Wife lost her cousin on that mountain some years ago. They wrote a book and made a movie about it. He was a guide with a lot of experience, but rich thrill seekers without that experience were his Achilles heel. He's still up there. He left a wife and two kids.
Rob Hall?
Scott Fischer. His mom was the salt of the earth and really sort of encouraged Scott in his endeavors. His daughter Katie is a nurse now and I think his son Andy might be in the music business.
The movie was kind of loose with Scott's portrayal. Scott was a VERY skilled climber - one of the best ever. Did the Matterhorn, K2 (which he thought was harder than Everest), and Everest without O2, plus a bunch of others. There's a video on youtube he made a few days before that ascent saying his job was to get his clients to summit and keep them alive. He died doing the latter. He went back and forth between camps and clients. He started getting sick. There were back-ups on the mountain and he was late getting to the top. Weather hit on his way down and that was it. If it was every man for himself above the dead zone, he'd be alive today.
