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Tragedy on Everest

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The Nightmare on the South Sonnet

Expedition leader Rob Hall was stuck high up on the mountain. Michael could talk to him on the radio but couldn't save him. Yasuko and Beck were missing and presumed dead. Now had to get the surviving climbers down the mountain. Before they left camp he remembers a strange thing happening. He came across a tent that didn't belong to us. The front door was open with mountaineering boots poking out one end. As I got close I realized that connected to these Mountaineering boots was a body. It was Beck Withers who was still alive. That was just absolutely devastating. No one had told me he was in a tent right next to two hours at camp

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