Mountaineering Gone Wrong Marathon #7
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00:33 Historic K2 Climb Ends in Tragedy
13:02 Legendary Climber Disappears on Everest
24:53 Skiing Down an 8,000 Meter Peak
35:36 Why K2 is Becoming The Next Everest
47:53 Why Inexperienced Climbers Are Ruining Everest
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WHY DO THEY NEVER QUESTION IF DADS SHOULD BE MOUNTAINEERS? I’ve watched a lot of these videos NOT ONCE has it been questioned if FATHERS should be doing something so dangerous. Rob Hall chose to STAY with his dying client KNOWING the guy didn’t have a chance of getting off the mountain; this choice left his 7 months pregnant wife to raise their child alone. Not only was this NEVER brought up… he was lauded as a hero! WTF folks… just because moms are usually BETTER parents… kids don’t need one more than another. Hall died in 1996 so his daughter is in her 20’s now… and I’ll bet never knowing her father has left a huge hole in her life!
She married him knowing the possibility that he could die.Eyes wide open.
Anyone marrying a climber knows the risks,they accepted that possibility when they said I do.
It's ridiculous to think about forbidding a grown man to do something he loves,every one has a right to make their own choice,be it good or bad.
Says you "mothers make better parents". Look at kids growing up with out fathers. And this mother knew what her husband (the one that earns) did for a living. She happily stayed home with basically zero chance of dying. She raised a child. That's why women have breasts to feed with.
Actually the same sex parent is the most influential parent in a child's life.
But to your point... I think the criticism is due to moms more being the caretaker of the children than dads. I love my husband and my husband loves our 10 y/o daughter but if I was gone tomorrow there would be utter chaos. My husband doesn't know who her doctor or dentist is or their numbers. He doesn't know when the last time she had her teeth cleaned or seen a doctor. He doesn't know most of her friends' names, her teacher's number or how to really reach her when she's really upset and inconsolable. Mothers are more nurturing. We are also normally the keepers of the information.
Maybe in these families things are different and the dad has that role. But even so, moms have a special bond with a child. One that is so different than a dad's. That's not good or bad, it's just different. I think a child takes the news of losing either parent very hard but the loss of a mother is especially difficult.
I say all this not to say fathers aren't important, because they are. They are VERY important! Just look at society due to the rise of single mothers. Fathers typically teach respect, values, self-reliance and discipline. Where mothers teach love, compassion and positive self-esteem. At a younger age children need the "softer" parent vs the more disciplined parent when they are older.
@@john-nx4xnI mean she was a climber too. A couple years prior to his death they summited together. She understood the risks for sure
If they simply made everyone set their own lines and carry their own gear we could eliminate 99% of the modern problems on Everest
No pictures or bragging rights would eliminate the rest.
both of you are witless....
Other problem is there’s only a few days twice a year where the weather is safe enough to summit. It’s literally like standing on the wing of a commercial airplane in flight any other time.
Not a prob for me but I loath the congestion and trash. F'n circus.
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That 59 year old woman with the pacemaker was absolutely crazy! 12 hours to climb a 20 minute section! And then refusing to leave when a helicopter came, talk about summit fever and she was barely out of base camp!
IKR!? 😅🤦♀️🤷♀️why was she there tho?
She's just a knob
@@sandrakiefler4649idiocy!😂
She was crazy!
@@sandrakiefler4649she dreamed of becoming the first Asian woman wearing a pacemaker to summit the peak.
Fifty years from now, "we just installed the first traffic light on Everest and a crosswalk." At what point does summiting become an obscene gesture of egomania and gross consumerism?
It's always been that. You think the original climbers weren't driven by ego and greed? Nothing has changed but the number of dead on the mountain. The original climbers were no more noble or pure than the people today.
@@jeffstrom164 True. But, the first to conquer the summit aligns more with the indomnible human spirit of discovery and adventure. That being said, at some point people look utterly ridiculous with, "I was the 6,338th person to discover the summit." The real travesty is the garbage and junk left there. You can believe the summiting type folks are all of the eco-friendly crowd. I fully expect one day to see seagulls scanvenging the trash heaps.
@@jeffstrom164word
Hillary’s selfishness is truly mystifying. 2 children and you attempt this foolhardy trick? Just insabe.
They’ll have summit hotels by then
60k to companies, $3 to a porter. Wow, how embarrassing. I pay $10 to a guy to fill my tires with air.
No you dont
I pay my Publix bag boy $5.00
Greed. And the government isn't better. They do all religious b.s. at the base of the mountain then proceed to trash it with litter.
Humans would F up a one car funeral
Where do you air your tires up and about what time of day? I'll be sure to be there.
I do t personally think mountaineer are known as big tippers from what I read and see there isn't any more incompassionate breed of human alive to leave someone who needs help to climb up a mountain is utter insanity period.
