How K2 Gets More Dangerous Each Year
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2023
- How K2 Gets More Dangerous Each Year
Only 14 mountains around the world are taller than 8,000 meters. When you cross that height, you enter the death zone, which is a place where there isn't enough oxygen for people to live. This is where fatigue also sets in, impeding one’s cognitive sharpness. Many people who tried to defeat K2 have died because of its cruel nature. Every step is a fight against the weather, but the peak is still a place of wild beauty. This is why K2 is called "The Savage Mountain" and why it is a death sentence to climb it. But why does it continue to get riskier each year? Let’s find out in this video.
Mountaineering, Climbing, Accident, Mount Everest, K2, Deathzone, Disaster, Danger Zone - Zábava
Great presentation with outstanding narration.
K2 is badass
Badass like Gelje Sherpa
People don't "die because of K2". They die because they are not physically fit enough for the challenge, or the big serac on the Abruzzi route sheds ice, or they are just plain stupid. As for K2 getting "more dangerous each year" one must either prove that statement at least in a qualitative way. The likely answer is that there are increasing numbers of climbers up there each year who should not be on the mountain.
true, but look at Everest, more die each year but the death *rate* has gone down. It's therefore a 'safer' mountain even though the numbers climbing have gone wayyy up, and certainly a good % climbing Everest likely should not be on the mountain. K2 has become more 'prestigious' to peak baggers exactly because Everest has become relatively easy and over climbed, K2 is the much bigger challenge. It's the much more difficult technical aspect that shreds all the unprepared. So yeah it's shear numbers and K2 isn't 'becoming' more dangerous, but its not so much because the climbers are 'stupid', there's just more of them.
Yes but no. That is true for the vast majority of people who climb without any real adventurous spirit (spending $$$$ on any normal route in the 8000m range)
Climate change is real and weather conditions can change more quickly and be unforeseen. Climbing seasons and climbing windows on many peaks are getting narrower . Glaciers are getting smaller and unstable, snow and avalanche conditions are harder to assess.
No high tech will get you out of an avalanche by yourself and rescues depend on weather.
Pushing the sport and doing FAs, alpine style, either mountaineering on remote locations or mixed climbing of hard faces is getting wildly dangerous, even more so than in the golden days of mountaineering.
natural selection.
K2 is a mountain, not a gunslinger, if men and women want to climb it and die, its not K2's fault. Please climbers, stop putting your wounds and your death into the mountain's fault. Its all yours.
What the heck is Ehdeemya? ROFL
Imagine if someone snowboarded down K2...
RIP
Yeah, not a good idea.
Well, it's been skied down, so I would imagine it's been snowboarded down.