The 2008 K2 Disaster - What REALLY Happened? (MARATHON)

[@stevendurrant1724]

My favourite storyteller for the genre. No hyperbole, drama or bias. Just well paced and comprehensive facts. Thanks.

[@MrTeapots]

Even the dog just plays it cool.

[@beethimbles8801]

Mine too. Wish she’d do audio books as well. I’m stuck in bed ill and missing all the celebrations as well! Xxx

[@Nursingprez610]

Ugh, feel better!

[@GRyan-lr5wo]

I prefer to enjoy my 8000 meter peaks from the safety of Camp 0, aka my soft, comfy couch. I was caught in a sleeping dog and pillow avalanche last winter, but I made to safety, as did my dog. Safety first!

[@ferret406]

It's all about safety 😊

[@Ingichief]

😂😂 exactly what I was thinking

[@_nick_d]

Props on telling the second most complex story ✅ Pemba really was the MPV in this whole thing.

[@adventuresgonewrong]

He really was.

[@MoonlitMumma]

No matter how many times I watch something on this disaster, I always want to watch more. Pemba was most definitely a hero here and so was Ger. Both outstanding men. Hearing about Wilco always frustrates me. His attitude throughout and even after is honestly just gross. Thank you for covering this one. Happy New Year!

[@Ksweetpea]

I'm only halfway through and I have to agree. Wilco's bad attitude and the lackadaisical shirking of the summit trailbreakers, along with the disorganization, is shocking and disgusting from such a multinational group of experienced mountaineers. They had so much time to plan everything and delegate while the weather had them pinned to camp not ascending

[@katesanderson3208]

Making that poor guy with appendicitis hike out was disgusting.

[@GiraffeGal1]

I appreciate how you research and present these adventures. Every post is such a treat. Thank you!

[@lindashaw3796]

You are an outstanding story teller. Please never stop - so many channels are using AI and it's horrible! Well done for your youtube subscriber growth 👏🏼 😊

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Thanks for the support! I’m not stopping, I’m having too much fun!

[@WienGolf]

Yessss! I do appreciate that kind of storytelling. I hate those AI Videos on KZbin!

[@teamworld4802]

​@@adventuresgonewrong I enjoy your storytelling so much, it is top notch. Do you have a background in writing? (Obviously only answer if comfortable with it) I am a documentarist myself and I KNOW how much work and training it takes to put together a "long listen"; keeping the story line straight as well as maintaining an exiting, easy to follow narrative. Truly professional channel you have - and yes, we should never 'go AI", it's abysmal to listen to. 👏👏

[@susanjanehayden]

I so look forward to your documentaries. You make me feel like I’ve heard the story from someone who was there, if only figuratively. Btw. Personal inquiry from your other drops, What breed dogs are those pups in the background. They appear so similar I can’t help but wonder. They add a calm touch, chilling in the background as horrors unravel. Thanks for making content. It’s great.

[@adventuresgonewrong]

They’re Alaskan huskies, and litter mates

[@Clairejart]

K2 is the scariest mountain. It’s like it actively tries to kill climbers by hurling rocks ice and seracs on them. So excited for this episode. Savage mountain is savage!!

[@AuntieTrichome]

When nature says nope, it is nope.

[@koelkastridder3388]

Wilco is echt een gigantische zak en ik schaam me ervoor dat hij Nederlands is net zoals ik .... I'm glad the others let the Serbian, Dren, in. Cool video!! Super interesting, thanks ❤😊

[@canansaritas]

Have been waiting for days, glad you posted 🥰 Happy new year!

[@speedfreak8200]

What you said

[@CFarnwide]

Love your climbing series! Episode Suggestion: Maybe cover the incredible rescue of Anurag Maloo on Annapurna. Or possibly an episode on one of his rescuers, Adam Bielecki. If you research Adam you will find Maloo wasn’t his first rescue. Adam was awarded the Legion of Honor from France. The highest French order of merit, both military and civil.

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Added to my list!

[@anrite1]

@@CFarnwide it would be awesome to have that covered here

[@dpaterson710]

Absolutely fantastic video. I really love your storytelling style and ability. You just draw the audience in. Also extremely well researched. I look forward to your next one!

[@broella6493]

I love your channel! Your soothing voice and detailed knowledge of the subject and your wonderful background with your pups make me feel comfy cozy while watching.😊

[@Mewsies.]

Really excellent as always! Thank you so much for all the work you do to research and how you present it! Happy New Year!!

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[@rocketrider1405]

Ditto!

[@manjsher3094]

I watched this entire video, no supplemental oxygen at all.

[@54321-p]

Your dogs are hilarious. Do they ever wake up? I watch them while I listen to you. Great channel!!

[@leegalen8383]

They really know how to live❤❤❤

[@ferret406]

They are stuffed toys😊

[@Lazlowinthehouse]

The Summit Documentary is so good but you fill in the gaps. Def will check out the books.

