The Story of David Lama: YouTube's Most Talented Mountaineer
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David Lama was an incredibly talented climber that quickly earned a name for himself as one of the best climbers in the world, completing seemingly impossible climbs time and time again. This is his story.
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Do some stories on wind suit divers
Yeah we’ll all get right on purchasing that
@@tb808No! Base Jumping is extremely Dangerous!!
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@@Mt.Everest. 🤣
I trained, in my humble amateur climbing time, at the Tivoli in Innsbruck. I still fondly remember a day. I was struggling up my sorry ass a meager 6 or 6+ as David (Nicknamed Fuzzy at this time ) entered the climbing hall with Reini Scherers youth group. He geared up and climbed a crazy 8 overhang route as if it was nothing. I stopped and just watched in awe hanging in 15m with an open mouth. He was 10 or 11 I guess,he was a tiny kid three heads smaller than me, but you could see the sheer talent, drive and determination while having fun doing it. I will always remember his smile! Never forgotten!
I dont find what he did necessary at all.
it is not fun playing with your life, it is not.
Once I was a kid, i went up the moutain for fun, to ovesee what is around me, how it looks from there.
when i reached the top, it was exciting at first, but then it became normal.
and i wanted to come down the mountain, and suddenly my leg sliped, I started running off the mountain down hil so quick, I coldnt control my feets, it kept going faster and faster, I felt the biggest fear of my life in those seconds, and prayed in my heart "Oh God help", as I kept runing down the hill, I was a huge flat rock standing next to me, I immediaty sat on that rock as soon as I reached it. and thank God I was saved.
As a Kid at that very moment I realized that there are exciting things in the world that is not worth my life.
I think people do this so others can appreciate what they did, praise them, promote them, get reputation, nobody is crazy enough to get to the top repeatedly, knowing that is risky as hell.
deep inside "every human has ego for reputation and show off", some can control it, others cant.
@@hewadsaad1378 I love your comment. God bless you.
“The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.”
Psalm 18,2
Thare is truth in what you said, but it doesn't apply to many climbers.
Some are born into the mountain/ climbing life with family who are mountain guides, Sherpas etc.
Some struggle to find another path, others embrace that life.
Mountains are dangerous places, if you put yourself in harms way. There are other professions that have risk, tower workers, pilots, law enforcement, soldiers, commercial truck drivers, etc, You should have guidance by more experienced people to get you started so you have a better chance to survive.
@@hewadsaad1378
@@hewadsaad1378 If you think David climbed because of ego then it shows how much you know
@@idkgg9588 People who are scared to live often seek shelter by religion.
Most mountaineers check out with a fall or an avalanche. You can minimize the risk of falling but avalanches are mostly a matter of chance. Messner is one of the few to make it to old age. He's now in his 70s and no longer climbs. Anker retired from high altitude climbing in his 50s, as you say. With age comes wisdom.
Avalanches can be atleast lessened by watching those warm days n snowy routes against glaciers n limestone espec. And, an Avalanche beaker. Still..Mother Nature rules and most climbers, cavers etc get that. Be safe!
I think it was health reasons Anker retired.. not simply age
Sounds like your saying moutian climbers are unwise...maybe it would be unwise.for YOU to climb but don't think your fears and limitations apply to everyone
We all determine our own risks and mountain climbers actually take their own reigns in their lives.
Conrad Anker had a heart attack.
I've been loving these mountaineering-oriented videos lately!
Really happy you did a video on the king himself David Lama. I remember him fondly, and still to this day i am sad because of what happened. Always bring him up to my friends and show him clips of him. RIP legend of the climbing world.
To me, the fact that Anker was willing to have heart surgery performed in Kathmandu instead of the US is a serious testament to his bravery.
They weren’t trying for the first ascent of M16 - it had already been climbed by Steve House, Barry Blanchard, and Scott Backes. On their ascent, they found that the thin M8/9 pitch was out - so they took a variation to the summit - which was virgin terrain.
I love the diversity of mountains covered here. There are so many fascinating and beautiful peaks in the world.
Idk how I found this channel, but I'm so thankful I did! Wow! Excellent content. Excellent narration. Excellent topics about mountaineering (unfortunately tragic and sad, of course). Excellent stories. Excellent research. Excellent Everything. Even the volume doesn't change from one video to another (you don't have to bother adjusting/changing the volume). He really takes everything into consideration when making the videos. That shows so much respect for the audience. You can tell he works like hell to make this great high quality content.
