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Podcast: All About Everest Podcast - Stories, History, and Challenges from the World’s Tallest Mountain
Episode: What Caused the 1996 Everest Disaster?
Description: In this week’s episode of The All About Everest Podcast, host Pauline Reynolds Nuttall revisits the 1996 Mount Everest disaster — one of the deadliest seasons in the mountain’s history — to explore what really went wrong and how it changed climbing forever. Discover why eight climbers, including Rob Hall, Doug Hansen, Scott Fischer, and Yasuko Namba, lost their lives in a single storm, and how inexperience, overcrowding, and summit fever led to tragedy.Pauline also shares the latest Everest 2025 updates — including the dramatic rescue of 900 stranded trekkers in Tibet and the northern ski descent attempt by Jimmy Chin and J...