The SAD Story of the FIRST Woman to Die on Everest
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- čas přidán 10. 06. 2023
- The story we are telling today intertwines the destinies of a couple who had the dream of climbing Mount Everest together. The tragic epilogue of this story sees the fate of Hannelore Schmatz marked forever.
Sherpa’s even to this day ate the unsung heroes of Everest and should be given more respect and money!!! God bless ‘em all
The saddest part is the sherpa that had to stay with them had lost all his fingers due to their stupidity.
Yes! I don't think it's mandatory for the sherpa to stay with them when they've made the wrong decision, even if it's because of summit fever and edema due to altitude sickness. the Sherpa would not be able to work anymore if he lost all his fingers and toes due to frostbite and it's unfair to the sherpa. what happened to him? the Sherpas live in poverty, and what will happen of his job, his income, his family and his wife and children who depend on him ?
@@yiweilee2715Amazingly, the Sherpa who stayed with her, Sungdare Sherpa, ended up summiting Everest four more times after losing his fingers. Unfortunately, he also happened to be an alcoholic and ended up committing suicide by drowning in 1989.
@@kutter_ttl6786 wow! im happy to hear that this heroic Sungdare Sherpa survived and summitted Everest 4 more times. Although it's such a waste that he killed himself. What he had in physique, strength and lung power is enviable to us living at sea level. greetings from the equator! Being alive is a choice!
@@yiweilee2715Being alive CAN be a choice, but it's not necessarily the case
Such lovely judgement levelled against someone who lost their life.
Remember you can be the smartest, most reasonable person at sea level and start to make bad decisions at altitude. It doesn't make you a bad person
Repeatedly ignored the warnings of more experienced climbers. They brought it on themselves
Experiences climbers know that if you don't make it back from a successful ascent, it was not truly a success.
Just an FYI: some of the pictures you have up are not of Hannelore. 6:53. They are of Wanda Rutkiewicz, who died on Kangchenjunga in 1992
At first I thought she died on Annapurna, but you're absolutely right.
Imagine being remembered as 'the first woman to die on Everest'
She deserved it.. foolish woman
I think the point is, most people aren't remembered at all.
Like being a part of history.
@@davek7706😅
She didn't do her gender any favors. Her dream got to big for her to handle and it devoured her.
Great story and narration again. Thanks 🗻❄️👓🥾🪓
She was more of a man than me. But, I'm more alive.
Don't know about anyone else but the long lines of climbers remind me of photos taken of the Yukon and Alaskan gold rushes in the 1890's. Crazy.
Don't understand the obsession with this corpse-strewn mountain, which to me seems nothing more than a tacky tourist trap where rich people who don't really know what they are doing hire poor locals to take them up so they can brag at cocktail parties. Every once in a while their lack of fitness to the task gets them, and the idiots leave their carcasses behind, to pollute the slopes. Not the least impressed by this non-achievement.
The first part is true but your apathy to life isn't really helpful
@@basilbrush9075 No, it is spot on.
@@ruthlessgoat3702
No. He is just a keyboard warrior who is grossly ignorant of what mountaineering is and why we do it - but he decided to put his two cents worth in on a subject he clearly knows nothing about anyway. Why bother even trying to discuss what you don't understand? He's got absolutely no idea what drives an entire industry of elite mountaineering athletes to obsession - to push themselves to the outer limits of all human endurance in order to achieve their goals. Instead, his mentality is, "I can't understand it, so I'll just criticise what I can't understand, and call those who do understand it "idiots". But that only serves to further demonstrate the level of his complete and utter ignorance. It's quite okay if one doesn't get mountaineering - or any other particular subject - but leave they room, ey? Why disrespect an elite sporting industry and call its athletes "idiots" purely because HE doesn't understand it?? And you clearly agree with him, so .....
