The Makalu Disaster

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  • čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
  • In the Spring Himalayan climbing season of 2019, several teams of mountaineers would capitalize on a small favorable weather window to reach the summit of Makalu. Unfortunately, not all who set out for the summit that Spring would return home with their lives intact.
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Komentáře • 105

  • @jamesm3471
    @jamesm3471 Před rokem +37

    In terms of difficulty & danger, I’ve always considered Makalu to be, arguably, one the world’s most underrated peaks. She was the very last of the non Karakoram 8000ers to be topped in winter - for very good reason. Even for the most elite high altitude climbers, death’s a near certainty if one underestimates this mountain.

    • @ankitacharya975
      @ankitacharya975 Před rokem +7

      reaching makalu base camp in climbing season is it’s self another challenge.there are no tea houses along the way and very very grueling walk just to reach its base camp

  • @andrewbowen6875
    @andrewbowen6875 Před 11 měsíci +37

    Having done Makalu yesterday before breakfast I can confirm it’s bloody hard work

    • @Cinerary
      @Cinerary Před 11 měsíci

      I did it before I jerked off in the morning. I did it in my underwear. It was moderate

    • @monikel
      @monikel Před 7 měsíci +1

      😂😂😂

    • @kevinbrooks1104
      @kevinbrooks1104 Před 3 měsíci

      That one bloody hill , how every mountain has a disaster?

    • @evryhndlestakn
      @evryhndlestakn Před 3 měsíci +1

      Hilarious!🤣🤣🤣.
      How come I didnt see you then?

  • @irishpsalteri
    @irishpsalteri Před 11 měsíci +20

    I learn from these. I am an armchair mountaineer, and really enjoy the presentation. One thing that would help us that are not well versed woukd, if possible, to show the route or make sure the view we see is labeled as the face they were attempting.

  • @lesgobrandon4314
    @lesgobrandon4314 Před 11 měsíci +10

    So sad for the Sherpa who recognised his limit, made the tough but correct decision to turn back, made it to safety and then died anyway. R.I.P sir.

  • @annaross5739
    @annaross5739 Před 11 měsíci +22

    I love how you narrate disaster mountain videos. Some people try to turn into like a story with too much unnecessary detail I like that you're very clear and concise and don't try to pour me with filler words, so I think you're awesome. Thank you.

  • @sunnysideup1744
    @sunnysideup1744 Před rokem +7

    There's not too many channels I hit the like before the video but yours are always one of them. Great work!

  • @viktormedina4631
    @viktormedina4631 Před rokem +21

    @Morbid Midnight Another perfect video. Just wow ! Love All of your content, especially the videos about mountaineering. But again, all are simply awesome and perfect. Please never change your style! You're the best! Thanks.

    • @davidfeltz8697
      @davidfeltz8697 Před rokem +3

      Agreed buddy. I enjoy his mountaineering videos immensely. Well researched and respectful.

  • @cher8005
    @cher8005 Před rokem +7

    The best part of the docs on this channel is the music. Very atmospheric. I feel certain that this Indian climber would have spoken out about any searches for his body, especially since another Sherpa died trying to carry it out. To me, that's the saddest part.

  • @thelogicaldanger
    @thelogicaldanger Před rokem +78

    Don't pay attention to the haters, I think your narration for these videos is spectacular!

    • @Sushi2735
      @Sushi2735 Před rokem +4

      Jeeze, I’m no hater. But with loyals like you to call me one, he doesn’t need my subscription anyway. Thanks

    • @thelogicaldanger
      @thelogicaldanger Před rokem +17

      @@Sushi2735 Hmmmm, I didn't mention your name, but apparently you heard "hater" and thought I must be talking about you.

    • @edinsoncavanirespector9078
      @edinsoncavanirespector9078 Před 11 měsíci +5

      @@Sushi2735someone’s tetchy

    • @LotsofLisa
      @LotsofLisa Před 11 měsíci +1

      What’s wrong with the narration?

