Everest · The Death Zone · NOVA

Jodi Foster narrates in the wake of the 1996 Disaster that took 8 lives in a single day, scientists follow Ed Viesturs, David Breashears (Everest IMAX) Guy Cotter and Peter Hackett to measure, for the first time ever the toll high-altitude climbing takes on the heart, lungs, blood, and brain. Why do seemingly rational people make poor, sometimes fatal decisions as they approach the peak? And the danger doesn’t end there as NOVA discovers during the descent, when one climber’s respiratory illness takes a terrifying turn on the isolated mountainside. ’’Even with the best technology, the best training,’’ says team member, producer and director David Breashears, ’’you can still end up frozen to death at 27,500 feet. That’s what makes Everest Everest.’’ Get ready for a (literally) breathtaking trek up Mt. Everest, from Base Camp at 17,600 feet; through the chilling, corpse-strewn Death Zone; to the very pinnacle of the the Earth, five and a half miles abov