This First Ascent Left ELEVEN MEN DEAD - 1955 Victory Peak Tragedy

[@RSF-DiscoveryTime]

What amazes me is the quality of this footage. Very good job.

[@ameisee4]

How you manage to consistently publish documentaries of such high quality is really impressive. I always wonder: are you creating the animations yourself? If so: are you a professional in this field or self-taught "just" for these videos? And who is the female voice in your videos? (sorry for the barrage of questions, you don't have to answer, of course)

[@ArchiesArchive]

@ameisee4 Thank you! While I do most of the editing myself, I also have a friend who helps with 3D graphics to illustrate the stories with very little archival footage. As for the female voice, my wife does these parts:)

[@ameisee4]

@@ArchiesArchive Cool, thanks :)

[@technomickdocumentalist2495]

You and your wife both have great voices, I have always wondered who the female voice was too . Great work all round. 💯🙏☮️🙏

[@govindagovindaji4662]

Whoever devised or re-created all the footage and so forth is just amazing. The high mountain treks are not only difficult, they seem so cruel. I can not understand a desire, let alone a passion to do attempt these journeys but hey, my hats off to those who do~!

[@sammyi2505]

Man, I wonder if the team who found that journal got a chill when they realized what it was... Rediscovering the words of the dead is monumental, but it's got to be a little spooky too.

[@GoodieWhiteHat]

Another fascinating story. Archie’s Archives is one of the best presenters. Measured narration, good graphics that match the story. Thanks!

[@skullsaintdead]

I kind of appreciate that it was the guy who consistently tried to save everyone else (digging out the snow for hours upon hours, while other climbers sat in their ever-expanding tent, either they cbf or were too weak to assist), he was very strong, thoughtful & logical, pity his mates didn't survive with him (the lad who's uncle was in the Politburo, who died descending after shovelling snow with him, or the chap that fell into a different crevasse the day before). RIP.

[@kimmccabe1422]

A crevasse death scares me the most. But they died living their dreams 🙏

[@meemumeem1913]

I have watched your videos long time, and I just realised that I have not written any comment. I will now do it! Your videos have always been pleasure to watch. Quality, editing and narration is always so well done. These stories are meant to be told with care and passion. I want to thank you and the others that might help you with the videos. I want to wish you all a wonderful day! 😊

[@loreleisato7481]

I really enjoy your channel for the original content. Never knows of the very confidential Soviet Union accidents on all those mountains. Fascinating! Thank you for the research and great editing.

[@emdove]

Amazing that the Usbek group paid attention and helped.

[@emdove]

(first comment about the actual content of the video. This never happens to me!)

[@deecawford]

I miss soviet climbing stories. Please do more. You always have ones I’ve never heard.

[@StofenThe1st]

That was a great bit of editing with the journals. Really great to see the production quality of your videos go up.

[@djohnson9083]

I’m uncertain how to spell the name of the mountain climber so I won’t try and fail miserably, but I am filled with admiration for him and I’m glad he lived a long life. (Really, really like your videos.)

[@Jojobear216]

Thank you for all the effort you put in for these high quality videos. Always interesting to imagine oneself in these risky situations where all of nature is against you.

[@kimmccabe1422]

You do the best adventure documentaries! With great pics. A definite thanks!

[@yakacm]

Thanks for the video Archie another great story. Have you ever thought of maybe making a channel about Soviet history, it's endlessly fascinating to folk in the west. You and Paperskies always make such interesting videos about soviet era events.

[@norgrenarn]

Archie, cover The bodom murders or The oven murder. Both in Finland. I love your channel, wish u could upload more often. We missed you. Kram från Sverige

[@jakual339]

Great video! I always appreciate your careful descriptions and attention to detail. Giving so much background makes it easier to understand what happened and why, instead of just a rushed summary of the tragedy itself. Keep up the good work!

[@BurroGirl]

Another awesome Archie story!

[@hepaticapropria]

You should ask for “likes”. You deserve so much more! Almost 14k views and only 528 likes is absurd! Great videos!

[@legitbeans9078]

Right? Archie is awesome. At some point i will watch like and comment on all his vids. Theyre amazing.

[@kimmccabe1422]

Ikr. He does great docs. With great pics. 4 sure!!

