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29 wrz 2015 · Beck Weathers suffered severe frostbite, leading to the necessary amputation of several of his extremities.
16 lut 2024 · Beck Weathers suffered from severe frostbite while trying to survive the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which resulted in eight deaths. Weathers and Yasuko Namba, another mountain climber in Rob Hall's expedition group, were stuck in the blizzard overnight, and when he woke up 15 hours later, Namba was dead.
26 sie 2015 · Bottom: Beck Weathers' frostbitten face (left) is visible after his rescue. His nose was later amputated (right). Top: Beck Weathers' reconstructed nose, his right-hand prosthesis, and the amputation of the thumb and fingers of his left hand is evident.
4 lis 2019 · On the night of May 10, 1996, Beck Weathers huddled with 10 other climbers on an exposed stretch of Mount Everest, 26,000 feet above sea level. A blizzard churned the air into a slurry of ice...
31 sie 2021 · But after being left for dead — twice — something incredible happened: Beck Weathers woke up. Black frostbite covered his face and body like scales yet somehow, he found the strength to rise out of the snowbank, and eventually make it down the mountain.
Beck Weathers is an American pathologist from Texas who survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. His story was covered in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air (1997), its film adaptation Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997), and the films Everest (1998) and Everest (2015).
11 wrz 2015 · The only object that evokes his mountaineering past is a photo of his post-Everest reunion with Peach — his hands covered in bandages, his cheeks and nose charred black by frostbite. Weathers’ body is testament enough.
