everest, mount (china and nepal)

In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team attempted to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm hit, ripped the team to shreds, and everyone fought for their lives. Nine climbers died. When surviving team members found Weathers they saw he was also dying and left him on the mountain. Twelve hours later the inexplicable happened and he appeared at camp, blinded, gloveless, caked with ice, a "dead man walking".

Chronicles the life of mountain climber Scott Fischer, discussing his early love for the outdoors, family, outdoor adventure company, climbs, and death on Mount Everest.

The author describes how he spent his teenage uears cloimbing mountains in the United States, South America, Africa, and Asia, wih an emphasis on his two expeditions up Mount Everest.

Draws from the recollections of climbing guide Anatoli Boukreev and other survivors to tell the story of the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest which occurred on May 10, 1996, when twenty-three climbers from two commercial expeditions were caught in a killing storm while attempting to reach their high-altitude base camp.

A photographic journal of the experiences of filmmaker David Breashears, who, with a team of climbers, ascended Mount Everest in 1996 for the purpose of recording the climb with an IMAX motion picture camera. Includes an account of the tragic deaths of eight climbers who were trapped on the mountain during a blizzard.

The author describes how he spent his teenage years climbing mountains in the United States, South America, Africa, and Asia, with an emphasis on his two expeditions up Mount Everest.

A history of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's 1953 summit of Mt. Everest, detailing the challenges encountered, the individuals involved, the discoveries made, and how the expedition left its mark upon the world.

Surveys the various attempts to climb Mount Everest and gives a detailed account of the successful climb made by Hillary and Tenzing.