Mt Everest Case Study
Case Study Analysis
Mt Everest - 1996
Submitted by
MOHIT BATHLA
MBA (F&B)
P301312CMG549
10th June 2013
Executive Summary
On May 10, 1996 five climbers died on Mt. Everest, the deadliest day in the mountain’s history. That day, twenty three climbers reached the summit. Five climbers, however, did not survive the descent. Two out of the dead, Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, were skilled team leaders with prior experience on the Everest. The others were clients who paid $60,000 to climb the mountain.
The climbers died at 25,000 feet above sea level, possible causes included numbing of the brain due to thinner air, solar radiation, hypothermia, altitude sickness and lack of oxygen.
In my opinion this tragedy had several causes which team leaders ignored. It’s all about decision making and choice between different alternatives. The Everest analysis suggests that leaders must play close attention to team combinations in their organizations, and how their words and actions shape the thinking and beliefs of organization members.
Problem Analysis
Mount Everest with the height of 8848m is the highest summit and considered the roof of the world and has been the greatest challenge to achieve. When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay successfully reached the summit and became instant legends throughout the world. As many ambitious people throughout world wanted to be the part of this elite group it is important to know the possible causes behind the Adventure consultant and Mountain Madness failures during the expeditions. As per Krakauer school of thoughts climbing Everest will always be a risky endeavor and the failures are inevitable. He also says that analyzing what went wrong on Everest is a useful enough to prevent some deaths down the road. Besides this others believed that human error caused the tragedy, and therefore, these deaths could have been prevented.
Also analyzing the mistakes committed by both the groups and forming an ideal way of
Mt Everest - 1996
Submitted by
MOHIT BATHLA
MBA (F&B)
P301312CMG549
10th June 2013
Executive Summary
On May 10, 1996 five climbers died on Mt. Everest, the deadliest day in the mountain’s history. That day, twenty three climbers reached the summit. Five climbers, however, did not survive the descent. Two out of the dead, Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, were skilled team leaders with prior experience on the Everest. The others were clients who paid $60,000 to climb the mountain.
The climbers died at 25,000 feet above sea level, possible causes included numbing of the brain due to thinner air, solar radiation, hypothermia, altitude sickness and lack of oxygen.
In my opinion this tragedy had several causes which team leaders ignored. It’s all about decision making and choice between different alternatives. The Everest analysis suggests that leaders must play close attention to team combinations in their organizations, and how their words and actions shape the thinking and beliefs of organization members.
Problem Analysis
Mount Everest with the height of 8848m is the highest summit and considered the roof of the world and has been the greatest challenge to achieve. When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay successfully reached the summit and became instant legends throughout the world. As many ambitious people throughout world wanted to be the part of this elite group it is important to know the possible causes behind the Adventure consultant and Mountain Madness failures during the expeditions. As per Krakauer school of thoughts climbing Everest will always be a risky endeavor and the failures are inevitable. He also says that analyzing what went wrong on Everest is a useful enough to prevent some deaths down the road. Besides this others believed that human error caused the tragedy, and therefore, these deaths could have been prevented.
Also analyzing the mistakes committed by both the groups and forming an ideal way of