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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa000.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://people.com/storm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://people.com/storm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/people.com\/storm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776","crawl_time":1774065815,"first_indexed_time":0,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,people!\/storm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776 s443","src_root_hash":"8987252745502061200","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Hikers Stunned After 'Dead' Man Shows Up at Mt. Everest Basecamp","meta_descriptions":["Seaborn 'Beck' Weathers was thought to be dead after he collapsed on Mt. Everest — and even his wife was called with the news. It turned out that Weathers was alive — which his fellow climbers learned when he made his way down to basecamp later."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"NEED TO KNOW\nSeaborn \"Beck\" Weathers was thought to be dead after he collapsed on Mt. Everest — and his wife was informed of the news\nIt turned out that Weathers was alive — which his fellow climbers learned when he made his way down to basecamp later\nWeathers' story has since been memorialized in both book and film\nMargaret \"Peach\" Weathers got the news over the phone: her husband, Seaborn \"Beck\" Weathers, had been overtaken by a blizzard during his climb up Mount Everest in May, 1996. He had died, the person on the other end of the line told her.\nBut Beck was still alive — which his wife would learn later.\nAround 150 climbers were making their way up Mount Everest when a dense squall collided with the world's highest peak. One day later, eight of them were dead.\nWeathers, 49 years old at the time, was not among them — though he came close.\nAt the time, Weathers was a pathologist at Medical City Hospital in Dallas and a father of two who had a goal of summiting one mountain per year. In 1996, he finally made it to Everest.\nWeathers paid a fee of $65,000, PEOPLE reported that year, to join an eight-person team that left for Nepal in April. \"It was a strong group,\" Weathers said. \"[Guide Rob Hall] felt we all had a very good chance of reaching the summit.\"\nNever miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's\nfree daily newsletter\nto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.\nDr. Seaborn Beck Weathers.\nAP Photo\/Jon Freilich\nThe team spent a month acclimating to the altitude and on May 5, began what was meant to be a six-day journey to the summit. On May 9, the group joined climbers from two other expeditions at the high camp, 28,000 feet up Everest's south slope. After resting for a few hours, they set out for the top at midnight.\nWeathers at one point became temporarily blind from the ice splinters in the air, and opted to wait 400 feet below the summit until his vision cleared. Hall told him to wait there until he could lead him down personally.\nThe next morning was clear, and climbers began making their way back down to where Weathers was waiting, One of Weather's fellow climbers, a man named Jon Krakauer, passed by and told him Hall was some three hours behind and that two other climbers were about 20 minutes away. But Hall, uninterested in waiting much longer, decided to wait for the two climbers and then radio Hall to alert him he was descending.\nDr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,.\nDallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill\/AP\nMinutes after Krakauer left, snow began to fall and by the time the two other climbers reached Weathers, the temperature had plummeted and visibility was near nonexistent.\nThree other climbers joined the group and the three \"formed into a tight pack,\" Weathers said, \"forcing everyone to stay awake, to keep moving.\" says Weathers.\nWeathers at one point lost his right glove and then remembered \"the voices getting dim, faint, far away.\" Then everything went black.\nWeathers collapsed and over the next 24 hours, eight other climbers died on the summit. When a Canadian climber found Weathers half-buried in fresh snow the next day, he assumed he was too late. \"I thought Weathers was dead,\" Hutchinson said in an earlier interview, per PEOPLE. \"I unburied him and broke the ice off his face.\"\nNews of Weathers' apparent death was relayed to base camp, then to the guide company and finally, to Peach Weathers in Dallas.\nWhen she first heard her husband was dead, she told PEOPLE, \"I started thinking about whether they would be able to retrieve his body,\" sand how she would tell their children the news.\nThen, three hours later, she received another call: Beck was alive, but in critical condition.\nAs Weathers explained to PEOPLE, he had woken up feeling \"like a rock\" — with ice on his face and his right hand frozen. Disoriented and thinking of his wife and children, he found the strength to climb to his feet., eventually finding the blue tents of the high camp, where other astonished climbers cut the frozen clothes off his body, and supplied him with oxygen. One day later, Weathers and two other climbers descended further down the mountain and eventually were rescued by a Nepalese Army helicopter pilot who carried them to safety.\nHours later, he told PEOPLE, he found himself lying in a Kathmandu hotel. \"I was looking out the window at all the greenery, and the fact I was still alive really overcame me,\" he says. \"I can't tell you the euphoria...knowing I was going to see my loved ones again.