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@jiukumite2 жыл бұрын
Propaganda begins at 5:23 > 6:57
@bvdrt12 жыл бұрын
Eq
@johnhall3824 Жыл бұрын
Simon, can you make a video about K2? Please and thank you.
@hectorsmommy17172 жыл бұрын
I did the Annapurna circuit in November 2001. It was just myself, another female, one porter, and a guide. Everyone else chose to not go because it was just after 9-11 and people were still afraid to travel. It was great that, not only were we a tiny group, but there were very few other groups too. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.
@rickmortyson48612 жыл бұрын
I got a lot of respect for those hardcore mountaineers! It's one of m biggest dreams to climb a 8k one day... But my physical conditions are so bad that I would need a year of constant training to even try such a adventure. Probably even more 😅 hope it was as great as you expected it to be!
@planetdisco48212 жыл бұрын
Well done mate!
@slupot2 жыл бұрын
You should write up a trip report! I love reading or watching people's adventures. It inspires my own. Everyone should step out of thier comfort zone and experience something like this. I haven't scaled any 8k peaks, highest was 2k, but have rode jet skis in the gulf of Alaska, done many weeks long hikes ect.
@renegallegos32262 жыл бұрын
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@auroraourania7161 Жыл бұрын
Crazy to me that that's how scared 9/11 had people, considering that even flying on 9/11 would've been less likely to kill you than climbing this mountain. I flew around that time as a kid (a wedding that couldn't be postponed), but I wouldn't climb this mountain even if I were given enough money to never have to worry again
@yaksha9592 жыл бұрын
Trekked to annapurna sanctuary few months ago.Seeing this mountain upclose is something else
@planetdisco48212 жыл бұрын
I agree, I did the Annapurna circuit in 1991. Spent three weeks doing day walks from manang to various glaciers, viewpoints and alpine lakes. Saw the entire north face of Annapurna IIII drop off in an utterly immense avalanche. Absolutely eye-popping.
@Pixelkip Жыл бұрын
It’s like Rohan from Lotr but 1000x more epic ❤
@rizzorizzo23112 жыл бұрын
Ed Viesturs has an interesting story of his ascent of Annapurna. He said they had to straddle this tiny ridge and scoot on their buts their way up toward the summit because of the route they decided to take. It’s crazy that even today with all the advancements in high altitude mountaineering that this beast was successfully climbed in 1950, before Everest and K2 yet it still remains the deadliest of all the 8kers.
@StNeurion2 жыл бұрын
Actually the straddle and scoot up the dangerous 14 meter summit ridge was for the summit of Shishapangma. The summit of Annapurna is a final snowbump at the end of a long 4000 foot snowfield. This is all described in Ed Viesturs: The Will to Climb | Nat Geo Live which you can watch here on KZbin. I figured you've already seen it but probably have gotten the names mixed up.
@Yuuphonixx2 жыл бұрын
That straddling was actually on Shishapangma. The straddling was required to reach the true summit. His ascent of Annapurna however was still interesting, because he also climbed along with two Italians who he had dubbed the Mario Brothers. They were always smoking cigarettes and traded food with Ed and Veikka. Once Ed and Veikka summited, they wanted to get down as fast as they could. They lost sight of their willow wands during a whiteout, as Annapurna would not let them go. Annapurna was Ed's nemesis, and his last 8000m peak required. This was all mentioned from Ed's book, The Will to Climb. But all in all, read all of his books instead. His book on K2 is by far my most favorite.
@frankobrien13712 жыл бұрын
I met Ed and heard him speak at a sales conference many years ago. His accomplishments are an incredible testament to commitment to a goal and its execution. He is a very intelligent climber and “reads” mountains and conditions incredibly well. Why he is alive to tell about it. He knows when to retreat and not let his vanity create a dangerous situation in those hostile environments.
@robertfiorini20612 жыл бұрын
In 2000 I trekked the circuit it was the most uplifting of experiences, 2002 I walked up to the Sanctuary an equally as beautiful an experience, I believe there is now a paved road by the side of the entire circuit trek, but the Sanctuary is still by foot only. The Nepalese government is trying at last to modernize the interior of the country for the benefit of the people so if you want to see it as it was, go soon.