The audacity and entitlement of some of these family members thinking others should risk their lives to recover the bodies of their egotistical family members. If Matt and others were so determined to do these expeditions, they were well aware that they could die and never be brought back down. It’s not like they died in combat or defending others. This is a hobby! At least they died doing a hobby they loved 🤷🏾♀️
Masz rację
Your wrong they died doing something they thought they were good at.
@@Jdalio5but they weren’t. They failed!! Lmao
This comment section is proof that technology has given losers, with nothing going for them a platform to talk negative on others situations, to make there miserable existence feel less worthless.....
@@markhunt3975 you seem insecure
I think of the first summit of Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay as a human achievement. For everyone after that, its just a personal accomplishment.
it's clout chasing and selfish
47:42 Money might speak louder, but the Mountain has the final word.
And the mountain has been there since long before money and humans.
Nah, money conquered it. That's not to say the mountain doesn't show its fangs, but money has seen the summit more often then not.
@@jeffstrom164all these rich dweebs will be gone and the mountain will remain
@@evangelinewandering9547 And before that, it wasn't there.
@@evangelinewandering9547are you aware of how much money was actually spent on building that mountain peak?
This is farcical. First person with a pacemaker? Maybe next year we'll see someone with a pacemaker carrying a bunny in a backpack. That will be a first.
Yes the firsts are ridiculous. I’m going to be the first person to look at a picture of Everest wearing blue shoe laces and singing “I would do anything for love” gonna make history.
@@carlosue5472Too late! 😅
@@Alice_Long 🤣🤣
@@Alice_Long probably!
@@carlosue5472Good Point.
That mountain looks like Glastonbury after festival weekend. It's disgraceful. I was always taught the first rule of wilderness trekking was leave no trace. Carry out what you brought in and that especially incudes your own bodily wastes. The people flocking to climb Everest have no respect for that mountain or for nature in general. If they did they couldn't be part of desecrating it like this.
Same can be said for Mt Whitney. The amount of human feces I saw discarded in plastic bags there made me give up mountaineering forever. 🙏
Sounds alot like Portland oregon
There's an Everest documentary showcasing Camp 2 or 3 as "The World's Highest Garbage Dump." There were crows at that altitude, looking for something to eat. I wonder if the food they find replenishes the energy crows expend to reach that height, let alone gives them enough energy to return to their nests again. Put another way, "Do the carcasses of crows also litter Everest?" Are there other scavengers up there, searching for a meal in such a harsh environment? I've nit heard anyone discuss it, even in the documentary showing crows feeding at the world's highest garbage dump.
@@nonmihiseddeo4181Goraks actually live at those high altitudes, they’ve also picked at a few bodies. They’re not expending any more energy given they exist at those heights. Regardless is disgusting to not pack out everything you pack in and make the effort to clean up after yourself. Grown adults shouldn’t have to be told or shamed into doing such a basic, courteous task.
That’s why they die in great numbers...
I just don't understant how these hogs can justify leaving empty trash on the mountain. Claiming it was to heavy to carry down is utter riduculousness as they carried it up there with items in the wrappers and after removing the items the trash would be even lighter and more compact! I don't care how hard the mountain is to climb it is sheer laziness and slobbishness to leave your rubbish on the mountain.
@realityreviews2314 And your point is what? I don't care who drags the stuff up it would be easier to lug the stuff down after they are done and used up. Doesnt' change the fact that the people making the messes are slobbish hogs who don't clean up after themselves. Do they leave trash lying about their homes or is it just on the mountain where they can use all the excuses they want but in the end it comes down to sheer laziness and entitlement on their part.
@realityreviews2314 I'm calling the people the sherpas are leading up the mountain lazy hogs. Maybe learn some comprehension skills before throwing insults around
They have now made it mandatory to bring out everything you brought in.... including your own "waste". There is a huge poo problem on the mountain that most don't talk about. Normally waste products are broken down by bugs. However there are no bugs at these temperatures. So the poo just sits there contaminating the water on the mountain as well as local ground water.
The Nepalese government needs to make taking all your garbage back off the mountain and out of the valley part of the conditions for receiving a climbing permit. Without enforcement, most of these pampered climbers will happily keep polluting this mountain.
They could make a boat load of money if they would weigh the climbers going up then charge them maybe like a 100 dollars a pound for any weight not brought back down.
They know it won't last forever so they get as much as they can't til it's no longer an option.
@@mattmatt6572 You would lose a lot of weight (either as food or as energy) from walking up the mountain.
It will all come down on it's own. It is a geological phenomenon called mass wasting. Just wait.
In general the "client" climbers are unable to haul their trash / equipment out. But, in the case of most of the major peaks, there are plenty of local climbers who will do so for suitable remuneration. This expense should simply be added into the cost of a guided climb by the national gov't.
