The Chimborazo Disaster

[@FluffyFerretFarm]

Absolutely great banter with yourself 🤣 You got a cackle out of me and I'm alone in the house!🙃

[@amyhull754]

That was SO interesting, particularly regarding the distance from the earth's center! Thank you!

[@SamuelLanghorn]

the missing information of course are the distance units. Since this is just some interesting fact irrelevant to the actual story, it is ok not to provide more details.

[@nicki9590]

Well done. Good story. Your relaxed storytelling style is very easy to follow and enjoy.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

Oh yeah, finally a video from Mr. MM to feed my MM video addiction. Since this has been caused by an avalanche way up in the mountain where ice and snow are permanent, I doubt we will find the bodies anytime soon. Whenever this happens the bodies are almost everytime never recovered. You can take every safety measure possible, but you simply can't control the elements. Puts in perspective how fragile we really are.

[@TheCaptnHammer]

I have summited Cotopaxi from the southern route. Seeing the Andes and being on top of one while looking out at many other peaks is a fantastic feeling. The guide companies in Ecuador will lie to you and say the climbs are easy and perfect for beginners. I did a quick google search and at least one guide company states that Chimborazo has no technical portions and is perfect for beginning climbers. Remember, ultimately you are the one responsible for your safety. Dont trust guide companies and do your own research and check reviews. Clear skies everyone!

[@jacoblas1371]

Nice. I did Lascar Volcano in Chile. I was so exhausted when I reached the peak, I had almost no energy to go back down and started to fall over and almost pass out. Cured my anxiety though.

[@debbieellett9093]

Awesome way to start the week! Thanks. Morbid Midnight. Your in-depth uploads are always top notch. 👏👏👏

[@nomo01]

Keep up the good work man. Awesome videos

[@moiraatkinson]

I like hearing about these lesser known tragedies, thank you for this interesting video. I hope as well as training, the government supported these mountain guides with essential equipment and better clothing.

[@redpointt]

I’ve been to Cotopaxi, I’m planning Chimborazo. We will see. There’s a presence on those mountains that can’t be put in words

[@averagejoegrows]

rip then

[@jacoblas1371]

Have you been to Lascar in Chile?

[@fuego1915]

Andean Adventures in Riobamba is who you want to hike it with.

[@redpointt]

@@averagejoegrows nope, went to Chimborazo just fine, didn’t make the summit this time but did get to 17000 feet 😊

[@redpointt]

@@jacoblas1371 I haven’t! I will check it out !

[@HandyMan657]

Thanks for the story. It's a beautiful country when it's not at war with itself. Take care

[@psychomormon4932]

Ecuador has an ongoing war with itself. It was once a peaceful country, but not anymore. In Ecuador, thousands of gang members have been arrested since the government declared a war against criminal groups over three weeks ago. All this follows a violent uptick in gang-related activity that culminated in gunmen taking staff hostage during a live TV show. Reporter Jorge Valencia explains drug-fueled organized crime has reached unprecedented levels in Ecuador. So Colombian and Peruvian drug mafias sent a lot of their drugs where? Ecuador, Acero says. Often, they're hidden inside banana shipping containers sent through the Panama Canal to Europe. Mario Pazmino is former intelligence director with the Ecuadorian Army. He says that in the last decade, there was another major change. Ecuador was once a haven safe from the violence of its neighboring countries. That started to change some 20 years ago. Authorities in neighboring Colombia, with help from American taxpayers, made it a lot harder for drug traffickers to send cocaine straight to the United States, says Hugo Acero, former security secretary in the Colombian capital of Bogota.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

You had me...I always thought they measured height by sea level...didn't think about the center of the planet 👍

[@dfuher968]

When u are told the height of the mountain, thats always from sea level, but there are many other ways used to measure, that arent commonly used among leyppl like us. Another measurement is the height from the base of the mountain. While Everest is the highest peak in the world measured in relation to sea level, the mountain sits in a huge mountain range surrounded by 100s of other peaks, and climbers have already reached a fairly high altitude above sea level, b4 they reach the base of Everest. The highest climb in the world aka the height from the base of the mountain to the peak is actually Denali in Alaska.

[@PlummySack79]

Do not dwell upon it Sir, i too was once a complete dummy, a small tin of mid price tuna once a week, but no more and never the premium brands ok?

[@zl1David]

​@@dfuher968 prominence is the word for it here in the White mtns.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

​@@dfuher968 you are talking about height vs prominence to be exact. Some other mountains were thought to be the tallest because they have huge prominence compared to mountains like Everest or K2, which makes them look MUCH taller than they actually are, but they actually are very tall since in many of them you have to climb all the way up from very low height, making the climbs very exhausting.

[@TheCraigy83]

Theres no sea level , its non stop raising and lowering , we live beyond high tide , if you use sea level you'll have +15ft difference depending on time of the day .

[@nickchannel5364]

That was a particularly gruesome story. I enjoy your videos very much.

[@resdupbug]

Love your channel, and I knew one of the guides, so tragic 😢😢😢

[@sharinnature]

What a sad story,thanks for covering it . Interesting that the 3 guides were only ones found,kind of males sense since mentioned that they went ahead of the others...

[@TheBaleadaMan]

Wallahi he’s developing a sense of humor now, this channel is about to get way better LFGGGGGG (note the videos were already amazing!)

[@brandiwilson8639]

I love you calm relaxing style of these videos.

[@OnlyOneNetra_50]

When Morbid go off script & questions hisself is too cute & funny 😂.. But, you still & always does a great job.👍🏾

[@levitatingoctahedron922]

ew, why is your hand so dirty?

[@OnlyOneNetra_50]

@@levitatingoctahedron922 What ⁉️.. Your dad 🍆 is dirty

[@OnlyOneNetra_50]

@@levitatingoctahedron922 Nothing on me is dirty lady. & Stop trolling and grow up.

[@levitatingoctahedron922]

@@OnlyOneNetra_50 confusion due to genetically inherited cognitive disadvantages.

[@OnlyOneNetra_50]

@@levitatingoctahedron922 When i go to the grocery store i love Ritz crackers & Saltine Crackers with my 🍲

[@atheistsince1210]

Honestly Morbid Midnight I would love some merchandise options like.a T-shirt hell even a bumper sticker each new video of yours is an adventure full of surprises and often tragic facts keep doing what you do you’re the best out there !!!!

[@Lambsharkxo]

Awesome vid as always man 🔥

[@chris5942]

Avalanches don't care about your safety measures.

[@snickle1980]

Facts and mountains dont care aboit your feelings.

[@chris5942]

@@snickle1980 Gravity is a fact and self preservation is a feeling. I respect them both and stay off of mountains.

[@jimjambananaslam3596]

Safety measures to avoid triggering an avalanche are no different than traffic laws to avoid killing yourself and others when you drive a car. In fact, climbing a mountain is a normal thing our species has been doing forever, and driving a car is freakish and unnatural and significantly more dangerous.

[@weasel9062]

​@@jimjambananaslam3596from a lot of these stories and given the heights and distances involved in many of these peaks. There isn't a whole lot one can do to prevent an avalanche. Merely avoiding areas prone to them and weather conditions that increase their likelihood is about the most you can do. If one happens there are of course safety tools and tactics one can try but by then, your day is probably already completely ruined even if you survive it.

[@03stmlax]

It was actually Brendan Fraser and Josh Hutcherson who figured out Chimborazo was the furthest point on earth to the center of the earth, as they journeyed there back in the summer of '08

[@averagejoegrows]

this made me lol

[@MarikoFriedel-uv7fz]

Thank you another wonderful video!! I always look forward to your releases. Your delivery of the information is articulate and interesting. I wish my college professors could have been able to give a lecture that would have duplicated the low tone of your voice and the interesting way you frame the information. Your voice is great!! Have you considered doing voice work for films?

[@paulpatterson2687]

Keep them coming thank you

[@DJ-ws6je]

Nice video!

