The Kangchenjunga Expedition Disaster
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- čas přidán 29. 05. 2022
- In the autumn of 1995, two world class mountaineers raced to become the third person to successfully climb all 14 of the 8000m+ peaks. Only one man would successfully accomplish this goal. This is their story.
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Thank you for naming the Sherpa. It’s horrifying how often sherpas don’t even get a name when people talk about mountaineering tragedies/achievements
Facts.
Amén! Thank you for this comment.
150%, thank you
I came to the comments to say the same exact thing. Normally I’d delete my comment as redundant after seeing yours, but in this case I feel like it can’t be said enough.
Sherp up geez you don’t care about them either
Thank you for treating the Sherpa like a human and not a pack mule.....unlike many in the climbing world.
I thought Sherpas were a species of donkey
@@dilksjoel 😲🙄🤭😆
Thank you for honoring the Sherpa. They often get overshadowed by rich idiots trying to climb the mountain and are overlooked as just pack mules, when they do a ton of the hard work. RIP.
It is skilled and brave Sherpas who put in place the fixed ropes that wealthy incompetents use to drag themselves up the mountains.
You are the idiot. You are beyond stupid
The Sherpas are the greatest climbers by far, for every foreigner that summited an 8K peak, the Sherpas on the team did it 4 or 5 times constantly going up and down to set up ropes and camp. That's 5 times the danger, 5 times the climb and summiting, yet they barely ever get credit, Nepal & Pakistan should tag a Sherpa fund tax on every permit for their surviving families
The foreign companies and team leaders should take on the responsibility for the families of dead or injured sherp;as ans the sgerpas should be much more highly pain individually
It's all for pay. When people come here to my high country to ski from sea level they have a very hard time breathing. I would have a cigarette in my mouth running up hills barely breathing hard. Fire fighters rush into burning buildings to help people that can't help themselves. Police run into a building with an active crime. Underground miners risk being buried alive. Many people do jobs that are thankless. Just how the power goes out. Crews work at all hours of the day to get power back on but no one thanks them. All is said,"it's about time". Point is there are many thankless jobs out there that it doesn't matter as long as the comfort of others isn't interrupted for to long.
@@sherrywebster1675 Foreigners shouldn't take responsibility. The fucking local govts should. They exploit the sherpa for profit from rich foreign mountaineers.
Idiots need to stop blaming foreigners for a problem when the root cause is right at home for them. Greed at the local level. Stop punting that responsibility on foreigners because you think their local governments are too weak to handle things properly.(Quite the hero complex you have there)
Who do you think approves all these permits for foreigners in the first place? The money for said permits that almost never makes it to the Sherpa, I might add.
Last winter, a team of Sherpas achieved the first ascent of K2 in winter!
What makes them more special than me? F all that's what.
RIP RIKU SHERPA
I am damn sure there are many sherpas out there who can climb the 14 peaks or the 8 thousanders. The only thing stopping them is finances. I hope the situation changes for them and they can also fulfil their dreams like all these westerner expeditioners🙏🏻
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I wonder if any would be interested to have to opportunity and how much it would cost, I'd totally help set up a gofundme 🤔 idk anything about their communities so they can choose who gets it
Many 8 thousander climbers did it alpine style which is cheap and any good Sherpa could afford it.
Jerzy kukuczka is a good example.
Alpine style climbing is a European invention and you can do it solo and with minimum equipment.
@@lars-akechesburg9911 The key difference is Sherpa's don't climb mountains for sport, they do it for a living. They know the risks better than anyone.
I think most that work climb them numerous times, maybe even twice or more on different expedition groups.
Out of context a bit but for anyone who'se fascinated by eight-thousanders, the documentary movie "14 Peaks : Nothing is Impossible" document Nirmal Purja's world record of climbing all 14 within 7 months. He also has the first winter ascent of K2 under his belt.
