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	Dr. Beck Weathers / Schooler Lecture / Academics / Mount Union College - Mount Union College
		Beck Weathers is a survivor of the tragic 1996 Mount Everest expedition.
		Among the climbers severely injured by the storm was Weathers, a 49 year old amateur climber who, lying unconscious and exposed on the mountain's icy rocks, had been left for dead 300 yards from his camp.
		Weathers, a gifted surgeon, lost his right hand to frostbite, and part of his left hand as well.
	www.muc.edu /academics/schooler_lecture/dr_beck_weathers (267 words)

	Mount Everest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Beck sobbed as he stated that on May 10, 1996, he had realized, as he was near death, that what he had thought to be courageous was truly a relentless pursuit of success and goals and ambitions.
		Beck continued his story and told us that there are blocks of ice the size of multistory buildings that teeter and fall, wiping out everything below them, and the air is so thin that if a person was instantaneously transported there, on Everest, that he or she would immediately die.
		Beck Weathers concluded his speech with, “ In one of those old movies-maybe it was ‘Wizard of Oz’-they talk about these things that you dream about and you pursue and you go out and see if you can find this thing that in some way validates you and makes you whole.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/26/hmd129.shtml (1421 words)

	Local News
		Weathers, who was left for dead on the mountainside, lost his right hand and part of his left hand and nose to frostbite, but he also learned valuable lessons about life, which he shared with the packed crowd at Radford Auditorium.
		Weathers, a Dallas pathologist, related how a group of 30 climbers, including professional guides, were trapped on the mountainside after a sudden, violent storm struck.
		Weathers made it to the camp and survived, although his wife and teen-aged children back in Dallas had been told he was dead.
	www.texnews.com /local97/survivor082797.html (707 words)

	Beck Weathers on The Paula Gordon Show
		Weathers, who is also a physician, describes observing himself in the process of freezing to death in an environment which is 100% fatal.
		Weathers recalls how different the pain of depression is from the melancholy he felt when he was sure he would never again see his family.
		Weathers bows to Madan K.C., the military pilot and member of Nepal's warrior caste whose helicopter rescue of The Beck defied reason and physics.
	www.paulagordon.com /shows/weathers (1064 words)

	Dr. Beck Weathers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Among the climbers severely injured by the spring storm was Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers, a forty-nine-year-old amateur climber who, lying unconscious and exposed on the mountain's icy rocks, had been left for dead three hundred yards from his camp.
		At Weathers' insistence, a Taiwanese climber who was in worse condition than he was flown out first.
		The incredible story of Beck Weathers' survival has all the elements of a great adventure: heroism; bravery; a successful human struggle against the forces of nature; the surmounting of great physical and psychological challenges; and a triumph of the human spirit.
	www.speakerseries.com /spk2001/weathers.htm (651 words)

	Beck Weathers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Weathers is a survivor of an ill-fated 1996 attempt to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, in which nine climbers perished.
		Weathers described the people he was with on the climb--some with affection, some with distaste but without condemnation.
		According to Weathers, some of the climbers were not in good shape and should never have attempted to reach the summit.
	home.earthlink.net /~iwonder/thoughts.htm (988 words)

	Salon Reviews \| "Left for Dead: My Journey Home From Everest" by Beck Weathers
		In fact, Beck Weathers, the middle-aged Texas pathologist/mountaineer who arose from the ice a hairsbreadth from death after 22 hours in the storm, takes careful pains in "Left for Dead" to avoid any of the rancorous blame calling that has so defined the debacle's aftermath.
		Weathers hails Krakauer's bestselling "Into Thin Air," which targeted for partial blame the late Anatoli Boukreev, a rival team's guide, as the "definitive account." But he also lauds Boukreev, who left Weathers and a teammate half-buried in the snow while saving three of his own clients, as a hero:
		Earnest alpinists might bristle at that sentiment, but Peach Weathers certainly wouldn't: The strain that her husband's climbing put on their marriage is the main subject of the book's later sections, much of the story recounted via Peach's often seething interjections.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2000/04/25/weathers/print.html (975 words)