I had a dream and I have decided that I am going to be the first tetraplegic to summit all the 8k's in a single year. I am paralyzed from the shoulders down, but I won't let that stop me. I have summited the wheelchair ramp leading to my house, so how much harder can it be to get up a mountain? The fee will be no problem. I'm pretty much made of money. I have no climbing experience other than trying to climb out from under the car that hit me and finding that I could not move any part of my body. It's silly season in the mountains so I'll bring all my trash and dump it at the base camps, then start my ascent and part way up wonder why I'm dead.
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bruh
Damn bro
How is this not the top comment? This is hilarious and made my day, dude! 😂
I find it distasteful that of all the climbers with kids who do dangerous things and become seriously injured or die because of it-Lincoln Hall, Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, and more-no video I’ve ever listened to has questioned if they can have a mountaineering career and be parents. It’s a footnote in their story that “oh yeah, there’s a wife and kids at home but anyway back to this really cool thing he’s doing…”
I’m not saying nothing about nothing but if you’ve commented on Stephanie’s motherhood but not Rob Hall’s fatherhood, maybe ask yourself why.
Mothers and fathers are not the same.
@@loridavis5699what??
Exactly, the narrator is romancing this crap!!
Because moms are more essential. That’s why men have traditionally been drafted and women are immune to the draft. If you haven’t registered for the selective service, maybe ask yourself why.
@@animula6908or maybe that’s just a sexist trope that allows men to reproduce like rabbits and have zero attachment to their responsibilities
Never ONCE have I heard a man’s fatherhood mentioned as a reason their career is shocking and impressive.
I just stopped the video to make the same comment. Thought it was 1954 or something :(
@thetruth863 codswallop
I have. I bet you have too
@thetruth863no parent or child should leave the house into they're 18. You want to breed: keep your butt and sniveling offspring at home.
@@paulred158 It's true. Most kids say so themselves. Reasonable considering who conceives, carries and majority cares for them in their early years, and beyond.
For people like Suzanne who insist on going up Everest when she shouldn't be there, it basically ends up becoming an assisted suicide.
yeah but you get lots of mentions on youtube, so it's an option some people choose and maybe less cleanup than jumping under a train 🤷♀
also that old pusy Nelson
Let's hope that's what it was. She was a teacher so I'd assuming she was relatively smart. She had to have known that she wouldn't make it to the top. 😂
Yes
Difference between 'teacher smart' & common sense smart..
A few personal opinions: (1) it's extremely sad that people die because leading inexperienced idiots up dangerous mountains is the only way to lift themselves and their families out of extreme poverty; (2) anyone who has young children is selfish to take these risks; (3) if you can carry cans and whatnot up the mountain, you can carry them down -- everyone on the mountain should have their items checked and logged, and if they come back with less, they should be fined $10,000 per item of trash they left on the mountain; (4) the governments should stop issuing so many permits -- if they need to quadruple the price in order to maintain their income, then do it -- people will still pay it; (5) inexperienced "climbers" should not be allowed on the mountains, period -- there are plenty of highly experienced climbers who would be happy to buy those permits. Frankly I don't really care if someone decides to kill themselves, but when they put other people's lives in danger, then it's not okay.
Great idea for each hiker to have their items checked and logged upon before and after their hike with a fine for anything left behind!
It's the old 5% rule. Once a source of high income revenue is discovered (along with a market etc), if 95% of the population must remain in poverty for the 5% to benefit from that source of revenue, then so be it. It is what the Fair Trade companies have fought against every day in trying to have the workers in poor regions globally recieve the genuine, actual profits from the work/growing/ harvesting they have always done, but only ever been paid a pittance for, because why? Because they, like the Sherpas and the Nepalese people - must be "poor, humble, ill- educated," folk who would be "grateful for small amounts of payment". Prejudice and prejudgement.
But think instead of Nirmal Purja out of the mighty Ghurkas and other brave, noble representatives of this magnificent region. It is a travesty.
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@@NavigatorMotherAnd if that high source of revenue were not there, they'd be worse off. What is your point?
I've seen people say everest shouldn't be "gatekeeped" lol
I agree with everything, especially with not issuing permits to inexperienced climbers. Maybe they should have some sort of fitness requirements and documented experience in different types of environments?
The forebears of mountaineering would weep at the disrespect we’ve shown these mountains. Littered with human waste and trash.
No they wouldn't. They were just the same as the people climbing today. They were driven by ego, fame, and money just like the climbers today. The original climbers weren't nature nazis that didn't litter or poop. They left trash for the same reasons everybody does.
Absolutely agree, we humans have an uncanny ability to destroy any new ground we set foot upon. And to think humans want to colonise other planets, how long before we destroy them also. Stay off the mountains and leave them alone
@@AwesomeAngryBiker We haven't destroyed the ground. It's still earth. We just make it bad for current life. Current life won't be around in 10,000 years anyway. The earth will be, regardless of what we do, though.
why do you think the borebears of mountaineering were environmentalists lmao....
They're the ones to blame! For millions of years these mountains have been pure, pristine, worshipped, revered. Then some asshole just had to climb it. Why? "Because it's there." How witty. I can't help but wonder how they'd like hundreds of people's corpses and waste being deposited in their sacred place because it's there.
