The Annapurna Disaster
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2022
- On October 18th, 2011, 3 elite South Korean climbers were attempting the first ascent of a notoriously difficult new route on the deadliest mountain in the Himalayas. This, is their story.
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I've hiked to Annapurna Base Camp, and seeing the mountain up close there's no way I'd want to even consider a summit attempt.
I did the circuit and I completely agree with you!
I had altitude sickness in ABC after the hike, so the thought of climbing or not climbing to the summit did not even arise.
They must be still up there somewhere, they must be !
I've also been to ABC in winter with heavy snow on the ground. Stunning place. The south face of Annapurna was truly intimidating to say the least. The walk to ABC is not hard but part of it is notorious for rockfall and avalanches. It was a humbling experience.
Very sensible of you, no huge ego to get in the way.
Annapurna is now the most deadly climb in the world: of the 158 attempted ascents, 58 have resulted in fatalities as of July 2022
I solo trekked the Annapurnas in 1992. Spent quite a few weeks up there. One beautiful day while walking back to Manang I heard a huge rumbling noise and looking up saw the entire north face of the mountain calve off into an immense, an utterly immense avalanche. I’ll never forget it. My first thought was “My god, I hope nobody’s climbing there!”
A while later I flew out of Manang in a Twin Oscar deHaviland and as it passed over the shoulder of the mountain it hit turbulence and dropped several thousand feet down the face of glacier screaming like a dive bomber. Lol.
When I got off the plane at Pokhara I literally kissed the ground….👍
Thank you for sharing brother
You mean “Twin Otter” don’t you ?
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@@Slow_Hand_Luke unless this was scripted.
@@Slow_Hand_Luke yes! Sorry that was probably bloody spell check being bloody spell check….
thank you for your service rich man
Very nice tribute. I met a friend of Park at Annapurna Base Camp a few years ago, he was there to honour him and I'll never forget the way he did that, singing to Park and the mountain as he backed away from the monument built for Park and his fellow climbers. Annapurna 1 is a forbidding mountain, I've visited Base Camp several times, the south face of the mountain always captivates me, it is incredible that it has been climbed.
Yeah I did the circuit in 91’ and was gobsmacked at the sheer scale of them…
I lost a couple friends attempting to summit this mountain. Never climbed a mountain again after that.
Park Young-seok smoking while climbing, that is a baller move.
Well guess he's used to low oxygen levels.
Annapurna is a name that demands respect. Not many mountains that have such a magnificent yet chilling reputation.
Not the name, but the mountain. It doesnt have a name. It does not know its name. It just is. I respect it for that.
@@ToxicTurtleIsMadok Mr.actually…
This mountain is one of the final 3 bosses You have to get past.
I grew up at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. We moved to flat lands in my teen years. I had a great lonliness inside that i couldn't understand. I was always longing for something.
Then one day i woke up and said I'm moving back there. When i got to the Rocky mountains, i spent every day up the canyon at the foot of a waterfall, a place i had gone often when young. One day i noticed the longing and lonliness was gone that had plagued me. It was those mountains. When they are around you, it's like the earth is hugging you. They speak to me. They are part of me. I feel broken without them.
I could be sitting by an ice cold river in the middle of summer within 10 minutes. I just can't be happy away from the mountains. I know it's not the same as their story, but i think i have a taste of why they feel called to the mountains.
I understand perfectly.
Thanks for commenting.
I enjoyed your story and you captured the definition of 'longing' perfectly.
I remember reading Annapurna by Maurice Herzog back in the '80s. His team climbed multiple Peaks to even find Annapurna. There was no taking a helicopter in or out back then. It didn't end well for most of the team.
david lama filmed his attempt of annapurna with Auer and Blumel, lama, auer, and roskelley end up dying in an avalanche in banff.
They had thought of climbing Everest but the British told them to go find another mountain. They didn't even have a decent map of the area. Amazing climb but heavy price!
