MGM102H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Yasuko Namba, Jon Krakauer, Seven Summits
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May 10, 1996 23 people reached the summit including rob hall and scott fisher, two of the world"s. In 1984, fisher founded a company offered climbing instruction and guided expeditions. But hall and fisher and three others died during the developed quite a reputation for his daring reputation descent. A 1985 expedition; american climber david breashears successfully guided a wealthy 55-yr-old texas businessman, dick bass. Soon more less experienced climbers began to aspire to climb everest and the number of commercial expeditions began to rise dramatically. People described him as ambitious, charismatic, and desire for respect and recognition. Fisher reached summit without using supplemental oxygen in 1994. Organized a commercial everest expedition after looking as rob hall"s success (his motivation was like if hall can do it, i can do it) he was 100% sure that he will be back. Employed anatoli boukreeve, experienced guide from russia-climbed everest without supplemental.
