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\nIt was the worst climbing tragedy in Mount Everest’s History. As darkness fell on May 10, 1996, a fast-moving storm of unimaginable ferocity trapped three climbing teams high on the slopes of Mount Everest. The climbers, exhausted from their summit climb, were soon lost in darkness, in a fierce blizzard, far from the safety of high camp at 26,000 feet. World-renowned climber and filmmaker <\/strong>David Breashears<\/strong> returns to Everest to tell the story of the climbers who perished in that storm in Frontline’s presentation of “Storm Over Everest,”<\/strong><\/a> Tuesday, May 13 at 8:00 p.m. central on NPT and PBS stations nationwide. It is also the story of 11 climbers caught in the storm and the eyewitness accounts of their astonishing survival in the world’s most unforgiving environment. James Clash<\/strong>, Adventure Columnist for Forbes Magazine<\/em>, has an interview with Breashers:<\/p>\n
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\nElisabeth Jensen in the New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/strong> writes, “In an attempt to free his film from the controversy of that day \u2014 mostly manufactured by the media, he says \u2014 Mr. Breashears largely avoids second-guessing, instead piecing together a straightforward story of the climb, told by the participants and focused around the storm itself \u2014 what it was like to be in it and survive. Close observers of the tragedy are left to parse for themselves how the recollections match up with past accounts, like in the best-selling book \u201cInto Thin Air,\u201d which sold nearly one million hardcover copies alone.”<\/p>\n