Everest '96: Trapped in the Death Zone | Descent Into Darkness | 3

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

As the climbers descend from the summit, it becomes a race against time to get back to camp before dark. But a severe blizzard slows their progress to a crawl, and altitude sickness starts to take hold. Some climbers get stuck in the upper reaches of the mountain, while others get lost not far from camp. As darkness falls, the stranded face the terrifying reality of spending the night outside, where oxygen deprivation and hypothermia could easily take their lives.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to Against the Odds early in ad free right now.
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0:09.0	A listener note, Against the Odds uses dramatizations that are based on true events.
0:16.3	Some elements including dialogue may be invented, but everything is based on research. Mike Groom plaods down the southeast ridge of Everest, searching for a path through the fresh snow.
0:37.0	The 33-year-old guide works for a New Zealand-based company called Adventure Consultants. Walking slowly behind him is one of his clients,
0:46.8	a 47 year old Japanese woman named Yasugonamba. Mike turns around and calls out to her.
0:55.0	Yasuco, it's five o'clock. We need to move faster.
1:00.0	Yasuco nods and takes another heavy step.
1:04.0	Mike can see that she's totally exhausted.
1:08.0	Two and a half hours ago, Mike Yasuco and their leader Rob Hall were celebrating at the summit.
1:15.0	But shortly after they began their descent, it started snowing,
1:20.0	and now the path they cut up the mountain earlier in the day is getting hard to see.
1:25.8	They still have to travel 1,700 feet down a steep icy slope before they reach Camp 4 on the South call.
1:34.0	Mike looks up at the sky.
1:37.0	In a little over an hour, the sun will set.
1:40.0	Mike knows what getting caught out after dark can do.
1:43.0	Ten years ago, he lost all his toes due to frostbite
1:48.0	after being stranded overnight while climbing in the Himalayas.
1:52.0	They have to pick up their pace. Mike picks up his
1:55.8	radio, desperate for any news from his team. He hears Rob's voice through the
2:01.5	static. Andy, this is Rob. Do you read me?
2:05.8	Rob is still high up on the Summit Bridge,
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