Sure, he makes ONE very good point that gets to genuine mountaineers too, in that there ARE a certain amount of "wealthy tourists" who have no bloody right going anywhere near Mt Everest, much less stepping foot on it! And yet despite the deadly risks they all expose themselves to, there are still plenty of them who ARE making it back down the hill again every year to "brag about it at their next cocktail party". It's just that there are the very rare ones that doesn't make it down, and they're the ones you're going to hear about. The fact is that most of the deaths in any single climbing season at Everest are Sherpa - and the vast majority of the balance (at least until very recent years) have mostly been well-seasoned and often highly respected climbers who are true athletes in their own right. There are some very big names in mountaineering who now rest in eternal peace on Everest .. which is an apt name, in that case. But EVERY real mountaineer KNOWS precisely what risks that they are taking. We ALL KNOW that high altitude sickness can strike anyone down at any time on ANY 8,000'er. We ALL KNOW that one misstep can take you to Tibet in about 9 seconds. We ALL KNOW that avalanches are a very real threat - as is every traverse of the Khumbu Ice-Fall But WE ARE ALL driven to do what it is that we do - and for as many varied reasons as are the individuals who make up this elite community of mountaineers.
So who the heck is some keyboard warrior to call us idiots simply because he doesn't have the mental capacity to understand what it is that we do, or why we do it? He doesn't understand what drives an individual to train for YEARS in order to achieve our personal goals - and that's NOT JUST about standing on top of big mountains ... it is about so much more than that! Furthermore, If everyone who "pushes the boundaries" - be it in mountaineering, or in exploration, or in the invention pf dangerous machines, or in any other field that requires a certain amount of risk - if it is that risk makes them idiots, then mankind would never have invented the wheel! They would never have discovered the Americas, nor the Antipodes, nor would they have ever flown aeroplanes, much less fly rockets to the moon, or built the International Space Station, nor would they have ever climbed ANY big mountain peaks on Earth to see what was up there - nor would they have ever gone to the deepest part of the ocean on earth - like the Challenger Deep - just to see what was down there. We would ALL be dumber than dog shi* if we didn't take risks! Having the guts and determination to challenge one's own limits, and to push one's self to the outer limits of what is humanly physically possible in order to climb the tallest peak on Earth or to undertake ANY great challenge that mankind has conquered - THAT does not make one an "idiot" - especially not just because YOU or the keyboard warrior doesn't understand it. THAT is the kind of challenge that has brought ALL of mankind to be as knowledgeable as we are now as an entire species in the year 2023. Without men and women who are willing to take risks - whilst knowing full well what those risks are and that we could actually perish in the process - then we, as a species, would still be swinging around in the trees and grooming one another's fur coats!
But according to the keyboard warrior - and apparently, yourself - men and women who possess that guts and determination to push all human boundaries and do all the things that sets us apart from other species - that we are just "idiots" - simply because you don't understand it ..... I hate to be the one to tell y'all that the opposite is actually true.
I don't understand either yes it's beautiful but dangerous Ok 💯.
@@j.whiteoak6408
Christ, tap a mountain why dontcha? Your defensiveness proves the inherent narcissism needed for such activity. I actually do respect it. Just never gonna do it. I value my comfort more than my ego.
With a slight interest in Everest (not climbing myself) I've read a lot about the people still up there. Hannelore has always been the person I'd wanted to learn more about their life as she died 24 hours or less before I was born, her passing October 2nd and my birth October 3rd of 1979
Maybe you are her reincarnated.
How do these people pay for this kind of risk. Aircost, equipment cost, paying for it sherpa. That amazes me.
Good question.
I don’t know why people want this so bad. Plenty of more interesting challenges like sailing around the world.
@@LilyGazouIt's all relative and it's all dangerous, Donald Crowhurst went insane going round the world and ended up disappearing, there was that German fellow who got mummified by salt air after dying on his boat. I think both things are kind of pointless in the grand scheme though it would be more fascinating to sail around the world and see so many different things. Everest is just a garbage pile at this point filled with the bodies of fools and refuse littering it.
