Anne Parmenter sits in Camp One after retreating from her summit bid due to exhaustion, poor weather, and the threats and bullying of her teammates during the 2004 Connecticut Everest Expedition.

Anne Parmenter turns back from her summit bid on Everest after threats and thefts by her teammates made the already dangerous ascent too perilous to continue.

Connecticut Everest Expedition member Bill Driggs heads out from Advanced Basecamp for an acclimatization hike to the ropes that lead to the top of the North Col where Camp One resides at 23,000 feet on Mount Everest.

A Tibetan porter makes his way along the East Rongbuk Glacier on his way to Advanced Base Camp on the north side of Mount Everest.

Sherpas working for an expedition on the Tibet side of Mount Everest tackle the steepest section of the climb to the North Col, where Camp One awaits at 23,000 feet.

George Dijmarescu, clockwise from bottom right, Dawa Nuru Sherpa - a Sherpa working for the Connecticut Everest Expedition, Dawa Sherpa and Lhakpa Sherpa, top right, pray in Advanced Base Camp before heading up Mount Everest on their summit bid Monday, May 17, 2004.

South African and Japanese climbers make their way up the North Ridge of Mount Everest amid a line of more than 30 climbers headed to Camp Two, at 25,000 feet above sea level, to make their summit attempts in a narrow weather window in 2004.

The first climbers of the 2004 season on Mount Everest, including Sherpas and climbers with the Connecticut Everest Expedition, make their way up the ice and snow of the East Rongbuk Glacier to the top of the North Col, the location of Camp One, one of three, increasingly higher camps that lead to the mountain's summit.

After Sherpas had refused his orders to help a climber who had gone missing after summiting Everest, George Dijmarescu sulked in the Pleasuredome, a tent that was normally festive due to the booze and porn consumed there during the 2004 Connecticut Everest Expedition.

Anne Parmenter sits in Advanced Base Camp after retreating from her summit bid due to exhaustion, poor weather, and the threats and bullying of her teammates during the 2004 Connecticut Everest Expedition.

Lhakpa Sherpa is treated by doctors after a teammate hit her and threw her out onto the rocky ground outside the Connecticut Everest Expedtion’s dining tent, leaving her unconscious.

Mount Everest from the summit of Ama Dablam, a 22,494-foot peak in the Solo Khumbu of Nepal.

Anne Parmenter, and other members of the Connecticut Everest Expedition, spend their first morning at Camp One, at 7,100 meters - 23,000 feet - on the North Col of Mount Everest before returning to Advanced Base Camp. They will make several more trips to acclimatize before heading for the summit in the last two weeks of May, 2004.

Anne Parmenter, co-leader of the Connecticut Everest Expedition, takes her final steps to the lowest tents of Camp Two, nearly 25,000 feet above sea level. The Connecticut expedition's tents were another 1,200 feet higher on the North Ridge of Everest in Tibet.