I have that book on my shelf right now
@@carlosgaspar8447thats annapurna 3
One of the most influential books I ever read in my life. How tough were those men. One of the top 3 books I've ever encountered. Superb. Anyone interested in mountaineering must read this book.
The Annapurna is no mountain to mess with, the death rate of this mountain should be enough of a warning. It's always sad when bodies are never found and people can't get a closure and a grave with the remains to visit.
You can even pay the locals to kiss each other, it's sickening.
@@rydz656 One would say the one paying to watch people kiss is the sick one.
I disagree. These climbers knew their risks and died doing something they wanted to do. With no regard for need for closure for relatives. So it is the relatives that need to adjust their "need" to go sit at a grave full of dead bones to put some wilted flowers on.
Anapurna is a heck of a headstone. Just as the Sierra Nevadas is a heck of a grave site to sit by, in my humble opinion.
@@bettyboop-xg6jo I'm not sure dying doing something you like/want to do is justification enough - does that make acts of suicide bombers okay?
Ueli Steck is my favorite climber. I think that time he did on the south face in 2014 is astonishing. 28 hours (from base to summit & back), is one of the greatest mountaineering achievements.
Absolutely , yeap ! although he lost his camera from ice fall ,hence all the evidence of summitting , reached the summit like 5am i believe and set about 28 v thread rushing down before sun rise melting the ice
@@m1k119 True, but a couple Sherpas did verify he summited by viewing his headlamp through binaculars. Which they could clearly see from their position. Luckily today in addition to cameras they also use GPS to prove a summit.
@@JayB2I wouldn't even doubt that he did. Ueli lived for the truth . I could tell reading his book.
True, but look what happened to him, it was inevitable that he'd fall off sooner or later, one needs to be careful and take ones time on those mountains, one moment of inattention and it's lights out !
The Swiss Machine. I cried the day he died. He was a climber I really respected.
Another great video. Those storms are no joke, I remember a large storm blowing into the lower hiking areas around the mountain about 5-10 years ago and stranded a couple hundred people, hikers not climbers. Think I'll go look that up and see how it turned out, might make a good video.
Annapurna blizzard of 2014. It was bad.
I was in Tibet, just the other side of the Himalayas for that storm. It dumped something like 2 meters of snow on top of us, and stranded us in a hotel for an extra day. we were in a port city some 20kms away from Nepal. There were multiple accidents on the highway because of the snow.
The day of the after I was supposed to start a 40km trek at 5600-6300 meters around Mt Kailash. that was lucky as hell because I sure as hell would have been dead if I had started a day early.
@@wngmv glad you're still with us!
@@Iamthelolrus thank you. I remember reading about that storm when it hit Nepal and reading about the missing hikers and feeling bad for them. I thought for sure the Himalayas would stop it and it wouldn't be too bad this side of the mountain.
@@wngmv Which port city is only 20ks away from Nepal. Nepal is hundreds of kilometres away from the sea, so I don't know where you would find a port 20 ks away.
Not even 200 ks away.
@@johnedwards7899 not "port" to the sea. But a boarder city which allows travel to Tibet/china.
Thank you so much for making this video!!! Everybody talks about Mount everest all the time and Annapurna is pretty much forgotten...
End of 2019 I did the Everest base camp hike, I've seen Annapurna with my own eyes and considering that people occasionally die on the hike, there is no way in hell i'd try and climb it.
if i has the money ill, i would.
People says that someone died doing what they loved, as a way to comfort themselves. As someone who has had a few near-death experiences doing something that I enjoyed, this is not true. You're not thinking, "at least I love doing this" as the pain is ripping through your body or you brace yourself for the violence of the situation. No one dies horribly thinking that way.
I would say ‘I hope it was worth it to them’.
Well said! I am glad someone finally debunked this stupid saying. I hope I never here it again!! 👍👍👍
In my opinion, when people says that, it is a romantic way to present tragedy; although I will say is probable true. I love motorcycles and if one day I get killed while riding motorcycles with all certainty, you can say that I died doing what I loved the most, ride motorcycles.
