the 1996 Everest disaster please

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What actually happened? What was the disaster? I couldn’t understand from Wikipedia

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“Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer (who was there) is a good reference for this. Essentially the summitting was later than planned (for a variety of reasons) and later than was considered safe, and weather moved in during the descent.

You never want to play around at those elevations.

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