Everest Disaster

For my Field Study Day I had a confusing turn of events that caused me to go and a research paper on the movie Everest. My original plan was to volunteer at the Elks Lodge but when we arrived there we couldn’t find anyone and waited an hour and a half before leaving. We tried going to a few places nearby, like a church and a retirement home to ask if there were any volunteer opportunites to no avail. So as a last ditch effort we went to the movies and saw Everest. This movie is based on an expedition up Mt. Everest that went wrong back in 1996, it was one of the deadliest expeditions up the mountain ever. I won’t talk about the movie much, instead this’ll be about the disaster that occured back in 1996.
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Beck was forced to stop climbing shortly after Camp IV, due to his vision being massively reduced due to high altitude. When trying to return to Camp IV a massive storm hit the area disorienting him and other climbers, when the storm passed he was so exhausted from the storm that he couldn’t return to Camp IV. At some point Beck stood up and walked towards Camp IV in an effort to survive, he got to an open bivouac and slept there, with both his hands and face exposed to the harsh cold. The next morning he awoke and through sheer power managed to walk to Camp IV, when he arrived at Camp IV, the climbers there were in shock to see that he was still alive, his hands and nose were both extremely badly frostbitten. The climbers gave him a tent to rest in but didn’t expect him to survive through the night, the blizzard that happened at night had knocked his tent over and once again the climbers thought he had died, but to their surprise he maganaged to live through yet another night. So in one more attempt to save him they spent the next two days helping him get to Camp II where they organized a helicopter rescue attempt. This rescue attempt succeeded and was one of the highest altitude rescues