Expedition Eeverest

By maryclaire423

  • Krakauer get call to be on expodition

    Jon Krakauer, journalist for the Outside magazine, was asked by the his boss to do a article on Everest. He was only supposed to do a article from base camp. He called is boss and asked if they could hold the article off for a year so that he could train to summit Everest. The boss said yes.

  • Krakauer started climbing Evertest

    Mt Everest is the tallest moutain in the world above sea level. Its summit is 29,029 ft and can be reached with or without oxygen. It is one of the most dangerous places on earth.By the end of the 2008 climbing season, there had been 4,102 ascents to the summit by about 2,700 individuals. Nepal government requires all prospective climbers to obtain an expensive permit, costing up to $25,000 US dollars per person. Everest has claimed over 200 lives.

  • Krakauer and group reach Kumba Glaiciar at 16,000 ft

  • Krakauer and group reach base camp

  • Krakauer finds frozen sherpa body at 21,00ft

  • Krakauer and group are done resting at camp

  • Nawang has trouble walking

  • Hanse has a frozen larynx

  • 24,000ft and everyone expirences edema

    Edema is a not normal accumulation of fluid beneath the skin or in one or more cavities of the body. This commonly is in the hands, arms, ankles, legs and feet. It is usually linked to the lymphatic systems. Some times altitude edema can cause you to not be able to think clearly. An example would be not remembering what tent your in or what sleeping bag is yours.

  • Nawang is very ill with edema

  • Nawang is rushed down to Kathmandu

  • Krakauer and group descended to Camp two for rest

  • Left base camp at 4:30, Scott Fischer crew looked good

  • Kraskauer seperates ribs due to coughing

  • Boulder falls on Andy Harris chest

  • Krakauer left camp 2 at 21,00 ft

  • Chen Nu-Yan slips off into a crevass and survives but dies later

  • Krakauer and group reaches camp 3

  • Krakauer reflects on weeks leading up to day before summit

  • Krakauer hasn't slept for 56 hours

  • Krakauer and group reach the balcony at 21,600ft

  • 33 climbers were attempting to summit this day

  • No set fixed ropes on the Balcony cost Krakauer and his team a 1 hour delay to be fixed by sherpas

  • Krakauer and his team reach the Hillary step to find no fixed ropes, again the team is delayed 1 hour

  • Boukreev reaches the summit at 1:07pm without oxygen

  • Rob Hall calls for turn around at 2pm, but it is not enforced

  • Few climbers make the Summit before 2pm

  • Krakauer reaches the summit close to 2:30

    Summit Day begins late at night, with the mountaineers setting out from Camp 4, located at 26,000 feet, around midnight or so. They'll climb throughout the night, hoping to top out the next morning, reaching the summit in daylight. Once there, they'll spend 20-30 minutes at the summit, taking photos, resting, and enjoying the view, before turning back down the mountain. They know that getting to the top of the world is only half the journey.

  • The Mountain Madness group does not summit untill about 2:30

  • Mountain Madness group begins descent at 3pm

  • Storm starts on summit at 3:10pm

  • Halls sherpas discover a cleint, Doug Hansen above the Hillary step

  • Rob Hall arrives to assist Hansen who has run out of supplemntry oxygen supply and orders the sherpas to assist other clients

  • Krakauer losses oxygen supply after Andy Harris turn the valvue the wrong way

  • Scott Fisher of Mt. Madness group did not summit untill about 3:45pm

  • Scott Fischer was ill and probably suffering from HACE or HAPe and exhuasted from the ascent

  • Latest climbers reached the summit at 4pm

  • Climber were stranded all over the Mt.

  • The worsening weather caused fixed ropes and the paths to be buried

  • Part of Krakauers group was stranded between the summit and camp 4 on the way back from the summit

  • Krakauer makes it to base camp during the blizzard

  • Andy Harris, comning down to base camp right after Krakauer, missed camp and falls 4,000 to his death

  • Rob Hall and others get lost in the blizzard

  • Krakauer standes opn top of world for 5 min

  • Rob Hall calls his wife by satillite phone assuring her the he would see her again, Quote" Sleep well my love and don't worry so much" end quote

  • Rob Hall dies soon after the call to his wife

  • Imax film maker helps with the rescure efforts of survivors

  • Rob Hall calls wife on Satellite phone and tells her he'll see her agian

  • Rob Hall calls his wife by satellite phone assuring her the he would see her again.

  • Rob Hall is said to have died right after his call to his wife

  • Imax film crew helps with the rescue of survivors

  • Rob Hall calls his wife by satellite phone telling her that he would see her again

    Rob Hall called his wife on May 11 1996 and left a message telling her, and i quote "Sleep well my love and don't worry so much

  • The Imax film crew aids in search for survivors

  • Rob Hall calls wife

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

    Scott Fischer was born on December 24th, 1955 and died on May 11th 1996.Fischer spent his early life in Michigan and New Jersey and took two years of climbing courses after being inspired at the age of 14 by a show he saw on television. In 1982, he and his wife, Jean Price, moved west to Seattle, Washington where they raised two children, Andy and Katie Rose. He died in the 1996 Everest Disaster on May 11, the worst tragedy in the climbing history of Mt. Everest.

  • Krakauer talks to outside personnel from Outside magazine

  • Rob Halls body is foud by Imax expodition