
Tragedy on Everest
Witness History
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The Blizzard and the Climbing Expedition
In all, eleven climbers from different expeditions were stranded high on the mountain. As night fell, Michael lost his bearings in the blizzard. At one in the morning a break in the storm finally allowed him to get his bearings but could they get back to camp? I still had back withers, totally blind and Yasuko Namba who was incapacitated so I had him on one shoulder and Yasuko on the other. When you run out of bottled oxygen, it's like someone has put a garden hose into your climbing suit and turned it on. Ice cold water starts to rise from your feet and just overwhelms you.
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