\"\nPeaches offered a different perspective, telling PEOPLE she was grateful and hopeful her husband would give up climbing: \"The kids and I have suggested that Beck now take up bass fishing.\"\nBeck Weathers.\nAraya Doheny\/WireImage\nThe PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!\nWeathers ultimately lost his hands and nose to frostbite and underwent 10 reconstructive surgeries in the years that followed.\nSpeaking to PEOPLE in 2015, Weathers reflected on the ordeal — which was later immortalized by his fellow climber Krakauer in the 1997 bestseller\nInto Thin Air\n(which was also turned into a movie starring Josh Brolin as Weathers).\n\"It was the image of my wife and children that drove me to my feet and woke me after 15 hours of being frozen facedown in the ice,\" he said. \"When I returned home, I made a conscious decision to find little things to appreciate that I would not have been able to had I not struggled back to life.\"\nAs a result, said Weathers — who now serves as a motivational speaker — \"life just keeps getting better.\"","attrs_markdown":"\n\n[Skip to content](https:\/\/people.com\/storm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776#main)\n\n[PEOPLE](https:\/\/people.com\/)\n\n- Please fill out this field.\n- [Log In](https:\/\/people.com\/authentication\/login?regSource=26075&relativeRedirectUrl=%2Fstorm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776)\n- My Account\n  - 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Live on June 30, 2014 in Los Angeles, California]() ![Zachery Ty Bryan attends the premiere of Lionsgate Films' 'America' at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live on June 30, 2014 in Los Angeles, California](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/UdwTXu2Tj2Tg4C7zQN50L3sejWI=\/800x533\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$\/zachery-ty-bryan-120225-7acbece06753425eadc4d826b68b6b49.jpg) 3 Zachery Ty Bryan Sentenced to 19 Months in Oregon as He Continues Serving California Jail Time: He 'Needs Help,' Says Lawyer](https:\/\/people.com\/zachery-ty-bryan-sentenced-19-months-oregon-lawyer-speaks-out-exclusive-11929507)\n- [![cynthia and Derrick Bouffard]() ![cynthia and Derrick Bouffard](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/LU6Y_r26HkzlCbcVt1_87cWwKVM=\/800x533\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$\/cynthia-and-Derrick-Bouffard-346-03202026-3d7fa500abfe4fc8b1b94eaba1e710db.jpg) 4 Pa. 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Her work has previously appeared in The Washington Post, Buzzfeed, Eater, and other outlets.\n\n[People Editorial Guidelines](https:\/\/people.com\/editorial-policy-page-5499057)\n\nPublished on March 20, 2026 08:00PM EDT\n\n[Leave a Comment](https:\/\/people.com\/storm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776#comments)\n\n![Seaborne Beck Weathers of Dallas, Texas, an American survivor of the Swedish Expedition, is flown to Katmandu Monday, May 13, 1996 by a rescue helicopter from Mt. Everest. Eight climbers still remained missing in unsurvivable conditions on the 29,028-foot ](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/KjpamUoiGoZGZxE_3DqNQws_kRw=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$749x0:751x2\$\/beck-weathers-2-032026-e1c5b146782c4185a47393a73a48f0c2.jpg)\n\n![Seaborne Beck Weathers of Dallas, Texas, an American survivor of the Swedish Expedition, is flown to Katmandu Monday, May 13, 1996 by a rescue helicopter from Mt. Everest. Eight climbers still remained missing in unsurvivable conditions on the 29,028-foot ](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/KjpamUoiGoZGZxE_3DqNQws_kRw=\/1500x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$749x0:751x2\$\/beck-weathers-2-032026-e1c5b146782c4185a47393a73a48f0c2.jpg)\n\nBeck Weathers.\n\nCredit :\n\nBinod Joshi\/AP\n\n### NEED TO KNOW\n- Seaborn \"Beck\" Weathers was thought to be dead after he collapsed on Mt. Everest — and his wife was informed of the news\n- It turned out that Weathers was alive — which his fellow climbers learned when he made his way down to basecamp later\n- Weathers' story has since been memorialized in both book and film\n\nMargaret \"Peach\" Weathers got the news over the phone: her husband, Seaborn \"Beck\" Weathers, had been overtaken by a blizzard during his climb up Mount Everest in May, 1996. He had died, the person on the other end of the line told her.\n\nBut Beck was still alive — which his wife would learn later.\n\nAround 150 climbers were making their way up Mount Everest when a dense squall collided with the world's highest peak. One day later, eight of them were dead.\n\nWeathers, 49 years old at the time, was not among them — though he came close.\n\nAt the time, Weathers was a pathologist at Medical City Hospital in Dallas and a father of two who had a goal of summiting one mountain per year. In 1996, he finally made it to Everest.\n\nWeathers paid a fee of \\$65,000, PEOPLE reported that year, to join an eight-person team that left for Nepal in April. \"It was a strong group,\" Weathers said. \"\\[Guide Rob Hall\\] felt we all had a very good chance of reaching the summit.\"\n\n**Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's[free daily newsletter](https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701) to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.