Back to Everest: Lessons from the Mountain
A 1996 climbing disaster survivor retraces his exact route.
Mount Everest: Survivor Goes Back
Neal Beidleman, a survivor of the 1996 Everest climbing disaster, the most devastating mountaineering disaster in history, decided to go back 15 years later to retrace his exact route in hopes of making peace with it all. Beidleman took this photo as the team was nearing the South Summit on May 20, 2011, at 4:30 a.m. with mountain peaks Lhotse and Makalu in the background. (Neal Beidleman 2011)