Many spend years preparing gear and funds.
Waste and vanity.
@@LilyGazou Yeah but THAT'S seriously dangerous! All that water.....scares the crap out of me.
Hikers used to call her body the German woman upon seeing her on the mountain. I saw a picture of her body once, scared the shit out of me!!
I don't wanna see it, but I'm curious. Can you describe 🫣
@@sherriranola7257 She looks like a woman on her back with her head up but her head is a skull.
@@sherriranola7257 She died leaning up against her backpack, left leg bent and right leg sort of straight. Constant wind and other elements throughout the years, her head has been mummified although looks like her teeth are exposed, hair is completely gone. Her body is no longer there and believed to have finally been pushed off the side by wind or by people.
@@sherriranola7257 I didn't find it scary at all, it's just sad......she is just sitting there resting on her elbow. I think you can look at it, it's not even a close up
@@sherriranola7257many climbers spoke of seeing her hair blowing in the wind. Very eerie.
What beautiful words of kindness that wash away the foolish mistakes these climbers make! I'm sure they're aware of the low oxygen and unpredictable weather way up there.
Great channel thanks
Idc about pride month it’s evil
Why were they climbing so late in the year?
And
Why didn’t Hanelore climb with her husband?
2:50 The late date is explained here.
5:00 As to why she wasn't with her husband, it may simply have been a decision that certain climbers are grouped together due to ability levels. I'm sure there were various factors in that choice. Also, they're climbing in a fatal environment, so it's pretty much a fight to survive and keep moving. A storm hits, and it's every individual for themselves.
Rob Hall said, at 2 pm, no matter where you are, turn around and head back down.
Leaving trash isn’t good, bad karma.
Goals??? This is all about ego.
Rip dear
Even with all the preparations, anything can go wrong facing the unpredictable weather, where no human is suppose to be. The mountain decides a climbers fate, excep Sherpas
True I agree I just don’t agree with pride month
3:18 at a height of about 24,000 feet above “ sea level “ .
does anyone, beside mountaineers, actually care about people climbing mountains? none of them are the full ticket.
Fully functional Freaky Deaky crazy to read about.
Weird entertainment for us, a big pile of rocks for them.
William Shatner?
I'm sorry she didn't make it - everyone who is familiar with Everest knows her name - it's not like she'll ever be forgotten. But it's a timely reminder that summiting is optional - but the descent is mandatory. Technology and methodology on The Mountain has changed a great deal since 1979, - and yet people are still dying on Everest, but mostly for the same reasons - being in the Zone for too long will kill a climber, be it due to running out of oxygen, hypothermia, and altitude-related illnesses such as oedema. It's not like Hannelore wasn't prepared for her climb, but these days it's more customary to summit in the month of May after months of rotations and waiting for a favourable 'weather window' (and weather forecasting has come a long way since then). These days it's preferable to set out from Four by 10pm to 11 pm at night and time the ascent for around sunrise, so you can descend to Four or below before the afternoon winds pick up and storms come in. The accepted 'turn-around' time of 1 or 2 pm is often, but not always, disastrous for those who don't observe it. I think if she were to climb Everest today, her outcome might be somewhat different. Rest in Peace, Hannelore XX
Descent is mandatory ? I don't think so, given the number of dead bodies still up there
“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”― Ed Viesturs
She’s number one!
Nepal will Always accept those Thousands $$$$$ by the time you die they already have all your money $$$$$$$
Which would be perfectly alright if Nepal would put that money to good use for the sherpas: hospitals, schools for their children, health insurance and an old age plan etc.
So much praise for all these rich westeners being decadent enough to throw away their precious life, regardless of all those loving them and leaving them behind. What about the Sherpas? This poor guy is going to be disabled for the rest of his life, out of a job, in a country without our health care and social security system! These people are the real heros!
Lost me at 'Westerners.' You could have left that part out and it would read the same without making it racial. Plenty of people from Eastern countries also mountaineer, and also attempt to summit dangerous mountains.
