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| | Left for Dead |
 | | For anyone who saw the Imax movie Everest or read Jon Krakauers book, Into Thin Air, there is an unforgettable image of a shadowy, nearly dead figure lurching and stumbling out of an intense blizzard, disfigured by a frozen face and disabled by frozen hands, blinded, horribly wounded but alive, against all odds. |
 | | Weathers was left for dead not once but twice during the disastrous day in 1996 which left nine climbers dead on on the mountain. |
 | | Part of one hand was saved, his nose was reconstructed surgically, and his sight came back before he left Everest, but his climbing days are finished. |
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