How Scott Fisher died a TERRIBLE death on Everest
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- How Scott Fisher died a TERRIBLE death on Everest
Scott Fisher was a famous climbing guide who had a big impact on the world of mountain climbing. He was born on December 24, 1955, and his love for the mountains started when he was 14 years old and saw an exciting documentary about climbing. From that moment on, he dedicated his life to pursuing his passion for climbing mountains.
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Scott was ill. In '84 on Annapurna, Scott acquired an amoebic gastro-intestinal parasite. A flare of this illness was sapping his strength on the 96 Everest expedition. He was not his normal, hyper strong, superhuman self, and contrary to the urgings of his guides, he wouldn't descend. He barely made it to the top. What killed him was hubris, which the narrator fails to identify. Also, Boukreev died in an Avalanche on Annapurna December '97. Lopsang was guiding on Everest in September '96 when he died in an avalanche. The phrasing was unclear.
To a large extent, I feel like everyone who dies in this way is killed by hubris and ego.
@@lornarettig3215 The two expedition leaders (Fischer and Hall), who took responsibility for the lives of a large number of inexperienced clients, were aware of the impending storm before they left base camp, but they continued nevertheless. No doubt their decisions were influenced by commercial factors, but one wonders what their clients would have felt and done had they survived.
thanks for the clarity and info
In 1996 while descending Mount Everest something happened that would change Scott’s life forever. Well dying does change life I guess
This video is unwatchable and I'm curious if AI wrote it.
@otanky296 there's so much missing from this story .
The A.I. said he cleared 5,000 pounds of trash from the ‘South Coal’, where is that, exactly? The south POLE maybe?
@ScaryStories-xw7ro Lost in the deification of SF is the FACT that his descisions - flyimg in the face of the most basic calculations known for YEARS by the Everest guiding community , the max time for turnaround -- led to fatal consequences
yeah there’s a lot of these trash low effort videos on youtube.
I read he ignored his own turnaround time of 2pm. He made the summit hours later and never made it back down.
I wonder why he "had to make the summit"? He had already done it before.
@@user-wp1pl5je2u he was the guide for his group that had hired him.
Ignored is putting it lightly.. dude was half dead barely moving about 300 meters above camp four at like 4pm.. he should have never left his tent that morning.
What killed him was the business aspect. Imagine your FIRST year as a guide you charged roughly $1 million and you can’t even summit?
Yeah.. he chose pride and business over his own life. He was a smart dude.. he had to know. Rob too. Just a sad day. They really highlighted why you shouldn’t bring rich non climbers up yet.. it’s only gotten worse since 1996.
Sad stuff. Some of the entitled people up there shit all over base camp and won’t clean it. Leave their garbage.. film people dying for their social media. It’s become a sick place where the Uber wealthy go to show off how badass they think they are.. like we care.
@@Errcyco yep...you and I should go out for a beer
That was another dude rob hall
He was one of the great mountaineers and human beings.
The simple fact is that climbing the tallest mountains, especially those over 8,000 meters, kills people. While deaths on Everest are fewer than those of Annapurna and K2, it's still a hell of a dangerous place to climb, despite a climber's skill and experience.
nd this "fact" is not so simple......basic procedures and harsh but necessary measures are NOT in place ....such as mandatory turnaround times and NEVER endangering lives to bring down bodies and never being pressured to hopelessly throw more lives at the clearly dying. and NEVER guide without oxygen
@@user-wp1pl5je2u All good ideas. However, try explaining to a climber that even though he/she may be only 100 meters below the summit, oops, no, you must turn around! There are no cops up there to enforce any such mandates. It's simply every person for themselves, and a batch of people with incipient HAPE or HACE, who may not have eaten for 18 hours nor slept more than 4 hours of broken sleep are going to follow "harsh but necessary procedures." Even sensible mountaineers aware of the turn-around time have said to hell with it and summited after 3 p.m. (and later). And Nepal, pressed for hard currency, and going to continue issuing permits, crowds and unqualified punters be damned.
@@josi4251 thanks for detailing the difficultoes I only generallly referencwd......I assumed anyone following this thread is already familiar with everything you said. Your point, jowever, remains vague or is a form of "Whadahyagonnadoboutit?" shrug. Your right - in one way - nothing has, can or will be done to change the clients motivation. It is difficult to take a drunks car keys away from him as he extis the bar, too.
