A high-altitude helicopter rescue team patrols Mount Everest's slopes from Base Camp to the balcony, going higher and further than any group has gone before to aid distressed climbers in need.
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Welcome to Everest
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.
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Medicine Mountain Chaos
Two 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.
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Life in the Balance at 18,000
Several 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.
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Frostbite in the Death Zone
As climbers begin summit attempts, Jeff and the team go higher up Mount Everest to extricate the leader of a military expedition, an Indian climber found frozen in the death zone and a Rescue Sherpa battling infection.
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Snow Blind and Stranded
The ARS must rely on Sherpa rescuers to bring climbers to the helicopters.
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Death on the Mountain
The ARS team attempts one of its highest rescues and not everyone survives.
Jeff Evans
