| Everest . Gambit Weekly . 06-15-98 (1382 words) |
 | Everest was made during that infamous spring of 1996 when 12 climbers lost their lives, nine on the very trail that Breashears and his IMAX team took to the top. |
| As the film reveals, the difference in barometric pressure and oxygen content between sea level and mountain top is so great that if a human being were taken directly from ocean-side and deposited at the peak, he or she would immediately fall unconscious and die within minutes. |
| What the film neglects to tell us, but Krakauer reveals, is that Paula Viesturs was so upset with Ed's decision to climb in the aftermath of so many deaths that she walked down the mountain to the village of Tengboche and stayed to collect herself for five days. |
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