Everest 1996 Why did such a tragedy happen?

Reason: bad weather, human factors: Anatoly Pocliffe, as the team leader, did not carry oxygen and went down the mountain alone before the team members went down.

1996 15 climbers, including famous mountaineers Rob Hall and Scott Fisher, were killed in a snowstorm during the summit, which was the year with the largest number of victims in history. Among them, the accident on May 10 caused 8 deaths, which is one of the single accidents with the largest number of victims in history.

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Anatoly Pocliffe was once accused by the media because he didn't carry oxygen as a team leader and went down the mountain alone before the team members went down. Although three people were successfully saved, they still failed to escape condemnation. These charges include John kracauer's later book Into Thin Air.

Sadly, shortly after the accident, in order to forget the pain and respect for the dead teammates, he climbed Luozi Mountain alone (the fourth highest mountain in the world), and unexpectedly broke the fastest record of human climbing Luozi Mountain. Later, in order to respond to the social doubts about him, he found someone to publish "Climbing" and recorded the accident from another angle.

A year later, he was awarded the highest honor medal-David A. Solles Memorial Award by the American Mountain Club in recognition of his contribution to saving three people in the mountain disaster. Three weeks after winning the prize, he was killed by an avalanche while climbing Anna Poorna Mountain.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-1996 Everest accident