Remnants of Everest The 1996 Tragedy

As darkness fell on May 10 1996 a fastmoving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams on the slopes of Mount Everest The climbers exhausted from their ascent to the summit were soon lost in the dark in a ferocious blizzard far from the safety of High Camp at 26000 feet This film tells the story of the five climbers who perished in this storm marking the worst climbing tragedy in the history of Mount Everest But most remarkably its the story of eleven climbers caught in the storm and eyewitness accounts of their astonishing survival in the worlds most unforgiving environment