    • @terrilandry1313
      @terrilandry1313 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@LotsofLisa. Nothing wrong with the narration!! People being picky over nothing!!

  • @atheistsince1210
    @atheistsince1210 Před rokem +34

    That’s why I love your content you always manage to resurrect the TRUE dangerous peaks I believe you made the Ogre mountain video only the best in the world can do it and they need to be dual hatted a rarity at best .

  • @gordonsmith4884
    @gordonsmith4884 Před rokem +15

    Wow. I have suffered altitude sickness and exposure. Both lead one take irrational descisions, very dangerous to a brave man.

  • @zachtaylor9834
    @zachtaylor9834 Před rokem +5

    Your content is amazing , you have educated so many people about parts of the world they would not know or never see keep up the good work

  • @katemaloney4296
    @katemaloney4296 Před 10 měsíci +9

    I absolutely love listening to your videos. Your voice helps to relax me as I trudge thru long security shifts. Please dont ever change a thing!

  • @lronhayden
    @lronhayden Před rokem +16

    Makalu’s pyramid shape always intimidated me. Great vid as always MorbidMidnight!

    • @FatRescueSwimmer04
      @FatRescueSwimmer04 Před rokem

      sissssyyy

    • @lronhayden
      @lronhayden Před rokem +3

      @@FatRescueSwimmer04just because I’m intimidated doesn’t mean I won’t try 😉

  • @thirdarch7509
    @thirdarch7509 Před rokem +13

    Hi morbid!!
    Thank you for your videos. I watch them to help me go to sleep when I’m having trouble doing so. You’re very talented with your video essays and your style is really good!! Keep it up. You’re awesome dude. 🍁✨

  • @Tubesmaney
    @Tubesmaney Před měsícem

    Well done on this one MM! Keep up the great work and ignore critics. Your videos are fantastic.

  • @BDKamerra
    @BDKamerra Před rokem +3

    "They travelled... at a glacial pace..."

  • @thejudgmentalcat
    @thejudgmentalcat Před rokem +6

    Very creepy looking mountain

  • @go_dawgs
    @go_dawgs Před rokem +4

    Thanks for the content.

  • @bobasawrus
    @bobasawrus Před rokem +3

    Makalu. Wow. Thankyou. Peace.

  • @vernefits1953
    @vernefits1953 Před rokem +7

    excellent content

  • @hankarmentrout6697
    @hankarmentrout6697 Před rokem +9

    Quick question 🙋‍♂️ Are you aware a man on the Hindenburg only boarded because he was to be married. He had to be convinced of its safety. If I’m not mistaken HE SURVIVED and the man who spoke of its safety ironically perished. Thought air disasters would eventually make it to your channel. Honnold movie bought mountaineering into focus for me. You enhanced it 10 fold

  • @FatRescueSwimmer04
    @FatRescueSwimmer04 Před rokem +6

    I'm going to be on this channel one day!

    • @cristiancucos1004
      @cristiancucos1004 Před rokem

      lol

    • @californiahiker9616
      @californiahiker9616 Před 8 měsíci

      You gonna climb a mountain?

    • @evryhndlestakn
      @evryhndlestakn Před 3 měsíci

      As a success or a statistic?!!🫤🤔🫢. Well, best of luck.

    • @FatRescueSwimmer04
      @FatRescueSwimmer04 Před 3 měsíci

      @@evryhndlestakn 99.9% as a statistic lmao

    • @evryhndlestakn
      @evryhndlestakn Před 3 měsíci

      @@FatRescueSwimmer04Thats something to aspire to, I guess😂. Unless the mountain comes to Muhammed then it's still going to be an uphill battle.😉
      If you did it right & saved for a while you could hire a team of sherpas, get them to carry you up.......& throw you off. Don't even have to raise a sweat.

  • @smontone
    @smontone Před rokem +1

    Excellent video!

