American Climber's TRAGIC Final Moments on the Murder Wall
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- čas přidán 19. 08. 2023
- The Eiger…. generations of Alpine climbers consider the menacing North face to be the ultimate challenge. The towering rock soars a mile above the peaceful meadows at its foot, a vertical expanse of crumbling rock, vast icefields and monumental buttresses, scoured by storms, avalanches and stone-fall. With the popular resort Kleine Scheidegg resting at its base, bystanders watch from below through a telescope creating a truly unique experience. Commonly referred to as the most dangerous climb in the Alps, the north face, or otherwise known as the murder wall, has captivated humans throughout our history, and none more so than American John Harlin. On March 22nd 1966, in the dead of winter, John would be a part of a dramatic race between two teams to climb the wall under a new, more direct route to the summit. This is his story….
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SIR Chris Bonington is not only English - is also an extremly prolific photographer and author of many classic mountaineering books. Anyone who knew anything about the Eiger, the Alps or the Himalayas who know that.
Chris Bonnington is NOT an American photographer, he is a world famous British climber and explorer!!!
I remember him from Bovril ads on tv.
Yeah, this guy tends to get stuff wrong
Cool dude
Fortunately, erroneous internet info is incredibly rare. Most online info is legit, like when I learned about the American climber, George Mallory, and his Nepalese Sherpa, Andrew Ervine, who helped save Asian climber Rob Hall from falling into a crevasse at the base of Mauna Kea in 1999.
@@HighlanderNorth1Funniest thing I've heard today. 🤣🤣🤣
This story was fascinating, thank you
What a fascinating story. Definitely in agreement that the should continue to honor the fallen climber. Shouldn't let his death be in vain. Excellent video TT!
Amazing video dude. RIP John
I love extreme climbing!
On CZcams while safe, comfy n' snacking.
Full respect for climbers.
But I always feel incredibly glad I am not clinging thousands of feet up on a wall that wants to be sheer.
It wants to be that way? Wow.
@@bkl8804
Yes!
The silver electricity men told me!
If you put a codfich against yor forehead under a full moon, they will tell you, too!
😂
Er...a random white guy from Scotland is by definition not a sherpa. "Sherpa" is not a job title, instead being an ethnic group of people who live in the area of Tibet / Nepal and are physically adapted to live and work at high altitudes. Some of them make a living by carrying rich idiots with zero climbing skills up mountains they have no business being on so that they have a cool story to tell at the bar to their buddies who pretend to be interested.
Yeah, I was wondering how a scottish guy was a sherpa (I was thinking maybe 1 of his parents was a sherpa, and the other from Scotland.) But sounds like Terror Twin was confusing the job with the people.
I honestly found that disrespectful, it was otherwise a decent video but he still needs to do better research.
Dude - everybody knows the Sherpas of Nepal. But the word 'Sherpa' is also used as synonym for 'guide'. I've seen it used like that enough times. Everybody understands it immediately.
Not all Sherpas are from the sherpa people. a lot of Sherpas far from Nepal, Pakistan, etc
"Porter," is the term for those who bear heavy loads in exchange for remuneration.
As you point out, "Sherpa," refers to folks of a specific ethnicity and region.
Beyond that, you sound beyond cynical.
Is said bile from personal experience(s)? Or conclusions of (like me) an armchair adventurer?
To all the parents of young men and women with a love of taking risks, you have my empathy and my sympathy.
22 days in a row in the Eiger Nordwand through hail and blizzards in winter ....voluntarily.
I have no words.
I remember the BBC news broadcast announcing his death in 1966. A few years later, I read the whole story about this attempt in the book, Eiger Direct, co-authored by Harlin's companion, Dougal Haston. He went on, with Doug Scott, to become the first Britons to climb Everest in 1975.
Two greats in Climbing
From morning until night one day in 1976, I sat and watched climbers on the North Face. I did the same several times at El Capitan. It got me very interested in climbing books and movies; never the real thing, except for the 19 mile hike up the side of Half Dome not touching the rope. I sat on the sharp point.
Your experiences, although not, "... the real thing," are infinitely more adventurous than mine: someone who fearlessly and without regard for personal safety, rises from the sofa to the refrigerator in the midst of many death defying feats of strength and courage.
Respect.
And, as long as you're up, can you grab me some potato chips?
I could die without the high fat calories...
