[1][better source needed] His autobiographical book, titled Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (2000) includes his ordeal, but also describes his life before and afterward, as he focused on saving his damaged relationships.

Weathers said in an interview that he "had spent most of my adult life in profound depression," and turned to mountaineering and physical activity to reduce its effects.

Anatoli Boukreev, a guide on another expedition led by Scott Fischer, came and rescued several climbers, but during that time, Weathers had stood up and disappeared into the night.

Believing the climbers to be near death and unable make it off the mountain alive, Hutchison and the others left them and returned to Camp IV.

"[6] With that assumption, they only tried to make him comfortable until he died,[citation needed] but he survived another freezing night alone in a tent, unable to eat, drink, or keep himself covered with the sleeping bags with which he was provided.

[citation needed] Weathers was later helped to walk, on frozen feet, to a lower camp, where he was a subject of one of the highest altitude medical evacuations ever performed by helicopter.

[citation needed] Weathers is a character in the opera Everest by Joby Talbot; at the world premiere the role was created by bass Kevin Burdette.