	CNN - Chatpage - Beck Weathers
		Beck Weathers: It is not scary, in part because you've already faced many of those fears in earlier years of climbing.
		Beck Weathers: Rarely are bodies retrieved, simply because it is unreasonable to risk the life of a living individual to recover the dead.
		Beck Weathers: I can only say that each individual who wants to pursue high-risk activities needs to be fully aware of the price that is paid by those who remain at home.
	edition.cnn.com /chat/transcripts/2000/5/9/weathers (1588 words)

	SparkNotes: Into Thin Air: Chapters 18–20
		That day, at 4:35 pm in the afternoon, Beck Weathers arrives at camp, "somehow arisen from the dead." Weathers tells them that he remembers freezing and drifting into unconsciousness, but then he came to and summoned the will not only to move, but to actually make it back to camp.
		The group lets down Weathers again—during the night his sleeping bags are blown off in the wind and he screams for help for hours.
		Weathers feat is beyond comprehension, so much that it brings up the possibility of the influence of a higher power.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/thinair/section18.rhtml (1516 words)

	The art of comeback - psychological impact of physical injuries sustained by mountain climber Beck Weathers, Olympic ...
		Weathers was part of a New Zealand-based expedition that also included Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air, a best-selling account of the Everest disaster.
		After he was forced to turn back shortly before reaching the 29,028-foot summit, Weathers found himself starved for oxygen, shivering and nearly blind as a terrible storm assaulted the mountain.
		Weathers took that look and decided he wouldn't seek blame in others or feel sorry for himself.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1608/is_n10_v14/ai_21148339 (970 words)

	JoeyDragon's Place - Book Reviews - Biographies
		I was overjoyed and incredulous when the news broke that one of the climbers, Beck Weathers, who had been left for dead on the mountain, had somehow managed to walk back into camp.
		Weathers lost his nose, both hands and his toes from frostbite, but he lived through his ordeal on the mountain.
		I found that Beck Weathers is a person to be admired for his sheer will and determination, but he is very human and very flawed.
	www.joeydragon.com /Books_Bio.htm (1042 words)

	Left for Dead
		Weathers was left for dead not once but twice during the disastrous day in 1996 which left nine climbers dead on on the mountain.
		Beck Weathers is telling a very straightforward story of redemption, in his case, a physical salvation which led to a change of heart; nevertheless, it is a complex and touching story, partly because Beck’s is not the only voice in the book.
		The other books I’ve read were about managing to reach the summit in spite of obstacles; Beck Weathers' book is about managing to stay alive and learning to live a better life in spite of terrible, partially self-inflicted damage.
	www.llamagraphics.com /Meadow/Books/LeftforDead.html (649 words)

	THRIVEnet Oprah Stories In-Depth
		Beck felt deeply fatigued, but "It was not obvious it was a life or death thing," he says.
		Beck was airlifted from the 20,000 foot level by a Nepalese Army helicopter in what is said to be the highest helicopter rescue on record.
		Beck Weathers knew he was so close to death that his thoughts would determine if he made it or not.
	www.thrivenet.com /articles/oprahsty.shtml (6035 words)

	buy christmas gift online - christmas shopping - Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In this powerful memoir, Weather describes not only his escape from hypothermia and the murderous storm that killed nine climbers; he describes another journey, a life’s journey.
		It goes past the tragedy to discuss why Weathers got involved in climbing in the first place, his lengthy and painful recovery, and the all-important relationship with his wife, Margaret (commonly referred to as Peach).
		In fact, Weathers had been abandoned by his fellow mountaineers as dead and spent some 18 hours on the mountain in subzero temperatures before miraculously regaining his senses and staggering into camp.
	astore.amazon.com /chuvashiaportal/detail/0440237084 (842 words)

	Beck Weathers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beck Weathers is an American pathologist from Texas.
		This delay caused Beck to become stranded in a late afternoon blizzard, which ended in tragedy for some, and hardship for the entire party.
		Beck spent a whole night collapsed in a terrible blizzard with at least one hand, and his face exposed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Beck_Weathers (360 words)

	University of Akron News - Survivor of Mt. Everest Disaster to Speak in UA Forum Series
		Weathers is the fifth speaker in the 2000-01 University of Akron Forum Series.
		Weathers and eight other lost or injured climbers were presumed dead and left behind.
		Determined to survive, Weathers inched his way down the icy mountainside to reach a base camp, where a Nepalese helicopter pilot defied the odds and succeeded in rescuing him.
	www.uakron.edu /news/articles/uamain_254.php (385 words)

	Recent Event 4: Perry's "Courtship of Dr. Beck Weathers. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In 1996 Dr. Beck Weathers, a surgeon from Dallas Texas, almost died while climbing Mt. Everest, the highest mountain on earth.
		Dr. Weathers had been rescued by a daring helicopter pilot who had landed his helicopter on the mountainside at an altitude of more than 20,000 feet...
		Weathers' lecture was so inspiring to Perry that he felt compelled to ask him to lecture at the North Carolina National Guard's Annual Aviator's Safety Conference.
	members.aol.com /WillasPlace2/1-recentevent4-page1.html (450 words)

	Amazon.com: Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest: Books: Beck Weathers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Weathers would probably let this affront to those who survived, those who died, and the families left behind, as a comment made by a writer in need of a dictionary.
		Beck Weathers had it all, and not just the material things that a partner in a thriving medical practice can afford for himself and for his family.
		The enormous gap between Beck's world as he perceived it through the filter of chronic depression, and Beck's world as it really was, closed when he to all intents and purposes froze to death on Mount Everest.
	www.amazon.com /Left-Dead-Journey-Home-Everest/dp/0440237084 (3121 words)

	Books by Beck Weathers
		The tale of Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers' miraculous awakening from a deep hypothermic coma was widely reported.
		Yet when he was reported dead after lying exposed on the mountain for eighteen hours in subzero weather, it was Peach who orchestrated the daring rescue that brought her husband home.
		Told in Beck Weathers' inimitably direct and engaging voice--with frequent commentary from Peach, their family, their friends and others involved in this unique journey--Left for Dead shows how one man's drive to conquer the most daunting physical challenges ultimately forced him to confront greater challenges within himself.
	literati.net /Weathers/WeathersBooks.htm (343 words)

	Copyright © 2003 by The Voice of Prophecy
		Beck Weathers had been struggling with clinical depression; in fact, his climbing was a kind of self-therapy for him.
		The power of heaven got Beck Weathers back to his feet; somehow, God guided him impulsively in the right direction back to the tents, which were still completely invisible in the driving storm.
		Today Dr. Weathers is safely home in Texas again, minus a couple of hands, but with a renewed faith in the God whose grace is present in the world’s fiercest storms.
	www.vop.com /previous_broadcasts/2005/march/05096.htm (1510 words)

	Glide Magazine Monthly Columns - The Deadliest Day on Everest
		Beck was a well conditioned and well disciplined hiker, but had only done a few high altitude climbs and was still a novice coming to Everest.
		Beck finally gave in late in the afternoon and headed down to and got stuck in the storm with Yasuko Namba and four others.
		Beck and Yasuko were both left for dead, lying next to each other on the mountain side.
	www.glidemagazine.com /1/columns20.html (1855 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Everest review
		Another man, Beck Weathers, miraculously came down from the top and was saved with the first-ever helicopter landing on Everest.
		The courageous efforts to save Beck Weathers are another primal focal point of the making-of feature and the miracle that he survived at all.
		This interview is very touching and Weathers gives a heartfelt discussion on life after his near death experience and an highly detailed chat on the effort given to save his life.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/everest.htm (1699 words)

