The 2006 K2 Disaster
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2024
- K2, the second highest peak on the planet, is infamous for its difficulty and its deadliness. Sporting a notably high mortality rate, K2, has rightfully earned it's unofficial moniker of 'The Savage Mountain' and a great number of climbers have lost their lives attempting to ascend K2 throughout the years. Perhaps the most well known deaths on K2's slopes took place in 2008, however much lesser widely known is that an eerily similar incident to the 2008 disaster would claim several lives two years prior in the year 2006.
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low life
You no he's loved by his fans when are week highlights are when he drops a new episode
Was that a pun?
@@thejazzienerd3780r/angryupvote
That was devious
Im pretty new to your channel, but damn, you need more recognition
You have just made my history 202 class so much better thank you morbid.
Pay attention to your studies kid, watch it during lunch.
Thank you for all of your hard work and high quality videos. They are really, really appreciated.
Just here to throw a comment your way. Looking forward to watching later.
Masterpiece after masterpiece after masterpiece I don’t believe I ever knew about K-1s extreme difficulties but you cover them ALL objectively with cold hard facts I believe one of your most “classic “ videos is The Ogre climb it’s just perfect !!! 💯👑
Is it common to attempt a summit after a big storm?
It sounds like the stupidest idea to attempt just after the mountain was battered for days and overhangs would be stressed with chipping seracs
Your talent is story telling. Lets just say you have a way with words.
"with the last successful ascent taking place nearly 40 years ago..."
me: oh, so like the 60s/70s
"... in the year 1985." 😳😭
for reference, I'm in my 40s.
Yeah, not a fun line to hear for anyone born in 85
Time seems to accelerate as you get older. It's been over half a century since humans have been on the moon! 😳
@ 0:33 - Wow! What a picture! Incredible
A comment on pronunciation: koolwahr (not cooloor). Couloir is French, and "-oir" is a "wah" sound, as in "warren" or "waft" or French for "black", "noir". Thank you for the video, excellent as usual.
Who cares...lmao
@@davelowen5198The dichotomy of Daves.
Some do. Words mean things.
11 days in one spot? Wow. I'd imagine that by then you're pretty low on food and fuel to melt snow for water. Just being there that long puts any attempt in the "nope" category. You don't have enough food to eat to get enough energy to make the trek up to the peak, back down, and to a lower camp with more food. There really should be limits to how long you can spend at the different sites without making a push. They should've been required to come down instead of pushing for the peak, especially since the length of the storm INCREASED the likelihood of an avalanche anyway.
Who would make them come down? There’s no police up there. I think climbers can do what they want within reason.
Very nice to hear you give a comprehensive description of degrees of difficulty of mountains. Very nice. I watched a video of a couple who climbed K2 in good weather and made it all look easy. In contrast, I watched a video of a couple of guys climbing Trango Towers ... nailing a pup tent to a vertical wall to spend the night in! Nothing under that tent but a thousand meters of air! Edit: compared to some of the really hard climbs, "House's Chimney" and the "Hillary Step" are nothing but easy, ladders and ropes already there - no elevators yet, but give them time ....
“They moved their equipment up the mountain at a *glacial* pace”
No pun intended 😅
Gravity ALWAYS wins in the end.
This incident was bad luck, even for this mountain... The only worse luck I can recall is John Smolich and Alan Pennington attempting the magic line, killed in 86 when an avalanche was triggered by a 1 in a trillion rockfall with basecamp watching.
So good. Thank you for these videos.
Been waiting …❤ love ur content
I can’t believe you don’t have more subs for the Concorde Informative content you put out.
Wanted to know more on this, thanks!!
Good to see you, Midnight. Sad but well-done video .
Keep up the great work!
Cool video
So interesting!! Thanks for the great vid.
I wonder how often pieces of ceracs fall. Like what are the chances it would fall at that exact time.
Oh man, you released this video less than 2 minutes after I got off the computer to go sleep a bit... about the difficulty part, a whole bunch of people who have no idea about the subject, both the video makers + the audience, still insist that K2 is the most difficult mountain in the world. I mean, yeah, it surely is not for anyone slightly faint of heart or even advanced, it's only for hardcore climbers, but still, it's FAR from being the most difficult, it's actually annoying because it's false info, as people will believe in something that is not really the whole picture or truth.
As for the story... that part of K2 is scary as fukc dude, that HUGE ice wall is just so eerie. This shows once again that you can take all possible safety precautions, but nature just doesn't care and doesn't respect anyone. Imagine you're climbing a mountain this tall and out of nowhere you are faced by a storm lasting almost 2 weeks! I can't imagine being in that situation, the force of the winds up in these mountains is just surreal, along with the whiteout conditions and the brutal low temperatures even in the summer months.
