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television film directed by Robert Markowitz

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest is a disastertelevision film based on Jon Krakauer's memoir Into Thin Air (). The film, directed by Robert Markowitz and written by Robert J.

Avrech, tells the story of the Mount Everest disaster.

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (TV Movie 1997) - IMDb

It was broadcast on ABC on November 9, ^[4]

Plot

Guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer lead two groups who plan to reach Mount Everest's summit. The groups make their way through Camps 2, 3, and 4, and begin their ascent to the summit. In Camp 2, Fischer is forced to climb down with a sick client, Dale Cruz, for help.

Fischer refuses help and returns tired.

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Both groups reach the bottom of the Hillary step, and discover there are no fixed ropes. The Sherpa there states it is a two-person job and the other Sherpa never arrived, due to being tired and ill from dragging climber Sandy Pittman (from Fischer's group) and her equipment up. Mountain Madness guides climb