@@royrice6656 Hear, hear!
Those left behind are the ones needing comfort. Those who die were able to make the conscious choice to risk their lives, unlike those they leave behind.
Mountains have the ability to call us to into their realms, and there left forever are our friends whose souls were longing for heights. Don't forget the souls that have not returned from the summits. Anatolia Boukveer
Til fjalls!
These stories are interesting, but, I simply do not understand the desire to climb ANY mountain. I mean if I said, "hey that looks like fun," and someone else said, "
@@claudiasteinwald8952 it's super rewarding, beautiful, and ego for some
@@claudiasteinwald8952
I mean.
I don’t understand knitting…but, it’s obviously a thing. I’ve seen some old ladies go hardcore on some doilys before.
But I don’t get it.
They get it.
And I’m glad they get it.
But I don’t get it.
And that’s ok.
Not everyone is going to “get” everything.
I wish we all could. I think it could build much needed understanding and empathy.
But we don’t (which I don’t get either).
@@claudiasteinwald8952 hard to explain the desire for something your passionate about doing. I love being in the mountains and enjoy activities in the mountains. One of my favorite things to do in the mountains is hike to a alpine lake and fish it. Doesn't matter if I catch a fish or not. It's just being there that brings me the most enjoy. I'm happy and not a care in the world while I'm there. I personally won't climb a mountain like Annapurna but I understand why they want to do that. I've climbed all the peaks in the mountains where I live. Not hard to do. I guess the only way to describe it is think of something that brings you enjoy and that your passion about. That's the feeling. Whatever it might be. This is a quote from a mountain climber Anatolia Boukveer that died on Annapurna. Of course they really risk their lives enjoying what they loved doing. It's definitely not for everyone. I personally won't risk my life doing what they did.
This entire vibe is so crazy to me. I totally get that people are called by the mountains and decide they just have to try and climb them. But from the outside looking in, it just doesn't seem worth the potential consequences. Especially when countless climbers have to re-ascend these mountains to try and save people who get stuck
Agreed.
It’s a cool story to tell your grandchildren.
There's a feeling that's hard to explain to people who haven't experienced it. I'm not a mountaineer but I assume what pulls them is the same thing that pulls me to hike out into the remote back-country of the southwest. When you're that far removed from humanity and you've pushed yourself to the limits of your abilities, you get an almost spiritual sense of your scale in the universe that, for some people, is worth whatever risk
Ego
I climbed in the past, not anything big. But the goal is so obvious, and the way to get there is to just "get higher" and looking down and seeing what you've accomplished is very fulfilling. You can see the specks of where you came from and big lakes turning into puddles. The allure is there.
Your videos are always high quality, inspiring many channels like mine, keep up the great work, hope you continue with success!
Your work is also very well done! Both of you guys have a lot of good things coming your way 🔥
Lmfao there are so many channels like these now its amazing. All have slightly different names with same style content
Wait till you see the vid me and ur mom made
@@kachow5830 And all covering the same events because they've run out of material - they need fresh disasters.
@@JCO2002 true most of the stories i already heard from mrballen so i just went back and watched all his again lol
Top notch as always! Thanks for cranking out content like you do. Your channel is one of the few that I turned on notifications for. Have not been disappointed yet!
Wow, if the falling rocks, avalanches, crevasses, broken off seracs and other factors don't stop you, the weather will! I can't imagine dying "doing something that I loved" because I don't love anything enough to risk my life in those elements. I used to be a thrill-seeker of sorts, and took some daring chances, but as I age, longevity starts to look pretty enticing! I'll let the Red Bull crowd get paid for their daring deeds now, and I'll watch videos, from the safety of my home!
Thanks for the upload. Brilliant video as usual! :)
The south face of Annapurna is bloody scary just looking at pics.
What an incredible achievement to reach the summit.