[@dsteveni77]

So enjoy your content and research. And as others have mentioned your dogs do add a touch of normalcy to the unfolding bad outcomes of risk taking.

[@kalpanabharatme]

💯% agree

[@nowistime8070]

I love your storytelling and sense of humour

[@eliseb6315]

I absolutely love your channel! You have a really refreshing video style and I can tell you put in a lot of effort.

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Thank you so much!

[@JM19649]

I get that there needs to be some level of everyman for himself while out climbing but not paying for a helicopter to medi vac out one of you staff members is a dick move

[@MoonlitMumma]

Completely agree. Wilco is a horrible human.

[@Tina06019]

That was seriously bad behavior.

[@lookingforvg]

I love your videos, this was the most perfect timing as i'm spending the holidays by myself but your videos are such a nice cozy way of feeling accompanied

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Glad I could make your holidays a little cozier!

[@Lisa1111]

Yaaaay!!! Thank you for posting today! I'm diving in ❤

[@scarlettandjesse310]

Happy new years thanks perfect timing

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Happy New Year to you too!

[@DerpinaTheBrave]

Yay marathon! Also thank you for stating all your sources at the start of the video!

[@terry4O]

2 videos in one week, how lucky are we? Love your longer format too. Happy New Year!!

[@Bluebell8967-f3n]

Love your Dogs in the background. I am a big dog lover

[@richardmcquade9832]

You're content, knowledge, and narrative skills are always worthy of praise! Thank you for your efforts. 👍

[@susiepittman601]

Thank you! Happy New Year!

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Happy New Year to you too!

[@nancyjones6780]

Been patiently waiting for a new video and am only sorry I already know this story so well. I'm watching anyway ❤

[@Bluebell8967-f3n]

Love your videos like being in the same room with you also you give loads of information about people etc. Good work congratulations.

[@rachelrobinson2104]

I've just discovered you! Imma 'bout to binge! Love the factual delivery.❤

[@rosalindmcmanus2759]

Love your channel. You put a lot in to every episode. 🙏🏻🍀

[@kathduncan9618]

Yay! I love your vids! Happy New Year!

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Happy new year!!

[@GoodieWhiteHat]

Thanks

[@tdurb0]

Thank you so much for this and the video before this 😍

[@jennoulalatsero-ii2fy]

Ooo yay! This will help me get through my mega hangover!! Happy new year and thank you for all your fab videos! 🎉❤

[@mollym5770]

Just found your channel and I'm hooked! Looking forward to more in 2025. Happy new year!

[@dezertraider]

HAPPY NEW YEAR! THANK YOU

[@GoodieWhiteHat]

Thanks for taking this on! This is a tragic fascinating story with many personalities with differing motivations. K2 is a dangerous climb and in the end the safety conscious, the crazy, the caring, the stupid and the desperate are all vulnerable. There were so many errors, too much caring in one area and not enough caring in another. “No one was listening” seems to be a common theme.

[@isabelmaas8588]

I love your videos and I love to see your pups just living their best life!

[@gabyengelbart]

Thank you for the video. Of the 1996-disaster at Mount Everest I remember that climbers should have turned at 2 pm what many did not do... I am wondering what you might have done with your dogs right before filming. They are always so calm and sleepy. ❤😴

[@adventuresgonewrong]

We go hiking in the woods and I tire them out! 😆

[@gabyengelbart]

@ ❤️👍🐾

[@jaironieto5811]

OMG you did a second one? Another great piece of content.

[@Rebecky31]

Awesome narration…..great job!

[@docoRPA]

You would have to be out of your mind to be on the same team as Wilko. The guy would instantly abandon you, the moment you were in trouble and make up some fake story later

[@pravinshingadia7337]

Made my Christmas break seeing this posted. Will watch tomorrow with nice pint of beer!

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Sounds perfect!

[@_nick_d]

In the movie, Cecil said that her man said “you take care of my wife, I’ll go first” and got hit by the ice minutes later

[@mountaingirlzstuff4314]

Make sure to check out the story "Three Cups of Tea" about a man who after becoming lost on the backside of K2 was rescued by villagers and later returned to build schools in the rural villages

[@joannecarson7173]

Thanks for the visuals and informative narrative. Happy New Year 2025 from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!

[@GregglyPuff]

Oh hell yeah!! Another marathon

[@rocketrider1405]

Excellent info … and, I’m also here for the dogs! HNY!

[@dronexfun8469]

Waiting in line is not mountaineering.

[@joannegully7770]

Happy New year!

