Everest Air
2016 · Travel Channel · 60 min · 1 season
S01E06 · Highest Rescue, Death on the Mountain
Thu, 1 Dec, 2:00 pm
As the climbing season begins on Mount Everest, high-altitude medic Jeff Evans and his team risk their lives to rescue two climbers from 21,000 feet. Off the mountain, the team provides emergency medical relief to a local boy.
About
Standing at a jaw-dropping 29,029 feet above sea level, Mount Everest is the climber's trophy that many, including a high-altitude rescue team led by Jeff Evans - an Everest expert mountaineer, adventurer and medic - have dared impossible missions to conquer. Now, in Travel Channel's Everest Air, the real-life experiences and adventures of Evans and his skilled crew of Sherpas and helicopter pilots reveal another side of the iconic mountain. Each hour-long episode provides a rare glimpse into the exhilarating encounters and unrivaled majesty that compel climbers to take on the world's highest peak.
Episodes
- E01
Welcome to Everest: Tragedy Averted
Thu, 27 Oct· 60 minAs the climbing season begins on Mount Everest, high-altitude medic Jeff Evans and his team risk their lives to rescue two climbers from 21,000 feet. Off the mountain, the team provides emergency medical relief to a local boy.
- E02
Medicine Mountain Chaos
Thu, 3 Nov· 60 minTwo weeks into the Everest climbing season, the Alpine Rescue Service faces new challenges. From a rescue in the Khumbu Icefall to battling bad weather, the ARS needs all hands on deck to make sure everyone goes home alive.
- E03
Life in the Balance at 18,000 feet
Thu, 10 Nov· 60 minSeveral weeks into the climbing season, Jeff and the team must rescue a Spanish climber having cardiac issues at 18,000 feet and a Chinese trekker suffering brain trauma on the way to base camp.
- E04
Frostbite In The Death Zone
Thu, 17 Nov· 60 minJeff Evans and the team must go higher up Mount Everest to extricate the leader of a military expedition, an Indian climber frozen in the death zone, and a Sherpa battling an infection.
- E05
Snow Blind and Stranded
Thu, 24 Nov· 60 minTwo weeks into the Everest climbing season, the Alpine Rescue Service faces new challenges. From a rescue in the Khumbu Icefall to battling bad weather, the ARS needs all hands on deck to make sure everyone goes home alive.
- E06
Highest Rescue, Death on the Mountain
Thu, 1 Dec· 60 minAs the climbing season begins on Mount Everest, high-altitude medic Jeff Evans and his team risk their lives to rescue two climbers from 21,000 feet. Off the mountain, the team provides emergency medical relief to a local boy.
Cast
Jeff Evans
Jeff Evans