“First Asian woman with a pacemaker to submit Mt. Everest” 🤷🏾♀️ with no experience 🤦🏾♀️ you just can’t make this shit up 😅
Not to mention these people spend THOUSANDS to do this shit 😂lmao
HAHA 😂😂😂 I am dead 💀☠️💯
Yep - and women have PERIODS - BLEEDING ALL OVER - GROSS
Enjoy watching the video, but this is madness. I enjoyed mountaineering and climbing in my youth but only made it up several of the 14,000 ft. peaks in the American Rockies, always solo and always just for fun. The climbing in this scenario is not fun, it's torture and I can't imagine waiting in line to ascend and camping in a trash dump.
Lol nice fanfic but we all know you lying
I hear you man. I just did a solo one in a relatively remote part of the California Sierras and I did not see a person for two straight days. I had the whole mountain to myself! Its a really nice feeling.
@kryptickaigaming5210 why are you such a terrible person?
@@FrenziedmerchantisaHomowhat are they lying about ? Strange claim
@alexavfclineham7301 lol imagine blindly thinking everything you read is true if you really knew about mountains you could easily see that this is fake I pity your child like ability to believe what ever you read
3:51 Whatever the local rate of pay is, it is shameful that mountain porters are paid so little, when a western expedition costs tens of thousands of dollars. *No one* should be paid $3 a day to risk their life in such a way.
Might want to learn what purchasing power is
Absolutely agree. And I don't care about purchasing power. It's disgraceful to pay someone who is assisting you to stay alive 3 dollars
@@hollyd8989we know what “purchasing power” is and it sucks!!
Send them a check
@animula6908 send 'check' 2 yo' mama!
I love that Ali’s dad just picked up the glasses and said absolutely nothing until he watched him search for them 😅 that bit made me smile, sounds like exactly what my dad would do, and did, tho in completely different circumstances but with the same sentiment when we worked together!😉👍A damn good dad
3 of 11 children survived. they grew up poor, but he had always enough money for climbing 8000ers. What a great dad,...
@@gehtdianschasau8372 Right? That child survival rate is worse than for medieval peasants.
It’s obvious how much research and hard work you put into this. Excellent work. And I especially appreciate your honesty about the overcrowding on these mountains. And the damage to the ecosystem with all the trash etc.
The lady didn't make it to the ice fall. At least she wasn't able to make things worse for someone else. Sad!
Yep - and women have PERIODS - BLEEDING ALL OVER - GROSS
So....mountain climbers literally just climb until they die. How stupid.
It's one of Darwin's favorite sports.
What actually happens is once in the death zone hypoxia takes over slowly. It is not evident to the climber until too late and they make basic mistakes even a hiker wouldn't. Going to the death zone is wreckless no matter how great a climber you are. Stay alive and do some good for others maybe.
Yup, every mountain climbers 1st thought when they climb is "hopefully I will die today" 🤡🤡🤡
Yep - and women have PERIODS - BLEEDING ALL OVER - GROSS
@@matthewthomas8646🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👁️🔜🌻🥔✅💀
They were all in love with dyin'
They were drinking from a fountain
That was pouring like an avalanche
Comin' down the mountain
ok
Nice 👍
Clifford caught a virus 🦠?
@@nopenever3I KNOW that Tune!!!!
I haven't heard that song in ages!
I can appreciate Hillary's desire and determination to climb up and ski down but I don't admire her stubbornness to ski down knowing the conditions were precarious. Someone who grew up on mountains would certainly know what so much fresh snow means and how it acts under skis.
Ofcourse, yep, Easy to say when your destiny boils down to merely dragging along lifes mundane edges...yet still feel need2 attempt judging a spirit, while ya all safe n sound, BUT sniveling from sheltered confines of anonymity, behind a tiny screen & keypad. Good thing your 'admiration' ain't relevant nor ever a factor for a legend like Hillary. She achieved more in a single day, than you ever will in an entire lifetime, & U know it as the THE ''truth”.
Low iq
specially at the top, steep pitch.
@@NazPhura2 Tell that to her children while looking in their faces.
Chasing fame over looking after her kids, she never had it
I dont feel bad for Suzanne, they told her she would die if she didnt stop climbing and she acted like a petulant child... So thats what she gets...
Asking people to try to recover the bodies is insane..
I'm trying to get it themselves!
The story of Suzanne is truly shocking to me. That’s like me, a random airport worker suddenly deciding to go climb Everest even though I’m not even a hiker. I would probably take a few hours to do the acclimation trips too.
But. I’d never contemplate climbing Everest or any mountain except the smallest mountains. I’d have to start with hikes, then small mountains and amateur climbing then work my way up.
