Scott Fischer

Things like turnaround times and the decisions and the pressure people can feel after investing time and money is pretty serious.

And as I've spoken about in previous episodes, especially when we were talking about Scott Fisher and Rob Hall and the expedition and the commercialization of Everest, These pressures can really create quite an uncomfortable environment and cloud the climber's judgment.

In the film that I watched, the documentary, there was a really interesting point where John Snorri potentially wouldn't have continued going up, but there was suddenly quite a lot of pressure from John.

the outside world.

The stipulation was, "If you go to National Outdoor Leadership School," run by Paul Petzoldt, renowned K2 summoner five times.

Scott Fischer was there.

He was my instructor.

Died May 10th, 1996 on Everest with the other seven climbers.