These mountains are honestly powerful in how they capture someone's very soul... Climbers being so enamored with them that they risk their lives, and too often lose it, trying to climb them. No wonder many are revered as sacred.
Not enough attention is being paid to this feat. It is going to gradually become clear to the climbing community that Nirmal Purja’s accomplishment is going to dwarf for years and years anything anyone else does. Go Sherpa!
@@markbergemann1894 absolutely amazing and unbelievable achievement by Nirmal. No doubt about that. However, the greatest mountaineer of all time imo and widely regarded as such by other mountaineers is Reinhold Messner. Climbed all 14 eight thousandners SOLO without supplemental oxygen. Not sure that is beatable. Also did it at a time when equipment was probably not as good and the peaks/routes were not as well known/researched/studied/tested as currently. Nirmal probably second greatest of all time and again absolutely amazing what he did.
@@AlexLA007 agreed.
@@AlexLA007 good point. I’d agree.
@@markbergemann1894 Purja had been aided by bottled O2. The Reinhold Messner feat being the 1st one to summit all the 8k’s is still the most impressive.
Your pace has been out of this world man. Keep up the great work because it is most definitely going to lead to you increasing your numbers exponentially. No BS, no manufactured questions or weirdness. Straight and to the point while still passing the seriousness of the incidents
And the photos are so pretty too!
Grantington Jenkins... The mountain are very Danger
Chamoux carried out some incredible feats; like his summit of K2 in record time [I'm unable to recall the exact time but it was something like 36 hours from base camp to summit back to base camp]
Chamoux arrived at Kanchenjunga base camp a couple of weeks after Loretan and brought a large media contingent with him. He had put himself under a lot of pressure to beat Loretan.
Loretan was doing his own thing and was not interested in any race to be the 3rd climber to ascend all 14 8,000ers.
Unlike Loretan, Chamoux was not adequately acclimatised.
On the summit day, the cold was brutal; an Italian team recorded wind chill temps as low as -60*F.
Sadly Chamoux's pride and summit fever got the better of him.
That's crazy!
@@user-ct8ee8od6o A better word would be "stupid".
I love the story of Lincoln Hall somehow surviving the night in the death zone after summiting Everest after being declared dead only to be found and given aid to walk down to safety with the help of the Sherpas.
Ever since I read Into Thin Air a few years ago Ive been fascinated by Mountaineering disasters... Glad I found this channel. Subbed!!
From my village home I can see the Kanchenjunga mountain n Kumbhukarna also.Beautiful Sirinchowk,Falelung n many more.I miss my village.
Descending in the dark and with no bivouac equipment? Yeah that was definitely poor judgement
Without sherpa's, many a climb would be totally impossible. To me, they are the heroes of all climbs, who barely, if ever, get a mention.
I have so much respect for the Sherpa. Without them the droves of people who want to reach the summit (some carried on the Sherpa's backs) would never get to realize their dream.
Your videos are excellent I really appreciate you covering mountaineering incidents outside Everest and K2, which usually get the most focus. I had never heard of this incident before your video.
Really love all your videos. These thrill seeking athletes are a different breed. Amazing more don't get killed.
Too bad his vocals are SO monotonous. He sounds bored with his own subject matter. And himself.
And he doesn't use pronunciations at the end of sentences, thus, the sentence subjects run together. Terrible narrator. Subject is good, but it should have been done with respecting of those who mountain climb, and who have died doing so. This narrator didn't honor those, as he is boring, seemed to not care. As though he was just doing another job he hates. Sad.
@@DianeHasHopeInChrist loop
@@DianeHasHopeInChrist you take life too serious, weirdo. Take a chill pill, it’s not that deep
I think, Diane that the monotone is just his style and really do not think he is bored or being cavalier about these tragic tales. They are otherwise quite well done, though I do see how you can object to the monotonous way the narration is done. To me still very worth hearing and interesting content.
Kangchenjunga is really holy mountain, in my opinion the most mysterious 8000m mountain.