@anthonyholroyd53592 жыл бұрын
Oh yes! One of these for each of the 8000ers please!! :D K2: The Savage mountain? That's definitely one to cover Dhaulgiri I was mentioned in this video and, as it turns out, is not unclimbable The story of Herman Buhl, the first man to summit the 'Killer Mountain' (Nanga Parbat) is also worth making a video about! Only person to be the first to summit an 8000er and the first to do it solo at the same time. He lost a crampon on the way down and had to bivouac overnight on a ledge, standing up and holding onto the rock to avoid plummeting to his death.
@Skorpychan Жыл бұрын
Only cover Everest if you're going to do the Rainbow Valley, and the story of Green Boots, who people simply stepped over instead of helping, and used his corpse as a landmark for years.
@anthonyholroyd5359 Жыл бұрын
@@Skorpychan I think he has and he did mention the rainbow valley and Green boots in his video
@FlashoftheBlades9 ай бұрын
All of those are fantastic video ideas.
@the-eye-is-watching2 жыл бұрын
Possibly in the Biographics channel a feature about Reinhold Messner the first person to climb all 8000m peaks all with out supplementary oxygen and without massive support teams.
@planetdisco48212 жыл бұрын
Ok, so I solo trekked the Annapurna circuit in 1991. No porters and with a guide map sketched for me on the back of a napkin lol. It took me a total of 22 days but I also wound up spending about 10 days up in a Tibetan village near Manang and the chief took a bit of a shine to me and let one of his kids guide me up some of the yak trails on some (pretty extreme) day walks. Pretty sure at one stage there I got to about 5600 metres above sea level. Possibly more. I wound up spending the best part of a year living and trekking in the Indian and Nepalese Himalayas. Spent a winter there too. Nothing can truly describe it adequately. After trekking through fog and picking leeches off my skin for a week The first glimpse I got of them was on the morning of my 22nd birthday when I woke up and went outside for a pee and I looked up at what I thought was a bank of clouds then with a shock realised it was a mountain range and then the pre dawn sun bathed them with alpenglow. Glorious. Glorious. Glorious. While doing a solo day walk up an isolated valley at the base of Annapurna IIII I heard a long rumble of thunder and looking up witnessed the entire north face of the mountain flake off into what I can only describe as a monster avalanche. Thought I was screwed for a bit there lol. I grew up in the mountains in victoria and also the Aussie outback and so I have an immense respect as well as a healthy caution for nature. Sadly many people nowadays don’t have any idea about it but the Himalayas must be treated with respect. And planning! What saved me is I had a really good parka, and critically, a really, really good sleeping bag that I paid a fortune for. It saved my life or at least my toes on more than one occasion and I still have it to this day. The best way to view trekking the Himalayas, is that you are traversing the wrinkled face of an ancient god. It’s an experience you will never forget….
@NinjaRunningWild2 жыл бұрын
Very cool story!
@colz8482 жыл бұрын
What did you work as to afford a 1 year jolly around Nepal at that age?
@planetdisco48212 жыл бұрын
@@colz848 I started work as an apprentice boilermaker at the age of 15. By the age of 19 I was a tradesman and to train for the Himalayas I disdained using the site lift on a 35 storey building I was working on and used the stairs. Which included hauling E size bottles of oxygen and acetylene up them. By the time I was 21 I’d saved up about 28,000 AUD which I then blew over a glorious two years of fun and adventure throughout south east and west Asia. It wasn’t all fun and games. Was 193 cms tall and 115 kilos of muscle when I left australia. After several bouts of dysentery and one of cholera I lost nearly half my body weight….
@colz8482 жыл бұрын
@@planetdisco4821 I guess you then did creative writing at uni before becoming Australia's first astronaut 🤣
@planetdisco48212 жыл бұрын
@@colz848 nah mate, I’m 53 now and I have spent the last 35 years working in either mines, oil rigs or high rise construction as a rigger. But yeah, I still go and do stupid things like zip lining in Laos or solo kayaking between islands in the Andaman sea. But it’s the Himalayas stuff I remember the best. I actually have thought about writing about my time there, but I’d like to go back first and sort of book-end my experiences there with an older (although not necessarily wiser lol) perspective…
@dp64472 жыл бұрын
First heard about this when watching the documentary on Nims Purja. That guy is one of the baddest men alive.
