Everest

Climbing Everest 1996

By luhellmer

  • The crew landed at Kathmandu, India.

    Kathmandu is located pretty much at the base of the mountain. It is in India. At the top of the mountain if you fall to one side you land in one country, if you fall to another side you land in an other coutry.
  • The crew recived base camp info.

    The crew recived base camp info.

  • Reports of severe weather delayed the trip.

  • They worked out final details.

  • They started up the mountain.

    They started up the mountain.

  • The crew reached 9200 feet.

    The crew reached 9200 feet.

  • The crew reached 16000 feet, khumbu Glacier,12 miles of ice.

    The Khumbu Glacier is located in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal and flows down from the Khumbu Icefall on the southern slopes of Mount Everest. It runs two and a half miles.

  • They reached 16200 feet, The Lobuje.

  • They arrived at Base Camp and had a Puja Ceremony.

    They arrived at Base Camp and had a Puja Ceremony.

  • They reached Everest Base Camp,17600 feet.

  • They rested after passing through ice fall.

    An icefall is a portion of some glaciers characterized by rapid flow and a chaotic crevassed surface.The most conspicuous consequence of glacier flow, icefalls occur where the glacier bed steepens and/or narrows. The term icefall is formed by analogy with the word waterfall, a similar, but much higher speed, flow.

  • They spent the night at Camp 1.

  • They descended to the lower ice fall.

    They descended to the lower ice fall.

  • They acclimatizes at camp 2.

  • Nawang is very sick with edema.

    Edema
    Edema: an excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue spaces or a body cavity. It causes really bad swelling.

  • The guide ropes needed repair at South Col.

  • Nawang was rushed to Kathmandu.

  • The team is now stable (O2) at camp 3, 324000 feet.

    The team is now stable (O2) at camp 3, 324000 feet.

  • They descended back to base camp 2.

  • Fischer's crew is looking strong.

  • They rested at camp 2.

  • They left camp 2, 21300 feet.

  • They reached camp 3.

    They reached camp 3.

  • They reached 27600 feet, Balcony.

  • They reached the summit, 29028 feet.

    They reached the summit, 29028 feet.

  • 1:17 PM, they began descent.

    1:17 PM, they began descent.

  • Scott Fischer and Rob Hall became stranded on MT. Everest.

  • There were 8 confirmed dead on MT. Everest.

    "In March of 1996, Outside magazine sent me to Nepal to participate in, and write about a guided ascent of Mt. Everest."..."May 10 I arrived on top of the mountian, but the summit came at a terrible cost.". These were quotes from Jon Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air".
  • Fischer was buried above South Col as the team regrouped.

    Fischer was buried above South Col as the team regrouped.

  • A new leader, Beidelman pieces together disaster.