Absolutely.
"24,606 feet above ground level..." No! Sea level, 24,606 above sea level. What the hell is ground level in Nepal anyway? I'm out.
The sherpas are the real victims here.
Schmatz? That was really their family name? Schmatz is the German word for eating loudly with your mouth wide open...
You are presenting (black and white) picture of Wanda Rutkiewitz. Please fix it.
Arrogance. The sherpa lost his appendages and almost his life because of her foolishness. In reality she likely needed to turn around before she neared the summit to survive. Threw away thousands of tomorrows just to satisfy this irrational lust on that day. Dead dreams.
I can’t understand why people still climb Everest today especially people who have children I feel it’s just selfish
Driving a car is really dangerous too though.
I doesn't have to be seen as selfish because these are the brave ones, and they should be honored as such. It's from people like this that the courageous youths descend from. Every people needs the male and female warriors, who, as the narrator said "push the boundaries of human achievement".
What is selfish is not seeing your limit and turning around when you reach it
Someone needs to hike up their and leave a bunch of sleds and skis.
I wonder if they all left their garbage on the mountain.
Maybe you should take more care with your maps.
The europe map is a post 1991 map with germany reunited.
In 1970´s germany was divided into the west german Federal Republic of Germany and the east german German Democratic Repulic.
Hannelore Schmatz was from Regensburg, wich is situated in Bavaria, wich is part of the west german Federal Republic of Germany wich is part of NATO.
The Flight Route you have shown is also quite a problem, as it starts in Stettin(polish Szczecin) in Poland. Both eastern germany and poland were part of the Warsaw Pact and had strict entry regulations for west germans (meaning more or less no entry).
The Schmatzes would have flown from Munich Airport in the south of germany.
Also due to the Cold War, eastern block/Warsaw Treaty nations would not have been flown over by west german and other western flight agencies but they would have taken a route over Saudi Arabia.
At. Least this climb was before the times of today where all the camps and ropes are pre staged by Sherpas.
The mountain is now riddled with trash and dead bodies. The ultimate ego of selfishness.
Hannelore's husband's name was Gerhard, not Gerard.
I subsribed, i liked just this once, but if your script is overly American in future videos I'll troll.
By American i mean poor grammar and superfluous words.
1982!!!!! I met my future ex-wife in this year.
Not sure what anyone expects when they climb this
If they expected death they wouldn't have done it. Same as motorcycle racers, Olympic skiers, etc. A degree of risk. I just think they should plan better or have more help, or safety measures. No one gets saved up there. They need beacons at least. Climbers do seem to be more stubborn, egotistical, or over confident than in other sports.
@@zenawarrior7442 it’s a silly insane obsession. Why risk your life vs nature ? In the end nature always wins and you waste $70-100k to do what ? Flex?
@@zenawarrior7442 Bike & ski racers don't experience death at the rate these egomaniacs who climb 8000ers. All you need is $30000 or more and you can play Russian Roulette at the top of the world. Racers train for years, climbers can't practice in a death zone.
@@michaelgallagher3640 Yes I realize training is a big part. Climbers are the worst for egos.
@@michaelgallagher3640 Yes you can. You can go up to the death zone and mess around a little and then go back. You don't have to spend tons and tons of time up there and go really far your first time.
Hey look here !! Some idiots die in a submarine with a PlayStation controller, others die climbing a stupid mountain for NO reason !! They try to cheat death, but they’ll never…
Some idiots flood the nation with AR-15s to satisfy their 2A paranoia and power fantasies resulting in mass killing sprees of children.
You're not Pro-Life. You're Pro-Power. Donald Trump was the worst US President of All Time.
Just leave the mountain alone . Humans dont have to be everywhere .
Just a little bit of constructive criticism on this video. Not about the content of the video, but its production. This video sounds like it was fully written and produced by AI.
Unwatchable in my opinion. CZcams is being taken over by this kind of stuff.