  • @StAlphonsusHasAPosse
    @StAlphonsusHasAPosse Před rokem +5

    Beautiful mountain
    Edit: Seems like the descent is usually what gets 'em

    • @Eltanin25
      @Eltanin25 Před 11 měsíci +2

      When you get a summit fever and continue up long after you should have turned down, it's a question if it was the descent which killed you or the decision you made on the ascent. Or maybe lack of oxygen which compromised your thinking.
      The mountaineers from my country - (former) Czechoslovakia, made two attempts in 1970s. In the first one (unsuccesfull) they lost a man due to an accident on the way up, in the second (succesfull) they lost a man on the way down. So the had it 50:50, but I am not sure how it is with the overall score of this mountain.

  • @Eltanin25
    @Eltanin25 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Czechoslovaks in 1970s chose to try a new route (I think only them climbed it, no-one before them or after). Their first expedition in 1973 didn't reach the summit but lost a member in the attempt. They returned three years later, this time succesfully climbing it but from two men who made it up only one made it down. Years later some other climber who partialy crossed their route found him frozen. Says something about the mountain, I think.

  • @TheZedFiless
    @TheZedFiless Před rokem +5

    Just want to say your channel was an inspiration for me to start the one I'm posting here now on.

  • @danielcarrilesdinu3765
    @danielcarrilesdinu3765 Před 11 měsíci +3

    Makalu may be the most dangerous 8000er but distaghil sar, a 7885 meter peak beats makalu, the last ascent was in 2005 via the north ridge

    • @danielcarrilesdinu3765
      @danielcarrilesdinu3765 Před 11 měsíci +1

      And theres another peak thats 2x harder than the ones i have mentioned, it's called Gyala peri

  • @patrickagee
    @patrickagee Před 7 měsíci

    63k!!!!!!!
    We made it bro!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @griffith500tvr
    @griffith500tvr Před 9 měsíci +1

    Starting to descend at 4pm seems to generally be a death sentence on the 8000ers

  • @DJ-ws6je
    @DJ-ws6je Před 6 měsíci

    Nice narrative

  • @lukehorning3404
    @lukehorning3404 Před 6 měsíci

    That is such a shame like so many and I’ve been there and don’t understand why they do that

  • @phillipproussier3723
    @phillipproussier3723 Před rokem +4

    It's very strange and weird of you to think that the midnight is morbid.

    • @Plemmy7
      @Plemmy7 Před měsícem

      Strange AND weird?! Whoa… that’s shocking and surprising.

    • @phillipproussier3723
      @phillipproussier3723 Před měsícem

      @@Plemmy7 It's all of them at the same time.

  • @cunhamatada
    @cunhamatada Před rokem +2

    🐐

  • @yesonet
    @yesonet Před rokem +3

    Sem legendas, é uma pena. 😢

    • @Cinerary
      @Cinerary Před 11 měsíci

      Speak EnglishNigggger

  • @user-pe8id1ni7v
    @user-pe8id1ni7v Před 4 měsíci

    Me too.

  • @mauricedavis2160
    @mauricedavis2160 Před rokem +3

    🙏😢🏔️❣️

  • @danmosure7349
    @danmosure7349 Před rokem +2

    Thank you from Canada!!!!! Prime Minister brother killed in avalanche....... Check it out would be a good story for you.

  • @ImmortalTreknique
    @ImmortalTreknique Před rokem

    For the algorithm 👊

  • @Pommit
    @Pommit Před 3 měsíci

    ...glean light...? Do you mean 'shed light'?