Please don't change anything, not even the volume of the background music. You definitely have a follower and subscriber here and there are much more to come. You deserve it.
Thank you!
Indeed. It is awesome and educational.
Yes!!
Your videos are so underrated. Narration and pace are great. Happy to see you get sponsored.
You could strictly do Cerro Torre related videos for the rest of time, and I would watch them all.
Same. It's unlike any other mountain out there.
@@POLARTTYRTM I can’t believe I’m 42 and never even heard of it until this channel!
@@Syclone0044 I'm not surprised, it's not as popular as the other mountains because the mountains that are famous are the tallest ones, not the most difficult, as the tallest hold the most prestige to summit. It's unexpected but the most difficult mountains on the planet to climb, are not the tallest, and Cerro Torre is the greatest example, simply because most of the mountain is simply not climbable at all.
Viewed through the historical lens, there have been several mountains that have been deemed unclimbable. Several of those have now been climbed.
It appears that just about any summit can be reached.
What determines if a mountain is conquered or not is the willingness to attempt- and funding.
Fabrício is my cousin. We'd grown up together and also he was my neighbor. I still remember the last time I've saw him and his last words "Merry Xmas and I love u all." Thanks for this video and it's hard to revive all of this again, but at least I know that he's in peace.
Thank you for making these vids. I feel like they honor the memory as well as serve as bearing witness to their lives so they are not forgotten.
Thank you for educating people about David Lama!
Often overlooked but incredibly important mountaineer and young comp climber. This is the most in-depth piece of media on David I have seen thus far.
From the climbing community, may I say thank you.
This channel truly deserves more subscribers. You're storytelling is some of the best this platform has. Keep up the good work!
I just subed!!
Agreed. Content, research, music, respect, it is without peer in my opinion.
Those all come w time.
RIP David: YOU were a true inspiration and a lot of fun to watch climb!
The life these guys live is brutal, they live fast and die young, sad a dude with this much talent is gone so young. Must be tough on his loved ones
That depends on his relationship with them... Losing someone's never really what you call "easy"... BUT when you know someone like these guys, or any true adventurer, you can really identify with Morgan Freeman's character "Red" on the "Shawshank Redemption"...
"Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright... and when they're gone, a part of you does rejoice, knowing it was wrong for them to ever have been put in the cage in the first place."
Adventurers do what's in their nature... whether they climb mountains for records or run into burning buildings when everyone in their right mind is getting the hell out and away. Whatever their motivation, when their spirits are free, the best is to remember and celebrate the times our lives were brightened by their presence... their antics... their quirks.
OR maybe it's simpler, "The man who drinks dies. The man who doesn't drink dies, just as well." ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 I think you nailed it. Well said. The loss is hard, the hurt is real, but the light keeps shining forever.
@@BonesyTucson Thanks. As a life long motorcycle lover, I only hope my family can understand that if "that thing" really does ever get me killed, I died doing something I truly LOVED doing... My spirit is free... and not too many people truly get to say that and MEAN it. ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 I think you'll like this one from Hunter S Thompson then: "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming"Wow! What a Ride!""
@@BonesyTucson Well, yes... As Joe Montegna said once on "Criminal Minds" "Life is a hell of a thing to happen to somebody." haha...
I also rather like (and try to emulate) the lovely Pancho Barnes, "Given the choice to laugh or cry... I'll laugh every time."
I always kinda liked Thompson. While his work didn't always translate well to the screen (or maybe those trying just fell short frequently on their end)... He seemed to carry an essential attitude to an adventurer or pioneer... Somehow I'm neither surprised nor disappointed. ;o)
It’s no surprise how it ended, you can only flirt with death so many times.
He was positively a huge mountaineer and inherited his father's genes.
What he accomplished at Cerro Torre is unbelievable, a remarkable performance few alpinists were successfull in.
Very interesting to point the linking all these top moutaineers share with death.
I'm sure there must be an inconscious willingness for touching death as they are all aware of the very high risks they're all taking...
And they know for sure that one day or another, they might face death and die...
Excellent episode Sir, absolutely riveting, may those gentlemen Rest In Peace!!!🙏😢🏔️❣️
Love your videos and your style of narration. Easy to follow even for the least knowledgeable of us in mountaineering.
14:45 Small nitpick, but Howse peak lies on the border of British Columbia and Alberta, and the route attempted was on the Alberta side. The BC faces are both significantly easier than the Alberta faces.
