The 1963 Everest expedition was successful, but a sudden storm, a recalcitrant team member, a bad choice of route... any of these factors might have meant failure, or worse.
In 1996, 14 died on the mountain when the members of several expeditions were trapped at high altitudes by sudden snowstorms.
When, on a later expedition, the scouting party confronts a charging polar bear, there's a sudden realization that something is truly rotten in this water-bound paradise.
Jackson's own account records that his first reaction to this sudden meeting was to assume the figure to be a shipwrecked sailor, perhaps from the expedition's supply ship Windward which was due to call that summer.
Amy Kaufman wrote about the movie "Everest," which details a true-life 1996 expedition to climb Mt. Everest that turned into a disaster due to a sudden blizzard.
The Greenland expedition in which a British man has died is likely to have been hit by a sudden and violent storm which blows from the top of the ice cap, a veteran explorer has said.
Describes the tumultuous expedition.
