![]() ![]() ![]() Having joined Hall's group to do an Outside magazine article on the growing commercialization of Everest, Krakauer provides the reader with a harrowing account of the disaster as it unfolded hour by hour. 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. Mount Everest Has Only One Kind of Luck: Bad ![]()
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