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Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) 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 Americans to summit Lhotse (27,940 feet / 8516 m), the world's fourth highest peak. [1]
The 1996 disaster received widespread publicity and raised questions about the commercialization of Everest. [ 2 ] Numerous climbers 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 .
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling nonfiction book written by Jon Krakauer. [1] It details Krakauer's experience in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster , in which eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a storm.
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest is a 1997 disaster television film based on Jon Krakauer's memoir Into Thin Air (1997). The film, directed by Robert Markowitz and written by Robert J. Avrech, tells the story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. It was broadcast on ABC on November 9, 1997. [4]
Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa (May 5, 1971 [1] [2] – September 25, 1996) was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineering guide, climber and porter, best known for his work as the climbing Sirdar for Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness expedition to Everest in Spring 1996, when a freak storm led to the deaths of eight climbers from several expeditions, considered one of the worst disasters in the history of ...
Boukreev worked as a commercial mountain guide in the 1990s, and was working with Scott Fischer's adventure company Mountain Madness during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. [3] He managed to survive and was also instrumental in saving the lives of others, including New York socialite Sandy Hill Pittman. [4]
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Gammelgaard is the 35th woman, and first Scandinavian woman, to climb Mount Everest, [1] reaching the summit via the South East Ridge on 10 May 1996, as part of Scott Fischer's tragic expedition. Her book Climbing High (1998) recounts the 1996 Everest disaster when a storm took the lives of Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, and six other climbers. Her ...