Thank you. I hate to complain but I was going to write the same as you until I saw your comment.
Natural selection at work.
26,606 feet above the ground level? If your standing on the ground your at ground level.
mountain climbing is dangerous , it is not heroic
Unless you're fleeing Nazis
What is the point of climbing Everest?
You don't get an award and you can't stay up there long.
I mean I get the first man, woman, youngest or oldest but for the normal tourist climber what's the point?
I'm glad she at least died having achieved something obviously incredibly important to her, as she dedicated her life to the goal and was willing to risk the dangers. She died knowing what that victory felt like. A less pointless death than dying from a staph infection or a because you were rear-ended by a drunk on your way home from work. We all have to die from something.
In this case, from stupidity. If a person needs to do this to feel alive, there's a problem between the ears.
“Food for thought: Every dead body on Everest was once a highly motivated person. Stay lazy my friends, it may save your life one day”
You did not achieve victory until you go down the mountain, most people die during a descend.
@@anubizz3and you can die on the way back from base camp the day after. So what's the victory then? We all gonna die, and I'd rather die over 24 hours on a beautiful mountain range than over 10 years slowly rotting away in a care facility
@@Dilley_G45 Yeah it's count as fail the mountains win by destroying you body enough you cannot survive.. It's like you doing triathlon and declare as victory after be the first in swimming section...
Please figure out how to pronounce words (bivouac) and names (Gerhard, not Gerard) before recording these.
So0⁰00 sad. ❤
Hard to think of a dumber hobby.
When you think about it, it's not too far from a Monty Python sketch.
@@realityjunky I remember that one!
I can understand why some people would want to do extremely dangerous things for fun. The weird thing to me is that they think everyone else should admire them. Everest should be called "Mount Hold my Beer."
@@thebubbacontinuum2645 Oh, I think the Pythons would approve of that joke! Well done. Yes, Graham Chapman being interviewed while scaling the street, priceless.
The story of the first woman hit by a train was actually funny
1827, United Kingdom - An unnamed woman from Eaglescliffe, County Durham, England (believed to have been a blind beggar woman) is "killed by the steam machine on the railway". This is said to be the first case of a woman being killed in a railway collision.
But something tells me this is not the incident you are referring to.
@@WelgeldiguniekaliasPretty sure it was probably more like 2400 BCE (sumerian records indicate the oldest profession occurred around that time) in Sardinia (where male prostitution was more common).
The German lady.
Polluted hazardous waste sight.
I cannot stand computer generated voice overs.
Evidently not a bright one in the bunch.
Yet another example of Darwin in Action. Her husband praised her for her procurement skills? Ie a woman is good at shopping 😂
They were strong, independent women
I’m so sick of channels who regurgitate AI generated scripts. It’s hard to follow and doesn’t do justice to those whose story you are telling. I will not be watching this channel again.
Please, for the love of god: Instead of butchering foreign names, dear americans, for once please do what everyone else in the world does with english names - at least TRY! It's not that hard, really. His name was Ger- hard. The first syllable is prounced like -ger in "hunger", while the second syllable of his name sounds like "heart". No, his name was not "Gerard" which also exists.
Not sad. I love equal opportunity for all women. You go, girl. Be the best you, queen.
she's dead. what the heck is wrong with you.
That kind of apathy to suffering and death isn't healthy for anyone
Hmmmm, "request had been granted permission" .
INSTAL GRAMMARLY IMMEDIATELY
I bet you’re fun at parties
@@robertcurry9413 no no, your mum is, if ya get my drift
Biv-oh-ack.
A shame about dr putz family, but woman will be woman
Hearing about tragedies and triumphs on Everest always reminds me of "This Mortal Mountain" by Roger Zelazny. Yes, it's science fiction/fantasy but the story has a really satisfying surprise. I think Roger would be incredulous at the sight of what people have done to Everest. His story is still relevant. 🏔
actually it's not sad at all