Do you feel that Kangchenjunga is also the most mysterious member of the seven third summits(Mount Pissis,Orizaba peak,Mount Shkhara,Mawenezi Peak,Trikora Peak & Mount Shinn are the other six members) as well?
"Holy" how
@@UmarIbnAlKhattab1 Those, who don't understand it, will not understand it.
Holy cringe, ask me how I know your a white cosmopolitan
Yeah you can definitely make a case for Kangchenjunga as the most mysterious and foreboding. I think you can also make cases for Annapurna (my personal pick), K2, and Nanga Parbat.
Great channel, thanks for posting!
Nothing like a nice, morbid story to get our Memorial Day going
Which one? I forget...
@@thomaseriksen6885 It's the one that falls under the Asian Recognition Month.
You sir make really good content. Thanks for that
You are so good,really enjoyed that one👍
Dude calling the summit “my sweet 14” sounds eerily like Sméagol - “My Precious!” Summit Fever.
Idgaf if a so called friend died right before your eyes and getting to the top is still the priority there's something wrong with you in my opinion. ( And ur behind schedule too. They continued because of pressure because those POS valued summiting over life. Absolutely disgusting)And any good outdoors persons will tell you safety trumps EVERYTHING. Even your goals and dreams.
It seems that the thin air, along with the overwhelming desire to get to the summit, has caused many climbers to walk right past a dying person. It is worth noting that if someone is down and unable to move at or especially above 8,000 meters, there's likely no chance they will be able to be moved down the mountain in order to survive. I don't think it's right either, but that's the thinking.
Absolutelyyyy. The fact that they continued the ascent after having witnessed the PROBABLE death of their guide (what if he had survived and you delayed emergency rescue services so you could summit your tiny lil peak? Wtf) is just incredibly messed up...
Yes their decision was damning but maybe they weren't thinking straight. Sadly they payed the ultimate price.
with no agreement or disagreement, are you an eight-thousander?
@@gavmw Oh god no. I admire the hell out of people with that kind of drive, but I can't tolerate those kinds of temperatures, and I don't do well even at 9,000 feet. Coca tea in the Andes? Yeah, like that helped; I just hallucinated (It was pretty, though). I'm a hiker who just likes reading about mountaineering and ice climbing. (Now that I typed this I realize you may not have been asking me. Oh well.)
Excellent.
We need more like this.
I had no idea these mountains were so deadly... I started to binge watch these videos the past couple days and it gives me such a fascination, seeing how dedicated these climbers are and how strange and mysterious these mountains can be.
Look up Annapurna 1 fatality stats.
Yet another fascinating and informative video. Excellent work, as always.
I imagine guys who regularly climb 8000m + mountains must have as rather different relationship to risk than most of us, who might think twice about climbing stairs. Balancing caution with an ego that says "can do" in the face of some pretty extreme challenges must require a discernment is refined over time through intospection, but them must be maintained. Watching the Sherpa slide off to his death, like he was just off for a toboggan slide, must be a shocking thing to witness. I suppose that in extreme conditions there some decisions that demand sentiment be put to one side; but nevertheless, carrying on in these circumstances seems like single-mindedness on steroids. Was there an ego out of control here? Was it peeved by the superior fitness of the other pair of climbers? The decision to separate so late in the day must have been a very tense moment, but how many hours led up to it? Climbing partners are chosen with care, I imagine, and like the flight crew of a modern airliner, decisions should be taken as a team. That night on the bare freezing mountain, and the futility of their enfeebled solitary efforts in the morning, must have been pretty terrifying. I guess they knew the risks, but they must also be wired to believe that they will rise to the challenge. Everybody makes a mistake sometime. RIP, and condolences to their friends and families.
