Four members of the Adventure Consultants expedition died, including Hall, while Fischer was the sole casualty of the Mountain Madness expedition. While climbers died on both the North Face and South Col approaches, the events on the latter were more widely reported.
Numerous climbers were at a high altitude on Everest during the storm including the Adventure Consultants team, led by Rob Hall, and the Mountain Madness team, led by Scott Fischer. The 1996 disaster received widespread publicity and raised questions about the commercialization of Everest.
Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest season on Mount Everest at the time and the third deadliest after the 22 fatalities resulting from avalanches caused by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake and the 16 fatalities of the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche.
The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10– when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit.
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