[@Vivachins]

I love you're videos I wait and anticipate them every month

[@MadMax-bq6pg]

I don’t think they would have survived with more (lots of things). They had not worked together long enough to develop any team mentality or even enough experience to shield themselves from the stress of “it’s cold and someone with more initiative expects me to start taking responsibility for myself”. The two who kept getting up to clear their own tent were setting a fabulous example. Many of the others however had not made the psychological shift from “someone is looking after me” to “I’m learning by experience what needs to be done & im taking responsibility to get it done”

[@tabitharogers5802]

Love your videos❤. When will you make another one.

[@legitbeans9078]

Your videos are great. Keep it up 👏

[@haubenmeisewillow-tit331]

So often you heare that the mountains are "crule". I think that the mountains, like oceans, caves, jungles and deserts, just are! They are in their climate zones with their fakts, and rules. If man wants to survive, he/she neets to know exactly what they are dealing with and to treat nature with respect. For natures forces can certainly be dangerous to man! And pain, suffering and death seems crule to us. Thats why I deeply admire Sir Edmund Hillary, Reinhold Messner and the third one, whos name I forget, who were knowledgable and respectfull enough to live to a wise old age, to tell their stories. ❤ 😊

[@govindagovindaji4662]

30:22 Given the elements, those are some serious should've, could've, would'ves if I've ever heard them.~!!

[@kimmccabe1422]

Competition between climbers seems to always end in disaster Smh

[@kanivea]

1:03 Did anyone else notice the face (paradolia) at the timestamp? To me, it looks like Jokers face. 🤣😆

[@miapdx503]

All those men...just gone, just like that. 😥

[@martybaggenmusic]

Other than the sickness, frostbite, horrific weather, treacherous terrain, lack of oxygen, shredded and buried tents, and utter sense of hopelessness..... this sounds like fun.

[@kanivea]

Literary 6,902... This never happens to me😂

[@notkilgoretrout]

literally first, this never happens to me

[@talpark8796]

😱

[@enigmadrath1780]

Man fell down crevice. Got saved by pure miraculous luck. Took another look at the mountain and said "That all you got?"

[@lukehorning3404]

I don’t know why I’ve never heard about it maybe was where it is but that’s definitely a hike and a crazy story

[@AlaskanInsights]

summit fever will get yah.

[@chicagogyrl4846]

I have never heard of this peak.

[@raerae6422]

Absolutely reckless not to acclimatise first. Ego-driven fools. Cant feel sorry for them but i do feel sorry for their loved ones.

[@KILLERSSG41]

One for the algorithm gods, All Hail the algorithm

[@wrAIth-AI]

literally second, this never happens to me

[@chicagogyrl4846]

They didn’t have a stove, and this and that, so why didn’t they take the stove and things from the abandoned camp??! At least the stove and gas!! 😂🤣

[@burkinafaso64]

4:00 Kyrgyzstan was part of the USSR

[@robertcrowley8701]

Got dead ????

[@elbaestridge6503]

Literally third, this never happens to me.

[@kabutoyakushi7382]

SCARY

[@lukehorning3404]

Awful yet a good story of that makes any sense. It’s history we can all learn from

[@rogertarpley3185]

Literally 8th this never happens to me

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Only the ones who listen and think wil learn, the others will end like the ones who did not make it.

[@talpark8796]

🍻🇨🇦😁

[@doriskurzz1798]

Wow

[@legitbeans9078]

Groöp

[@MMMNemesis]

☃

[@chicagogyrl4846]

The background music ruins this.

[@drats1279]

Interesting story however your Russian pronunciations are terrible. Even some non-Russian words were mispronounced by you. The climber who fell ill at around 22.32, fell to the ground and became the first casualty of the descent, not the ascent. Aren't all icy crevasses filled with cold water? 24:18

[@FabricofTime]

I can answer your last question: no. Crevasses are, definitially, a deep open crack, especially one in a glacier. They are frequently not filled with anything, although some will have a snow bridge over the top. Occasionally, they are filled with water, which I would imagine would be especially dangerous, as being soaked in a frigid mountain environment is a pretty good way to ensure you get hypothermia and frostbite.

[@notahumanbeing6892]

sometimes people replace “climb” with “ascent” to avoid repetition, it may have been during the descending part of the climb but it was the same climbing attempt, so saying it was the first death of the ascent (meaning the expedition as a whole) is understandable

[@Vita_Terra]

Still much better than some American local tv station newsreaders.

[@gregorylewis9014]

TRUMP 2024

[@ebybeehoney]

Really interesting but i can tell you the problem of the expedition in one word. Testosterone. Too much of it.

[@gregorylewis9014]

TRUMP 2024