I've been traveling on motorcycles for over 20 years and learned the hard way to start my days early, when the sun goes down and the day has ended your more tierd then you think and mother nature can be brutal. I've litterly raced tornados before, been in monsoon rain storms, a simple stop for water can have you facing a Grizzly bear. When things get rough though adrenaline kicks in and i'm not talking roller coaster adrenaline i'm talking about you become very aware your in a bad situation, You get bit when you least expect it but making better choices to make your ride go smoothly. Climbing is different i know but guys that tour on motorcycles all agree on basic stratagy. I prefer cooler weather over hot and everyone has there preferance but when dealing with mother nature any day can be your last. Peace
Get a car man!
They named the charity for the Sherpa Orphans after the mountaineer and not Riku Sherpa who died helping them.
his family started the organization. Of course they would name it after their family member and base it off of his love of climbing. Duh
Agree, distinct lack of respect by the family to do that on top of that of the climbers continuing the summit attempt after his fall.
@@markc17 I don't see how it's a lack of respect. They named it after their son. They probably never met the sherpa.
Awesome video! I follow mountain climbing and didn't know about this whole incident. Very well done!
Watching your sherpa fall to his death and decide to keep on going. Bad bad karma man, and it bit them both. Unfortunately not unusual for these type of high ego mountain climbing types.
Even the tragic death of the Sherpa would not stop the Climbers from having jelousy about reaching to the summit
Karma is not real, bro. Secondly, perhaps the sherpa would have wanted them to continue. This is what it means to be hardcore. Not for everyone.
What they should have Turned around To look for his Body??
@@dstaff7373 Nah... They should have turned around...out of respect
@@donaldknowles9640 Oooooor Continue Ahead in Recognition of his Hard work 💪 N Dedicate the Submit achievement to His NAME n Family... Turning around sounds like quitting which makes his Death all for Nothing. I mean He Did willing traversed a Mountain ⛰️ to get those guys up there...
Mountaineers egos are almost as tall as the mountains they climb
You have one too,dont worry,but no gut to climb one of the peaks.Your ego express itself by saying such common nonsence..As a praising Sherpas only for mountenireeng success
"that have lost their fathers, in mountaineering accidents" hit hard
Mountain Climbers be like: “yeah dying before 40 sounds nice”
Cave divers be like "Y'all are living to 30?"
@@EJRWatkins Coal miners be like: “I don’t know anyone over 25”
People in the BRONX, be like WOW , YOUR 18??
Yeah I'm 18 nigga. Pow pow pow pow. You dead now
Lmao was going to say Cave divers “Hold my Beer”!!!
Mountaineering seems a very ego-driven activity... often to the demise of those who allow it to possess them.
Jelous about reaching to the summit ... Is what cost climbers their lives
Especially for young men with kids, wtf are they thinking?!
@@relikvija people have got a jelous about reaching to the summit
Why do you climb Mr Mallory answer because it is there naff said its ego driven call it ambition whatever but it is what it is EGO I have done blah blah blah arnt I great/succesful
@@garethjames1300 Mallory is the most iconic mountaineer known to humanity... I don't blame him for trying... If Mallory could not summit Mt Everest... Who could
I'm glad I found your channel early...
I feel at least 100k soon. Amazing content and frequency! That's key
Love this one. Great content can’t wait for more mountain videos
This is one of the best channels for information and stories on climbing tragedies. It is so well researched and well written. I've ended up at various stories from this channel, but every time I can't make it through to the end. Just a little constructive criticism not meant to be hurtful. I wish the narration didn't sound so robotic, almost monotone. Which is a shame with such good voice tone and lack of accent. To just speak normally would make it so much better. Imagine someone reading a book on audio with this tone. That's why none sound like this. It would be much too boring. I call it the death tone. Someone started this type of tone with macabre genre stories, and it somehow caught on and got copied as effective. Just my thoughts hoping maybe that would be considered as a possible change to make these stories so much more interesting. :)
Agree with your advice and love the respectful way you stated it. Hope the channel creator can take it as great constructive criticism and follow your advice
You mention the prestige associated with climbing any of the 8km peaks. Out of cynicism I have to ask - is that due to the accomplishment itself, or due to being able to afford mountaineering as a hobby in the first place?