Not sure why anyone would even try the Beghin route. It looks like a natural funnel for avalanches and rock falls [Climber Frost on the 1970 expedition, reported how falling rocks was a constant menace on the British route]
J.C.Lafailles' self-rescue after losing his partner Beghin, with a compound fracture of his arm, was incredible, especially since they were climbing Alpine style and had limited equipment.
One of climbings elite, he kept ratcheting up the difficulty of his climbs until he disappeared on a solo winter climb of Makalu. As if climbing an 8,000m mountain in spring is not hard enough.
Thank you for immortalizing them in your CZcams video! 🙏🏻
Excellent video.Sad a mountaineer of the highest skill and achievement died early.
He would have written amazing books for the whole world to read & know how hard this skill is.Very sad to hear
Great job great channel thanks for all the hard work
I love stories about mountain climbing. These people are some badass mofos. Touching the Void is my absolute favorite documentary.
I watch a lot of these types of videos; yours are some the best the graphics especially are a great touch like the climbing routes 👍
So,if you are rich the most important thing is to climb a dangerous mountain, if you make it you are a-hero in your own mind. If you fail the locals and ems, and some poor military man try’s to save you and possibly dies trying. Do the rich pay for all of those lives and cost
Another flawless video perfect narration facts balance etc if I had a wish I would only wish you had more content were I wealthy I’d just hire you to produce it you are the fulcrum point so many content producers get smashed by thier egos and fail to ever get thier feet back in the ground again .
박영석은 히말라야 14좌 완등과 7대륙 최고봉 완등을 했고 남극점 북극점에 도달한 산악인이자 탐험가다.세계최초로 산악그랜드슬램을 달성한 위대한 사람이다.그를 소개해줘서 고맙다.
Never been up that high, but been backpacking for a long ass time and like your stuff.
Thanks
Eddie Viesturs saying the book 'Annapurna' inspired him as a youth told me all I needed to know , great book 👍
Interesting video. Much appreciated 😊
Open times when humans feel hey we can challenge nature because we're the Masters of the Universe, we get a straight up Smackdown wake up call.
Why do you hate yourself
Love your stories and the work that goes into them mate! Big fan of high altitude climbling and all that it encompasses... any chance you could do a K2 story or something similar? #bigfan #muchlove
I definitely will do a K2 video at some point! It definitely won't be about the 2008 disaster though.
Those who willingly, enthusiastically, repeatedly enter a death zone often find it waiting for them.
The only word I would change is “often” and substitute “eventually”. You do however make a very good point.
Thanks for the upload👍
Great video! Sad they did not make the summit.
Love this channel! 💕
Great timing and subject thanks
Lot of grave stones say “He died doing what he loved.” Mine will say “He died after a long, fulfilling life.”
Choosing to climb the route with maximum rocks falling on your head isn’t exactly brilliant.
I would climb Everest alone before I attempted Annapurna with help.
Nice video ❤ Thank you for pronouncing the Korean team’s name correctly!!
Thank you,very interesting. Could you please make a video about Anatoli Bukreev's death on Annapurna?
Annapurna
Yes please
To those who keep asking things like “why did they choose the hardest route?”etc.
You’re talking about people who already choose the worst of the worst of the worst environments to have fun and find themselves. They are extremists and “best”, “worst” and “first” are intrinsic parts of their mindset.
Great video, thank you.
I love the RIP bit at the end because it's respectful to the fallen.
Per attempt Annapurna has the highest death rate of any mountain.
As Tom Patey wrote many years ago about the Herzog and Rebuffat ascent, "20 tiny fingers, 20 tiny toes, the memory lingers, but the digit goes.
i grew up with a friend who was in the annapurna during a avalanche he lost all his fingers but still climbs everyday
That photo at 7:34 and on is phenomenal, wow.
Hello how are you doing?
@@Godwinpounds4333she’s 67 bro
Many thanks for super video!
