Overview
- During the 1996 disaster, Anatoli Boukreev initially pronounced Weathers dead, and the next day Stuart Hutchison with three Sherpas reached the same conclusion before he was later found alive in camp.
- An eye surgery 18 months earlier left him nearly blind without depth perception, prompting him to stop and wait on the mountain for about ten hours.
- Jon Krakauer discovered Weathers alive while checking tents before descending, despite reports in camp that he was a corpse.
- Peaches Weathers worked with Hutchison, John Taske and Sherpa teams to arrange a helicopter evacuation to an unusually high altitude.
- Weathers detailed catastrophic frostbite and subsequent reconstructive procedures, including efforts to save his hands and a new nose grown from forehead tissue.