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Jon Krauker was sent by Outside Magazine on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Him and the other climbers and guides arrived at Kathmandu with the help of helicopters. -
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Jon Krakauer and his team arrived at the Everest base camp. The camp was 17,600 feet (above sea level). -
Jon Krakauer and his crew reached camp 1 which was at 19,500 ft. -
Jon Krakauer and his group made it to camp 2 to acclimate which was around 21,000 ft.
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The team was informed by their head guide, Rob Hall, that they'd leave camp 2 in the morning and reach camp 3 which was at 24,000 ft. -
After reaching camp 4, the final camp, it was Rob Hall's and Scott Fischer's (another expedition leader) idea to send two Sherpas from each expedition to fix the lines in front of the two parties. On the evening of May 9, no Sherpas stayed behind to mend the ropes for some reason. -
Jon Krakauer left camp 4 with his team of 3 guides, 8 clients, and 4 Sherpas. While Fischer's team left half an hour after Hall's team. -
On May 10, 1996, 12:12 am, Jon Krakauer finally reached the top of Mount Everest with his friend, Andy Harris, after a long journey. -
With wind gusts of 60 knots, the storm turned into a full-fledged blizzard by six o'clock in the evening. -
Rob Hall and Scott Fischer both went missing and got stranded on Everest. -
On 6 am, climbers realized one of their team members, Any Harris went missing. -
Beidleman, Groom, Schoening, and Gammelgaard made it to Camp Four at 12:45 am. They then tell Boukreev that Charlotte, Sandy, and Tim were still on the mountain and needed help fast. -
After Andy accidentally opened the valve instead of closing it, causing Jon's oxygen to deplete. Once it was all out, his vision got worse and felt dizzy. -
Jon Krakauer heard radio calls from the base camp and Rob Hall requesting help. He also heard that Beck and Yasuko have died, and that Scott Fischer was missing somewhere on the peak. Hall got on the radio and said that he and Hansen were high on the summit and urgently needed oxygen. Andy Harris kept saying that the oxygen tanks on south summit were empty, but the oxygen tanks that Andy mistook as empty, were full. -
The climbers started descending Everest and finally reached the bottom on the 13th of May 1996. Although, there were a few said to be dead. -
Jon Krakauer and the other climbers finally headed home after a long and tiring journey. There were 8 people unfortunately dead, and Andy Harris left missing.