  • @terrilane2973
    @terrilane2973 Před 7 měsíci

    Personally i love the narrative

  • @sparknessisspreading1758

    Why would the high camp be located in the death zone? 💀

    • @AlexanderSimic
      @AlexanderSimic Před 11 měsíci +1

      probably because the death zone big u need a place to camp for the next days accent

    • @Cinerary
      @Cinerary Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@AlexanderSimicbecause they liked sucking each others dicks with no oxygen. It’s hot

    • @annaross5739
      @annaross5739 Před 11 měsíci

      I like your honest comment about how you really feel about these mountaineers, causing some respect I find some of these mountain climbers to think that they are above rules or don't think things like death applies to them and have some don't mind leaving their friends, partners or guides to die as long as they reach the top How can you brag about that once you've stepped over the dead bodies of your compadres maybe not this video cause I haven't watched it yet, but I kinda understand your sentiment

    • @annaross5739
      @annaross5739 Před 11 měsíci

      Also, I just kind of Got your comment lol Maybe this is like some weird mountain erotic, asphyxiation gameplay.

  • @FrenchmansFlats51
    @FrenchmansFlats51 Před 8 měsíci

    why cant i sleep

  • @dks13827
    @dks13827 Před 10 měsíci

    I would turn around if I felt ill or very tired.

    • @evryhndlestakn
      @evryhndlestakn Před 3 měsíci

      Would you? Oh. Ok.
      I think they tend to go on & push themselves too far because its not a "pop round the corner" type thing. They probably know they should but it could be years before they get the opportunity again. Yup, better that than losing their life, yada yada. Anybody attempting that type of thing has to know they are risking their life, even on a good day.

  • @hughblackwood8231
    @hughblackwood8231 Před rokem

    "Glean light"? - glean means to collect so "to collect light" makes to sense.

  • @mulder2400
    @mulder2400 Před rokem

    ... YOU said "planet" lol

  • @tonyarichards5430
    @tonyarichards5430 Před rokem +1

    Your voice mesmerizes me.

  • @danielwhite7380
    @danielwhite7380 Před 4 měsíci

    Great content but sounds like your falling asleep dude

  • @zukosmom3780
    @zukosmom3780 Před rokem +6

    It doesn't matter how experienced you are. It's just not worth your life to climb

    • @Willrocs
      @Willrocs Před rokem

      It doesn't matter how experienced you are , its not worth your life stepping out your front door.. Lol don't be a snizz

  • @attention_shopping
    @attention_shopping Před rokem +1

    :O

  • @RFE812
    @RFE812 Před rokem +1

    Dang & I thought that people found North America’s fifth highest mountain to be one of the most feared mountains.

  • @Sushi2735
    @Sushi2735 Před rokem +4

    Enjoy your channel, however, you probably don’t notice, but your voice gets more AND more dramatic with each video. You are good on your own, don’t need the heavy inflection. 💕

  • @learningliving2600
    @learningliving2600 Před 8 měsíci

    Wake up! I've listen to several of your videos and they are great. But this one literally sounds like you're bord and sleepy.

  • @BalletomaneM
    @BalletomaneM Před 11 měsíci +1

    Great video, except it's pronounced MOCK-a-loo with the emphasis on the first syllable.

  • @larapalma3744
    @larapalma3744 Před 9 měsíci

    Could you sound less interested?

  • @NicolaiAwesome
    @NicolaiAwesome Před rokem

    I’m going to have to nitpick (some smooth brain says I can’t) because I do like your work, it is very good, but often you get pronunciations wrong. In mountaineering videos especially.:/
    Anyway, it’s Mak-ah-lu, not ma-kalu.

    • @snowbumm100
      @snowbumm100 Před 3 měsíci

      Chill

    • @SSEi02
      @SSEi02 Před 2 měsíci

      If you hate to be a nitpick don’t be one!

    • @NicolaiAwesome
      @NicolaiAwesome Před 2 měsíci

      @@SSEi02 Edited. You’re welcome

    • @SSEi02
      @SSEi02 Před 2 měsíci

      @@NicolaiAwesome 👍

  • @coachtim6188
    @coachtim6188 Před rokem

    Pretty sure it's pronounced Mockaloo.

  • @Danjan1208
    @Danjan1208 Před 10 měsíci

    There is literally zero reason for humans to climb these mountains….zero. If you die climbing a mountain, you died for nothing….literally nothing

  • @bestboy138
    @bestboy138 Před rokem +5

    Your narration killed most of them.