If every client knew that his refusal to take his guides advice would mean he was now on his own, if the general moral stance of the hogh altitude communitywas to place ALL moral responsibility in such cases on the client ALONE, this might not chage most such decisions, and the moment of truth might appear wildly different. It is absolutely the clients right to commit suicide if they wish to make the summit the final act of their life, but it should NEVER be the guides MORAL obligation to follow his client to his or her OWN death. The guide whose strenous advice goes unheeded should bear NO responsibility for the fate of such a client. AND, I might add, the mis use of words like "tragedy" only adds to the illogic applied to these deaths. Rich people doing highly risky tjings, for whatever reason, will sometines die. That is a choice not a tragedy. If I free solo el capitan and make one mistake, my death is NOT a tragedy but a calculated extremely high risk highly possible result. Playing russian roulette is a choice and if the ice block falls at the exact wrong moment, YOU chose to be there.
@@josi4251 I find it hard to praise people who die as a direct consequence of their reckless disregard for their own safety.
@@user-wp1pl5je2u 13¾
Dude, so much of what you said wasn’t true
Thank you…horribly inaccurate.
Where are your facts?
@@TC-dw6wg The video creator's facts? Not sure...not entirely in the video. Just one small example of inaccuracies, but there were many in the video. Fischer floundered early and 5:40 (mark in video) NEVER made multiple trips back and forth to guide clients to safety. He never made it that far. he was too sick and ill and never came close to assisting others. That was Boukreev. As a guide, the job is to NOT worry about your own summit but keep tabs on your paying clients. He didn't do that. He first descended to help a friend (Kruse) whom already had multiple people assisting and it wasn't needed, especially on the summit day for Scott's group. He climbed independently, still attempted summit when he was well-spent, and risked others. Scott was a fantastic person, but his HACE severely impacted his decisions that day. Thankfully Boukreev and Neil assisted with multiple trips to take clients to safety and check on the others several times, including Boukreev attempting to help Scott. I will say that Koukreev may have been a fantastic help that day, but he was in error also. He did the climb and summit with no supplemental O2. That's a big risk and he was a guide! It was his job to guide and assist and be sure he was at the top of his game and ready to help. WIthout O2, he failed. He also rushed down to Camp 4 to sleep before any of the clients made it back. That was negligent behavior as well. Once again, these are professionals that should know BEFORE they get into that zone to assist and be the guides they are getting paid to be...turn clients around, can't do that if you're not there for the clients because you left them at the beginning of the climb to go down to Camp 2, then basecamp when you weren't needed. Those mistakes cost lives that day. There's plenty of other details that are incorrect.
@theringer2283 Good job!!!! You are right. This is full of inaccuracies! Thank you!
Scott was obviously having heart problems even before his climb with his clients in 1996. He showed all the signs. Sad. He was a good one.😢
Scott began the cleanup of Everest and had removed tons of used O2 bottles and tons of garbage since the start of cleanup. He began a foundation to maintain Everest, which has since been ignored as tons of bottles & garbage have taken over, yet again😢❤
Sad day when the world lost both Scott Fischer and Rob Hall.😢❤
It does sound like he may not have been in the best of health at that time. It's incredibly sad that he died up there. As with all those who perish on the mountain, it's a matter of risking death the moment they leave base camp. Humans weren't meant to climb 8,000-meter peaks, guts and glory be damned.
They werent "lost". The two and others senselessly threw their lives away. Theres no reason to climb or Maintain a mountain. To that government its all about the money.
@@josi4251 Humans are perfectly capable of climbing 8,000 metre mountains - just look at the numbers of tourists and unqualified climbers who have reached the top of Everest and returned safely. By far the greatest killer is the refusal of many mountaineers to take a disciplined attitude towards safety, to have a safety plan and a set of rules which MUST not be breached. Live to fight another day - in the high mountains, you generally get no more than one chance to make a dangerous or risky decision.
Dying would change one's life forever. And it's Neal Beidleman, not Bridleman.
AI voiceover. The mispronunciations give them away. These awful voiceovers are all over CZcams now.
Death tends to change the rest of a life
Caught that too....
weirdest statement ever....
"Changed his life forever".... Really? Better editing please.
Self centered child’s comment.👆
I have never understood why some people would tempt fate to accomplish something of no value to anyone living or dead.
Passion
Personal value is all that matters. Do what matters to YOU Fuck everyone else.
@@wussboyd1there’s a lot of truth in what you just said. Some people question why mountaineers have children and then attempt and fail. Does that still mean do what you feel and fuck everyone else?
As Mallory once said when asked why he wanted to climb everest;
"Because it is there"
@alimccreery755 yes it does, each person picks their own path. What you and others think means absolutely nothing..
