Fisher died on Mt. Everest in 1996 in tragic and well-known circumstances while leading a commercial expedition organised by Mountain Madness. Francesca Colesanti, an Italian alpinist and journalist ...
Breashears summited Mount Everest five times, including with the IMAX camera in 1996, his family said. “He combined his passion for climbing and photography to become one of the world’s most ...
I returned to Everest the following year. This time I was to film a documentary for the PBS science series NOVA. Accepting the assignment was, for me, as much about coming to terms with the 1996 ...