Did Treck to Everest base camp. Beautiful beyond imagination. The Nepali people so friendly, so hard working for pennies on the dollar. Go!! Tough but I did it at 69 years old!! 112 miles round trip. First three day hardest. 3900 vertical feet. After Namathe Bazaar, there's a Walmart, piece of cake!!
i first saw one of your vids on Dive Talk and I immediately subbed to your channel. You have the sexiest voice ever and I just love love love listening to you. Great channel keep up the fantastic work. 😍
Excellent content
I love your storytelling
Caption Licorice... Would you like to climb Kilimanjaro with me ? We could eat a sack of Licorice on the summit
Well covered. There's a point when u must say NO to your Ego, the death of their Sherpa was it,
and they paid the ultimate price!!!!!!
Why climbers are ego
Love the mountain series
Greed will get you killed....that's for sure... Another great video my man! Oh and congrats on 10k subs!!
It is not greed... It is Jelous... Too many climbers have got a jelous about reaching to the summit
@@donaldknowles9640 I see what you mean. Far too many people thinking "If only I could match HIS pace" and especially in regards to the climbers that perished: once they saw that the other team was already heading back down (while they were still in a much earlier part of the final ascent) they thought "We can do it too"... Good point my friend!!
@@patrickagee Bless you Sir
God: sooo… just exactly how prematurely are you looking to die?
Mountain climbers: yes.
Cave divers?
Very good, Sound track Wes correctly done.
Pretty good for a new channel 😀 sub’d
Amazing narration and stories! Thank you. Please keep them coming. 😊
Mountaneer Accidents? mmm, sounds good but in my neck of the wood it would be called: "Mountaineer Stupidity" - Excellent video by the way !
excellent background music
I literally just subscribed to your channel a few days ago and watched all your vids! (Favorite being the Group B rally Henri Tovinen one) Looking forward to more dude! 😊 Btw are you going to do a video on the recent Nepal Tara Air crash? Just wanted to mention it as a possible future video!
New subscriber here.... I know nothing about mountain climbing but really enjoy watching your videos 🙂🙏
Interesting channel
Swept away never to be seen again,Jeeesch.
Rest in peace, Riku Sherpa. And also the two french.
Slower pace might allow for for abit more backstory about the people involved adding to that human factor.. may make the vids hit abit harder..
Great vids tho man, keep it up
As someone who loves the water and scuba diving, I don’t understand mountain climbing. But, I do respect the people who want to go where other people don’t.
Are you kidding me?!! As someone who prefers *neither* freaking one of 'em, regardless of the knowledge of Missing 411 related incidents, I can say with absolute certainty that I'd take a freaking mountain on anytime rather than willingly submerging myself into claustrophobia-inducing madness! 🙅♀️ That's a hell 𝐧𝙾𝐎𝙾𝐨ρ𝐞!
@@robinmcinarnay7827 You don't even have to venture into the great outdoors when you can die in the middle of the city, upside down in a paper mache dinosaur.
As you said, they're alike in the sense that you're going to places that most people don't want to go - and I think more importantly where humans were never "designed" to go. Our bodies begin breaking down or malfunctioning when exposed to the freezing, low oxygen environment of an 8k mountain top or rapid pressure changes from changing depths in the water.
The human body can be pushed to a lot of extremes but ultimately, both on a mountain and underwater, your knowledge and capabilities are often the only thing that keeps you from dying.
I think it's almost personal preference from there: some people hate water and some people hate heights. But when you dig down to the motives I think a lot of scuba divers and mountain climbers are more similar than most might think at first glance.
I love both xD
Please do a video about the chimichanga catastrophe in Mexico in the late 70s. Thank you.
Will their be a third part to the oger north face one thing. I must know who was the first to climb it :0
Rivalries in endeavors as dangerous as this aren’t just foolish- they are selfish and fatalistic. That Sherpa who died was such a tragic story. The other two who died- were just ridiculous.