Annapurna 3 introduced me to David's story.... from there, i binged watch all his videos, documentaries, and achievements..... such remarkable, calculative, smart and strong determination young man !!
6 months fast forward i went to CZcams just to hear the sad news..... and i had to check many news source just to confirm that its just a fake news..... talented young athlete taken away too soon :(
That Nord VPN plug was hilariously smooth.... hahaha....I was completely riveted....and it took a second to realize what was even happening
There was prolly a very good reason why few attempts on the route were made over the decades since its first accent- the difficulty (and objective hazards) were very high. There’s no shortage of extreme talent in the Canadian Rockies - telling that locals (mostly), stayed away from the route.
Correction: the M16 route was first climbed twenty years earlier by Barry Blanchard, Steve Howse and Scott Backes.
Long limbs and natural strength sure don't hurt ones mountain climbing ambitions. And a marketable personality.
What's natural strength?
Another great one! 40k is SO close. We'll get there
Visited Howse peak last summer and hiked up to the base, it was truly such a surreal experience.
I appreciate your channel so much.
Thanks for Sharing this wonderful video. God bless you all. ❤
A quick side note to @MorbidMidnight: you might want to look up the pronunciation of "adage." The emphasis is on the first syllable, and it rhymes with "ridge."
Avalanches are indiscriminate, giving no heed to prowess. They may entomb the great and the less great side by side, leaving them to reflect on their fate while waiting for help which, on occasion, can never come. In those last few minutes what do they conclude? Such incredible people.
I love the stuff you publish and the presentation
Thanks
Steve
*19:19** Why is there a kayaker in the reflection of his sunglass’s lens? Did we forget what sport he engaged in? 😂*
I just discovered David on CZcams tonight. And now he's gone. I know he's been gone for years, but it feels like he was born, climbed a mountain, and died tonight
0:09 adage (pronounced adidge) as "adonge" I'm loving it, never change. Ok, now, let me hear another Morbid tale.
David Lama is a super strong rock climber too, he really was the future of mountaineering
Howse peak straddles the border between BC and Alberta, but the route and approach is entirely in Alberta.
Thank you 🙏
yey, new video! also first time being this early. I was just looking for a vid to play in the background while i do some of my dailies ^^
I am familiar with the story and your narration was spot on. I think it would be worth it (if you hadn't already) to do an episode devoted exclusively to Hansjorg Auer. His 2007 free solo climb was extraordinary. Best.
im glad what I love in life isn't a risk to my life
Are you sure?
@@1tyorganist44 yes
British Columbia has some Scary snow ❄️ Conditions
Sponsorships are given and maintained to those that push the limits - keeping the dollars flowing is a pressure that can and does mess with clear decision making.
He was such a talented kid
It seems that all these mountain climbers make a bit of theater since the Sherpas and the Film crews also climb. And sometimes even recover materials and bodies.
RIP David "Drama" Lama
My hands were sweating so bad when you talked about him free climbing Cerro Torres.
Rest in peace, Sirs
💔 May all three of them rest peacefully.
Hi! Just wanted to say I love your vids and these stories about mountaineers. I think cutting some of the "however" out of the scripts would help refine them even more and propell these vids to the top of this genre. I used to say "because" all the time when speaking when it wasn't needed without even realizing it and I have a feeling that's what's happening here. I hope you know there's no hate intended from me with this comment. It's just a small critique that I think would help your channel. Keep it up! ❤
Mother Nature rules in the end And, beginning. Be safe 🙏 out there!
Talent can work as hard as it wants...and luck still has the last laugh
Honestly heart surgery in Katmandu would.makee worry more than Any mountain...but then again h3art surgery ANYWHERE would worry me more than any peak.
Never have i been so early to a video, huzzah!!
night owls rise up!
Apparently they all crossed the snow filled gully at the same time and were probably roped up together. Crossing one at a time unroped may have saved some or all of their lives. 15:35
*I was a fan of David’s before he passed. I’ll never forget reading that he made summit on Lunag Ri. That, I believe, is the single greatest mountaineering accomplishment to date including all of Ueli Steck’s climbing accomplishments. Lunag Ri has got to be the hardest climb a person could undergo solo. I’ll never forget the day that the stories on the howes peak climb was late getting back and nobody was able to reach the trio on the sat phone starting coming across the wire. I was absolutely shocked. I can’t even imagine some of the projects David would be smashing out now. He was just at the beginning of his incredible mountaineering career. The M16 route was certainly not easy, but it was compared to Lunag Ri. I can’t help but believe that accident was mostly Hans’s fault because he was the guy who took stupid risks all the time, especially free soloing. David was much better but also the youngest of the trio which has me thinking that he went along because he was respectful of his elders. Jess also wouldn’t have taken any chances either. He was the least experienced but he had a good head on his shoulders. Was a huge loss to the mountaineering community.*
Audio sounds different as compared to usual. New mic or something?
