in addition to the members of the adventure consultants and mountain madness teams, mike trueman, who coordinated the rescue from base camp, added to the story with "the storms: adventure and tragedy on everest" (2015). graham ratcliffe, who climbed to the south col of everest on 10 may, has documented in "a day to die for" (2011) that weather reports delivered to expedition leaders, including hall and fischer before their planned summit attempts on 10 may, forecast a major storm developing after 8 may and peaking in intensity on 11 may. as hall and fischer planned their summits for 10 may, portions of their teams summitted everest during an apparent break in this developing storm, only to descend into the full force of it late on 10 may.