1996 Mount Everest disaster
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On 10–11 May 1996, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard and died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit. Over that season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit. These de
Camp IV at the South Col, looking upward at the summit of Everest.
Ang Dorje Sherpa
Anatoli "Toli" Boukreev
A memorial chorten for Rob Hall, Andy Harris, Doug Hansen, and Yasuko Namba
Scott Fischer
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Scott Eugene Fischer was an American mountaineer and mountain guide. He was renowned for ascending the world's highest mountains without supplemental oxygen. Fischer and Wally Berg were the first Amer
1996 Mount Everest disaster
…were at a high altitude on Everest during the storm including the Adventure Consultants team, led by Rob Hall, and the Mountain Madness team, led by Scott Fischer. While climbers died on both the North Face and South Col approaches, the events on the latter were more widely reported. On the South Col approach…
Fischer on Annapurna Fang in 1984
This memorial to Fischer sits on an open plateau outside the village of Dughla in the Khumbu Valley, a day's walk from Everest Base Camp.