near midnight, the blizzard cleared sufficiently for the team to see camp iv, some away. beidleman, groom, schoening, and gammelgaard set off to find help. madsen and fox remained on the mountain with the group, to shout for the rescuers. boukreev located the climbers and brought pittman, fox, and madsen to safety. boukreev had prioritized pittman, fox, and madsen (all of whom were from his mountain madness expedition) over namba (from the adventure consultants expedition), who seemed close to death; he did not see weathers (also from the adventure consultants expedition). all the climbers then at camp iv, were exhausted and unable to reach namba and weathers from the adventure consultants expedition.