Beck Weathers

Beck was an American doctor (a pathologist) with a passion for mountain climbing. He was with Rob Hall’s team. During the ascent he was blinded by the effects of high altitude  and this brought him many problems. He is married to Peach Weathers and has a son and a daughter.

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Mike Groom

Mike was an Australian guide with Adventure Consultants. Once in Everest, Groom gets lost with a group of clients during the descent. He also guides Beck Weathers down the mountain when Beck goes blind.

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Anatoli Boukreev

Anatoli was a Russian Kazakhstani mountaineer. He did 18 successful ascents of peaks above 8000m. He was famous for not using supplemental oxygen, which makes climbing 8000s even more difficult. Boukreev worked as a commercial guide in the 1990s. During the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, he was working with Fischer’s adventure company.  After that, he wrote his own account of the events on Everest in The Climb. He was awarded the David A. Sowles Memorial Award by the American Alpine Club for rescuing a group of climbers in the storm.

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Yasuko Namba 

Yasuko Namba was a businesswoman in Japan, but she was famous for being the second Japanese woman to reach all of the Seven Summits, including Everest. She was the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest. She was lost in the mountain with Beck Weathers and their guide, Mike Groom.

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Andy Harris

He was one of the three guides for Rob Hall’s 1996 Everest expedition. Although this was his first attempt to summit Mount Everest, he had extensive climbing experience in New Zealand. Harris was one of the more altruistic guides on the expedition. He came to the assistance of anyone and everyone without hesitation, he was a very loyal person.  

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Jon Krakauer.

Jon is an American writer, journalist and an excellent climber. He was hired in Rob Hall’s team to write an article about Mount Everest commercial expeditions for Outside, an adventure magazine. Once in Everest, he wrote an expedition diary to help him write his article. After some time, he wrote Into Thin Air, a book based on the Everest Disaster of 1996. This book has become a film.

 

Neal Beidleman

Neal Beidleman is an engineer and a designer of things like aircraft autopilot systems and industrial machines. He is also an excellent skier, runner and mountaineer. In 1996 he worked as a climbing guide on the Mountain Madness expedition.  

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Doug Hansen

He was a client with Adventure Consultants. Hansen was a postal worker. It was very difficult for him to pay the 65000 dollars for the Everest summit, so he had a discount from Rob Hall. But still, he had to work the night shift and do construction jobs by day to finance it. This was not his first attempt to climb Everest. He tried to climb Everest one year before, in 1995, but he had to turn back just a few hundred feet from the summit. He had an easy going personality which contributed to the positive atmosphere of the expedition

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Rob Hall:  

He is a New Zealand mountaineer, the head guide of Adventure Consultants. He began climbing in the Himalayas when he was nineteen years old. Then the climbed the highest  mountain in each of the seven continents in only seven months. After that, he decided to be a guide, and brought many clients to the summit of Everest. This summit of Everest in 1996 meant his fifth summit. All of his clients like and respect him.

 

Scott Fischer:

He is an American mountaineer and the head guide of Mountain Madness expedition group. He is famous for his ascents of the world’s highest mountains without the use of supplemental oxygen and for having survived some terrible falls.  He was the first American to summit Llhotse (the world’s fourth highest peak) and K2 (the world’s second highest peak). He first climbed Everest in 1994 and later in 1996. He guided a team of 18 in climbing Everest. It included two guides  and eight clients assisted by eight sherpas.