Sonething terrible happened that changed his life forever...err yes, he died🙈🙈
Now thats an impressive mountaineer, climber, humanist, environmentalist. A great lose.
A well narrated piece. I normally view commentary "he/she died doing what they most loved" as drivel that does no good for those left behind suffering from their emotional loss "but" sometimes it fits the bill when an individual truly give their life being an inspiration for others & actually risk their own life in the attempt to saving someone else's life in that same endeavor they all loved collectively. These people are dedicated to a single cause & own a bond that others outside that collective cause can't grasp the love for it they all seem to share..
This is so true. Those climbers have a different mindset. And that they should be proud of. Many prayers to those that lost their life and their family and friends that miss them.
It is drivel. It's total nonsense because the implication is that they had a pleasant death because they were havin' fun at the time.
RIP Scott!
It is not how I would want to die…freezing to death.
Not all about you kiddo!
I heard its the least painfull way to die ...go climb the mountain without sleep for two days atleast , reach the death zone ,arrange tent and prepare for a long nap.. you wont wake up from that sleep🥶
Kind of like drowning, I've heard it's a peaceful way to go. Also, you feel warm at the end of hypothermia, so at least there's that! 😁😬🥶💀
You need to correct the account you are presenting. At 5:36….Fisher did not make multiple trips guiding and rescuing his climbers back to camp in the face of the storm.
He lived his dream. I can’t blame him for that. But it is terribly sad he died doing what he loved. He sure would have been an interesting person to meet. I hope his wife and children are doing well. His children would be adults now.
Hes an idiot, spending the familys money to buy a ticket to his death. I cant think of anything more stupid or selfish. I BLAME HIM!
I would imagine it was a rather peaceful death, both physically and mentally.
This video is riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods. Look elsewhere to find out what really happened.
I feel really sad for them they keep on climbing till they die a horrible death and yet it is difficult to understand why
It’s difficult to understand probably because we don’t have their passion for climbing. I don’t try to understand, but accept their decision to live as they wish.
save your sasdness for real victims of natures capriciousness. Perhaps those who died for a summit tic knew what they were doing and made a decision that the lastbact of their life would be this mioment. No blame, no shame, no tragedy.
@@TC-dw6wg On that particular expedition, their motivation was money, not passion. They were guiding wealthy but inexperienced climbers as part of a commercial venture.
@@hb1338 all expeditions you lead clients are for money. Scott was suffering from illness and was wiped from the day before. I think this ultimatly affected his choices but who knows. Summit fever compounded by millions of dollars worth of clients doesnt help any
Like xtreme sports
Death is a life altering experience
There are so many inaccuracies in this video.
Usually, the mountains win in the end. I admire climbers, and although not one myself I've read hundreds of climbing accounts over the years. Great reads. One point I'd like to make, perhaps climbers should realize their limits where age is considered. It takes a strong man to climb a dangerous mountain and extended age makes the job much harder.
Just see the long lists of names of "oldest to climb mountain x", and even age is a challenge.
Unless you are a climber then its best to stay in your lane👍
A great deal of hubris is entangled with mountain climbing.
"Something happened" in 1996 "that changed his life forever?" Well that's one way of putting it.
What a bullshit !!! Most of facts are completely wrong and twisted ! Fischer did not gather the remaining climbers. 2 of the first who reached Camp 4, started their descend before Fischer even reached the summit. Other 6 climbers gathered together by themselves and Fischer never made multiple trips to bring them back to camp. He remained up on the mountain while Neal Beidleman gathered the group much down the hill and guided them towards Camp 4. 400 m away from the camp, the climbers could no longer walk on their own and Neal continued to the camp 4 alone. 3 out of 5 clients who stayed behind, were later rescued by Anatoliy Boukreev. Also, Boukreev DID reach Scott Fischer the next day (11 May) but found him dead. It's a mission to rescue Rob Hall who was much higher than Fischer ( and was still alive), had to turn back because the weather started worsening.
Upbeat video... but at 2:33, you mention in 1994, he summited without supplemental oxygen. The other climber who also did so was Rbb HESS...
50 meters from safety. So damn sad. Beck weather's had some bad frostbite. I had seen a documentary about this, before. So so sad.
No. Fischer collapsed 50 metres below the Balcony, some 400 vertical metres from comparative safety.
somethings are true and sad.........and hard to say. That day would have been completely different if the head guides - Hall and Fischer - had enforced the turnaround time. That would have been truly heroic .......... saying so is not disrespectful to either
Lost life's saves Clients Ok yes cerebral Edema yes Sad Ok.
