By the end of the month, a record 12 climbers had lost their lives on the mountain. On May 10, 1996, both Hall and Fischer along with another Adventure Consultants guide and two clients died in a sudden blizzard that swept across the mountain.
His rival Scott Fischer, head of the Mountain Madness expedition, boasted, "We've got the big E figured out, we've got it totally wired." He could get almost any reasonably fit person to the summit.
As the journalist Jon Krakauer notes in his gripping new book ("Into Thin Air"), Rob Hall, the leader of the Adventure Consultants expedition, bragged that T was a classic and horribly tragic case of hubris.Īlthough Mount Everest had defied human attempts to conquer it for more than a century, although one person had died for every four who made it to the top, the world's loftiest mountain had, in recent years, come to seem more accessible,Įven tame: in 1993, 40 climbers reached the summit on one day alone. Mount Everest Has Only One Kind of Luck: Bad By MICHIKO KAKUTANIĪ Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. It’s a trophy on the wall, and they’re done … When I say I wish I’d never gone, I really mean that.Mount Everest Has Only One Kind of Luck: Bad Krakauer revealed that the accident affected him for years afterwards – “I was … depressed and I didn’t even know it” – and has harsh words for the current wave of “Everest tourism”: “Everest is not real climbing. “They were taking chances trying to get clients to the summit because I was there.” Krakauer, however, does accept one of the film’s suggestions: that his presence, and potential coverage in a major magazine, may have pushed one of the expedition leaders, Rob Hall, to take more risks. They were helpless … The writers and I tried to look at things from a fair point of view without choosing sides.” “Our intention in the tent scene that Mr Krakauer mentions was to illustrate how helpless people were and why they might not have been able to go out and rescue people … They were not malicious. Kormákur responded to Krakauer’s complaint in a statement to the LA Times.
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