Precisely you're right and you actually have a positive outlook even though you might not feel that way. Nobody can go from a sedentary lifestyle to just competing in triathlons or climbing Everest but you're 110% correct everybody has to start somewhere , a journey of a thousand miles starts with those first steps. Don't ever discredit yourself and put yourself down (which you didn't) starting off with easy hikes and then building and building is the best way. I was once severely overweight and in appalling shape. I had absolutely no idea how to start or what to do to help myself. Until one day I just went to the local park and started walking, my goal was to complete pone full lap without stopping, over time I achieved that, then I wanted to do one full lap jogging , over time I achieved that, Then it was running . Over days, weeks and months I was sprinting around it 6 to 8 times. Then after the lockdown the gyms opened up and I started swimming , lifting weights instead of just cardio. Then I joined walking groups, then moved on to rambling groups and now I do hikes all over my country .
It takes weeks to acclimatize for Everest, not hours.
@@laurarules3642well done
As a guy who has vertigo I love watching these cause some views make me giddy
.... I was in the ER for vertigo yesterday and the nurse told me to come watch. You are right! lol
Can’t believe the first fella would climb in flip flops for around $3 a day. Idk how people live with themselves, using emaciated animals the way they do to carry enormous loads up the mountains, & using poor indigenous folk as expendables, or even if they do survive…as barely paid slaves.
The mountaineering community has devolved into the worst of human nature; clout chasing & fame seeking at the expense of others. I’ve always said, figuratively: “you don’t get to the top without stepping over a few bodies”…but these people actually do that.
On another note, what is your involvement? Are you a climber at all? Or do you like to ponder over the grandness of it all? I have never climbed anything of note, but I would love to & hope to. I often look up at the sky & try to picture how vast these mountains would be if they were right outside my apartment balcony. Just doing that, I get chills from what I imagine based on what I’ve seen online. So amazing.
The Mountaineering Community has always been the worst. Porters were used & died on the first attempts & garbage from the first trip can still be found on Everest. Fyi the yaks used have a way better survival rate than the Porters.
I want to learn more about this garbage on the mountain. What stops the regulators from cleaning it up, especially after the amounts paid in permits? I'm just curious how helicopters are sent to look for people and not to help get rid of trash? I'm really ignorant on the topic so if anyone knows I would love to learn
@@libbyaweshiousmoney, greed and giant inflated ego’s is usually the answer.
I agree about the garbage but I completely disagree with your attitude that the indigenous people are being exploited.
These are extremely poor people. You’re suggesting that providing them a job is a bad thing. You are completely off base. If you feel so bad for them, you can donate your money to them. But to criticize others for giving these people employment is bogus.
@@E_Clampus_Vitus so employment is where we draw the line, huh? Forget fair wages, safe working conditions! You’re a moron.
Providing people with employment is one thing; working them well beyond what is acceptable & treating them as expendable is a different thing which has been the widely adopted attitude. These folk are much underpaid anyway, for the amount of work they do.
You either don’t care, or don’t understand the demands westerners put on porters & sherpas. Money can only buy so much. It cannot save lives or replace the ones pushed too far for the sake of reaching a record or going against what mother nature dishes out.
And, so what if I AM the kind of person who donates a lot of my frugal means to those in need? By the sounds of it, you’re a greedy person who doesn’t care whose expense your lifestyle comes at.
Had 11 children and only 4 survived….. imagine how little he was around to do all these climbs. It’s takes years to prep and MONTHS to climb 1 mountain 😢
Wasn’t that the same guy that, when his son’s oxygen tube sprung a leak, said “just keep going, you’ll feel better”? Dad of the year, right there
It's time to close Everest now leave it to nature
Should there then be a limit on how many children (future sherpas) will be allowed to be born in Nepal?
@@rt66vintage16as if sherpas and tourists were the same🙄. What a stupid remark!
All solved! loo7784 will either feed the sherpas, or teach them a new skill!
@@mariapap8962you missed the point by a mile, but that is expected 🤪
Altitude sickness is not the only reason a ßГa¡₪ doesn't work correctly... 😂😂😂😂
Sounds nice, but it will never happen. Unfortunately, the money talks louder than anyone can scream.😢
Out of all the disaster stories, the others are many times accidents, and with mountaineering, its continously ego and pride.
Yep - and women have PERIODS - BLEEDING ALL OVER - GROSS
I plan on being the first man to climb K2 not only replacing boots for bowling shoes but also without supplemental underwear! I’m on oxygen for my congestive heart failure so I got that going for me already!!
I'm using ice skates, should be a breeze,
@@user-qn6dn1ht4jAnd the bright sun waves bouncing off the…….
"I already paid, might as well die" - The old woman
I watched a video last night from the guy that was in the team that found Mallory. They think Irvine’s body was taken off the mountain years ago and possibly some of his items (climbing boots) were in a private museum in Lasso.
Great video. It would be very interesting to see a video of people who realized it wouldn't be safe and turned around. Interviews could be filmed at a pizza parlor with the climbers eating, drinking, and dancing.
