Scott Fischer

…party and several others, including Scott Fischer, an American who was leading a competing commercial expedition, perished in the same storm. Their deaths were reported almost instantly over the internet, and massive media coverage resulted.

…group was led by American Scott Fischer of the Mountain Madness expedition, with guides Fischer, Anatoli Boukreev, and Neal Beidleman along with a Sherpa team and eight clients, including journalist Sandy Hill Pittman. Two other expeditions from Taiwan and South Africa, led by “Makalu” Gau Ming-ho and Ian Woodall, respectively,…