I love how the climbing community was furious for his poor behavior and he immediately changed. I love how ethical this community can be.
Sorry to hear his tragic story
11:57 - Like, 15 or so years ago I worked in a restaurant and trained a high school kid named Max Lowe who was starting his first job and at one point a coworker whispered to me that he was Conrad Anker's son and I had no fucking idea who that was... _(I'd only moved there the previous year)_ Bozeman's a fairly "progressive" town and I just assumed that his mother hadn't taken his father's name and I don't remember it even occurring to me they might not be related biologically. -- ...if there's a "point" to that story it's just that it was _supremely_ weird/crazy to actually learn the details of the story _(and that that Anker wasn't just a LOCAL celebrity)_ a couple years later.
Conrad Anker is to me at least still and always will be a climbing bum that lives in his car. Now most climbing bums car great climbers but bums just the same. She sure did slide right in when his climbing buddy was just killed by an avalanche
I was here early!
I looked at several pictures from the expedition that were recovered. High up on the mountain there was snow melting on the rock. Thats very warm to do that and in the spring that means cornice collapse and slab avalanches alot of the time. Early spring is very dangerous due to the sun and temperatures warming. These guys took huge risks and didn't care about that and none of them climbed in that area before and paided a very high price for that.
It would have been wise to camp in a safe area and observe the area including digging some pits and ski around on safe terrain low angle and evaluate the snowpack before attempting this route and look at the weather. Either way Climbing is dangerous and i really loved David he was very Humble and i really miss his amazing climbs.
A life well lived I suppose, but I feel sorry for his family, and friends.
♥️
Howse peak is in Alberta....
My daughter's cat had kittens under my bed a couple weeks back. They arent squeaking anymore, but they rustle around. I wonder should I check on them or just wait for them to come out.
Check on them fooleo.
@@Coolhansolo 🤣🤣🤣 The cat be visitin them throughout the day. I hear them movin so I know they're alive- well at least one anyway 😬. Ok, yeah, Im gonna crawl under there and make sure they doing ok. Seems like they would be out by now.
If I find a damn raccoon or something crazy under there, I'm gonna have a heart attack 🤣
Was Jess Roskelly related to John Roskelly who was also a mountain climber?
Yes that was his father who notified Parks Canada that they were missing. He also made several trips to recover as many pieces of their equipment as he could.
@@MorbidMidnight Thank you for your reply. How very sad.
Anatoli Boukreev. Hero. That's beyond greatness.
Nothing arbitrary about that slide. It slid exactly where anyone would expect a slide. I also Wouldnt be surprised if their climb route undercut the cornice that broke off and took them
A "free climb" is no ropes to my understanding. Lama used ropes and bolts based on your description?
Free climbing is climbing without any gear to help you up the mountain. Only a rope to save you incase you fall. Free solo climbing is climbing with no protective gear at all
A kind suggestion (no malice!) perhaps consider working on your inflection and flow of speech, it’s a little stilted and raises/flattens at unusual parts which breaks immersion.
Let people live
How do you climb for 24 hours? They sleep halfway up?
👍
David payed a high price,losing his future,but his choice and one must respect that.
Scarface assassin music from 1983’s, Scarface
I love it it's kind of a signature..It's super low volume and you should barely notice it if you'd stop focusing on things you don't like..
The avalanche didn't just happen randomly at the same time the climbers just happened to be in the gully. They triggered the avalanche, and that's what killed them.
Yeah I campused up Howse peak on sight and free ,but when I got up to like a handful of meters from the summit, my foot touched the mountain, which is a dab. I said “ well shit that was 9 minutes wasted, guess I’ll try again” so I jumped down off the wall and fell for a good while before I realized I forgot my crash pad. Landed sprained my ankle and after a sip of water, a Lara bar and a bump of coke, I got back up and cartwheeled up the mountain. I became the first person to cartwheel up a mountain after campusing 99% of it. Everyone including the mountain clapped
I thought he chopped the bolts on Cerro Torre on his way down after the successful attempt 🤔
You're not wrong, he did do exactly that as a sort of repentance for the 2009 incident.