Why did they not enforce the turnaround time? What lies at the core of it all? M O N E Y !
@@desertstar223exactly. And some guides did not use supplemental oxygen and if I’m paying that much 💰, you better use o2 to be at the top of your game!
@@desertstar223 yes everyone knows that turning someone around who has invested 100 K and months of prep is very difficult. That is why guiding is a serious job, and every client should sign a legally enforceable agreement to obey or climb to their death ALONE
@@user-wp1pl5je2u The problem is not so much the agreements signed by the clients, but ensuring that expedition leaders follow safety rules created with the specific purpose of saving lives. If the leaders wish to be reckless while climbing alone that is their choice, but when then they have legal and moral responsibility for others, they have an obligation to behave in a safe and considered manner.
Thanks for sharing this story, might ask what is the the background music? Thanks
Poor guy .
He lived the passion. 👍
RIP
Take out the stupid sound effects pls
Take out your stupid comment pls
I prefer to think of it as a fitting death rather than a terrible death, it seems many would have perished sooner during his last hoorah.
Epic guy
REST. IN. POWER,,,,,
MR. FISHER.......
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Well done story, thank you🕶🧤⛏️🥾Sorry for all the negative comments. Perhaps these folks should do their own video then.
Perhaps the narrator should understand the topic better before making inane and insensitive comments.
The idea that an Everest guide would climb to the summit without oxygen, then descend to Camp 4 to obtain oxygen, Then reascend to bring oxygen to those in need is simply not believable. To ascend Everest without a necessary commodity, then deciding to go down to camp 4 to obtain that commodity, and then plan on immediately reascending Everest. Deciding to go out for supplies after ascending Everest is foolhardy at best. If supplies are necessary on Everest then take those supplies.
He died because of going back 3 times for clients and getting them down to camp. He was worn out, literally, the lack of air taking its toll on exhaustion and gradual edema of brain and lungs enough affect his state of mind, and rational thought leaves you by causing death decisions like 'resting feels good' when you MUST keep moving. *He gave his life so that others could live. Scott was among that elite group the best of the best.
This story needed an ending
Scaling 6 of the highest peaks across 7 continents. Did I hear that right? Is there a peak on a continental divide?
A professional climber like Scott Fisher should have known better than to lead others to the summit of Everest in a storm with dangerous conditions. Also he should have known that above 28,000 ft. climbers have hypothermia, no and's if's or but,s about it and as you said they start undoing their jacket and removing their hoods. As for climbing at that altitude without oxygen is foolishness. Oxygen content at sea level is 21% at 26,000 ft is 1/2 that at about 11% and on top of Everest is 1/3 is about 7%.
He was suffering from illness and was fatigued from the day before. I think this compounded with clients just led to bad choices. Bad choices happen to even the healthiest over 8000. I really think this is the main cause of the tradgedy
There wasn’t a storm until they started descending. They don’t ascend in storms.
There's enough pics on the internet and of record to use actual pics of the event to tell your story. I know it isn't easy to piece these stories together, but you can separate yourself very quickly by a different approach.
The cold never bothered him anyway.
Thanks Sandy Pitman
Thanks Scott Fischer, Rob Hall. They never listened to anybody about the weather, the necessity of leaving by 2pm, the warnings their own bodies, etc and on and on.
Never trying to push your luck climbing these above 8000metres mountains unless you're as persevered, physically well prepared and fearlessly crazy like Nirmal Purja or Kristin Harila. Even they themselves face death multiple of time but lucky to escape alive. There are places in this world human just don't belong to and Everest is one of them.
Bragging rights can get expensive.
i do admire mountaineers who really have a desire to climb dangerous high-altitude mountains, but HAPE (high-altitude pulmonary edema -- lung swelling) and HACE, (high altitude cerebral edema -- brain swelling) are not in my book of things I wish to experience!
Forgive me, but where is the ‘South Coal’? The place where they cleared 5,000 lbs. of trash? If that’s an error, I blame the A.I. and voiceovers.
Blame? Ooooh, your one of those who blame! Come back when you finish grade school and mature some.
South Col, camp 4 around 26000 feet
When you are a mountaineer, every climb is a ticket for the worst lottery. Even experienced climbers still face hazards that they can't control. If you keep climbing, your luck may eventually run out.
According to Mallory, because it's there. 😮
Rest in Peace Scott. He was so well loved the Sherpa and other teams alike all had a very hard time accepting it.
And he died one of the more painfully slow and brutal deaths. He was alive with his eyes frozen open (and popped) with his teeth clenched and jaw frozen shut.. but was breathing.
