Francys Arseniev First woman from the United States to Reach the Summit of Mount Everest Without the Aid of Bottled oxygen.

Francys Arseniev, an American women who fell while descending Mount Everest with a group (that included her husband), pleaded with passerby’s to save her.  While climbing down the side of a steep section of the mountain, her husband noticed she was missing.  Knowing that he did not have enough oxygen to reach her and return to base camp, he chose to turn back to find his wife anyway.  He fell to his death in the attempt to climb down and reach his dying wife.  Two other climbers did successfully reach her but knew carrying her off of Mount Everest was not an option.  They comforted her for a while before leaving her to die.  Feeling great remorse, they returned eight years later vowing to find the body and enshrine it in an American flag (they succeeded).  After details of the disastrous climb became known, it was realized that Francys Arseniev had become the first woman from the United States to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen.