A look back at Everest
Many questions remain about the 1996 Mount Everest expedition that left eight climbers dead atop the world’s tallest peak. Here are the essentials in ϳԹ Online‘s comprehensive coverage of this tragic event.
The IMAX extravaganza he shot on Everest confirms that David Breashears risks his life to capture mountains on film like no one else on earth. But there is much about this climbing-rat-made-good that the movie doesn’t reveal.
Jon Krakauer’s original story that ran in the September 1996 issue of ϳԹ magazine told the world what happened that May.
Every daily dispatch from Mount Everest sent down during the expedition; a slideshow of the summit route narrated by Scott Fischer; dozens
of audio and video clips of the climbers.
After a week of searching atop Nepal’s Mount Annapurna, hopes of finding Russian climber Anatoli Boukreev alive have been abandoned.
Russian climber Anatoli Boukreev is missing and feared dead after an avalanche occurred on the Himalayan peak he was ascending, 26,700-foot Mount Annapurna.
Watch for climber David Breashears’s IMAX movie on Mount Everest in theaters early in 1998.
Here’s the news on the ABC Sunday Night Movie
about Krakauer’s book that aired November 9, 1997.
Fischer answered ϳԹ Online readers’ questions in March 1996 before he left for Mount Everest.
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