@jacobsupertramp85602 жыл бұрын
I was waiting for you to do one on Annapurna. Next: Nanga Parbat!
@kepanoid2 жыл бұрын
Ah. Mountaineering! Maybe a story about Reinhold Messner's Everest climb without supplemental oxygen? And the mystery of Mallory and Irvine's attempt and fate in 1924...?
@franl1552 жыл бұрын
Simon's already done a vid - can't remember which channel - on tourist attractions that have been totally ruined purely because of the number of tourists they attracted, the erosion they caused and the associated rubbish they left behind. I'd hate to see these magnificent mountains added to the list.
@sandybarnes8872 жыл бұрын
Top Tenz a year ago. 10 amazing places that no longer exist because tourists destroyed them.
@bobfg31302 жыл бұрын
TopTenz?
@mrpink89512 жыл бұрын
If feel like I can add half of my state to that list.
@franl1552 жыл бұрын
@@sandybarnes887 - thank you!
@sandybarnes8872 жыл бұрын
@@franl155 you are most welcome
@mcsmith732 Жыл бұрын
Annapurna is scary. The mountain in the Himalayas that gives me nightmares is Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. Nanga Parbat looms over a very pretty place called "Fairy Meadows". But the mountain itself looks like a bunch of raggedy fangs hungrily chomping away while hoping some fool will be clueless enough to try and climb it. The whole mountain on every side is practically a straight up and down wall with no place to stop and rest. Unless you like just dangling over a sheer thousands of meters drop. Usually I enjoy watching mountain climbing videos; but not the ones for Annapurna and especially, Nanga Parbat.
@archstanton61022 жыл бұрын
Watch "14 Peaks" to see real bravery, determination and climbing skills. A Nepali climbing the 14 highest peaks in record time.
@diogeneslantern182 жыл бұрын
Nims Purja is an absolute legend.
@davedavies80022 жыл бұрын
Brilliant watch 10/10 🖒
@TheMAXAnswer2 жыл бұрын
Love that we now have a dedicated intro sweater
@joeyr72942 жыл бұрын
Yesss, the Simon and Co. bombardment begins!
@thedarkonestaint61052 жыл бұрын
8am pacific time is my favorite part of the day
@jonathanarie28132 жыл бұрын
Simon, you should do more natural disasters. El Reno tornado is a good one. The earthquake that ripped Mongolia or another hurricane like Katrina. God bless.
@devastator65702 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see a video about the Mongolia earthquake, a quake so powerful, it ripped a scar right in the earth
@StefanMedici2 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure he's done Katrina, not sure if it was this channel or another (hard to keep track).
@wandad40172 жыл бұрын
You are a wonder , Simon. The world is better for having you .
@Genjo_N_Mojave2 ай бұрын
Your verbal delivery is at a (perfect) tempo. Too often I have to turn the speed up to 2X due to narrator's slow speech, as slow as molasses on a cold winter night! So- *thank you!*
@donsheffler2 жыл бұрын
While Annapurna’s fatality rate is truly 32%, Mt Everest’s fatality rate is far below 1%… not 14%. Not sure where your numbers are coming from.
@NinjaRunningWild2 жыл бұрын
5.7 according to 8000er.
@donsheffler2 жыл бұрын
Death rates or mortality rates are calculated in different ways. One way, which is where Annapurna’s 32% comes from is the ratio of deaths to successful summits. Annapurna has over 70 deaths and only 220 successful Summits. Everest has over 4000 successful summits and about 300 deaths, which is where your 7% comes from. The higher rate is based on the number of deaths compared to the number of “expeditions“ attempted. An expedition on Everest could have anywhere from 5 to 30 people. If a single person in an expedition dies, then the death rate to expeditions would be 1 to 1. Everest has had about 2000 expeditions, and 300 deaths, which is where the 14% number comes from. Since Annapurna‘s expeditions generally are still 1 to 4 people maximum, then their deaths to expedition ratio is very similar to the deaths to successful summits ratio. As a function of the number of people who die compared to the number of people who attempt to climb Everest, above base camp, Everest death rate is roughly 1% or less. When people hear death rate they think the number of people dying compared to the number of people trying, and so 14% is terribly misleading.
