
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
- Year:
- 1997
- 90 min
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My name is Jon Krakauer.
I went on an expedition to write
On May 10, I arrived
on top of the mountain...
but the summit came
at a terrible cost.
In the spring of 1996, two of
the world's greatest climbers...
Scott Fischer and Rob Hall...
led this expedition
to the top of the world.
both men had summited Everest before...
but this time they went as competitors,
leading nonprofessional climbers...
who paid as much as $65,000 each
to be guided to the top.
There was a businesswoman from Japan,
Yasuko Namba.
A mailman from Seattle,
Doug Hansen.
Two ski instructors from Aspen...
A dentist from Colorado,
Dale Kruse.
A wealthy New York socialite,
Sandy Hill Pittman.
And a pathologist from Texas,
Beck Weathers.
from the bottom of Mount Everest.
By the time it reached the top...
five climbers,
who I'd come to call friends...
were dead.
Scott Fischer and Rob Hall
went as business rivals...
each trying to get as many of
their clients to the top as possible...
and win the lion's share
of the lucrative Everest market.
I went as a journalist...
to write about the wisdom of guiding
rich novices up Everest...
once the province
of elite climbers.
Only later would I discover that I
went for the same reason as the others.
to stand on
Everest arouses
a powerful desire.
To those who don't feel it,
it cannot be explained.
I told myself I was here
to write a magazine article...
but already Everest
was exerting its pull on me...
already the fever was building.
I'm Rob Hall.
I want to make sure
you know who your guides are.
- This is Andy Harris.
- Hi.
- Mike Groom.
- Hi there.
Hey, Mike.
And our lead climbing Sherpa,
Ang Dorje.
I'd like to begin by introducing...
my fellow guides.
To my right, Neal Beidleman.
Hi, everybody.
If you need anything at all...
please feel free to ask him.
And him is the one and only
Anatoli Boukreev.
And my lead climbing Sherpa, Lopsang.
Hi.
Tomorrow, we begin a ten-day hike
into Base Camp Everest.
Now, base camp is 17,600 feet.
Then Camp One, 19,500 feet.
Already there's a third less oxygen
than at sea level.
So we'll lay in again
and let our bodies adjust.
Then we go up to...
Camp Two.
Camp Two is 21,600 feet.
This is when you have to start worrying
about cerebral and pulmonary edema.
like an overinflated balloon and your
lungs can fll up with so much liquid...
you literally drown.
Camp Three at 24,000 feet.
Now,your body is inhaling
four times faster than normal...
and still not getting
enough oxygen.
Your digestive tract
will want to quit...
leaving your body so hungry
for nutrients...
it will literally start
to eat itself.
And then, it's Camp Four.
Welcome to the Death Zone...
where bad things can happen
very, very quickly.
You're going to feel sluggish,
careless, cold.
You'll only spend a few hours
at Camp Four.
From this point onwards, nobody on
this team travels without oxygen.
- Is that clear?
- No arguments.
The push for the summit
starts at night.
We go up to the South Col...
the Balcony,
the south summit...
the Hillary Step, the only point
of technical climbing on the ascent...
and then...
the top of the world.
Now, the most important rule:
If you are not on the summit
by 2:
00 P.M., you turn around.I have seen too many climbers
get killed...
after reaching the top
too late in the day.
They run out of gas and get nailed
by the conditions on the descent.
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