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Tuesday, May 13, 9-11 pm ET
World-renowned climber and filmmaker David Breashears travels to Mount Everest to tell the story of a 1996 storm that resulted in the worst climbing tragedy in Everest's history. It is the story of 11 climbers, with eyewitness accounts of their astonishing survival in the world's most unforgiving environment.
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. World-renowned climber and
filmmaker David Breashears returns to Everest to tell the story of
the climbers who perished in that storm, marking the worst climbing
tragedy in Mount Everest's history. More remarkably, it is the
story of 11 climbers caught in the storm and the eyewitness
accounts of their astonishing survival in the world's most
unforgiving environment.