Nothing more inspiring than a man trying to conquer a mountain with a dart in his Fingers. Respect
I love that guy. He climbed 8,000 meter tall Himalayan mountains and was flicking cigarette butts on the way up ? Legend status.
he is a smoker but prolly has better stamina than me
Lung cancer isn’t much of a deterrent when you’re about to enter a place called “the death zone” 😂
@@IronWangCreatesi would have smoked a pipe weed.
total chad move
I love the Annapurna area, I spent a month out there and hiked over 200 miles. One of the world's largest rhododendron forests was in bloom and the views were mind blowing. One of the best months of my life, and I never felt so tiny, like how astronauts feel in space. I went to the base camp and day hiked higher but did not climb, I am a single parent so I choose to get as close as I can with minimal risks. After that I went to Chamonix and met some world class champion extreme skier friends and at that time they were editing a video they took skiing down Annapurna coincidentally . I helped with some edits and one who played stunt for James Bond and we climbed Mont Blanc together. They are really good skiers and had helicopters filming them ski down Annapurna. I always felt really safe there a solo woman traveler. This video is great, subbed and liked! Thanks for all your work and best of luck in the future.
Very brave I wish I lived life like this :)
I've scanned the area for hours and hours on google earth. My dream is to paraglide around the circuits and across the kali gandaki. It's probably legally impossible but I can dream
4:28 I didn't realise you can climb all 14 peaks and smoke.
Awesome new video thanks!!
Listens to Morbid Midnight while going to sleep, and wonders why I can’t sleep😂
I love your content.
They shouldn't climb a route that has taken out all the other attempts by falling rock. If some one else ever manages to, it will be luck not skill. I'd much rather see them alive today, doing hard strenuous, even risky climbs, but ascents into zones like this serves no purpose. Rest forever on the mountain guys, its where you belong
You’re talking about people who already choose the worst of the worst of the worst environments to have fun and find themselves. They are extremists and “best”, “worst” and “first” are intrinsic parts of their mindset.
The cats I have done a few 8k mountains with a group that offers going to this climb each year. The skills, and resume, along with experience climbing with them before will get you a consideration and address a panel that ultimately gives a yea or nay. This company has guides that literally have routes named after them on everest. Very qualified and established. They dont have nearly as much scrutiny to go with to climb k2 or everest. Should give you an idea how dangerous this climb is.
Lafielle had a legendary obsession with the South face. It cost him everything.
I was there at ABC when a representative of the team came up from Pokhra to the base camp to find survivors.
This mountain kills 55% of all climbers who summit her.
Anywhere from 20% to about 35% according to sources I can find -- depends on time frame for the reporting and maybe also on who's being counted. I've been reading mountaineering books for years and over 50% is definitely not right.
Also, the stat is often misrepresented, like you're doing here. It's not X% of summitters or even X% of people who've attempted to summit. Rather, it's number of deaths on the mountain as a percentage of those who have summitted the mountain. For instance, if an old-time expedition on the first ascent of Mount Terrifying had ten members, two summitted, and one of the others died, the stat would be reported as 50% death rate for Mount Terrifying. But in reality "only" one in ten died and 0% of the summit team.
Wikipedia reports the idea accurately (though I can't vouch for the exact numbers): "As of 2022, 365 people had reached the summit of Annapurna I, while 72 had died in the attempt. " That's 20%.
Recently hiked to Annapurna base camp and saw the statue of these 3 men at the base camp.. now watching their story gives literal chills 🫡
I will always be lost at the feeling of accomplishment when mountain climbing. I cant make it up half the uk lake district fells and the ones I've managed so far, gave me a deep sense of how unhealthy scared and fragile I am.
I had the same experience. I thought I would dare climbing k2. I climbed a 4000 m mountain. Realised the same thing.
