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The deaths of two people

posted 11 years ago by AriaOfTelengard
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A bunch of people died on Everest, but only two deaths really seem to matter to me. The first one is of Francys Arsentiev (sleeping beauty). She was the only person who's death impacted people so much that a guy went back up the mountain a few years later just to bury her. His team not only buried her, but also brought up with them letters from her loved ones to leave on her corpse.

The second death is of Lincoln Hall. He actually did not die on Everest, but rather later of cancer. It always bothered me that he survived being abandoned on Everest only to die of a disease he had no control over. Everest maimed him. He lost his fingers and parts of his face if I remember correctly. But he fought through the mountain to make it back home to his family. His story is featured on the TV show "I Shouldn't Be Alive" in episode "Left of Dead on Everest." During the filming of this episode he hadn't yet be stricken with cancer.

[–] brokedickdog7 11 years ago

I read the book and it is much better than the movie. Jon Krakauer is an excellent writer.

What happened to Dr. Beck Weathers was what got me. His survival was amazing but his injuries were severe.

"Weathers was later helped to walk on frozen feet to a lower camp, where he was a subject of one of the highest altitude medical evacuations ever performed by helicopter. Following his helicopter evacuation from the Western Cwm, he had his right arm amputated halfway between the elbow and wrist. All four fingers and the thumb on his left hand were removed, as well as parts of both feet. His nose was amputated and reconstructed with tissue from his ear and forehead."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beck_Weathers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Mount_Everest_disaster

Dr. Weathers is a fine and inspirational man.