There is lots of these videos with people who decided to turn around. Their spidey senses must have been tingling and it told them to get the F out of dodge and they went back down and enjoyed cocktails and procrastinating by a roaring fire under blankets and watching through binoculars and telescopes from the comfort and safety of the lodge/strip club or night club at the bottom as they watched all their friends and team members perish in the most horrific ways in the freezing bitter unrelenting weather as the mountain voraciously devoured them into mother natures bosom for all of eternity , Gob bless and good night
And while eating, drinking and dancing, they would receive the news that those who insisted on proceeding with the climb have died.
People have turned around,these people get a sense of doom like someone about to walk across a road and stop like someone who was going to walk through a park at night like someone who will not walk down that dark alleyway. Some people listen to ( whatever you want to call it) intuition that something bad is going to happen. Yet a lot of people think they are( for want of another word) untouchable
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@@laurarules3642Solid!!!
I cannot thank you enough for continually pointing out the trash situation on the mountains. So under-reported, and perhaps purposefully. Now the Sherpa seem to be polluted in a sense as well, unwilling to move basecamp which would save their once-sacred mountain.
Also desperately poor...
@@danarzechula3769Incorrect, they are among the richest people in Nepal and earn enough in 2 months to send their children to private school in Kathmandu
Sherpas would be the people having to repeatedly carry large loads from the new further distance to the base of the mountains. Making it more dangerous for them and for no increase in pay. The hours they work are already exceedingly long as they get up v early to set up for their lazy customers
@@danarzechula3769ya, 3 dollars a day is a grift
Someone should tell those Sherpas to clean their mountain up😂
What impresses are the Sherpas that went to look for the Hungarian climber. Not for money. Just because. I have such intense respect for their ethos
Every time I see a video of the Mt Everest peak - I don’t recognize it!
It always looks different!
That's the beauty of it. It changes all the time with the avalanches and ice and rock falls.
He talks about Everest but shows photos of mountains that aren't Everest. 13:06 is a good example.
@@maxmackinlay618 looks like he used a pic of the winter K2 climb.
It could also be one of Everest's other sides ... after days of snow storms, avalanches, new serat formations, etc.
Looks like the same mountain that Paramount Pictures use as a logo except reversed. Neither K2 nor Everest.
I’ll never understand having kids and a family just to give it all up to die for a mountain 🤦🏻♀️ I’d be pissed if one of my parents knew the insane risk of dying by climbing one of these mountains and still went on with it.
she choose to pay a bunch of money to attempt climbing up a huge mountain and risk her life than be with her kids
@@Error_-qz2zrit’s usually men who abandon their families this way.
Men do it all the time and no one calls them out on it.
@@Jimmy94411so brave😂
My dad is one of those kind of parent: mountaineering was his job and his lifelong passion. He loves me and my sister, he loves my mum, but mountains have always come first. It’s a kind of obsession I think, something you can’t really control. He needed to climb every time and everything! When you have a mountaineer-parent, you know you will always come second to him/her. They simply can’t help it. It’s a life lasting love that overshadows everything and everyone. Now my dad is in his eighties, he doesn’t climb anymore, but his mind is always on his beloved mountains.
Close it for clean up then open it up. You pack it in, you pack it out.
Yep - and women have PERIODS - BLEEDING ALL OVER - GROSS
I don’t even understand how you have 100 people on the line, how in the hell can opposite traffic come back down. Christ look at those pics, it’s an obvious death trap!
Even getting to base camp on K2 is considered a SHUTDOWN.
Summiting is the ultimate SHUTDOWN in the whole of climbing.
Skier Hilaree’s story was the most interesting to me. Mad respect to her as a climber, she carried rope (according to a photo in the clip) and her skis. But to climb in The Himalayas leaving young children back at home, I couldn’t do it - it’s a risk I wouldn’t take until my child was an adult and had the mental, emotional maturity to handle my reason for climbing.
RIP Hilaree 💐 and my sincerest condolences to her family and friends. 💟☮️🕉️
Suzanne put so many lives at risk because of her stubbornness - as Forest Gump says "Stupid is as stupid does". She definitely had a death wish.
If only one out of 100 million people climb Everest each year, that’s still 80 people
I sure hope that the pay scale of $3.00 US dollars HAS CHANGED. Most summit hopefuls can pay up to $50,000 US dollars they should be getting paid at the least $1,000 per climb. After all it takes weeks from start to finish
I wish that were so but greed won’t allow that!!
Agree completely
@@LyonsMThey deserve a bigger piece of the pie!!!
Not sure why these videos are so addictive. I am not a mountaineer, nor do I play one on television. Just a vet that makes terrible content. Anyway, great work bro!! ✊🏻🖤
I know! I've been binge watching them, almost feeling guilty, from the comfort of my warm cozy bed. 😉
@@miapdx503 I know right? 🤣
@@VetvsWorldCurvature of the Earth! ✅👁️🔜🛣️
Plant a charge under the bottleneck? Can you imagine how spectacular that would be? Would it grow back? How many years would it take for it to recompose itself?