**\n\n![Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers arrives at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 1996, after a flight from Germany. Weathers, 49, is recovering from severe exposure and frostbite suffered in a blizzard on Nepal's Mt. Everest. Beck was plucked off the 29,028-foot peak Monday in a daring helicopter rescue from the blizzard which left eight climbers dead. ]()\n\n![Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers arrives at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 1996, after a flight from Germany. Weathers, 49, is recovering from severe exposure and frostbite suffered in a blizzard on Nepal's Mt. Everest. Beck was plucked off the 29,028-foot peak Monday in a daring helicopter rescue from the blizzard which left eight climbers dead. ](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/6DKIzhRsqZuUvZHAvG7OKnAi534=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$599x0:601x2\$\/Beck-Weathers-1996-031926-c0d32ecb3b844293acaf0d49d53b65bd.jpg)\n\nDr. Seaborn Beck Weathers.\n\nAP Photo\/Jon Freilich\n\nThe team spent a month acclimating to the altitude and on May 5, began what was meant to be a six-day journey to the summit. On May 9, the group joined climbers from two other expeditions at the high camp, 28,000 feet up Everest's south slope. After resting for a few hours, they set out for the top at midnight.\n\nWeathers at one point became temporarily blind from the ice splinters in the air, and opted to wait 400 feet below the summit until his vision cleared. Hall told him to wait there until he could lead him down personally.\n\nThe next morning was clear, and climbers began making their way back down to where Weathers was waiting, One of Weather's fellow climbers, a man named Jon Krakauer, passed by and told him Hall was some three hours behind and that two other climbers were about 20 minutes away. But Hall, uninterested in waiting much longer, decided to wait for the two climbers and then radio Hall to alert him he was descending.\n\n![Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,]()\n\n![Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/cQItxSnwCGEA_ZPAfcvtdKcI6Lo=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$749x0:751x2\$\/beck-weathers-1-032026-47f00f4527584a27847fe393997ffb13.jpg)\n\nDr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,.\n\nDallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill\/AP\n\nMinutes after Krakauer left, snow began to fall and by the time the two other climbers reached Weathers, the temperature had plummeted and visibility was near nonexistent.\n\nThree other climbers joined the group and the three \"formed into a tight pack,\" Weathers said, \"forcing everyone to stay awake, to keep moving.\" says Weathers.\n\nWeathers at one point lost his right glove and then remembered \"the voices getting dim, faint, far away.\" Then everything went black.\n\nWeathers collapsed and over the next 24 hours, eight other climbers died on the summit. When a Canadian climber found Weathers half-buried in fresh snow the next day, he assumed he was too late. \"I thought Weathers was dead,\" Hutchinson said in an earlier interview, per PEOPLE. \"I unburied him and broke the ice off his face.\"\n\nNews of Weathers' apparent death was relayed to base camp, then to the guide company and finally, to Peach Weathers in Dallas.\n\nWhen she first heard her husband was dead, she told PEOPLE, \"I started thinking about whether they would be able to retrieve his body,\" sand how she would tell their children the news.  \n  \nThen, three hours later, she received another call: Beck was alive, but in critical condition.\n\n## Related Stories\n[Is 'Everest' a True Story? A Look Back at the 1996 Disaster on Mount Everest That Took 8 Lives ![Jake Gyllenhaal in 'Everest' (2025).]() ![Jake Gyllenhaal in 'Everest' (2025).](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/0G5Tqswik7SmHc39GZvN6vTYvgI=\/300x200\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$\/everest-movie-true-story-jake-gyllenhaal-main-032025-fa33cd5df0f543a2ba16793021b464be.jpg)](https:\/\/people.com\/everest-true-story-11699920)\n\n[Two Teens Lost at Sea for 7 Days Were ‘So Hungry’ They Ate 100 Jellyfish, Were ‘Clinging to Each Other’ for Warmth ![Troy Driscoll, left, and Josh Long shown on Friday, April 28, 2006, in Charleston, S.C., were rescued at sea one year ago after they were swept out to sea in their boat. ]() ![Troy Driscoll, left, and Josh Long shown on Friday, April 28, 2006, in Charleston, S.C., were rescued at sea one year ago after they were swept out to sea in their boat. ](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/9h2NE4w9jhIj7twdOJ1Fk2eRSTo=\/300x200\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$\/Troy-Driscoll-josh-long-2-093025-22b2f992395d4acd9fb8b9b12f139884.jpg)](https:\/\/people.com\/how-two-teens-lost-at-sea-for-7-days-in-2005-stayed-alive-11821622)\n\nAs Weathers explained to PEOPLE, he had woken up feeling \"like a rock\" — with ice on his face and his right hand frozen. Disoriented and thinking of his wife and children, he found the strength to climb to his feet., eventually finding the blue tents of the high camp, where other astonished climbers cut the frozen clothes off his body, and supplied him with oxygen. One day later, Weathers and two other climbers descended further down the mountain and eventually were rescued by a Nepalese Army helicopter pilot who carried them to safety.