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Mountain Madness

Name: Mountain Madness
Uploaded: 1996-06-02T17:19:00-0400
Duration: 10 min 34 s
Description: Three weeks after a Mt. Everest climbing disaster claimed eight lives, Steve Kroft interviews "Into the Wild" author Jon Krakauer, one of the survivors. Krakauer recounts the harrowing hours after a storm trapped members of his group on the world's tallest peak.

Three weeks after a Mt. Everest climbing disaster claimed eight lives, Steve Kroft interviews "Into the Wild" author Jon Krakauer, one of the survivors. Krakauer recounts the harrowing hours after a storm trapped members of his group on the world's tallest peak.