When I first clicked this I thought we were talking about Annapurna the game studio and was surprised when it was about the death of 3 people 💀
The way these guys keep moving the goalposts on what they consider achievement is hilarious. They will summit a mountain then decide they need to summit a harder route or summit twice
🔥THNX VERY MUCH!🔥
I love your channel 😐
So why does the peak on the right appear to be the "real summit"?
The men who climb these Fingers of Earth that reach towards the sky, are made of sterner stuff then I will ever know...
You can die doing what you love but the event itself is terror and chaos.
How many bodies mark the route on this killer?
When I was a kid we lived in the Rocky Mountains. I used to climb all over, no special equipment, just me in my jean shorts and keds. But that was in the summer. I've climbed Pikes Peak, in the summer. Every New Years, they would climb Pikes Peak and set off fireworks. One year it was 70 below zero. I don't like the cold. Nope
Stupid question, isn’t there some type of emergency locator beacon technology these climbers could carry?
There should be.. there is for divers I believe.
Sorry for the late comment G! Mr. 20k!! Look at you go!!!
correct me if I'm wrong but alpinr style climbing also means no bottled oxygen, doesn't it?
Park has a ciggy in his hand, what a boss!
Where is the thumbnail taken from and with which climbing expedition and year?
Every mountain climbing death is a tragedy. It leaves nothing but tears and heartbreak in its wake.
As many mountains as this man climbed, it's a wonder he made it to 14 before he lost his life. But, surely, he died doing what he wanted to be doing!
Rest in peace to the people that lost their lives x
The goal is to stay alive and reach the summit, right? Why chose the most difficult and extremely danger route?
You’re talking about people who already choose the worst of the worst of the worst environments to have fun and find themselves. They are extremists and “best”, “worst” and “first” are intrinsic parts of their mindset.
Isn't mid October an awful time to attempt a summit of one of Eight-thousanders? Why did they go for this when they did?
That’s what I was wondering?! I thought any and all expeditions were cut off, by summers end
Having watched so many of these I feel like I have so much knowledge for something I’ll never do because of that knowledge. Why did they decide to wait until they’re on the mountain to determine which side they would descend by. Why doing it “alpine style”. The more of these I watch they say these climbers all have “something inside that draws them to the mountains”, the more I know that thing is pride and ego. Respect nature, it’s brutal
Lol same.. I have no intention of ever climbing a serious mountain, yet I know so much about high altitude mountaineering from reading books about it and watching docs 😂
I wonder when they will be found 20 50 100 years from now. That's crazy and sad. I wonder what happened to them all. Like not even one made it back. Probably an avalanche just swept them away or rockslide. And has anyone made that route yet?
I’m on the biggest 8000 metre peak binge ever.
Park was truly great adventurer. Tremendous loss to the mountaineering world IMHO.
Them boys climbed, straight into heaven.
That whole face is a gigantic rock fall and avalanche trap no wonder they are gone forever to the mountain. Nice suicide line 👍
I get the desire to climb high but, why choose routes with increased risk of rock, ice fall, and avalanches? Most of this video talks about people hit by rocks.
Very interesting.
It will be a long time until there’s another Ueli
A cigarette 🚬? Ha he's celebrating in style there. Must be a helluva of a guy
Had been.
I like your videos and I like your channel name great work brothaaaaa
I believe Annapurna is now the deadliest mountain after K2 was summited by a lot of people recently.
Rate yes. Difficulty no.
RIP brave men
dedicated smoker!
4:27
Is that a smoke in his hand?
Lol…smoking is fairly common on high-altitude expeditions. But not like…a pack a day.
It’s more of a reward after a long day or surviving the night.
Also…it’s a great appetite suppressor, calms your nerves…and MOST importantly:
It helps you go #2, in a situation where going #2 is EXTREMELY important, but not always easy.
But remember…these are dudes that give up warmth, and beds, and food, and can suffer through the gnarliest of situations…all for fun.
These are dudes that can give or take a cigarette.
If your mental game is able to tackle huge alpine expeditions…then you can handle a few cigarettes here and there.
rest in peace all of the team