\n\nHours later, he told PEOPLE, he found himself lying in a Kathmandu hotel. \"I was looking out the window at all the greenery, and the fact I was still alive really overcame me,\" he says. \"I can't tell you the euphoria...knowing I was going to see my loved ones again.\"  \n  \nPeaches offered a different perspective, telling PEOPLE she was grateful and hopeful her husband would give up climbing: \"The kids and I have suggested that Beck now take up bass fishing.\"\n\n![Beck Weathers and David Breashears attend the premiere of Universal Pictures' \"Everest\" at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres on September 9, 2015 in Hollywood, California.]()\n\n![Beck Weathers and David Breashears attend the premiere of Universal Pictures' \"Everest\" at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres on September 9, 2015 in Hollywood, California.](https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/d5wBek7gBcUB3MeQJd4_QrZ0FVI=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale\$\$:max_bytes\$150000\$:strip_icc\$\$:focal\$749x0:751x2\$\/Beck-Weathers-031926-d23e7cd8a21544c1a089f3a0e6375dc6.jpg)\n\nBeck Weathers.\n\nAraya Doheny\/WireImage\n\n[**The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! 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Everest — and his wife was informed of the news\n- It turned out that Weathers was alive — which his fellow climbers learned when he made his way down to basecamp later\n- Weathers' story has since been memorialized in both book and film\n\nMargaret \"Peach\" Weathers got the news over the phone: her husband, Seaborn \"Beck\" Weathers, had been overtaken by a blizzard during his climb up Mount Everest in May, 1996. He had died, the person on the other end of the line told her.\n\nBut Beck was still alive — which his wife would learn later.\n\nAround 150 climbers were making their way up Mount Everest when a dense squall collided with the world's highest peak. One day later, eight of them were dead.\n\nWeathers, 49 years old at the time, was not among them — though he came close.\n\nAt the time, Weathers was a pathologist at Medical City Hospital in Dallas and a father of two who had a goal of summiting one mountain per year. In 1996, he finally made it to Everest.\n\nWeathers paid a fee of \\$65,000, PEOPLE reported that year, to join an eight-person team that left for Nepal in April. \"It was a strong group,\" Weathers said. \"\\[Guide Rob Hall\\] felt we all had a very good chance of reaching the summit.\"\n\n**Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's[free daily newsletter](https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701) to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.**\n\nDr. Seaborn Beck Weathers.\n\nAP Photo\/Jon Freilich\n\nThe team spent a month acclimating to the altitude and on May 5, began what was meant to be a six-day journey to the summit. On May 9, the group joined climbers from two other expeditions at the high camp, 28,000 feet up Everest's south slope. After resting for a few hours, they set out for the top at midnight.\n\nWeathers at one point became temporarily blind from the ice splinters in the air, and opted to wait 400 feet below the summit until his vision cleared. Hall told him to wait there until he could lead him down personally.\n\nThe next morning was clear, and climbers began making their way back down to where Weathers was waiting, One of Weather's fellow climbers, a man named Jon Krakauer, passed by and told him Hall was some three hours behind and that two other climbers were about 20 minutes away. But Hall, uninterested in waiting much longer, decided to wait for the two climbers and then radio Hall to alert him he was descending.\n\nDr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,.\n\nDallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill\/AP\n\nMinutes after Krakauer left, snow began to fall and by the time the two other climbers reached Weathers, the temperature had plummeted and visibility was near nonexistent.\n\nThree other climbers joined the group and the three \"formed into a tight pack,\" Weathers said, \"forcing everyone to stay awake, to keep moving.\" says Weathers.\n\nWeathers at one point lost his right glove and then remembered \"the voices getting dim, faint, far away.\" Then everything went black.\n\nWeathers collapsed and over the next 24 hours, eight other climbers died on the summit. When a Canadian climber found Weathers half-buried in fresh snow the next day, he assumed he was too late. \"I thought Weathers was dead,\" Hutchinson said in an earlier interview, per PEOPLE. \"I unburied him and broke the ice off his face.\"\n\nNews of Weathers' apparent death was relayed to base camp, then to the guide company and finally, to Peach Weathers in Dallas.\n\nWhen she first heard her husband was dead, she told PEOPLE, \"I started thinking about whether they would be able to retrieve his body,\" sand how she would tell their children the news.\n\nThen, three hours later, she received another call: Beck was alive, but in critical condition.\n\nAs Weathers explained to PEOPLE, he had woken up feeling \"like a rock\" — with ice on his face and his right hand frozen. Disoriented and thinking of his wife and children, he found the strength to climb to his feet., eventually finding the blue tents of the high camp, where other astonished climbers cut the frozen clothes off his body, and supplied him with oxygen. One day later, Weathers and two other climbers descended further down the mountain and eventually were rescued by a Nepalese Army helicopter pilot who carried them to safety.