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1996 Mountain Everest Timeline

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  • In Feburary Jon Krakauer a call to come on Rob Hall's Mountain Everest Expedition.

    In Feburary Jon Krakauer a call to come on Rob Hall's Mountain Everest Expedition.

    Jon Krakauer was born on April 12, 1954 in Brookline, Massachusetts as the third of five children. His father introduced him to mountaineering as an 8-year-old. After highschool he went on to study at Hampshire College in Massachusetts. In 1977 he fell in love with former climber Linda Mariam Moore, and they married in 1980. They had lived in Seattle, Washington, but moved to Boulder, Colorado shortly after the realese of "Into Thin Air."
  • Jon Krakauer started climbing Mountain Everest

    Jon Krakauer started climbing Mountain Everest

  • Boarded helicopter on its way to Lukla 9,200 feet

    Boarded helicopter on its way to Lukla 9,200 feet

  • Reach 16,000, Khounbo Glacier, 12 miles of ice

    Reach 16,000, Khounbo Glacier, 12 miles of ice

  • Reached Lobuge feet

  • The team reached the first camp base 17,600 feet

  • Everyone is in good health

    Everyone is in good health

  • Jon finds frozen sherpa at 21,000 feet

  • Everyone is ezperiencing edema

    Everyone is ezperiencing edema

    Edema
    Edema is an abnormal accumulation of fluid beneath the skin, or in one or more cavities of the body. Edema is swelling caused by fluid in your body's tissues. Edema can also be caused by eating to much salt, sunburn, heart failure, pregnancy, and others. It usually occurs in feet, ankles and legs, but it can invovle your entire body.

  • Desended back to base 2 fot a rest

  • Rob Hall decided that this day would be a rest day

  • Campers reached their campsite

  • They left base camp 2 climbing the Lhotse Face

  • Bolder falls on Andy Harris's chest, he lives

    Bolder falls on Andy Harris's chest, he lives

  • They were pulling on their boots to asend to Camp 4

    They were pulling on their boots to asend to Camp 4

  • Steel worker from Taipei lost footing and fell

  • Chen Nu-Yan falls into crevasse 70ft. and survives, but later dies

    Chen Nu-Yan falls into crevasse 70ft. and survives, but later dies

    A crevasse is a crack in an ice sheet of glacier. Crevasses often have vertical or near vertical walls, which can melt and create seracs, archs, etc. These walls sometimes expose layers that represent the glacier's stratigraphy. There are three main types of crevasses, transverse crevasses, marginal crevasses, and longitudinal crevasses.
  • Reached the top of the summit

    Reached the top of the summit

  • Jon hasn't slept in 57 hours!

  • Jon had only eatin Ramen noodle soup and a handful of peanut M&s

    Jon had only eatin Ramen noodle soup and a handful of peanut M&s

  • Jon has 2 seperated ribs from coughing so much

    Jon has 2 seperated ribs from coughing so much

  • Jon loses his oxygen supply

    Jon loses his oxygen supply

  • 5:00pm a blizzard hits the top of the summit

    5:00pm a blizzard hits the top of the summit

    A blizzard or also called a winter hurricane is a severe storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow. Blizzards are formed when a high pressure system, also known as a ridge, interacts with a low pressure system.
  • Andy Harris walks off a cliff and falls 4,000ft.

    Andy Harris walks off a cliff and falls 4,000ft.

  • The blizzard kills 8 people

  • For five minutes Jon was standing on top of the world

  • Rob Hall radios that he is at the South summit

    Rob Hall radios that he is at the South summit

  • Rob Halls calls his wife and says- "Sleep well my love, don't worry to much"

  • Rob Hall died at a 29,035 ft. altitude he was walking to camp, and a storm came and he couldn't see, and walked off a cliff

    Rob Hall died at a 29,035 ft. altitude he was walking to camp, and a storm came and he couldn't see, and walked off a cliff

    Rob Hall was born on January 14, 1961. Rob was best know for being a head guide on the Mountain Everest expidition. Rob met his future wife, Jan Arnold, during his Everest summit atempt in 1990. In 1996 Rob went on another expidition to reach the summit of Mountain Everest. This time something tradgic happened. He was walking back to camp when a storm came and he couldn't see and walked of a cliff. On May 11, 1996 Rob Hall had died.

  • Going down Mountain Everest

  • Reached the bottom on Mountain Everest

    Reached the bottom on Mountain Everest

  • They headed home

  • IMAX expedtion finds Rob Halls dead body