"I am neither churchly nor a particularly spiritual person, but I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling--quite literally a dead man walking--into camp and the shaky start of my return to life."On May 10, 1996, nine climbers p[...]
A survivor of the infamous 1996 Everest disaster, Beck Weathers went snow-blind in the Death Zone and despite staggering back to Camp 4, was in such a condition that he was effectively left for dead. His story shows his journey to safety and his fight to rebuild his life after his return home.[...]