@mastick51062 жыл бұрын
@@donsheffler 14% could also come from the common deaths to successful summits ratio, which for Everest was close to 14% at the end of 1999, which is where a number of sites' statistics end.
@Wacoal34d2 жыл бұрын
I did the Annapurna base camp trek, great experience.
@dmdrosselmeyer2 жыл бұрын
Your work ethic is inspiring my guy
@DFSJR12032 жыл бұрын
Great video Simon. Climbing mountains is one thing I would never do.
@johnochiltree11702 жыл бұрын
The legend and hero of the Everest air disaster of 96 anatoli boukreev died on Annapurna
@noodlemaker870010 ай бұрын
Beware. I summitted Annapurna and never returned. Been up here for the past 10 years bro. 😢
@davedavies80022 жыл бұрын
I love climbing .. its self control & self punishment, its a ride that your so focused one you forget what you have done as soon as your back down.
@CodyBunker2 жыл бұрын
I'm trying to climb all 8000m peaks. I think there is going to be a sharp up tick in deaths. I've been climbing 6000 and 7000m peaks and I climbed Manaslu and Dhaulagiri which were really important for me to gain experience. There are so many more people trying to summit the 8000ers now and they have little to no experience and they don't train very hard either.
@отпирайте2 жыл бұрын
All but gankhar i imagine?
@CodyBunker2 жыл бұрын
@@отпирайте gannkhar isn't an 8000er
@CodyBunker2 жыл бұрын
@@отпирайте it's also illegal to summit
@отпирайте2 жыл бұрын
@@CodyBunker i know but you said 6k and 7k. Thats why i said all but
@CodyBunker2 жыл бұрын
@@отпирайте i have been climbing 6 and 7s. But I'm not attempting all of them. It would be amazing to climb Gankhar. I am hoping to get permission to climb Nanda Devi but this might be impossible to obtain.
@mattweir96742 жыл бұрын
Early on one of these for once, great video 🙌
@davashman97122 жыл бұрын
I like the technical comment.about Annapurna. “It’s usually freezing”. 🤔 Useful information.
@dnick49 Жыл бұрын
Excellent presentation Sir ! Thank You
@murrayscott9546 Жыл бұрын
Mountaineers have. Notoriously big egos. Therefore their accounts often wildly differ,
@clomino32 жыл бұрын
Kinda crazy that they considered the expedition a "success" when people lost all their fingers. It's a mountain for christ's sake, not a war. And this comes from an avid outdoorsman.
@gigachad21842 жыл бұрын
You should also make video on kailash.Its also interesting
@RadhikaNighoskar23062 жыл бұрын
There is a peak called Indrasan only 10 people have summited that peak.. i want to see a video on the Himalayas 😍
@TJohnston918 Жыл бұрын
According to Google the death rate on Mt Everest is about 1% over the last 30 years. Where on earth do you get 14.1% fatality rate?
@TheEvilCommenter2 жыл бұрын
Good video 👍
@iakazul2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing!
@Fuchswinter2 жыл бұрын
You could do a video on K2, arguably also a pretty dangerous mountain in the same category. Mountains like this are super scary in a very unique way, but so fascinating. The accounts of the accident survivors on Everest and others are quite chilling.
@EAcapuccino2 жыл бұрын
Bring up K2 at some point? Another far more dangerous mountain than everest 🗻
@multiyapples Жыл бұрын
Rest in peace to those that passed away.
@ThunderApache2 жыл бұрын
What about Kanchenjunga?
@terrablader Жыл бұрын
All said with one breath
@arsonmcl22992 жыл бұрын
"vertigo notebooks" is such a metal name wow
@harrisonmiller64752 жыл бұрын
Can you do one on Triglav in Slovenia?
@birdshotbuckshot8947 Жыл бұрын
how is this guy in so many yt channels
@derekgardiner35832 жыл бұрын
I jus follow Simon on the internet 🖖😁
@TeresaLeandro Жыл бұрын
I’ve watched many of your videos, and I love them. And this particular one on Annapurna seems to me to be the best on that deadly but fascinating mountain. However, and since English is not my native language, I would like, if possible, that you could speak in a somehow slower pace. In this video you are speaking at vertiginous speed, positively. But thank you very much, still the same.