I couldn't watch them climb, I would be too anxious thinking about the possibility of them falling...Same with airplanes.. in this case I like to watch them in the sky but always wish that everyone on board arrives safely where they wish to arrive and everything goes smoothly.
Chris Bonnington…a photographer??? American??? 🤣
Hi
Fighting with death 💀 on every footstep
Nice video
Kurt Deimberger and his friend Wolfi did it back in the 50s-Austrians.He began climbing at the end of ww2 and used to cycle to get to the mountains and climbed in his Leider hosen.
He went on to be one of the two survivors of the k2 tradgedy back in 1986.
He is I believe still going strong in his mid 90s
Dont use irrelevant climbing and rock climbing scenes. A story and route map would be better.
"The Eiger Sanction" (1975). Music composed and conducted by John Williams.
Of interest is that Dougal Haston, who teamed with John Harlin, was one of the mountain advisors in Clint eastwood's film.
Do a bit research please.
All things aside🤦♀️...Deadly mountain to ascend, i love to climb but these guys are on another level. Not worth the risk but totally get the buzz. Respect.
Which route did Clint Eastwood take in the Eiger Sanction movie?
My favorite book about the Eiger is Jack Olsen’s “The Climb Up to Hell”, about the much-disputed first Italian Summit of the Nordwand.
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For more accurate information regarding John Harlin II it's best to read Straight Up : The Life And Death Of A Mountaineer by James Ramsay Ullman and The Eiger Obsession by John Harlin III.
dude this channel has so many inaccuracies… it’s clearly just here for moneys there is no heart or thought behind this work. truly disgusting and disrespectful especially that cave diving video you have since made private. Dive talk did a video on it.
Thanks to those who pointed out the factual errors. One always wonders what else was an error. There were some odd French word pronunciations, too. I recommend the book "The White Spider" by Heinrich Harrer as essential reading for anyone interested in the climbing history of the Eiger, into the early 1960s.
Ehhh, does anyone really care about the factual errors? Rock climbers are only famous to other rock climbers, so its not like people are hanging posters of other rock climbers on the wall unless they themselves climb rocks.
@@dredwick I guess I have to take down my posters then
@@dredwickbut look you are here 🤣
@@CptShelby Share a photo of the rock climber posters on your wall.
@@Trump-sucks Why are you laughing at yourself? Of course I am here watching the videos, and I don't care about the factual errors such as referring to a guy as an American photographer instead of a world famous British photographer. Did you actually read my comment and understand what I said?
There’s a german movie named ‘Nordwand’ (‘North wall’) with stunning scenery and a dramatic true story about two young Austrians that were obsessed with Eiger too.
doku (drama an der eiger nordwand) about toni kurz, andreas hinterstoiser is much better for me.
why do you use the same videos over and over in most of your content?
AI script
Hey do one about mt Washington which has weather worse than mt everst
Shocking. Who would've thought?
Sherpas in Switzerland?
I see a comment "Scottish Sherpa?". That's what I thought. If you make more than three dollars a day, do you qualify as a sherpa. Is any Scot insane enough to do that?
Darned auto correct. The author of The White Spider is Heinrich Harrer.
MY favourite is our Ueli Steck, climbing in 2 hours 22 minutes! He was the outstanding mountaineer in history! RIP Ueli❤
Did you actually bother to get the facts this time, or did you just make it up as you went along again?
Chris Bonnington is a British Climber Explorer, has climbed many of the tallest peaks. Im from Alaska and I know this for a fact he's not an American photographer.
May God have mercy on the souls of people who lost their lives climbing mountains.
I like Dougal Haston being called a scottish sherpa.
Scottish Sherpa... wonder how that came to be? Or was he a Scottish porter?
Casual reminder Ueli Steck climbed this wall in 2 hours 22 minutes.
It wasn't fate that broke the rope. It was too thin. Bonnington said as much - a disaster waiting to happen.
If he was an Air Force fighter pilot, why is the video clip that is shown that of a Navy jet taking off from an aircraft carrier?
to give you something to complain about. Because this makes you happy, we all know it!
"Fate" is not an explanation for anything.
Were there jet fighter planes in early 1960?
Putting your life in a stretched out old rope isn't a good decision.
What is with all of your factual errors? Do you only care about money? How hard is it to actually research things?
We are going to climb the murder wall...
On death mountain?
The point is?
What is a “Scottish Sherpa?”
a sherpa like people who help guide others to go on mountain peaks.
@@parkerwebb3470 suggest you become more familiar with the word “Sherpa.”