@Morbid Midnight
Around 9:00 in you state the duo received word the bolts had been chopped and then go on to discuss how this was problematic for the film crew.
Perhaps I'm wrong, but my understanding was that David and Peter completed the first free ascent of the compressor route then chopped the bolts on the way down.
Great video tho! Rip DL
Tragic .
I was driving in the Rockies when I heard David Lama was smashed off of Howse Peak. I pulled over. I couldn't believe it.
"However" repeated so many times, spoils what would otherwise be an excellent video.
What does TAKING THE INTERNET BY STORM mean? I see that statement and I hear "taking the internet by storm" pretty often. Is there a hidden meaning of "Taking The Internet By Storm"?
Why do I always get the feeling watching these they aren't going to end well?
Anyway, "adage" is pronounced with accent on the first A.
It's pronounced "add ij".
How do these folks afford this life . Travel . Gear. Etc. Sponsors?
Yes
where can one watch the Red Bull movie about the compressor route called Snowballs Chance in Hell ?
Nuts how many nord vpn ads there are on here... They got money TO BURN...
He seemed a little hypocritical tbh
Most talented seems like an overstatement if you End Up Dead!
We all end up dead one day
@@1tyorganist44 some faster than others Genius!
Most of the most talented alpine climbers die, it’s the nature of the sport doesn’t mean they weren’t talented
@@jonathonsmith8871 negative! 😝😆😆 Most live! Smh…
This is sad
Mountaineering at the pro level isnt a sport. Its a level above
I like the way you do your videos and watch almost all but these mountaineering are always so sad. It's like these guys are playing chicken with mother nature.
You’re literally in more danger driving your hunk of junk car down the street to the store. Are we going to start whining about people driving cars and how they’re “testing fate”?
No because if people tell me the roads are really bad probably not a good idea to go im going to listen. Go away!
TO a casual observer, it does seem like it, but it's not that simple. Sure, they're pushing limits and striving for their names in books, pictures and equipment interred in halls, and for trophies and such or "recognition" in certain circles and niches of society...
That's all on the "personal" level...
Take a look deeper, particularly into history, and you'll realize these are the people who have developed many of the same devices used regularly by rescue crews, soldiers, and hikers... They've been instrumental in their feedback to companies who manufacture gear, and engineers looking to "get an edge" with better gear and tech'... From newer materials for the rip-resistant outer layers of jackets, to insulation materials better than duck and goose feathers, and figuring out that we may never get a better under-layer garment than can be made of alpaca wool... Ropes, pitons, crampons, picks, ice-axes, spikes, and quick-attached pulleys for rigging ... the list just keeps growing. Many of the same pieces of hardware now used to help injured hikers out of the ravines they fell down, were originally being developed for alpine climbers to hoist their gear and supplies up mountains behind them without exhaustion...
Every form of exploration adds to experience and skill for the individual, but builds a sense of innovation for the technical and even filters its way into the rest of society. Even my own fascination with caves has led to maps growing and surveys being done with improved tech' over the last team, and somewhere in some dusty file on a shelf, there's a map where my name is among those signed and dating it, just in case some poor soul gets lost or a kid wanders into it on accident, the rescuers have a much better chance of being able to assemble a team to go after them quickly and efficiently, knowing the hazards and obstacles so they don't have to "throw everything they can AND the kitchen sink at it"...
Exploring the ocean floor improves our management of pressures, atmosphere, and exhaustion in an environment COMPLETELY incompatible with human life... you know... not unlike outer space, save the exact opposite of pressure issues...
We can think of them as reckless... OR we can be damn thankful that someone is willing, even excited to go out and test the efficacy of equipment rather than leave us obsessing over computer models and wondering if the things will actually do what they're intended to do "for real" without volunteering or the expense of hiring a "test pilot" crazy enough to try it for money. Who knows... If there weren't so many willing adventurers, and the world society shifted ever so slightly, YOU might be the one who sits there staring at the "help wanted" ad and grumbling to yourself, "The pay looks pretty good, but GOD I hate the cold, ice, wind, and how g**d*** high do they expect me to be testing this friggin' rig?!?! Are they crazy? That's GOT to be a typo!!!"
BUT when rent is due, and the fridge is bare... you do what you gotta do. ;o)
@H K Then trot on up to the summit of Everest or K2 and bring back something local along with a WHOLE SLEW of selfies with your buddies... it's done to death and no big deal. Go on... bad-ass... PROVE IT. ;o)
😁👍💪👊🍻
Great mountaineers stay alive.