@honeysucklecat2 жыл бұрын
Mt Washington in New Hampshire has a lot of deaths, over 100, yet its only 6,388 ft tall.
@fXBorgmeister2 жыл бұрын
When the Brexit negotiations started, I noted that a book about Annapurna was part of the diplomatic gift exchange. I thought it was an attempt at some kind of subtle message.
@DrewNorthup2 жыл бұрын
Next time you're going to say something about the state of waste disposal on a mountain perhaps you should read the firsthand accounts of people who've been there and not press reports by people who haven't. If you had you'd know that Everest, more properly known as Chomolungma or Sagarmatha, is not a New Jersey style Superfund site. No "Thumbs-up" for you today.
@emilelocas54962 жыл бұрын
This video should be about K2
@JimBlessman2 жыл бұрын
Can you do a Geographics about K2
@zulfiqarsoomro31039 ай бұрын
K2 and K1 bro
@Hamzakhan-dt3gv2 жыл бұрын
Interesting
@efangrim84702 жыл бұрын
Banqiao Dam Collapse video please?
@robertmcginnis80902 жыл бұрын
Sydney Opera House
@tgwcl61942 жыл бұрын
Why the wharp speed presentation????????????????
@AtanEngessa2 жыл бұрын
Let's be honest. Herzog didn't actually write the book without fingers did he.
@fumanpoo47252 жыл бұрын
I could climb it, but need supplemental Taco Bell...
@shappooppi2 жыл бұрын
It’s probably not the deadliest anymore. There were a shit ton of summits this year and few deaths so the rate is going to drop drastically. K2 is probably the new deadliest mountain by rate. However the Dutch Rub is inaccessible because a serac broke off, so we’re back to major avalanche threats on the west ridge.
@anupkaji60652 жыл бұрын
Bro Annapurna has more death rate than k2.. Annapurna is definitely more tough and deadly than k2
@veronicacelmer78032 жыл бұрын
Lol dextroamphetamine is my ADHD med
@tresteg772 жыл бұрын
Napal and Tibet*
@zch74912 жыл бұрын
Simon should quit the fact boy game and start a mountaineering channel
@SCSilk2 жыл бұрын
Why?
@ShikamaruXT2 жыл бұрын
I am a bit annoyed, that i have to translate all the Feet into meters, but aside from that, very cool. More mountains please!
@yuvigrg15958 ай бұрын
everytime, simon says Nepol, i am going to lose my head. it is spelled NEPAL hence it is ne-pal. Why is English so complicated for native speaker 😉
@tu0ootu2 жыл бұрын
First man up Annapurna 1 true summit was a smoking plumber from England don whillans with no oxygen
@M167A12 жыл бұрын
Not for me. I like my fingers
@agent_meister4772 жыл бұрын
Humans can't go anywhere without turning an area to slag.
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@yahirgenaro7442 жыл бұрын
Who's this professional everyone is talking about I always see her post on top comment on every KZbin video I watched I think I'm interested how can I get in touch with Mrs Olivia
@GangGang12 жыл бұрын
Dont climb mountains for glory!!
@sirandrelefaedelinoge2 жыл бұрын
When did a website become an "online presence"...? This is the emergence of Orwell's Newspeak...
@sabitaranipati13512 жыл бұрын
Bro, the pronounciation is the Sanskrit word ann-a-poor-naa
@tomcharter4127 Жыл бұрын
It's pretty sad they turned those majestic mountains into toilets and landfills
@meesalikeu2 жыл бұрын
coan trah vassy
@ericclaptonsrobotpilot72762 жыл бұрын
Why is it so hard for non-climbers to get basic facts about mountains and mountaineering correct? I’ll never understand why important details and terminology just aren’t considered important by those who make content about it.
@antibulling2551 Жыл бұрын
ca m'enerve de voir ces gens risquer leur vie pour un selfie. en france on avait en 2020 un papier pour sortir dehors moins d'une heure en raison de covid. au dessus de 8000m le risque est mortel. Alors pourquoi en france, on oblige par les voyageurs vers le nepal à signer un papier comme quoi ils risquent leur vie à voyager au dessus de 8000m d'altitude et leur santé à partir de 3000m .
