Left To Die On Mount Everest | The 1996 Mount Everest Disaster | Nature Bites

Guides and companions of the late Rob Hall recall the moment they knew they would have to leave their friend behind on Mount Everest after a failed rescue attempt.

From "Remnants of Everest: The 1996 Tragedy": As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of High Camp at 26,000 feet. This film tells the story of the five climbers who perished in that storm, marking the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest's history. But more remarkably, it is the story of eleven climbers caught in the storm and the eyewitness accounts of their astonishing survival in the world's most unforgiving environment.

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[MrJonrocker]

I'm rereading the book "Into Thin Air" for the dozenth time. Every time I read it I hope for a happy ending.

[Peppermint]

Rob suffered from hypoxia (oxygen deprivation) which alters your judgment badly. Reason why everything happened, he took several bad decisions. Even this "come and get me" was a lack of judgment : those who would have gone to rescue him would have died too (Harris actually did just that). Besides, it would have been strictly impossible to rescue him from his location. He was one of a kind physically strong person, but everybody has their limit

[HarryToeface]

I hope he at least saw beautiful sights in his last moments...

[owen]

You can see that the Sherpas are genuinely devastated

[JARLIV]

Rob Hall died as a result of a chain of events. There were too many incompetent “mountaineers” in both Rob Hall and Scott Fischer’s teams. The main reason is probably that Doug Hanson who was incredibly slow and struggling on that particular day, was virtually dragged up to summit by Rob, and this was after Rob had already reached the top. Having to go back down to the Hillary Step to get Doug and haul him up to the summit, exhausted him, and along with the ferocity of the storm, unfortunately led to the circumstances of Rob not being able to move further down.

[bingboy_gaming]

Hope he had an Arthur Morgan send off. Got to see a beautiful view before he went

[UAPReportingCenter]

What is this docu from???? Ive never seen it!!

[backmarkermoth]

This was very poorly managed and base camp operatives are partially responsible for the deaths. It should have been base camp monitoring the clocks and dialing into teams at the 12pm mark alerting them to 2 hours to turn around, then 1pm advising there is 1 hour left, 1:30pm giving them a half hour window to assess their location and if it was achievable and then at 2pm calling and ordering everyone back down the mountain. They were meant to manage that.

[nicholasjasa]

The outro noise is so loud, obnoxious, and inappropriate for the seriousness and somberness of this video.

[ceciliaolivieri]

TERRIBLE NEGLIGENCE, IRRESPONSABILITY AND BAD LUCK

[diegoguillen]

yall need to change that outro. annoying af

[kylebarcomb]

Why not always have a rescue team ready for all attempts

[j.ZEF-Who]

Yes - if a stupid rich person wants to climb that high - no Sherpas needs to risk their lives for them. Come save me ... lol.