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He got the call from Bob Hall to go on the expedition.
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On March 31st 1996, Jon and his teamates got dropped of at the bottom of Mount Everst by helicopters. The group then began their climb onto the mountain. It was a very cold day and everyone was scared that they would loose their family's. -
By 4 or 5 P,M about 18 hours after starting to climb, everyone's gas would be gone.
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They arrived at the lower end of the Khunbu glashers there was a 12 mile tonge of ice.
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Tensing falls into a 150ft crevass.
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On April 8th, 1996, Jon had reached the
Lobuje. There are two different summits, the Lobuje East and the Lobuje West. The Lobuje East is 16,200 ft. and is covered with snow and ice at the top which makes it very hard to climb. The Lobuje east is hardly ever climbed but Jon attempted to climb it. Reached Lobuje 16000 200ft. -
Puju Ceremony at Base Camp.
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They reached camp one at 1900 500ft.
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On April 12th, 1996, after Jon and his teamates had reached their base camp, they moved to a new location.They moved to the upper lip of the ice fall, which is 2,000 vertical feet above the lower lip of the ice fall. -
They reached end of ice Fall about four hours after setting out.
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Everyone was in good health.
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Jon and his group overtook a pair of slower climbers outfitted with unorthodox clothing and gear.
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Nawang sick with edena.
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Guide ropes needed to be fixed on South Col.
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WikipediaNawang rushed down the mountain to South Col.
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Team reached campot three, got OZ- 24,000ft.
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The hole team desended to Base camp to recoup there strength for the summit push.
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At 7:30 A.M as Jon was getting ready to leave to camp four a 36-year old from Taipei named Chen Yu Nan crawled out of his tent and lost footing on slick ice and went hurtling down the Lhotse Face.
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Reached balcony at 5:30
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Walking to Summit had not sleeped for 57 hours.
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Before 2:30 P.M he reached the summit.
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Jon read his watch which said 1:17 P.M he spent less then 5 minutes on the roof of the world.
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3:40 he Jon made it down to the South Summit.
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On May 10th, 1996, a huge blizzard hit at 5:00 P.M and killed many climbers. Ten people were killed from this blizzard and 5 were Jon's teamates. Everyone was rushed down the mountain because of this horrible storm. -
A little after 5:00 Jon found out that 11 people died and 5 were Jons teamates.
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Jon and his teamates reached the broad, rolling expanse of the South Col around 8:00 P.M but by then it was pitch black and the storm became stronger.
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Boukreev had returned to camp four at 4:30 P.M before the brunt of the storm having to be rushed down the summit.
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On May 10th, 1996, after 15 minutes of dangerous shuffling over a 7,000 foot abyss, Jon arrived at the notorious Hillary Step. The Hiliary Step is a verticle rock face (height is around 40ft) high on Mount Everest. It is located 28,840 ft. above sea level. It is also halfway between the South Summit and the Summit. -
6 A.M they relized that Andy Harris the guy from New Zealand fell off a 4000ft cliff.
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Jon and his teamates were heading down Mount Everest and many people were killed because of the Blizzard.
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7:00 P.M Jon found Fishers frozen body.
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Scout Fisher and Rob Hall stranded on Everest.
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11 people died out of 26 and 5 were Jons teamates.
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Jon reached the bottom of Mount Everest.
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On May 14th 1996 the climbers had a memorial survice for everyone who had died from the blizzard or on the expedition.
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Fisher was buried above the South Col as the team regroups.
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Jon headed home.