@MafiaManbaby2 жыл бұрын
Interesting subject but ruined by rushed, uninterested narration. Could not finish the video unfortunately.
@realdizzle872 жыл бұрын
As plenty of others have alluded to, Annapurna is not widely considered the most dangerous mountain in the world. That title is almost universally ascribed to K2.
@StNeurion2 жыл бұрын
Except that K2's deaths when compared to total expeditions is 22.9% while Annapurna is at 29.5%
@bijayabaruwal49682 жыл бұрын
Annapurna is avalanche prone mountain and vertical climb...
@NinjaRunningWild2 жыл бұрын
@@StNeurion 37% according to 8000er. Not sure where people are getting their stats from.
@StNeurion2 жыл бұрын
@@NinjaRunningWild The two common statistics are Deaths/Ascent and Death/Expedition. There are more people involved in the total expedition compared actual climbers ascending. Therefore, the stats are going to give different results. 37% is derived from the 2018 Death/Ascent data
@constipatedinsincity44242 жыл бұрын
Everyone Simon has had to leave Kiev with his family. No one has heard from him. Put his 👪 in your prayers!
@owenshebbeare29992 жыл бұрын
Mountaineers are gross egotists. If you can't take your crap home then don't go there.
@doclewis89272 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry but you should have to carry a poop bag to bag your own poo on these treks. I'm not a climber but I use to hike and camp. You carried your poo out with you. At least, that's what I was taught. I'm pretty sure that you could change the behavior of these climbers to include that, especially if it's expressed in the information for the trek to help "clean up the mountains" and keep them clean for the future. If people don't want to do that, then they shouldn't be allowed to climb. It's that simple. Make them do it or don't allow them to climb. Carrying your own frozen poo isn't that big of a deal. (I never thought I'd write a comment about carrying your own poo like you would pick up after your dog. Jeez.)
@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt27182 жыл бұрын
So on a good day trading fingers and toes for a bit of fame and a stupid bragging right. Not much better than eating Tidepods or some other idiotic internet challenge.
@Tim_Apple2 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ, why do you talk so fast
@leighpowell10622 жыл бұрын
Could try his other channels
@n3v3rg01ngback2 жыл бұрын
He records 29 hours of video per day.
@Pepsi_Addicted2 жыл бұрын
first
@jimmielee12542 жыл бұрын
im sure i might be missing something, but why on earth would anyone wanna climb these mountains? No one cares that you were on the top of any of these mountains.
@captainspaulding59632 жыл бұрын
Correction... YOU don't care... don't try to speak for anyone other than yourself.
@bugsywayne2 жыл бұрын
Not everything in life is about impressing other people
@nicolek40762 жыл бұрын
What a very horrible and unnecessary neologism - "summitting". It really makes me feel rather ill.
@NinjaRunningWild2 жыл бұрын
It’s a mountaineering term & has been for probably longer than you've been alive. Google Ngram viewer shows it as coming into mountaineering parlance around 1870. Imagine if you learned all the other fields that use specific nomenclature by people who engage in them. You’d probably be ill forever.
@nicolek40762 жыл бұрын
@@NinjaRunningWild I doubt it. I only started hearing it around 30 years ago. In any case, it would then be jargon that has no place in normal discourse.
@mastick51062 жыл бұрын
I know I heard it over 40 years ago, and it seemed quite a normal term to me then.
@rhondaragsdale2 жыл бұрын
Love the stories … not so much the narrator. It sounds like he’s reading as fast as he possibly can, and also like he has cotton in his mouth. Oh well.
@NinjaRunningWild2 жыл бұрын
You get used to him.
@HrZD162 жыл бұрын
While we're on the topic of tall and deadly mountains, could we possibly get a future video on K2? I feel like that would make an interesting video.
@redlabel92945 ай бұрын
K2 is the god of all mountains. Everest is a high altitude landfill and amusement park ride (with the long lines to match).
