Expedition '96: Everest Quest Go to Expedition '97: Alive on Everest In the spring of 1996, we launched our first NOVA/PBS Online Adventure, tracking the progress of an IMAX film team as they captured the first large-format movies from the world's tallest peak. Follow the story here, and the tragedy that claimed eight lives, through dispatches. The Approach March A Virtual Tour of Base Camp ...

After last year's Mount Everest tragedy, Sandy Hill Pittman has become the socialite everyone loves to hate -- again. By Deborah Mitchell.