Fisher died on Mt. Everest in 1996 in tragic and well-known circumstances while leading ... "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer and "The Climb" by Anatoli Boukreev recount this disaster." ...

During the post-monsoon season following the disaster of 1996, foul weather ... reaffirmation of life, on Everest's icy ridges. At last, I was ready to descend the mountain and go home.

A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster was a national bestseller and helped earn him the Academy Award in Literature ...

Everest Disaster". It attempts to recreate the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Krakauer and portrays what he was going through ...