[@bott3849]

Sweet more mountain chaos

[@ASMR-Arboretum]

30:55 I just can't with the dog 😆😂🤣

[@Gaius_Sinstone]

48:55 She's really grasping at straws to justify her callousness. People drive cars out of necessity. There's no real choice not to. & people stop their cars to assist someone who's gotten into a wreck literally all the time. She's climbing a mountain as a recreational pastime without concern for fellow climbers, it's a ridiculous comparison

[@Ksweetpea]

I think she meant you keep driving as in, despite knowing wrecks happen and even seeing one, you in general continue driving in general, not "you witness a wreck and don't stop to check on them" Folks keep trying to summit the 8,000m peaks even though there's at least one fatality every year. People keep driving cars even though some 30,000+ people die in car crashes every year just in my country I do agree that it's a scummy way to justify her callousness

[@speedfreak8200]

Thank you, I would another stranded in a the desert or mountains. Thanks for this video, appreciate all you do!!

[@adventuresgonewrong]

I appreciate the support!

[@Angelsonearth333]

Okay why as this disaster and the one on Everest came into my mine the next day you post marathons of your series I’ve tried to start so many times? Must be the second new moon

[@Aussie00]

37:29 ever get that feeling someone is watching you? 🐕 😂😂😂

[@terrypargmann5502]

Fantastic Story Teller

[@AuntieTrichome]

Happy New Year 🎉

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Same to you!

[@AuntieTrichome]

@ Thanks ☺️

[@Tina06019]

I love mountains, I love snow, and I love climbing…and I especially love breathing and getting home in one piece. No death zone climbing for haven’t ever learnt how to use an ice axe, so I don’t do ice climbing. I suppose I am really just an enthusiastic winter hiker.)

[@10.6.12.]

An incredibly through unbiased example of reporting. Most sports are now being taken over by trust fund brats, at least that mentality, so why not mountaineering. God help us!

[@ennykraft]

Ed Viesturs was the first AMERICAN who climbed all 8000ers. The first person to do so was Reinhold Messner.

[@adventuresgonewrong]

I know I screwed that up when filming.

[@tobi_talks_2_much]

Sometimes real life does have foreshadowing. That avalanche was waiting to happen, and the lack of cohesion and preparation was just taunting it. But at the end of the day, the whole tragedy happened because there were too many people on the mountain. Commercial mountaineering companies on peaks like Everest and K2 are the absolute epitome of "the company doesn't care about your life, just your money." More people would come off the mountain alive if they just limited the amount of people allowed to summit in a season.

[@yvonneridge8858]

Another fact based documentary on mountain disasters ❤

[@Lastcallyall]

Thank you ❤

[@Lastcallyall]

I wanted to add that your dogs that are relaxing behind you acting like they been climbing Everest .. lol .. much love 💯

[@adventuresgonewrong]

I know, they act like they are so tired during my filming but you should see them when they're NOT tired and bugging me to go for a hike! I just make sure to tire them out on filming days.😄

[@Lastcallyall]

@adventuresgonewrong they are loved ... ❤️💯😊

[@S4ns]

My goal in life is to never do anything this stupid. It's working so far.

[@cyndiborys5087]

At the 37 min point I had to stop watching for awhile as my anxiety was through the roof!! 😅

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Wait till my next video. It was one where I had to stop and take a breather because it was so anxiety-inducing just telling it! I actually mention that in the video.

[@dangeroustoman]

Ask anyone with breathing issues it sounds the same. Running and sucking thru a straw.

[@Lisa1111]

Isn't there a bunny sloap?

[@dsoule4902]

Lol. I think is called Base Camp

[@WhisperingWoodsZA]

I love your channel but Ed Viesturs was not the first person to climb all 14 8000m peaks. It was Reinhold Messner. Even Viesturs himself acknowledges this (you could make a video about the Guinness Book BS theory…)

[@trinity6993]

12:05 Holy Cirak!

[@peterthompson3120]

I believe your statistic at the start is slightly wrong, it's not one death per 4 attempted summits but rather 1 death per 4 successful summits.

[@droopy_eyes]

Wilco and Korean pair would rather see people die than face the reality. It's a tragedy that lady died, but I don't feel sorry for her.

[@kinsin66]

Is that Korean team related to Wi-too-lo ?

[@karldoering9409]

Sherpas are not local or indigenous to the Karokoram. They are part of the commercialization of high altitude mountaineering, especially outside Nepal.

[@adventuresgonewrong]

There are still sherpas, lower case. Meaning the porters not an indigenous group.

[@WhisperingWoodsZA]

Pls do not call porters „sherpas“. It is not appreciated by the Sherpa people themselves.

[@DianaDeLuna]

Hooray! I've now replaced both the 1996 Everest video and the K2 videos with the consolidated versions. Thank you! 🏔🗻

[@adventuresgonewrong]

Woohoo!

[@no_one1073]

Most climbers are narcissistics who don't care if someone die during climb

[@kam6657]

💕☕️🐾

[@lauriespringberg1802]

Thanks!

[@crypsis5676]

Most selfish rationalization I've ever heard. You only drive by a car crash because most of the time the is emergency response on site. Clear to me that people involved in extreme sports are selfish.