@@MrReymoclif714 🤣 That’s something I’d like to see.
What would you cherish more? Rescuing someone or summiting? I know what would mean more to me.
People that would feel inclined to risk their own life to save another's usually know themselves well enough to know that mountain climbing is a bad idea for them to do it.
Save a life. You can always go back and attempt the summit again.
@@mistynewton6048if you can find the money for it. And saving any life other than your own at those altitudes is beyond difficult. Especially if the person you’re trying to save can’t walk and/or is confused.
I’m not saying that other climbers should never try to help, just that it’s not as easy as it may seem.
Rescuing. I'd say "screw the summit. My fellow humans come first." Not the right attitude, I know, so maybe that's why I don't climb mountains. Plus I'm paralyzed and that's not something you consider if you can't move your index finger or wiggle your toes.
I agree with you but sometimes people get summit fever and lose their minds.@@Chompchompyerded
So sad to see all the trash left behind. Shameful. And I agree with your comments about money talks louder than words.
@azurie580holy shit what a silly comment 😂 stop embarrassing yourself please. 😭
Suzanne seems really smart and unselfish.
The intro music of the videos are 🔥
Everest should be closed to any further expeditions.
I would happy just to be at base camp. I have no interest reaching the summit. I do not want climb by people who didn’t make it back.
Even though it's like a city garbage dump?
Can anyone answer why mountaineers constantly climb mountains that everyone else has already climbed when there are like a million of them in Alaska alone? Why not climb a mountain nobody else has I you want a challeng?
Uh...it's the tallest.
Great video!
It's always about the people who died.
I would be interested in knowing about the people who git lifelong damages, like amputations ir brain damage.
I am sure, there are many.
Future blood clots in the blood?
A major cure for narcissism!!
@Sajee Nice Job turning back on K2 after realizing that you’re not feeling well even though your dad told you to push on (not appreciating the dangers fully due to hypoxia induced cognitive impairment). You saved your life.
I feel sorry that your dad died though. :(
There’s nearly no sympathy for people who take these risks. It’s pure madness! But they’ve seen and experienced some of the most bad ass things we probably won’t ever see!!!
I would never climb Everest, waiting in a 500 person Disneyland line just to run out of oxygen and die from standing around. Haha. K2 or Annapurna would be legit
Suzanne should never have been allowed to climb.
Suhajda ~ shoe-huy-duh
Great content! I look forward to your posts
One of my climbing friends was climbing mountains in pakistan in the 80s. the stories he had were insane.
2 of my friends died in the mountains in the 80s. I remember talking to them about their potential death up there. I don't make friends with climbers, fatalistic and callous people.
no he didn't and no they weren't..
@@str8cndian🙄
@str8cndian why so afraid to be gay out of the closet bro? You're not canadian at all.
@@str8cndianyou’re an embarrassment to our country
@9:03 correction. Nims Purja did not use supplemental oxygen on his winter assent of K2. The rest of his team did but Nims did not.
I think that some people just forget how deadly nature can be and that no one is immune. At some point its just a pure numbers game, your skill and gear against the odds of an accident, but sometimes bad luck is just too much. If someone lacks the skill or gear, the chances of death are insane.
Great complication! Good work. Enjoyed watching this
I don't understand why I'm fascinated by these silly pointless mountain deaths.
I know. Maybe we sit in awe of the ridiculousness of these people!!
as a very amateur and beginner mountaineer, I love these videos
Your greedy world travel is killing all life on this planet.
Your life is in your hands, don’t climb there!
I enjoy watching how fools get to die because of thoughtless actions, where they think that they are actually achieving something important or desirable. When in reality mountains like Everest are not difficult mountains, but the extreme cold and lack of oxygen is the factor that kills people. Better to save 100,000 dollars and just go to sleep in a deep freezer back home, with a plastic bag over your head. Body is easy to recover, and surviving such a freezer camp is a real challenge. Go for it, there are too many fools in this world, might as well get rid of some.
'air containing little or no oxygen' - heh, I think it still contains oxygen mate, if you breathe pure N2, you die fast. " Four to five minutes is considered the maximum time that a human can live without oxygen input."
I am so sry for all these people that climb these mountains. I think there needs to be insurance to cover people if they die. It covers the recovery of their bodies, it covers the sherpa's that go up to retrieve your body if it can be recovered. But if they can not recover your body. Then it covers a memorial service for you. The inexperienced climbers don't need to be taken at all. It puts the sherpa and others in danger. In cases like this you need to listen to your sherpa. Even if you are experienced. These are remarkable stories, and very sad.
Its sad people try to climb these giant mountains just for the Instagram posts or to brag with friends and family. This isnt a church softball league...this is nature at its most extreme
How is it sad? Nobody is forcing those narcissists to go climb!!
