People
Jon Krakauer
17600 feet and chock-full of tents
Everest Base Camp
Summit Day
May 10, 1996
Krakauer's Everest Summit
1:12pm
Texan doctor who barely escapes with his life
Beck Weathers
it's where the "Mousetrap" serac is
the Khumbu Icefall
First Day at EBC
April 9, 1996
the device that lets you ascend a fixed rope
a jumar
when Hall's team left Camp 4 for the Summit Bid
11:35pm
climbing sirdar for Mountain Madness
Lopsang Jangbu
no one spends a long time at this camp because it's up in the Death Zone
Camp 4
first day at Camp 3
April 29, 1996
the spikes that attach to your boots to give you traction
crampons
when Doug Hansen finally arrived at the Summit
4pm
Jan Arnold Hall
it's visible from the South Col, but it's not the real thing
the South Summit
Last day in Nepal
May 19, 1996
the ethnicity that's native to the Everest region
Sherpa
when Beck Weathers wandered into Camp 4
4:35pm
climber and his nationality who was rescued by Mountain Madness sherpas instead of Scott Fischer
Makalu Gau from Taiwan
It's the black obstacle between Camp 3 and 4, not the yellow one.
the Geneva Spur
Year Everest was first climbed without oxygen by Messner and Haebler
1978
a pressure chamber designed to save the life of someone suffering from HAPE or HACE
a Gamow bag
half-hour when the deadly storm hits the Everest summit ridge
between 6:30pm and 7pm