Everest disaster was one of the deadliest tragedies in mountaineering history. 🏔️❄️ A sudden blizzard trapped climbers near ...

Accepting the assignment was, for me, as much about coming to terms with the 1996 disaster as it was about filmmaking. Many of the survivors had sworn they would never return to Everest.

Everest? As the peak is a whopping 29,035 feet ... like in the 1996 “Into Thin Air” disaster. It would be “Into Thin Air”on steroids, killing several dozen climbers in one fell swoop.

Pemba Sherpa, a young Everest veteran from the village of Phortse ... but began to feel pressured by activists who saw the tragedy as a chance to press for improvements to the mountain guides ...

The tragedy has also shed light on the dangers ... A Sherpa's job on Mount Everest is statistically more dangerous than America's most treacherous professions by far, according to a chart posted ...

Roberto, Michael A. "Fatal Ascent: Leadership Lessons from the 1996 Everest Tragedy." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2003. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number ...