The family who started the organization for educating those children are pretty amazing people.
@@tyresseWilliams81 ooo pulling out the respectability politics in the face of genuine criticism, how unique, how tasteful
That foundation really has my respect 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
thanks
Honestly if I were to give it a try to reach the summit of any 8000m mountain, I'd put all expenses on my credit card and make sure I purchase the premium package. This way I am content with either outcome. Get to live and pay my bills or die with all expanses paid by the bank. Of course all assets will be secured and protected before I make the trip.
Good video. The tone though. 💀
These expeditions are ludicrously costly. As they've all been summited, and no geologic or environmental research is being done, I have no idea why an individual or company would donate funds to finance them.
What a kind gesture creating a charity for the kids who lost her fathers mountaineering
Cold hearts to be able to climb after your climbing partner’s death.
They were French... cowards with un-earned egos, reference: WWI, WW2.
@@braddishv3146 Are you for real?😂 The french have never or never will be cowards. Learn your history cuz you obviously got it all wrong!
Or, they honored his effort by continuing to the summit.
Sad reality of us brown skins. Since time immemorial our lives have always been expendable to the white man....
That's a serious dirtbag. Karma caught up.
Though a large proportion of dedicated mountaineers don't depend on sherpas to summit 8k peaks a large number do depend on them to a great extent for success. That includes the commercial crowd. My gripe is the low pay for services rendered. Ideally it should be 2 and half times they are getting now. Similar raise for porters upto BC. Pakistani porters esp work for pittance.
Your voice is amazing :)
True very dangerous job🕊️🙏
I like the videos where the victims can only blame their own human nature rather than being victims of someone else's.
Yeah... These are the 'feel-good' disaster stories. So wholesome
someone clearly hasn't watched the video about the 2013 Nanga parbat base camp crisis
Climbers have got a jelous about reaching to the summit... even after the Sherpa died the Climbers still had jelous about reaching to the summit
Can you do the Elisabeth Revol / Tomek story at Nanga Parbat ?
Does anyone know of any podcasts that contain content like this?
Yo bruh, like your stuff, and this is definitely not a hater moment, but im curious if you record your audio while doing pullups and inverted pushups? Like you almost sound like your running out of air, where are you from? Ive never heard an accent like that.
In all seriousness however, good stuff, keep it up.
Why do they do this? Money? Fame? Risk their life for what?
Continuing the summit without trying to save or even retrieve the body of their sherpa is wild and disrespectful.
Dive Talk reacted to one of your videos today :)
:D
I think its disgusting that they carried on climbing after witnessing their friend die. How can they pose and smile for a photo after that?
Do you fall over and join someone in defeat simply to show solidarity? While it should've been a clear sign how dangerous what they were doing was, there is literally nothing they could do to change it. Why make a bad situation in to a total failure? Is that how you honor the dead, by failing to live?
@@ashkebora7262 Well at least alerting someone of the situation and making sure their remains are kept intact I think is more important first. As well as mourning their friends sudden death. Its not like they couldnt descend and ascend again the next day or any other day. It was purely out of ego
@@NyleTrewTattoos There are plenty of logical reasons one would decide not to chase after someone _sliding to their death._
1. They are guaranteed not to beat the sliding person to their destination.
2. They might not have a single piece to retrieve.
3. If they slid in to a deep crack, they might not be recoverable _at all,_ regardless of how quickly they attempted it.
4. Rushing to rescue or recover someone easily puts their lives in much greater danger.
5. They all signed up for this, knowing the risks, and having a goal. Why blow up plans because the risks proved to... actually be risks?
You are simply too sentimental and soft for extreme sports. You clearly do not understand it, nor the people who engage in it. Stop judging others so harshly for things you clearly have no clue about.
If you went up doing extremely dangerous hiking, would your response to sliding off yourself be, "Damn!! I'm going to die!! ... I sure hope my friends give up THE ONE THING we came up here to do just so my body doesn't stay in this place I love too long!!"