Imagine the level of boredom being unable to do anything and keep your mind busy for almost 2 weeks in complete isolation... jesus, that is just maddening, just being able to sleep in that situation is a feat of itself because of the super loud sounds of the winds outside colliding with the tents. I've been in situations of very high winds while camping in tents and let me tell you, it's anything but a pleasant situation, that constant super loud sounds will just eventually drive most people mad.
Amazing Documentary once again Morbid \m/ 🌬
Hear Annapurna 2, is the gnarliest.
yeah 3 out of 4 were dying before nims
set the lines
"Listen to the frickin guides......do what they say"
-a wise man
FYI, "elevation" is used when referring to a surface height, while "altitude" is used to refer to height above a surface.
Are you telling us the audience, or op? Can you give an example of each for clarity please homeslice (:
@@sleazymeezy If you're on a plane you'd say you're at an altitude of 30,000 feet as altitude is the distance between an object (the plane) and the surface. If you're at the top of a mount you'd say the mountain's elevation is 10,000 feet, where elevation describes how high the surface itself is from sea level.
It's worth saying again. Great narration. Great channel. We appreciate you.
Harrowing story well told and documented. I like how the climbers are identified at the end
Yea boii have a nice day everyone!
Watching all of these to help me sleep. Super relaxing yet creepy 🎉 perfect storytelling
Your whispers got particularly grizzly this video
Hello from Maryland ❤
I love the narration
They could dig a tunnel to the summit, like at the Eiger Sanction
0:22 The mountain in the middle looks like a face
Token comment, keep up the good work!!
Thus we begin our trek to 71k!!!
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO
Nims climbed that damm mountain hung over drunk.
What are NIMS please?
Are you bricked?@@ASpectacular3777
Nimsdai Nirmal Purja - outstanding mountaineer
I thought that was on Kangchenjunga?
K2 & Annapurna. Obsessed.
If you haven’t seen The Summit, you have to watch it.
Let me guess….
Great video
Feeling sick? Your voice sounds distant and faint
It's just his way baby, I mean bagel.
@@ELECTRICMOTOCROSSMACHINE ooooh bagel I love your way, everydaaaaayayay
Nobody puts bagel in the corner.
I enjoy the stories and I don't mean any disrespect put your voice is very different I don't mean to sound ignorant but it sounds a little creepy LOL I'm sorry I don't mean to be disrespectful I just never heard anybody's voice like yours
So pretty much k2 is deadly mountain
And also can you think you could do the hello Kitty murder case in 1999
Morbid Midnight ... the Steven Wright of climbing expeditions gone wrong ...
Great
subscribed bro
More people have summited K2 than have tickled my feet.
Certified hood classic.
Have these climbers ever been found
Look it lowered from 25% to under 15%
Cool-WAH
k2 looks lika a nazgul!
What is a Nazgûl please?
@ASpectacular3777 from LOTR I believe. Maybe those knights chasing frodo in the first film where frodo has to hide under the tree roots. I think they were the nine Kings gifted a ring that turned to undead slaves.
Please correct all my mistakes politely. Thanks.
MM: Only 4 teams have ever reached its summit...
Me: Yeah, I bet like back in the 70s, too.
MM: ... With the last successful ascent taking place nearly 40 years ago...
Me: Nailed it!
MM: ... In the year 1985.
Me, born in 1985: 👁👄👁
Why do u sound like this or use this voice
Set plaaybaack speeed too 75% too maake thee videeo lasst loongerr
This is the type of show that Wednesday Addams would watch
Instead of wasting time searching for the climbers lost in the avalanche the survivors should have gone for the summit while they had the chance.
Boring.
Oh I really like your videos but please you’re talking way too slow, or whatever you’re doing. Just talk normal or at normal speed… Don’t try to be mysterious or anything. It’s freaking annoying! But like I said, I really like your stories/videos.
He is reading the story...I think.
I can’t stand the narration!
Sure, there are other mountains that are more treacherous and dangerous than K2 that pose greater difficulty, but when we’re talking about mountains like K2 and the others that are even more dangerous, we’re talking degrees of difficulty where even one small mistake can cost a person their life. Let alone the environmental hazards that these mountains present.
You need a metronome as your cadence is so inconsistent and constantly changing. Your holds and pauses are awkward and things feel to be taking too long for you to be saying what you could say due to your intentional changing of cadence and tone. Consistency is more key and a higher irritation to people than is acknowledged. For me it makes these videos unwatchable
I guess he is not for certain people.
NAH
Every goddamned video someone says something about his cadence and speaking voice.
News flash you effing MORONS. He’s done dozens of these videos, he’s seen all your comments about his cadence.
This is his STYLE for these videos. It’s ON PURPOSE.
If you don’t like it F OFF
You’re not the first to say this bud
He’s seen all these comments and guess what? He doesn’t care.
It’s his style. It’s on purpose. And he’s not going to change.
Now pissoff
That’s cute you think he cares.
You’re not the first to say this, and you won’t be the last. Byeeeee