Those people have no respect for that mountain. It's just a means to an end. It's disturbing.
Great
Joe I apologize. You’re both very blessed to have each other. She is a little Thai angel and you’re an impressive young man. I’m working n retirement in Ecuador. All south East Asian is too humid for this old dude. I have a Harley I’m trying to sell then my truck. I do enjoy watching your outstanding vids. Plan is to buy a m/c in Ecuador and tour South America. Again I apologize to you.
Then they'd want many people to rescue them when they get trapped. SMH
Are the families compensated for the loss of loved ones , the Sherpas , to be able to afford a reasonable life without their main breadwinner ?
Everest has been climbed that many times now that it's not even a flex to say that youve conquered it..... Give mother earth her mountains back and stop the madness 🙏⛰️🗻😢😘🇬🇧
Great video, thank you!
yay another new one!! thanks again terror twin keep em coming.
I enjoyed the video with all it's content, in spite of all the sad outcome, because of all the mindblowing pictures.
It's a document of the danger of mountain climbing.
"I spoke to my kids and it means that much to ME that it's worth it" - Mom of the year (dead)
💔 for the kids to go on to reach adulthood without a mother’s love and care. I respect her as a strong climber (one of the photos in the clip showed she carried rope) but I agree with you, to have children and still think of yourself whilst they’re young is a little weird in my book.
Came across this - very interesting, even though I would never attempt (nor be able to afford) to hike the world's highest mountains...
12 of 14 mountaineer friends dead!?
Quite foreboding that.
I don't believe it. He took that picture bc he didn't look or sound well. The climbers know who is in trouble, even if by intuition.
....but Summiting is more important than a fellow human being.
@jennyfranklin514 honestly I thought I'd never think this but after watching so many over years, I've come to the conclusion they are all on their own and they know it. They are all alike, know the risks. They spend abt $50,000 to climb it and not stopping for anyone.
And? Did you not watch this? These people are arrogant and stubborn. When told to turn back they dont listen. Thus no one is bothering to try at this point.
@@LisaSoulLevelHealing I know. Chill
@@user-ls3dd7pi9k i agree with your point and liked your comment.... i watch a lot.of climbing vids and agree now that its a case of every man for himself.. its a bit blurred though when sherpas are only there to "help" others
Meanwhile..can't like the 2nd comment because i thought the "chill" was unnecessarily chilly.
Peace ☕
Great place to ski
I am going to be the first American to summit Everest while wearing clown shoes, a top hat, and a monocle on a Thursday morning in April
"Help us bury Matt with dignity", A go fund me account states that the attempt to recover Matthew Eakin was not successful. Dated July 18, 2023
“You’re up pretty high and you can almost see the curvature of the earth.” 😂😂😂
This will gradually end up like Switzerland with ropeways and trains right up the mountain top and make it a post card vacation destination.
6:06 ThankYou for highlighting Ali Sabpara’s achievements as mountain climber extraordinaire in Pakistan 🇵🇰
Suzanne was just being ridiculous lol. Maybe she was suicidal 🤷♀️
The whole talk about Hillary being a mom and climbing is just ridiculous, you never comment on any of the male climbers being parents and lots of them are. Get with the times buddy.
I think it's ridiculous that a mother of young children takes such risks. It's simple biology in the animal kingdom that females are the primary caretakers of their offspring.
Exactly! Life is one big chance. Some die of disease, old age , murder accidents. Tragic all of them. But living a dull life void of any passion means you're already dead.
The bond you have w a child you carried for 9 months, gave birth to and then raised IS something different.
I'm not saying a father's love is not unconditional or not worth anything but being a mother is a weird spot to be in. It's special to say the least.
But I do agree w you, if it's said w shame "how dare she, she was a mother" I rather see that men are handled the same because as a parent you should be shamed if you die due to your own egotrip.
@pixie7435 you can live a life "full of passion" without putting your life on the line. That life is over as long as you have kids depending on you.
Ig you wanna resume that life when your kids are settled in their own life I can kinda understand to a certain degree.
But leaving a small child/teenager behind is never ok imo.
Maybe it’s been said below but let me be clear that to engage in any of these ultra-extreme, ultra remote high risk activities while also being a minor’s parent is immoral regardless of the parent’s sex. It’s best for a child to have years of experiencing how two parents get everything done-and one of those things to get done should t be how to process the loss of a parent who was so selfish as to put a child’s development on an unnecessary trajectory that will have its effects last for a couple of generations. There are other ways to sublimate one’s desire to dance with death or rather to feel as if one is dancing that dance. One’s life and a child’s life is too precious to think and behave otherwise.
In the Canadian Rockies scrambling is huge
3 USD a day even back in the day was a shameful wage for these brave people.
Always remember when you summit you are only half way there, if you do not get down safely a summit means nothing. God Bless the brave people who try, their spirit is what makes humans great.
Lol
These mountains are natures way of keeping the A-Hole population in check.
as well as Covid 19