Everest Air
The real-life adventures of a high-altitude helicopter rescue team patrolling Mount Everest are followed in this series, which begins with life and limb being risked to extract two separate injured climbers, both from 21,000 feet. Also: The ARS team provide emergency medical relief to a local boy suffering from a potentially fatal condition.
- Created By
- First Aired on
Oct 26, 2016
- Popularity: 3.7692
- 1 votes
- Networks
- (US)
- Production
Travel Channel (US)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Nov 30, 2016
Last episode: Highest Rescue, Death on the Mountain
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 6 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Welcome to Everest: Tragedy Averted45 min
The real-life adventures of a high-altitude helicopter rescue team patrolling Mount Everest are followed in this series, which begins with life and limb being risked to extract two separate injured climbers, both from 21,000 feet. Also: The ARS team provide emergency medical relief to a local boy suffering from a potentially fatal condition.
Episode 2Medicine Mountain Chaos45 min
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.
Episode 3Life in the Balance at 18,000 feet45 min
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.
Episode 4Frostbite In The Death Zone45 min
Jeff 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.
Episode 5Snow Blind and Stranded45 min
Jeff Evans and his team must rely on the Rescue Sherpa Team to bring incapacitated climbers from the death zone to the helicopters, including two snow blind Sherpas and a Slovakian team member taking a dangerous route to the top.