@@NyleTrewTattoos climbers are famous for having Jelous... Jelousy about reaching to the summit
@@ashkebora7262 climbing are danger... But still climbers shouldn't jelous about reaching to the summit after the death of the Sherpa... respect and compassion can have a place in high altitude mountaineering
The decision to go on after their Sherpa died was very callous and says something about the character of the climbers.
Sooo...? This is just mountaineering, how many expeditions have witnessed somebody die and kept going anyway? it's amazing that we pick these two french guys and "randomly" decide to put the blame on them for a very widespread behaviour. Or is it just because they're french?
I love listening those stories of greedy egomaniacs dying in stupid pursuits. It put a smile on my face.
Ow the edge
Mountain climbers, pilots, they get, getthereitus, when you have a specific goal that means so much to you, you can make poor choices, especially the peak, that's all you've thought of, and the peaks within reach it's hard to say we'll go back down, their not the first and won't be the last.
Bad decisions aside I'm in awe of the spirit and will to live present in most of these stories. Surviving over night, in the deathzone with virtually no protection from the elements and still struggling to get down the next day...it's no wonder he was overconfident with will power like that.
Ironic, your statement. And contradictory.
Because those who have the Spirit and Will to live usually don't spend their lives doing things so suicidal and irresponsible.
These videos are great! Could you put them in a playlist so they can all be watched sequentially?
Hi the only thing I have from this mountain is a teashirt bought in darjeeling looking away I could see the peak
This channel is on the Ups
I share many of the videos w/ my twitter friends
Mote mountaniier disater videos plz bro no other channels are doing them in bulk and they my favorite things to watch
Mountains don’t want to be climbed. Leave them alone. Do you like it when ants craw over you? I didn’t think so.
Mountain don't care about anything
There is no mountain worth so much as a man's life. I have enjoyed climbing, but I have chosen Life.
#GOALS
"my precious"
Think about this. In what other activity do you actively see someone die and then continue and finish that activity? Most mountain climbers are really rich people. That is how they can afford to go to all of these places and spend tens of thousands of dollars on each climbing trip. Rich people are more times than not narcissist and a lot of times worse. So that's how you get an activity that you can actively watch someone die and finish what you are doing.
Why people are narcissist ?
Bolle rocks! I would have traded everything for the sponsor too...
I could feel the summit fever 4 minutes in
I climbed the mountain after smoking a joint drinking a bottle of wine , cheese and crackers! thanks morbid midnight for the trip!
Climber: I REACHED THE SUMMIT!
Sherpa: Cool story bro.
Real Sherpa: Who cares?
Every time I hear Chamoux, it sounds like Shamu and paints a very different picture of want went on in this climb.
Isn't October late for such an expedition? And how can they go so high w/o oxygen? That's the most amazing part to me...
About the oxygen: it is not the same as being underwater where you simply cannot breathe. With enough physical training and enough acclimatization prior to trying for the summit, your body can sustain itself for a little while at extreme altitude. The kicker is that to do this, because the body does not get enough energy in the form of oxygen, it starts using up its own reserves, as well as things like cuts not healing. You will still kill yourself just as properly as if you drowned..... it just takes a lot longer to happen.
edit: btw the amount of junk food that people chow on at extreme altitude is rather amusing.... it makes perfect sense, since part of the reason junk food is unhealthy is the sheer amount of energy packed into them.
well they had done other peaks no oxygen so they were more accustomed to the vibe
They were accustomed to the vibe Steven
Gandalf is all about the vibe
October isn't late for the expedition, the months of May and October are the primary climbing seasons in the Himalayas. Winter is obviously dangerous, and monsoon season in the summer brings equally volatile weather patterns. May is the window between the end of winter and beginning of summer, while October is when the monsoons have ended but winter storms haven't begun yet. As for getting up there without oxygen, they did a hell of a lot of training and acclimatization.
RIP.