@@ZahraIsMyDog sorry I am a stupid person but sorry.
Sherpa are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal,
@@ZahraIsMyDog Sherpa are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal,
Eiger in german means Ogre. They say that the mountain is an enormous rocky giant that tries to kill every climber, and you can even hear it rumble.
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The vertical north face of the Eiger (The-Eiger-Wall-of-Death) is not for amateurs.
That wall literally killed like 20 professionals before it was climbed the first time.
And that was in summer.
Ha-ston, not Hay-ston.
Chris Bonington ( British ) had actually climbed a north face route on the Eiger in 1962... so he was FAR from being an American Photographer on standby for this party of climbers.
Fate. Respect TT.
No need for the incessant intrusive backgound music/noise
Read the book "Eiger Direct".
Hi
“Murder mountain”?!? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Please stop the insanely stupid labelling of mountains, and nature in general. The mountains aren’t murderers. If people perish in various mountains, it is because they enter into extreme conditions, exposing themselves to risks that sometimes end in death.
I agree, it’s another one of those stupid arrogant things that humans do. Blaming the demise of a loved one on an inanimate object as though it’s a great injustice of nature.
Actually it is called the Ogre, because of the belief of the spirit that inhabits it.
The narrator needs to pause between sentences instead of running them together.
For some reason, I feel like continuing climbing when your friend just died, is a dishonor not an honor. It feels like the climb was more important that grieving over a friend. I've observed this phenomena in other extreme sports, like auto racing, where the race goes on, even if a driver dies, and even spectators. It's a strange defect in human nature.
It is considered an honor to summit for a fallen comrade then the named the route after him. Only a mountaineer would appreciate the gesture
"Do I take the red rope or the blue rope?....Blue!"
I wish people would think before they do things like this ,a person who lost his life for such silly stuff ,im sorry to the family of Nick
Competition is ok. Done at the same time it too often leads to bad decisions…
you don't know who Chris Bonnington is?
Watch
“The Eiger Sanction”
A Scottish Sherpa!?😊
just a collage of modern photos
No, the rope broke because exhausted climbers were carelessly stepping on the rope with their ice spikes.
Nope it could have iced up and cracked from that also weather and age and the jumar puts strain on the rope
From Chris Bonington's 1967 article:
What followed is well known. Dougal went up the ropes first and John followed. The fixed rope immediately above the Pillar, leading up to the Spider, broke and he fell. There could have been three causes - a small stone could have hit the rope, but that was unlikely. Only a very few stones were coming down and the chances of one of them hitting the rope were remote in the extreme. It could have been normal wear and tear, for we were only using 7mm Perlon, but it seems strange that this rope, which had only been used on eight or nine ascents should have parted, when the ropes further down the face, which had been ascended many hundreds of times, should have remained firm. The final possibility is that the rope had a fault in it. It was not the same make - Mammoth - as we had used on the rest of the face. We had bought this rope in a local climbing shop when we had run out of the Mammoth rope. It was just possible that the rope was substandard.
Chris Bonnington photographer? An American too. Can't be the Sir Chris Bonnington everyone else knows!
The Germans were more stubborn...
And would not be stopping...
History repeats.
This guy isn't too precise with his research/facts from what I've seen.
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Dougal Haston a sherpa!!!!!!!!!
Calling porters or guides "Sherpas" is denying their peoplehood and reducing their humanity to a job title. There are no white European (or Pakistani) Sherpas for the same reason there are no white European Han Chinese...because the Sherpas are a people, just like the Maori are a people, the Navajo are a people, the Inuit are a people, the Han Chinese are a people, or the Hmong are a people...This misconception denies the Sherpa people's existence as a people.
Murder wall? Is there a Felatio wall? I'll climb that all week and twice on Sundays.
Sssssshuuut uuuuup!!!!
0:09 Why do you write nonsense? 3967m from sea level, not the base of the mountain.... Jesus...
Mont du Fool? who, what, where? LOL
Hi
Total AI, stock footage crap.
Pak k2 and na ga parbat big
Mountain me like butt no money
Me interest iam brave❤❤❤❤
when i heard you say Bonnington was a photographer I stopped watching
Can anyone recommend a channel that’s known for actually researching correctly before producing their videos? I‘m too poor to do this shit myself so I gotta live the life through stories but I’d really like to get an accurate retelling without having to fact-check everything myself to make sure I’m not getting false information. If there’s anything like that out there I’d really appreciate if someone could let me know 😭
Following....
