Everest ER

S1 · E1 · May 25, 2009

Episode 1 Episode 1

Summit season is about to start at Everest Basecamp, and the doctors working at the highest hospital in the world gear up to deal with a constant stream of life-threatening emergencies. With hundreds of climbers about to enter the death zone, it is only a matter of time before Everest claims its first casualties.

S1 · E2 · Jun 1, 2009

Episode 2 Episode 2

At the foot of Mount Everest, a climber comes into the basecamp clinic at death's door. Can the doctors save his life and fly him out? As the Everest summit season gets underway, climbers are exposed to a lethal range of high-altitude illnesses, trauma and frostbite, and the world's highest clinic gets busier and busier.

S1 · E3 · Jun 8, 2009

Episode 3 Episode 3

At the world's highest hospital at Everest Basecamp, volunteer doctors treat the first major frostbite case of the season, and UK scouts head for summit glory. Perched in a tent on the Khumbu Glacier, the basecamp clinic is the frontline of high-altitude medicine where doctors battle to save the lives of climbers who run into trouble in the death zone.

S1 · E4 · Jun 15, 2009

Episode 4 Episode 4

At Everest Base Camp, a UK scout pays a painful price for reaching the top, and three climbers set off for a record-breaking second summit in seven days. With base camp melting and the monsoon approaching, is there still time to risk a final push to the top?

S1 · E5 · Jun 22, 2009

Episode 5 Episode 5