	A State of Nature
		Weathers was a Texas man in his fifties, Namba a Japanese woman in her late forties.
		To his credit, he had offered to lead Weathers, who was having some trouble with his vision, back down the mountain, but Weathers declined, preferring to wait for Mike Groom, one of the guides, who was descending with Namba.
		Meanwhile, Weathers had toppled out of sight, and the party assumed Namba was dead and left her behind.
	www.spectacle.org /1098/krak.html (1647 words)

	National Geographic Adventure Mag.: Audio Interviews With Everest Climbers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Twice abandoned and presumed dead on the South Col, a bludgeoned Beck Weathers—stricken with severe frostbite, corneal lacerations, and hypothermia—was hauled down to Camp I and evacuated by helicopter.
		Weathers' 2000 biography, Left for Dead, details his recuperation, including facing a battered marriage and recognizing the profound depression that he says drove him to climb.
		With the help of an assistant, Weathers is back at work, and he remains on the lecture circuit.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /adventure/0304/field.html (855 words)

	Left for Dead -- book review
		The middle of three sons in a military family, Seaborn Beck Weathers was a born risk-taker.
		Beck, Peach and their children are trying to rebuild a full family from the three-quarters it had been.
		Beck Weathers' firsthand account of the Everest tragedy is worth the book's price, especially if you're a novice to the insular world of mountain climbing.
	www.curledup.com /leftdead.htm (602 words)

	Survivor of the 1996 Mt. Everest climb to lecture at Loyola
		Beck Weathers, M.D., survivor of the May 1996 Mt. Everest climb, will lecture on his memoir of hope, Miracle on Everest: Surviving Against All Odds, Wednesday, April 15 at 7:30 p.m.
		Weathers ascended Mt. Everest in 1996, when he was unexpectedly caught in a blizzard that brought him into unconsciousness and a hypothermic coma.
		Left for dead two times, Weathers miraculously awoke 16 hours later, realizing he would die if he did not find his way back to camp.
	www.loyno.edu /newsandcalendars/loyolatoday/1998/03/weathers.html (135 words)

	Beck Weathers -- Everest Survivor
		Weathers became fully coated with ice—even his face lay under a thick layer.
		Beck heard their conversation and their decision to leave him, but was unable to respond.
		Weathers continues his pathology practice and has become a successful author and public speaker.
	www.lendingexpo.net /ideam-31030.htm (1342 words)

	SparkNotes: Into Thin Air: Character List
		Beck Weathers {Beck, Weathers, Beck Weathers) - One of the novel's heroes, Weathers is a doctor with a passion for mountain climbing.
		Yasuko Namba - Yasuko Namba and Beck Weathers are left for dead when their group gets lost on the way down the mountain.
		Unlike Weathers she cannot summon the strength to return to camp, and dies.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/thinair/characters.html (805 words)

	Corpses on Everest \| Ask MetaFilter
		Severely frostbitten, nearly blind and clinging to life, Weathers regained consciousness and driven by thoughts of his wife and children, he staggered back to Camp 4.
		BTW, there is a sad and fascinating story regarding Beck Weathers and Jon Krakauer (who was among those who left Weathers for dead) that highlights the literal and figurative irrationality of climing Everest.
		Weathers was suffering from severe frostbite and hypothermia, there was nothing they could do anyway.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/26492 (1917 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Community Listings
		A series of miscalculations left Weathers separated from the rest of his party when a ferocious blizzard blew in and nearly froze him to death.
		Once found, Weathers was nearly left for dead, as Sherpa guides saw no chance for him to survive.
		Dallas surgeon Dr. Beck Weathers is one of those rare individuals, and you can hear his hair-raising tale of survival when his group of 30 climbers found themselves trapped in a frigid storm.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue42/calendar/community.html (2807 words)

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