\n\nHours later, he told PEOPLE, he found himself lying in a Kathmandu hotel. \"I was looking out the window at all the greenery, and the fact I was still alive really overcame me,\" he says. \"I can't tell you the euphoria...knowing I was going to see my loved ones again.\"\n\nPeaches offered a different perspective, telling PEOPLE she was grateful and hopeful her husband would give up climbing: \"The kids and I have suggested that Beck now take up bass fishing.\"\n\nBeck Weathers.\n\nAraya Doheny\/WireImage\n\n[**The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! 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Boilerpipe Text	NEED TO KNOW Seaborn "Beck" Weathers was thought to be dead after he collapsed on Mt. Everest — and his wife was informed of the news It turned out that Weathers was alive — which his fellow climbers learned when he made his way down to basecamp later Weathers' story has since been memorialized in both book and film Margaret "Peach" Weathers got the news over the phone: her husband, Seaborn "Beck" Weathers, had been overtaken by a blizzard during his climb up Mount Everest in May, 1996. He had died, the person on the other end of the line told her. But Beck was still alive — which his wife would learn later. Around 150 climbers were making their way up Mount Everest when a dense squall collided with the world's highest peak. One day later, eight of them were dead. Weathers, 49 years old at the time, was not among them — though he came close. At the time, Weathers was a pathologist at Medical City Hospital in Dallas and a father of two who had a goal of summiting one mountain per year. In 1996, he finally made it to Everest. Weathers paid a fee of $65,000, PEOPLE reported that year, to join an eight-person team that left for Nepal in April. "It was a strong group," Weathers said. "[Guide Rob Hall] felt we all had a very good chance of reaching the summit." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers. AP Photo/Jon Freilich The team spent a month acclimating to the altitude and on May 5, began what was meant to be a six-day journey to the summit. On May 9, the group joined climbers from two other expeditions at the high camp, 28,000 feet up Everest's south slope. After resting for a few hours, they set out for the top at midnight. Weathers at one point became temporarily blind from the ice splinters in the air, and opted to wait 400 feet below the summit until his vision cleared. Hall told him to wait there until he could lead him down personally. The next morning was clear, and climbers began making their way back down to where Weathers was waiting, One of Weather's fellow climbers, a man named Jon Krakauer, passed by and told him Hall was some three hours behind and that two other climbers were about 20 minutes away. But Hall, uninterested in waiting much longer, decided to wait for the two climbers and then radio Hall to alert him he was descending. Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,. Dallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill/AP Minutes after Krakauer left, snow began to fall and by the time the two other climbers reached Weathers, the temperature had plummeted and visibility was near nonexistent. Three other climbers joined the group and the three "formed into a tight pack," Weathers said, "forcing everyone to stay awake, to keep moving." says Weathers. Weathers at one point lost his right glove and then remembered "the voices getting dim, faint, far away." Then everything went black. Weathers collapsed and over the next 24 hours, eight other climbers died on the summit. When a Canadian climber found Weathers half-buried in fresh snow the next day, he assumed he was too late. "I thought Weathers was dead," Hutchinson said in an earlier interview, per PEOPLE. "I unburied him and broke the ice off his face." News of Weathers' apparent death was relayed to base camp, then to the guide company and finally, to Peach Weathers in Dallas. When she first heard her husband was dead, she told PEOPLE, "I started thinking about whether they would be able to retrieve his body," sand how she would tell their children the news. Then, three hours later, she received another call: Beck was alive, but in critical condition. As Weathers explained to PEOPLE, he had woken up feeling "like a rock" — with ice on his face and his right hand frozen. Disoriented and thinking of his wife and children, he found the strength to climb to his feet., eventually finding the blue tents of the high camp, where other astonished climbers cut the frozen clothes off his body, and supplied him with oxygen. One day later, Weathers and two other climbers descended further down the mountain and eventually were rescued by a Nepalese Army helicopter pilot who carried them to safety. Hours later, he told PEOPLE, he found himself lying in a Kathmandu hotel. "I was looking out the window at all the greenery, and the fact I was still alive really overcame me," he says. "I can't tell you the euphoria...knowing I was going to see my loved ones again." Peaches offered a different perspective, telling PEOPLE she was grateful and hopeful her husband would give up climbing: "The kids and I have suggested that Beck now take up bass fishing." Beck Weathers. Araya Doheny/WireImage The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! Weathers ultimately lost his hands and nose to frostbite and underwent 10 reconstructive surgeries in the years that followed. Speaking to PEOPLE in 2015, Weathers reflected on the ordeal — which was later immortalized by his fellow climber Krakauer in the 1997 bestseller Into Thin Air (which was also turned into a movie starring Josh Brolin as Weathers). "It was the image of my wife and children that drove me to my feet and woke me after 15 hours of being frozen facedown in the ice," he said. "When I returned home, I made a conscious decision to find little things to appreciate that I would not have been able to had I not struggled back to life." As a result, said Weathers — who now serves as a motivational speaker — "life just keeps getting better."
