Seaborn Beck Weathers Book Report
BECK WEATHERS:
1. Bibliography: Seaborn Beck Weathers (born December 1946) is an American pathologist from Texas. He is the writer of the book “ left for dead: my journey home from mountain Everest”.
2. Situation and Actions: In the morning of May 10th when Weathers and other climbers decided to leave Camp IV and make their final assault towards the summit of Everest, situated just over 29,000 feet above sea level. As Beck made his final climb towards the summit, he came down with an extreme case of snowblindness on his way through Everest 's "Death Zone”. He told his guide, Rob Hall, about his condition. Hall made him promise not to continue up the mountain, and told him to sit down and wait for Hall to return from the summit so they could both …show more content…
When Hall had left him, at a little after 7.30am, Weathers waited patiently throughout the day for his return, refusing offers from climbers going down the mountain to join them. But by 5pm he knew something was wrong. Weathers knew now that he should go down when he heard that Hall was in trouble. He joined a group led by Mike Groom to return to camp IV. However, due to lack of oxygen and unrelenting storm, Groom decided to leave Weathers and four other climbers, all of whom were nearly unconscious, to return to camp for assistance. Help returned but Beck Weathers and Japanese climber Yasuko Namba had both fallen into hypothermic comas and were unresponsive so they decided not to rescue these pp. All night Beck Weathers lay on his back, slowly freezing to death in the bitter cold. Hypothermia seized his body. Frostbite set in on his nose and both of his hands. The next morning, two Sherpas returned to Beck and Nambas 's position to check up on them. After chipping blocks of ice off of their faces, the Sherpas found both of them to be breathing, but severely frostbitten and "as close to death as a human being can be". So they decided to leave them the second time.
1. Bibliography: Seaborn Beck Weathers (born December 1946) is an American pathologist from Texas. He is the writer of the book “ left for dead: my journey home from mountain Everest”.
2. Situation and Actions: In the morning of May 10th when Weathers and other climbers decided to leave Camp IV and make their final assault towards the summit of Everest, situated just over 29,000 feet above sea level. As Beck made his final climb towards the summit, he came down with an extreme case of snowblindness on his way through Everest 's "Death Zone”. He told his guide, Rob Hall, about his condition. Hall made him promise not to continue up the mountain, and told him to sit down and wait for Hall to return from the summit so they could both …show more content…
When Hall had left him, at a little after 7.30am, Weathers waited patiently throughout the day for his return, refusing offers from climbers going down the mountain to join them. But by 5pm he knew something was wrong. Weathers knew now that he should go down when he heard that Hall was in trouble. He joined a group led by Mike Groom to return to camp IV. However, due to lack of oxygen and unrelenting storm, Groom decided to leave Weathers and four other climbers, all of whom were nearly unconscious, to return to camp for assistance. Help returned but Beck Weathers and Japanese climber Yasuko Namba had both fallen into hypothermic comas and were unresponsive so they decided not to rescue these pp. All night Beck Weathers lay on his back, slowly freezing to death in the bitter cold. Hypothermia seized his body. Frostbite set in on his nose and both of his hands. The next morning, two Sherpas returned to Beck and Nambas 's position to check up on them. After chipping blocks of ice off of their faces, the Sherpas found both of them to be breathing, but severely frostbitten and "as close to death as a human being can be". So they decided to leave them the second time.