Death
Finally, around 7pm on May 11, Boukreev was able to reach Fischer's position, but unfortunately it was too late. Many speculate that Fischer had been suffering from a severe form of altitude sickness, either HACE or HAPE. A memorial cairn for Scott Fischer can be found at the top of a hill, called Dugla Pass, near the village of Dugla, on the trail to Everest base camp. All Everest climbers using the southern route have to pass a group of five bodies, amongst them Fischer. In May 2010, the bodies of Swiss climber Gianni Goltz and Russian Sergej Duganow were removed. The body of Fischer remains in situ. Fischer's family wishes that the body remains where it is.
Accounts of what happened in 1996 were described in the books The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev and Gary DeWalt, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Left for Dead by Beck Weathers, and Climbing High by Lene Gammelgaard. Mountain Madness by Robert Birkby is a biography of Scott Fischer.
In the TV-movie Into Thin Air: Death on Everest, Fischer was played by Peter Horton.
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