Part 2: David Breashears Chats With Jim Clash About Everest

David Breashears, director of "Storm Over Everest" and the Imax film "Everest," tells Forbes Adventurer Jim Clash what it was like on the mountain during the "Into Thin Air" tragedy of 1996.

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• Jim
• James
• Clash
• David
• Breashears
• Everest
• Imax
• death
• Scott
• Fischer
• Rob
• Hall
• Forbes
• Adventurer
• 1996
• documentary
• Krakauer

[ian749]

Lucky . . .

[yooperlooper]

did that announcer actually say "What a great story"????....IT WAS A HORRIFIC EVENT - 12 lives were lost when it was all said and done but Boy - Jim the adventurer thinks it was a great story! That's disgusting

[wildwindsca]

david gives back to the sherpas , right on.

[tryptala]

@mattsnow81 Good question. There's a few people he doesn't mention. He focuses on the group that chose to be interviewed, but no mention of Krakauer at all seems pretty strange. I've read things that hint of animosities among the climbers, but I think I remember that that question might have been addressed at the PBS website in the interview with Breashears there.

[mattsnow81]

@tryptala I just saw it, do you happen to know why he doesn't say a word about Jon Krakauer?

[tryptala]

Well, one reason he had to make this movie is because the IMAX movie he made back in 1996 was pathetically bad for many reasons, especially its light skimming past the disaster, but he definitely redeems himself with Storm Over Everest.