You’re right - 1996. I remember that..what a story...I don’t think it was that congested at that time, was it? The focus was on the deaths...Always in May - must be the best time for the climb?
https://www.himalayanrecreation.com/blog/1996-mount-everest-
disaster
We saw the movie you must be referring to at IMAX - my goodness, just the training it took before the trip/climb made me dizzy..I forget where the training was - perhaps Pikes Peak?
Do you think that many climbers might make the mountain TIP OVER? LOL
A terrific book about the climb is “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer - if you like to read, I highly recommend it.
“”In March 1996, Outside Magazine sent me to Nepal to participate in, and write about, a guided ascent of Mount Everest. I went as one of eight clients on an expedition led by a well-known guide from New Zealand named Rob Hall. On May 10 I arrived on top of the mountain, but the summit came at a terrible cost.””
Oh yeah. I read that when it came out. Terrible, just terrible. Heh, now...they can form a human chain to bring a stricken climber off the mountain...