“If you can’t find your camp on your way down at night, you’re setting yourself up for disaster,” he said.ĭisaster struck Friday after Fischer led his own team to the top and back to the relative safety of South Col. That scares me.”Īfter stocking the series of climbing camps, getting people used to the altitude and working on the mountain, the plan was to attempt the summit and get down as rapidly as possible, before darkness set in, Fischer said in another posting. Not coming home from a trip, leaving my kids without a dad. What frightened him most, Fischer said, was “making a bad decision and dying in the mountains, to be perfectly honest. In comments posted on the Internet magazine Outside Online days before his death, he described the dangers. This time, he was leading the fourth Everest Environmental Expedition, in which climbers and Nepalese sherpas planned to pack out trash left by earlier climbs. In January, he climbed Africa’s Mount Kilimanjaro as part of an effort that raised $1 million in donations for CARE. Last August, he led an expedition safely down Broad Peak in Pakistan during a storm that killed British climber Alison Hargreaves nearby on K2. In 1992, he climbed the second-highest peak, K2, and scaled Everest last summer. In 1990, Fischer was the first American to ascend 27,923-foot Mount Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest mountain. “A lot of people owe their lives to Scott.” Comatose and barely breathing after spending the night exposed in a fierce storm, Fischer was left bundled with an oxygen bottle as the rescue party concentrated on saving his companion, whom they had managed to revive.įischer, 40, is presumed dead, one of eight climbers believed to have died in one of the deadliest days on Earth’s highest mountain.Īlso missing and presumed dead were another American, Douglas Hansen, 44, of Renton, Wash., two New Zealanders, three climbers from India, and a Japanese climber.įischer, who dropped out of school at 14 to become a mountain climber, thoroughly knew the dangers he faced, said Karen Dickinson, his partner in the Seattle guide company Mountain Madness. On Saturday, he was found clipped with another climber to a rope 2,000 feet below the summit of Mount Everest. Rescue,” an experienced guide able to get other climbers up - and down - some of the world’s tallest peaks.
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