@ignitionfrn22232 жыл бұрын
1:45 - Chapter 1 - The massif 2:30 - Chapter 2 - The dangers of annapurna 3:55 - Chapter 3 - Nepal reopens its borders 5:25 - Mid roll ads 6:55 - Chapter 4 - Summiting annapura (1950) 12:05 - Chapter 5 - A tale of two mountaineers 14:15 - Chapter 6 - Trekking annapurna 15:55 - Chapter 7 - Disaster at annapurna 2014 18:10 - Chapter 8 - Modern day concerns - Chapter 9 - - Chapter 10 -
@amb1632 жыл бұрын
I've never understood risking life and limb to haul my a$$ up a mountain. I think that a year (planned well in advance) should be scheduled where no tourists are allowed up Everest. The only people allowed that year should be those who are cleaning up the crap left by decades of misuse. I know that would be a major hit to their tourist trade in the short term, but in the long term it may provide a better experience for future tourists.
@KulshanStudios2 жыл бұрын
Here in the North Cascades, many peaks are basically just a day trek with some glacier travel and scrambling Great way to get out for exercise and unparalleled views not seen anywhere else
@amb1632 жыл бұрын
@@KulshanStudios That actually sounds like fun, but it's more hiking than anything else. I enjoy hiking.
@KulshanStudios2 жыл бұрын
@@amb163 yes and no. Here it's more like pure Alpinism - Himalayan expeditionary style climbing is a whole other big thing. It's a bit antithetical to the approach we take in the PNW. We use the same skills and core gear the Everest crowd does, but we adhere to Leave No Trace philosophy, so we climb fast and light and half the time, no one would know anyone even set foot there - many of our peaks are even more technical and difficult than Everest, if you can believe it. But a lot of them are also just hikes with more ice 😅 Actually, Simon, if you ever do focal pieces about specific people from history on one of your channels, Fred Beckey is a totally underrated, yet legendary figure who deserves more attention. Dude's almost a myth
@clomino32 жыл бұрын
@@KulshanStudios Completely agree on Fred, that would be a great video
@Gygsd2 жыл бұрын
if they are willing to risk there lives let them they know the risks before they climb up that mountain then there willing to pay the consequences
@starrywizdom Жыл бұрын
I would love to visit Nepal, but I'm more into seeing the culture, landscapes & temples than climbing dangerous peaks.
@labhusky32 жыл бұрын
Love anything about mountaineering! Have you thought about a story on K2? A more challenging, deadlier, only slightly shorter Everest that has a rather interesting bit of history around the name (or lack thereof)
@archstanton61022 жыл бұрын
Have you watched 14 Peaks? The K2 section was really interesting.
@labhusky32 жыл бұрын
@@archstanton6102 not yet! But it is on my list
@StarlightDreamDolls2 жыл бұрын
You should cover all the eight thousanders (14 in total). I'd love to see K2 explored
@RadhikaNighoskar23062 жыл бұрын
Annapurna is the name of the goddess who provides food and nutrition in Hinduism
@NinjaRunningWild2 жыл бұрын
According to 8000er Everest has a 5% fatality rate & Annapurna has a 37.91%. Cho Oyo remains the lowest of the 8k peaks at 1.46%. Look up "ALL 8000ers - ASCENTS vs FATALITIES"
@friendlyatheist95892 жыл бұрын
nah let me correct you it's anna and purna anna means food purna means fullfil so Annapurna is the goddess which provides you food.
@PvdBMr2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Simon. I will hopefully trek the Annapurna region fall this year!
@erwinveenhoven2 жыл бұрын
Have fun, it's a great tour!
@sakarkc25412 жыл бұрын
If you need a friend to help you remember me. Tq for your love for my country
@MisterPlanePilot11 ай бұрын
Update please! 😅
@PvdBMr11 ай бұрын
@@MisterPlanePilot I posted the update 8 months ago 😊
@mykemech2 жыл бұрын
An interesting Geographics channel story would be to do one on tsunamis that were in bays, caused by landslides, such as Lituya Bay, etc. These sometimes tear into forests upwards of thousands of meters! A few are recent enough to have living witness tales and are very interesting and exciting to hear about.
@rickmortyson48612 жыл бұрын
Hey man really nice video but my only critic point is that I don't understand the American measurements. Pls consider using metric as well. You could just make a little site note in the corner with meters. That would be great!
@terryenby23042 жыл бұрын
Thanks for another great video! I hope you are safe factboi.