<P> One of the survivors was Beck Weathers, an American client of New Zealand - based guide service Adventure Consultants . Weathers was left for dead about 275 metres (900 feet) from Camp 4 at 7,950 metres (26,085 feet). After spending a night on the mountain, Weathers managed to find his way to Camp 4 with massive frostbite and vision impaired due to snow blindness . When he arrived at Camp 4, fellow climbers considered his condition terminal and left him in a tent to die overnight . </P> <P> Before leaving Camp 4 Jon Krakauer heard Weathers calling for help from his tent . Weathers' condition had not improved and an immediate descent to a lower elevation was deemed essential . A helicopter rescue was considered but was out of the question: Camp 4 was higher than the rated ceiling of any available helicopter and in any case would be extraordinarily dangerous . Eventually a rescue was organised thanks to a lieutenant colonel of the Nepalese Army who conducted the second - highest known helicopter medical evacuation up to that time . </P> <P> The storm's impact on climbers on the North Ridge of Everest, where several climbers also died, was detailed in a first - hand account by British filmmaker and writer Matt Dickinson in his book The Other Side of Everest. 16 - year - old Mark Pfetzer was on the climb and wrote about it in his account, Within Reach: My Everest Story . </P> <P> The 2015 feature film Everest, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, is based on the events of this disaster . </P>

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