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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa102.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://www.aol.com/woman-told-her-husband-died-000000572.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.aol.com/woman-told-her-husband-died-000000572.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/woman-told-her-husband-died-000000572.html","crawl_time":1774143813,"first_indexed_time":0,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,aol!www,\/woman-told-her-husband-died-000000572.html s443","src_root_hash":"10243928666277241102","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Woman Was Told Her Husband Died Hiking Everest, and His Body Was Left Behind in a Storm. Then He Showed Up at Base Camp - AOL","meta_descriptions":["The saga has since been memorialized in both book and film"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Beck Weathers\nCredit: Binod Joshi\/AP\nNEED 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\nCredit: AP 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,\nCredit: Dallas 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\nCredit: Araya 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.\"\nRead the original article on\nPeople","attrs_markdown":"- [Home](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/ \"Home\")\n- [Maple Grove, QC Maple Grove, QC Local News](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/local\/ \"Local\")\n- 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[Health](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/health\/ \"Health\")\n- [Medicare](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/health\/medicare\/ \"Medicare\")\n\n- Back\n- News\n- [News](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/ \"News\")\n- [Business](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/business\/ \"Business\")\n- [Lighter Side](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/lighter \"Lighter Side\")\n- [Politics](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/politics\/ \"Politics\")\n- [Science & Tech](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/science-tech\/ \"Science & Tech\")\n- [Sports](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/sports\/ \"Sports\")\n- [Weather](https:\/\/www.aol.com\/weather\/ \"Weather\")\n\n# Woman Was Told Her Husband Died Hiking Everest, and His Body Was Left Behind in a Storm. Then He Showed Up at Base Camp\n[![People](https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/5BeJwHmDH6_9skbHcnTB_A--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTE1ODtoPTgw\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-09\/39296e70-1246-11ec-a13f-6f7e389ccccb)](https:\/\/www.people.com\/)\n\nVirginia Chamlee\n\nSat, March 21, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC\n\n235\n\n![Beck WeathersCredit: Binod Joshi\/AP](https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/HKJMQZ9P4x_2xON4MmZ04g--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjc-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/e04e92f55a09d74b8fe899795a08756f)\n\n*Beck Weathers Credit: Binod Joshi\/AP*\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 WeathersCredit: AP Photo\/Jon Freilich](https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/0QjRjgj4hEpndGanEEx0Xg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/a11a10ed940dd10d2e68c2e9319ae61e)\n\n*Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers Credit: AP 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,Credit: Dallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill\/AP](https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/gQOq9TIX2PCQRIAB6w8E9Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/f86a48952d9e7e541f57e0ce6e08ee26)\n\n*Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997, Credit: Dallas 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\nAdvertisement\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\n![Beck WeathersCredit: Araya Doheny\/WireImage](https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Ws8mgIJbUPQLkiMCez.SjA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjk-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/1620dd4f9d33a01ccfef940eee67674b)\n\n*Beck Weathers Credit: Araya Doheny\/WireImage*\n\n[**The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now\\!**](https:\/\/people.com\/people-puzzler-8620185)\n\nWeathers ultimately lost his hands and nose to frostbite and underwent 10 reconstructive surgeries in the years that followed.\n\nSpeaking 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).\n\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.\"\n\nAs a result, said Weathers — who now serves as a motivational speaker — \"life just keeps getting better.\"\n\nRead the original article on [People](https:\/\/people.com\/storm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776)\n\nShow 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All rights reserved.","attrs_readable_markdown":"![Beck WeathersCredit: Binod Joshi\/AP](https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/HKJMQZ9P4x_2xON4MmZ04g--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjc-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/e04e92f55a09d74b8fe899795a08756f)\n\n*Beck Weathers Credit: Binod Joshi\/AP*\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 WeathersCredit: AP Photo\/Jon Freilich](https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/0QjRjgj4hEpndGanEEx0Xg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/a11a10ed940dd10d2e68c2e9319ae61e)\n\n*Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers Credit: AP 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,Credit: Dallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill\/AP](https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/gQOq9TIX2PCQRIAB6w8E9Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/f86a48952d9e7e541f57e0ce6e08ee26)\n\n*Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997, Credit: Dallas 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\n![Beck WeathersCredit: Araya Doheny\/WireImage](https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Ws8mgIJbUPQLkiMCez.SjA--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjk-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_people_articles_471\/1620dd4f9d33a01ccfef940eee67674b)\n\n*Beck Weathers Credit: Araya Doheny\/WireImage*\n\n[**The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! 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Boilerpipe Text	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 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 Credit: 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, Credit: 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 Credit: 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." Read the original article on People
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Then He Showed Up at Base Camp [![People](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/5BeJwHmDH6_9skbHcnTB_A--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTE1ODtoPTgw/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2021-09/39296e70-1246-11ec-a13f-6f7e389ccccb)](https://www.people.com/) Virginia Chamlee Sat, March 21, 2026 at 12:00 AM UTC 235 ![Beck WeathersCredit: Binod Joshi/AP](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/HKJMQZ9P4x_2xON4MmZ04g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjc-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_people_articles_471/e04e92f55a09d74b8fe899795a08756f) 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 WeathersCredit: AP Photo/Jon Freilich](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/0QjRjgj4hEpndGanEEx0Xg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_people_articles_471/a11a10ed940dd10d2e68c2e9319ae61e) Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers Credit: 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,Credit: Dallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill/AP](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/gQOq9TIX2PCQRIAB6w8E9Q--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_people_articles_471/f86a48952d9e7e541f57e0ce6e08ee26) Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997, Credit: 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. Advertisement 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 WeathersCredit: Araya Doheny/WireImage](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Ws8mgIJbUPQLkiMCez.SjA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_people_articles_471/1620dd4f9d33a01ccfef940eee67674b) Beck Weathers Credit: 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	![Beck WeathersCredit: Binod Joshi/AP](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/HKJMQZ9P4x_2xON4MmZ04g--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjc-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_people_articles_471/e04e92f55a09d74b8fe899795a08756f) 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 WeathersCredit: AP Photo/Jon Freilich](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/0QjRjgj4hEpndGanEEx0Xg--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MA--/https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_people_articles_471/a11a10ed940dd10d2e68c2e9319ae61e) Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers Credit: 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,Credit: Dallas Morning News, Natalie Caudill/AP](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/gQOq9TIX2PCQRIAB6w8E9Q--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjg-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_people_articles_471/f86a48952d9e7e541f57e0ce6e08ee26) Dr. Beck Weathers sits in his office at Columbia Medical City Dallas Hospital in Dallas on Monday, May 5, 1997, Credit: 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 WeathersCredit: Araya Doheny/WireImage](https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/Ws8mgIJbUPQLkiMCez.SjA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyNDI7aD04Mjk-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/aol_people_articles_471/1620dd4f9d33a01ccfef940eee67674b) Beck Weathers Credit: 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." Read the original article on [People](https://people.com/storm-mount-everest-climber-wife-told-he-died-beck-weathers-11929776)
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