12 Books About the 1996 Everest Disaster

In this week’s short update of The All About Everest Podcast, host Pauline Reynolds Nuttall shares exciting podcast news and the latest stories from the Himalayas. Pauline talks about re-editing and upgrading older episodes, listener feedback, and upcoming replay choices — while ...  Show more

In this week’s episode of The All About Everest Podcast, host Pauline Reynolds Nuttall revisits the 1996 Mount Everest disaster — one of the deadliest seasons in the mountain’s history — to explore what really went wrong and how it changed climbing forever. Discover why eight cli ...  Show more

Every year, adventurers brave the elements and attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Yet dangers abound, and more than a hundred bodies litter the mountain. Listen in and learn more about Mount Everest in this podcast from HowStuffWorks.com.

Michael Groom is one of the survivors of a tragic climbing expedition to Mount Everest in Nepal. In 2010, Jonny Hogg spoke to Michael Groom about the moments that went badly wrong when a storm struck the world's highest mountain on 10 May 1996.(Photo: Michael Groom on Everest in ...  Show more

In May 1996, two expert mountaineers and their clients set off to climb the world’s tallest peak — Mount Everest. Many of the clients have no high altitude experience and have paid upwards of $65,000 to be guided up the mountain by competing companies: Adventure Consultants and M ...  Show more

In the aftermath of the tragedy that claimed 11 lives, the surviving climbers leave K2 behind. As they do, they’re walking into a worldwide media frenzy.Everyone wants to know what happened? What went wrong? And most of all - was it worth it? A heartbroken Cecilie Skog tries to p ...  Show more