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[People Editorial Guidelines](https://people.com/editorial-policy-page-5499057) Published on March 20, 2026 08:00PM EDT [Leave a Comment](https://people.com/storm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776#comments) ![Seaborne Beck Weathers of Dallas, Texas, an American survivor of the Swedish Expedition, is flown to Katmandu Monday, May 13, 1996 by a rescue helicopter from Mt. Everest. Eight climbers still remained missing in unsurvivable conditions on the 29,028-foot ](https://people.com/thmb/KjpamUoiGoZGZxE_3DqNQws_kRw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$749x0:751x2$/beck-weathers-2-032026-e1c5b146782c4185a47393a73a48f0c2.jpg) ![Seaborne Beck Weathers of Dallas, Texas, an American survivor of the Swedish Expedition, is flown to Katmandu Monday, May 13, 1996 by a rescue helicopter from Mt. Everest. Eight climbers still remained missing in unsurvivable conditions on the 29,028-foot ](https://people.com/thmb/KjpamUoiGoZGZxE_3DqNQws_kRw=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$749x0:751x2$/beck-weathers-2-032026-e1c5b146782c4185a47393a73a48f0c2.jpg) Beck Weathers. Credit : Binod Joshi/AP ### NEED TO KNOW - Seaborn "Beck" Weathers was thought to be dead after he collapsed on Mt. Everest — and his wife was informed of the news - It turned out that Weathers was alive — which his fellow climbers learned when he made his way down to basecamp later - Weathers' story has since been memorialized in both book and film Margaret "Peach" Weathers got the news over the phone: her husband, Seaborn "Beck" Weathers, had been overtaken by a blizzard during his climb up Mount Everest in May, 1996. He had died, the person on the other end of the line told her. But Beck was still alive — which his wife would learn later. Around 150 climbers were making their way up Mount Everest when a dense squall collided with the world's highest peak. One day later, eight of them were dead. Weathers, 49 years old at the time, was not among them — though he came close. At the time, Weathers was a pathologist at Medical City Hospital in Dallas and a father of two who had a goal of summiting one mountain per year. In 1996, he finally made it to Everest. Weathers paid a fee of \$65,000, PEOPLE reported that year, to join an eight-person team that left for Nepal in April. "It was a strong group," Weathers said. "\[Guide Rob Hall\] felt we all had a very good chance of reaching the summit." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's[free daily newsletter](https://people.com/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701) to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. ![Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers arrives at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 1996, after a flight from Germany. Weathers, 49, is recovering from severe exposure and frostbite suffered in a blizzard on Nepal's Mt. Everest. Beck was plucked off the 29,028-foot peak Monday in a daring helicopter rescue from the blizzard which left eight climbers dead. ]() ![Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers arrives at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas, Thursday, May 16, 1996, after a flight from Germany. Weathers, 49, is recovering from severe exposure and frostbite suffered in a blizzard on Nepal's Mt. Everest. Beck was plucked off the 29,028-foot peak Monday in a daring helicopter rescue from the blizzard which left eight climbers dead. ](https://people.com/thmb/6DKIzhRsqZuUvZHAvG7OKnAi534=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$599x0:601x2$/Beck-Weathers-1996-031926-c0d32ecb3b844293acaf0d49d53b65bd.jpg) Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers. AP Photo/Jon Freilich The team spent a month acclimating to the altitude and on May 5, began what was meant to be a six-day journey to the summit. On May 9, the group joined climbers from two other expeditions at the high camp, 28,000 feet up Everest's south slope. After resting for a few hours, they set out for the top at midnight. Weathers at one point became temporarily blind from the ice splinters in the air, and opted to wait 400 feet below the summit until his vision cleared. Hall told him to wait there until he could lead him down personally. The next morning was clear, and climbers began making their way back down to where Weathers was waiting, One of Weather's fellow climbers, a man named Jon Krakauer, passed by and told him Hall was some three hours behind and that two other climbers were about 20 minutes away. But Hall, uninterested in waiting much longer, decided to wait for the two climbers and then radio Hall to alert him he was