This voice is actually killing me.Should be a sleeping video 😂😂😂
I'm willing to bet that NOBODY thinks that a BALLER like mike jordan belongs in a video like this anywhere. Feel free to keep making these YT vids of people making bad decisions and ending up dead though. You at least show the victims photo's and locations very clearly, thanks.
Excuse me?
the song you use in these videos is so fucking unnerving I swear
Sorry to be rotten like this, but it would have been nice if, together with all his other achievements in strength, character, and ingenuity, he had not left his corpse behind at such a young age. As Ed Viesturs said, "Getting to the top is optional; getting down is mandatory."
**EDIT** David Lama apparently went there despite the avalanche conditions that day were very high. Please ignore this comment.
How is that quote even relevant here? He died in an avalanche by chance, not by making a bad decision. Ed's quote is about not taking uneccessary risks in general; for example not pushing for the summit in bad weather, summit pushing at the wrong time of day etc etc. Doesn't matter how great a mountaineer you are if the mountain is literally tumbling down on you in a split second. Half of all the leading alpinists of all time died in the mountains, that shows that no matter how great you are there's still that 50/50 chance if you're in the top echelon because stuff like this can happen regardless of you making a mistake or not. Get out of here with that quote... yeah rotten indeed. You basically used this guy's death to make a wiseacre comment and make yourself look smart with a quote that doesn't even apply to the circumstances that led to Lama's death.
@@CoolaJokern --- Mitchel G (below) posted a comment about poor weather conditions that day, and a likelihood of avalanches. That comment was apparently deleted, although the site owner denies responsibility. I'm not sure if the point of your post is to downgrade me, or to say that all mountain climbers have nothing better than a 50/50 chance of survival. It seems to me that both are false. Annapurna is notorious for avalanches, and I believe few "expeditioners" attempt it. Most are very experienced climbers. Still, the fatality rate there, highest for all 8k mountains, is somewhere around 33%. Even there, that's not quite 50%. How many of those hesitated, but elected to push on because they had already spent so much to get there, is unknown. I believe "summit fever" is a widely accepted term, and some have died because of it. Quoting experts is not foolish. It is too bad Lama died, he obviously had exceptional abilities.
@@davesmith5656 ooooh, I wasn't aware of them defying bad weather conditions. Well that puts it in a whole new light. Sorry about that my man - then your quote most definately applies and I should edit my first comment. Not something I'd expect out of a climber of his caliber. But you got my 50/50 stat wrong; that doesn't apply to all climbers, it applies to the top echelon of climbers of all time. It was Reinhold Messner's words so I trust he knows what he's saying. He basically made the point it doesn't matter how great of a mountaineer you are, it's down to luck to a great exent too since 50% of all the greats died in the mountains. You can get hit by rockfall or an avalanche, or you can have a great weather forecast and still have bad luck if it turns suddenly and you end up dying even though you went for it in excellent conditions originally. I mean Jerzy Kukuczka was arguably the greatest high altitude mountaineer of all time and he died because he bought a new rope in nepal that just snapped out of nowhere causing him to fall to his death.
@@CoolaJokern --- Got it. The sport is high risk, no doubt. The professional sport of racing at 200 mph is much safer. I do see what you said about the 50/50, and I was not aware of what Messner said, so I misunderstood that - apologies. Videos I've watched about Eiger attempts come to mind, in relation to that. In a different category from the top climbers, it's interesting that Sherpas don't get the headlines. One Sherpa summited Everest over 20 times, IIRC, and probably guided hundreds of paying customers. (For the record, I have never and do not ever plan to do anything more than daytime walking on mountains, in good summer weather.)
Does it ever occur to these hubris filled egotists that maybe the mountains don’t want to be climbed? And the danger they place rescuers in? I don’t take any joy in their demise, but they shouldn’t have been there.
@@martinbiehl4596 As far as you know.
Did it ever occur to you that people have different interests in life and don’t align with whatever views you have. You can still have respect for dead people even if you don’t agree with their views
@@jonathonsmith8871 Spoken like a climber, or maybe the spouse of one of.
And, not for nothing, but we’re all allowed to speak our minds here. That’s my opinion of climbers and such, and I’m sticking with it.
5th Whoever likes this comment steals a cookie from someone who liked the first comment.
Evil!
@@endless3cho nah. Just good business.