Everest Disaster Of 1996 Case Study

Everest Disaster of 1996, there were three expeditions taking place at the time (May 10). Rob Hall guided the Adventure Consultants team, Scott Fischer guided the Mountain Madness team, and Makalu Gau guided the Taiwanese team. At the start of the Expedition, there were 33 climbers, once the Storm hit 19 of the 33 were trapped in the Death Zone. There were three groups of people on different places in the Death Zone, one group on the South Col(Beck Weathers, Yasuko Namba, Neal Beidleman, Sandy Pitman, Charlotte Fox, and Mike Groom), another group stuck near the Hillary Step(Rob Hall, Doug Hansen, and Andy Harris), and the final group near the South Summit(Makalu Gau and Scott Fischer). Multiple deaths occurred during the disaster including;
During and before his experience on the mountain Beck had made/to make some decisions that would result in life or death situations. Not too long before the expedition, Beck had Eye surgery. This affected the climb because he found out that the higher he climbed, the less he could see. Even though he knew this he continued on and put others in danger. That was one of the selfish mistakes he had made on the mountain. Another mistake was the fact that he had to be helped down the mountain after being left for dead 4 times previously on the mountain. This put others in danger and slowed them down when Beck had to take breaks. Beck didn’t just make selfish decisions, he also made selfless decisions, when Beck and Makalu Gau had to be taken down the rest of the mountain by helicopter he let Makalu go before him even though he knew that he had more severe injuries. He also didn’t know if the helicopter would be able to come back for him. When Beck was left for dead for the third time, the only reason he survived was the fact that he was hallucinating his family and that showed him how much they mean to him. As a result of that, he saved his
During the time on the mountain, Rob had made some moral decisions that would end up costing him his life. One of those said choices was convincing Doug Hanson to keep going to the summit because, previously Doug had climbed Everest with Rob twice and both times had to turn around for safety reasons, this time Rob didn’t want to do it again even though it would've been the best thing to do regarding the turnaround time and that weather. Another selfish decision Rob made on the mountain was the fact that he kept trying to get his clients to the summit even though it was past the turnaround time. Yet Rob Hall didn’t make all selfish decisions during his time on the mountain he also made selfless decisions, one of those would be staying until the end with Doug even though he knew there was nothing he could do. That was one of those big decisions that would end up costing him his