descending. ![Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,]() ![Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,](https://people.com/thmb/cQItxSnwCGEA_ZPAfcvtdKcI6Lo=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$749x0:751x2$/beck-weathers-1-032026-47f00f4527584a27847fe393997ffb13.jpg) Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,. Dallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill/AP Minutes after Krakauer left, snow began to fall and by the time the two other climbers reached Weathers, the temperature had plummeted and visibility was near nonexistent. Three other climbers joined the group and the three "formed into a tight pack," Weathers said, "forcing everyone to stay awake, to keep moving." says Weathers. Weathers at one point lost his right glove and then remembered "the voices getting dim, faint, far away." Then everything went black. Weathers collapsed and over the next 24 hours, eight other climbers died on the summit. When a Canadian climber found Weathers half-buried in fresh snow the next day, he assumed he was too late. "I thought Weathers was dead," Hutchinson said in an earlier interview, per PEOPLE. "I unburied him and broke the ice off his face." News of Weathers' apparent death was relayed to base camp, then to the guide company and finally, to Peach Weathers in Dallas. When she first heard her husband was dead, she told PEOPLE, "I started thinking about whether they would be able to retrieve his body," sand how she would tell their children the news. Then, three hours later, she received another call: Beck was alive, but in critical condition. ## Related Stories [Is 'Everest' a True Story? A Look Back at the 1996 Disaster on Mount Everest That Took 8 Lives ![Jake Gyllenhaal in 'Everest' (2025).]() ![Jake Gyllenhaal in 'Everest' (2025).](https://people.com/thmb/0G5Tqswik7SmHc39GZvN6vTYvgI=/300x200/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc/everest-movie-true-story-jake-gyllenhaal-main-032025-fa33cd5df0f543a2ba16793021b464be.jpg)](https://people.com/everest-true-story-11699920) [Two Teens Lost at Sea for 7 Days Were ‘So Hungry’ They Ate 100 Jellyfish, Were ‘Clinging to Each Other’ for Warmth ![Troy Driscoll, left, and Josh Long shown on Friday, April 28, 2006, in Charleston, S.C., were rescued at sea one year ago after they were swept out to sea in their boat. ]() ![Troy Driscoll, left, and Josh Long shown on Friday, April 28, 2006, in Charleston, S.C., were rescued at sea one year ago after they were swept out to sea in their boat. ](https://people.com/thmb/9h2NE4w9jhIj7twdOJ1Fk2eRSTo=/300x200/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc/Troy-Driscoll-josh-long-2-093025-22b2f992395d4acd9fb8b9b12f139884.jpg)](https://people.com/how-two-teens-lost-at-sea-for-7-days-in-2005-stayed-alive-11821622) As Weathers explained to PEOPLE, he had woken up feeling "like a rock" — with ice on his face and his right hand frozen. Disoriented and thinking of his wife and children, he found the strength to climb to his feet., eventually finding the blue tents of the high camp, where other astonished climbers cut the frozen clothes off his body, and supplied him with oxygen. One day later, Weathers and two other climbers descended further down the mountain and eventually were rescued by a Nepalese Army helicopter pilot who carried them to safety. Hours later, he told PEOPLE, he found himself lying in a Kathmandu hotel. "I was looking out the window at all the greenery, and the fact I was still alive really overcame me," he says. "I can't tell you the euphoria...knowing I was going to see my loved ones again." Peaches offered a different perspective, telling PEOPLE she was grateful and hopeful her husband would give up climbing: "The kids and I have suggested that Beck now take up bass fishing." ![Beck Weathers and David Breashears attend the premiere of Universal Pictures' "Everest" at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres on September 9, 2015 in Hollywood, California.]() ![Beck Weathers and David Breashears attend the premiere of Universal Pictures' "Everest" at TCL Chinese 6 Theatres on September 9, 2015 in Hollywood, California.](https://people.com/thmb/d5wBek7gBcUB3MeQJd4_QrZ0FVI=/4000x0/filters:no_upscale:max_bytes$150000$:strip_icc:focal$749x0:751x2$/Beck-Weathers-031926-d23e7cd8a21544c1a089f3a0e6375dc6.jpg) Beck Weathers. Araya Doheny/WireImage [The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now\!](https://people.com/people-puzzler-8620185) Weathers ultimately lost his hands and nose to frostbite and underwent 10 reconstructive surgeries in the years that followed. Speaking to PEOPLE in 2015, Weathers reflected on the ordeal — which was later immortalized by his fellow climber Krakauer in the 1997 bestseller Into Thin Air (which was also turned into a movie starring Josh Brolin as Weathers). "It was the image of my wife and children that drove me to my feet and woke me after 15 hours of being frozen facedown in the ice," he said. "When I returned home, I made a conscious decision to find little things to appreciate that I would not have been able to had I not struggled back to life." As a result, said Weathers — who now serves as a motivational speaker — "life just keeps getting better." 