So because this guys doesn’t do his research, you’re going to… ask other people to do your research for you. Checks out
For the algorithm
For the adgorithm
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For the algorithm!
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FOR THE HORD....er, the algorithm.
@jordanpeterson5140 What is a hord? Are you trying to say horde?
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So ultimately his insatiable ego lead him to his death, not fate. Fate is the excuse people use when they can’t accept responsibility their own failings. This type of risk taking behaviour is a mental health condition, and should be treated as such, not applauded as heroic. Nothing about this is heroic.
Thk u this the best comment I’ve read these dudes r idiots not heroes to me MORONs
Fhörrce malöhr ^?^
247th
You can say that again!!
What's the point of this type of extreme climbing? To brag that you did it? An ego trip.
So many factual errors! As is axiomatic to anyone whose IQ is larger than his shoe-size, Bonnington is not an "American photographer", Douglas Haston (or Haste-On as this laughably bad documentary [mostly] refers to him) is not a "British sherpa" either. Such inaccuracies render this pseudo-documentary, virtually unwatchable! A great feat of mountaineering retold as badly as an outake from a Disney romcom. Avoid with all haste -or should that be "Haste-On?!
Please fact check before final posting.
There are no tragic moments in mountaineering because SMART people dont do it. Mountaineering is just plain and simply natural selection at it's finest......
Smart mountaineers don't make the news.
@@TheKetsaWell unless they are first on a summit or stuff like that i totally agree.
Couldn't they have just hired a helicopter to take them to the top? What was the mission? Geological samples? Flora and fauna?
Defeats the whole purpose.
@@YosemiteJ What was the purpose?
@@JCO2002 The accomplishment of climbing a mountain. You don't see the difference between climbing to the top vs flying a helicopter to the top?
@@YosemiteJ No, I don't. If the whole idea is to get to the top the most difficult way, they could have tried climbing it while carrying 50kg bags of cement or blindfolded with their arms tied behind their backs.
@@JCO2002 How did you watch this video and still completely miss the fuking point?
biv-oo-ack
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1st view
2nd
Why do people do this????
This is another example of somebody who does not know anything about climbing. Cannot pronounce the routes or mountains. Dougal a sherpa? this is like that book called " The Boys Of Everest" . Pure rubbish not worth wiping oneself with.
Fate didn't break the rope. Stupid people thinking it would hold did.
They weren't stupid,they were young,naive and ambitious. It was a different brand of rope with likely a different breaking strain or limited durability that failed and in those days climbers weren't exactly spoilt for choice.
@rocnoir4233 They weren't young though.
lets face it his family was rich and john was a priviliged spoiled brat!!
Can't stand this boring litany.
I love these videos, but I dont know who tf any of these people are. Watching all these videos, I've realized that rock climbers are only famous to other rock climbers. Like, Albert Einstein is famous to everyone... Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods are famous to everyone... but John Harlin is only famous to rock climbers.
No one knows who you are, no one
@@sethwiley7839 Well I think you are talking about yourself right now buddy. You have 6 subs on CZcams. I have 136. There are definitely some people that know me. More than know you. And that's just on CZcams. So quit pretending like you know who I am and that you know who knows me. You're grasping at straws.
I lasted ten seconds in from when you started speaking. Please get a scriptwriter
You need an editor for your scripts. All I'm gonna say.
Genuinely curious to what the bodies look like after falling
Hamburger
Well on 9/11 an office worker jumped from the World Trade Center and landed on a firefighter. The other firefighters tried to pick him up but he was “one” with the lady who jumped. They couldn’t separate the two.
This is going to sound a little wasteful...
Buy a slightly over-ripe watermelon, and get permission to roof access from about any 2 to 4 story building... from whence you HURL said watermelon at the ground, preferably pavement or concrete, below... Then go and examine the results.
Use your imagination to decide what that would look like if it happened to a human body... and you'll probably have a relatively good idea of what it looks like.
There are images that can be found online... You can also look up various terms around "trauma" and "blunt force trauma" specifically, and get some reasonable descriptions and images that way, too... Needless to say, it's not pretty... and the further the person falls, generally speaking, the worse the end result tends to look.
Terms like "broken", "hemorrhaging", "shattered", "bloody", and "pulp" are fairly frequently repeated in most descriptions. If you DO just Scroogle it, I hope you have a strong stomach. ;o)