Scott Fisher, the leader of 'Mountain Madness,' decided to push forward on May 8. On May 7, the three teams, 'Mountain Madness,' 'Adventure Consultants' and a national Taiwanese expedition reached camp two for a day of rest.Ī windstorm ripped through camp two as they were about to leave. On May 6, 1996, three climbing teams departed base camp for camp two. 'But I'm at base camp, where a yak has carried up this coffee pot weighing less than a pound, and I'm making this frothy milk by putting powder in a jar and shaking it up and imagining that it's foaming. 'You hear climbers pat each other on the back joking about so-and-so not being able to get out of his tent without his strong cup of coffee and he's considered this macho guy.
'It conjures up this image of a giant professional espresso maker, when in fact it was a little coffee pot that percolates from the bottom, and just 8 inches tall,' Hill told The Post. Those luxuries allegedly came to symbolize the then-41-year-old's privileged position, since she paid around $65,000 like the rest of her team for a place in the group to climb the 29,000-foot peak.
In the weeks after the disaster, it was reported by Krakauer and other media that Hill brought a cappuccino machine to the Himalayas, along with her favorite Dean & DeLuca coffee beans. Above, she is pictured near the summit of the Cotopaxi volcano in Ecuador Hill says that she was an 'easy target' and it served 'a purpose' for Jon Krakauer to bury her in his book about the tragedy Into Thin Air.
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