His Sherpa friend left hot tea and walked away. It’s just surreal a day earlier he was a happy guy leading an expedition.
Scott got everyone of his clients up that day though..
In my eyes.. he’s a hero and his death should have been a huge learning experience for the Nepalese government but unfortunately, it was not.
Born to conquer or die
Want a thrill? Take up skydiving. Chances are good you will live longer
MountKilimanjaroInAfrica 😭
In May 1996 something changed his life forever??? Uhhh yeah he died
This account is all screwed up go watch another channel
sounds like he suffered an enema
What?
Yes I believe your Right Ok 💯
Talk about improper administration of an enema!!!🤯🤯🤯
High altitude sickness presents in two ways - HACE (High Altitude Cerebral Oedema) and HAPE (High Altitude Pulmonary Oedema). Oedema is swelling due to fluid retention; enema is something completely different.
The narrator meant edema, pronounced e-dee-ma.
Greenhorns
Well it's called the death zone for reason, n why would anyone care about people being reckless with their lives? If u really cared ud try n stop them.
I am more concerned by mountain guides who were reckless with *other* people's lives.
Please pronounce eeedema correctly
inaccurate
Darwin Fisher
Edema like enema!!! 😂😂😂😂😂 it's e-EE-ma
This video is misinformation. Scott died because he violated all the rules and safety precautions in pursuit of fame and fortune. This video does not mention things that lead up to that day. And how he stressed out his body then without rest he went for the summit. Yes he got caught up in a bad storm. But he was not physically able to deal with it because he allowed himself to get caught in the moment that he thought would bring him fame and fortune. BIG TIME MENTAL MISTAKE. Is it not his crew that dragged Sandy Pittman to the summit and back? I think that was her name. They literally dragged her. Sorry he may have been physically strong but he lacked the mental aspect. People just dont understand its 50 percent physical and 99 percent mental. He paid the ultimate price for his mental mistakes. Anybody that looks at him as a hero is doomed to fail. Remember he failed mentally.
From somebody that stared down the Grim Reaper and survived
NDR
He was ill and fatigued from the day before. Compounded with running a buisness with clients all together just led to bad choices. The 2008 k2 tradgedy happened bc of bad choices also and those people were healthy, it happens
@@junioradult6219 First you agree with what I said. He was fatigued and violated the rules by not resting. Then you claim he was healthy and it happens. How can he not be healthy and healthy at the same time? You make no sense.
NDR
He says ED-uh-muh for "edema" It sounds like enema! Most people in the medical field call it "eh-DEE-muh, which means swelling! I had to laugh when I thought he was trying to say enema -- nobody likes those! Good but sad story about Scott Fisher and some beautiful pictures of the mountain.
hahaha I also heard enema 😆 thought it was my aging ears! BUT quite possibly the WORST recounting of events surrounding the most tragic day in commercial mountaineering (to date). I have absorbed most of the information (but not all) and this video has more inaccuracy's than a Storm trooper firing range! The movie EVEREST has more accuracy than this video !!! ,,,,and that was Hollywood sanitised !
@@OriginalSlash63 Agreed! These tyros will take a story, revamp it to be even gorier, bloodier, sexier, and even more tragic than it is, in order to get subscriptions, likes, shares, etc. I never click on any of those options unless I really support a video or comment because it's GOOD copy!
While I enjoyed the content, you really have to work on your pronunciations, especially of people’s names.
While I enjoyed your comment, you really need to work on being a human being.
A salient reminder, that even the most experienced climbers can suffer on and even die Everest ! A big loss:
Mountain climbing is STUPID and POINTLESS ! Find a better hobby ! Shees😡🤔😐
Heartbreaking??? No, daredevil plays with death and death won. No pity, they think they are better than anything and that's what you get.
😂 wow way to be a d bag about it😂😂
I’m morbidly fascinated because I will never EVER do anything like this. Guaranteed. I own very large dogs. Very large. I have plenty of excitement😆 in my life 😂😂 too freaking much 🤣🤣
No one who freezes to death dies a bad death if i had to off myself i would get a lawnchair a half gallon of my favorite booze and put myself on a glacier and have a good sleep its that easy you don't even know your dieing ive had hypothermia and its not anything like you imagine very peaceful death
First
👌🙄
First What First Idiot?
He climbed until it killed him.
Not smart
He didn't conquer anything.
All the real deal mountaineers generally do it till they die. They dont do it for you😂😂
"SCOTT FISHER"
ego and greed killed that guy
Illness fatigue and clients he didnt want to let down led to bad choices. Plain and simple
Good riddance to the poser .