the world and is connected to Everest by the South Col. Its elevation is 8,516 metres or 27,940 ft. The first attempt to climbthe Face was in 1955 and was attempted by the International Himalayan Expedition.

  • Krakauer sees a member of the Taiwanese team, Chen Nu-Yan, slip off Lhoste Face and fall into ma crevasse after only seventy feet and survives

  • Chen is rescued and is left in a tent to recover

  • Chen decends from the mountian and suddenly losses conciousness and soon stops breathing. The IMAX team races to help but by the time they got there Chen is dead.

  • Jon Krakauer hasn't slept in 57 hours

  • Team reaches Camp Three

  • Krakauer last ate Ramen noodles and peanut M&M's

  • A blizzard approached the mountian

    A blizzard approached the mountian

  • Krakauer descends from the mountian and is caught in a blizzard

  • Krakauer runs out of oxygen and heads to Camp. Andy Harris catches up with him

  • Harris slips on a lip of ice and slides down the mountian. At one point he tumbles, but is okay and runs off towards camp

  • Jon reaches summit at 1:17pm at 29,028 feet

    Once Jon Krakauer reached the summit he stood on the top of the world. He stayed there for five minutes before having to descend do to an approaching storm.

  • Team reaches the Balcony at 27,600 feet and rest

  • Beck Weathers is trapped in the blizzard.

    Beck Weathers is trapped in the blizzard.

    Left For Dead Book Review
    Beck Weathers lie on the mountian during the blizzard, that was later known as the Everest disaster. As he lie there he could hear others walk past him and leace him for dead. He couldn't move or talk, only lie there. He stayed there for a whole night and soon got up and walked to Camp. He suffered severe frostbite. All four fingers and the thumb on his left hand were removed. His nose was amputated and reconstructed. with tissue from his ear and forehead and he lost parts of both feet too.

  • Rob Hall radioed base that he had found two men

  • Hall called his wife assuring her that he was okay. He died soon afterward

    Hall called his wife assuring her that he was okay. He died soon afterward

    As Rob Hall called his wife and said, "Sleep well my sweetheart. Please don't worry too much.". This was the last call he made and he died soon afterward.
  • Scott Fischer's body was found around 7pm

    Scott Fischer's body was found around 7pm

    Scott Fischer was one of the American climbers and guides on the Everest Expedition. He was the first American to summit 27,940-foot (8,516 m) Lhotse, fourth highest mountain in the world. He was beieved to have died due to alttitude sickness or HAPE.

  • Krakauer is told that Andy Harris has not returned to Camp and he decides to retrace Harris' steps

  • Krakauer realizes that Harris went straight instead of turning left and had fallen of the mountian

  • Fischer is buried above the South Col as the team regroups

  • Rob Hall's body was found by mountaineers from the IMAX expedition

    Rob Hall's body was found by mountaineers from the IMAX expedition