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Readable Markdown	### NEED TO KNOW - Seaborn "Beck" Weathers was thought to be dead after he collapsed on Mt. Everest — and his wife was informed of the news - It turned out that Weathers was alive — which his fellow climbers learned when he made his way down to basecamp later - Weathers' story has since been memorialized in both book and film Margaret "Peach" Weathers got the news over the phone: her husband, Seaborn "Beck" Weathers, had been overtaken by a blizzard during his climb up Mount Everest in May, 1996. He had died, the person on the other end of the line told her. But Beck was still alive — which his wife would learn later. Around 150 climbers were making their way up Mount Everest when a dense squall collided with the world's highest peak. One day later, eight of them were dead. Weathers, 49 years old at the time, was not among them — though he came close. At the time, Weathers was a pathologist at Medical City Hospital in Dallas and a father of two who had a goal of summiting one mountain per year. In 1996, he finally made it to Everest. Weathers paid a fee of \$65,000, PEOPLE reported that year, to join an eight-person team that left for Nepal in April. "It was a strong group," Weathers said. "\[Guide Rob Hall\] felt we all had a very good chance of reaching the summit." Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's[free daily newsletter](https://people.com/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701) to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers. AP Photo/Jon Freilich The team spent a month acclimating to the altitude and on May 5, began what was meant to be a six-day journey to the summit. On May 9, the group joined climbers from two other expeditions at the high camp, 28,000 feet up Everest's south slope. After resting for a few hours, they set out for the top at midnight. Weathers at one point became temporarily blind from the ice splinters in the air, and opted to wait 400 feet below the summit until his vision cleared. Hall told him to wait there until he could lead him down personally. The next morning was clear, and climbers began making their way back down to where Weathers was waiting, One of Weather's fellow climbers, a man named Jon Krakauer, passed by and told him Hall was some three hours behind and that two other climbers were about 20 minutes away. But Hall, uninterested in waiting much longer, decided to wait for the two climbers and then radio Hall to alert him he was descending. Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997,. Dallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill/AP Minutes after Krakauer left, snow began to fall and by the time the two other climbers reached Weathers, the temperature had plummeted and visibility was near nonexistent. Three other climbers joined the group and the three "formed into a tight pack," Weathers said, "forcing everyone to stay awake, to keep moving." says Weathers. Weathers at one point lost his right glove and then remembered "the voices getting dim, faint, far away." Then everything went black. Weathers collapsed and over the next 24 hours, eight other climbers died on the summit. When a Canadian climber found Weathers half-buried in fresh snow the next day, he assumed he was too late. "I thought Weathers was dead," Hutchinson said in an earlier interview, per PEOPLE. "I unburied him and broke the ice off his face." News of Weathers' apparent death was relayed to base camp, then to the guide company and finally, to Peach Weathers in Dallas. When she first heard her husband was dead, she told PEOPLE, "I started thinking about whether they would be able to retrieve his body," sand how she would tell their children the news. Then, three hours later, she received another call: Beck was alive, but in critical condition. As Weathers explained to PEOPLE, he had woken up feeling "like a rock" — with ice on his face and his right hand frozen. Disoriented and thinking of his wife and children, he found the strength to climb to his feet., eventually finding the blue tents of the high camp, where other astonished climbers cut the frozen clothes off his body, and supplied him with oxygen. One day later, Weathers and two other climbers descended further down the mountain and eventually were rescued by a Nepalese Army helicopter pilot who carried them to safety. Hours later, he told PEOPLE, he found himself lying in a Kathmandu hotel. "I was looking out the window at all the greenery, and the fact I was still alive really overcame me," he says. "I can't tell you the euphoria...knowing I was going to see my loved ones again." Peaches offered a different perspective, telling PEOPLE she was grateful and hopeful her husband would give up climbing: "The kids and I have suggested that Beck now take up bass fishing." Beck Weathers. Araya Doheny/WireImage [The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now\!](https://people.com/people-puzzler-8620185) Weathers ultimately lost his hands and nose to frostbite and underwent 10 reconstructive surgeries in the years that followed. Speaking to PEOPLE in 2015, Weathers reflected on the ordeal — which was later immortalized by his fellow climber Krakauer in the 1997 bestseller Into Thin Air (which was also turned into a movie starring Josh Brolin as Weathers). "It was the image of my wife and children that drove me to my feet and woke me after 15 hours of being frozen facedown in the ice," he said. "When I returned home, I made a conscious decision to find little things to appreciate that I would not have been able to had I not struggled back to life." As a result, said Weathers — who now serves as a motivational speaker — "life just keeps getting better."
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