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Inside The Incredible Mount Everest Survival Story Of Beck Weathers Beck Weathers was left for dead and fellow climbers had already called his wife to tell her he was gone — then he somehow made it down the mountain and walked back into camp. On May 11, 1996, Beck Weathers died on Mount Everest. At least, that’s what everyone was sure had happened. The truth was even more incredible. Over a harrowing period of eighteen hours, Everest would do its best to devour Beck Weathers and his fellow climbers.  As raging storms picked off much of his team, including its leader, one by one, Weathers began to grow increasingly delirious due to exhaustion, exposure, and altitude sickness.  At one point, he threw up his hands and screamed “I’ve got it all figured out” before falling into a snowbank, and, his team thought, to his death. As rescue missions struggled up the face of Everest to save the others, Weathers lay in the snow, sinking deeper into a hypothermic coma.  Not one, but t...