[@smedleyx]

👍wow hadn't heard of this accident. I've heard of Chimborazo, but (side note) mainly from the huge painting by Church; back when I used to visit the Huntington gallery regularly I'd always have to stop and sit in front of it for a while. About the size of a full 4x8 sheet of plywood, and dude literally painted every leaf. If you don't know Church's work, imagine Bob Ross with ocd in 4K, and that's meant in a good way. All these mountains are beautiful in a landscape but dammit they can kill you up close

[@mspolarbear2239]

I have watched & enjoyed every video you have put out. I subscribed after I watched your first video. They are extremely well done & very informative. I also look forward to your next upload. Thanks for your all the work you put into these videos.

[@willkantor300]

Great video man

[@EarlMenefee]

Thank you for putting ft up on the screen I don't know metric love your videos

[@pinetree5489]

Climbed Chimborazo as the last of the three highest peaks in Ecuador in Dec. of 1996. Also Cayambe and Cotopaxi. Done through the American Alpine Institute (a guided trip) with American guides Steve House and Eli Helmuth and an Ecuadorian guide. The 'high' point (elevation) of my limited climbing career. These 3 climbs from huts and with proper acclimatization essentially allow for "day" climbs to the summits. If I remember, the climbs took ~ 13.5, 12.5, 11.5 hours (round trip) respectively. About half of the 10-12 clients made all three summits.

[@jritechnology]

In 10 million years, someone will find the climbers 200 miles away in a mound of earth and the people of this new civilization will wonder what they were doing.

[@aazhie]

Thanks as always!

[@JeremyBrochu-wp5wc]

Ben waiting for a new vid tha KS bro great stuff shout out from maine USA 🇺🇸

[@TheBierp]

Love your vids, but I have yet to be able to determine what it is I'm seeing on your splash page. It has the vibe of an optical illusion. Am I seeing it from a birds-eye view, or is it along the ground? Looks like maybe it's a cemetery? I just can't tell. Please explain!

[@SS-zz4pi]

Turn your screen upside down (I was puzzled too). It does look a bit like a new burial in the foreground but perhaps ashes markers with flowers in the background? 🤔It bugged me for ages and it's still not clear!

[@anythingpipes3722]

love this channel

[@SleepMoviezzzzz]

its good you went back to the hushed-hush delivery... awesome this is a big part of the draw

[@SleepMoviezzzzz]

here's an idea - go to a train station, and record a hushed video obout a train crash or something, with the ambient sounds of the train station behind, and you all hush and everything... too morbid? idk

[@SlowlyDisintegrating]

What is the music that plays in your intro?

[@OnlyOneNetra_50]

i’ve asked a couple times & never got the answer lol.. Maybe we can get lucky & get the answer this time 🤷🏾‍♀️🤞🏾😂

[@MorbidMidnight]

It's an original composition I made myself!

[@SlowlyDisintegrating]

@@MorbidMidnight it's lovely, would you ever consider releasing it?

[@OnlyOneNetra_50]

@@MorbidMidnight If you had this on Tictoc you would make a lot of 💰

[@Mt.Everest.]

Oh come on Morbid! Stop being the Wizard of Oz and come out from hiding behind the curtain 😅

[@patrickagee]

We're almost to 70k my boy!!!

[@mikehenderson631]

I said this before probably in the past comment. I will never understand why people want to climb a mountain other than the old proverbial phrase. Well , cause it's there

[@robertsteinbach7325]

This mountain was thought to be the highest mountain in the Western World until the discovery of Nanda Devi in Nepal after either the Battle of Kirtipur in 1769 or the later Sino-Gorkha war of 1788-1792.

[@GeoRockNerd]

Nanda Devi is in India.

[@electriceyeball]

Nepal is not in the Western world

[@jmanhuskie93]

Less transitions with your name but overall informational quality video

[@KobraVR]

Just as a brief explanation, the earth spins round and round, this means the material gets thrown out in the middle and the North and South poles are flattened. Its like if you gently squished a tennis ball you would see its sides widen.

[@daniellee5147]

God so there's just 7 bodies up there undiscovered. That's crazy to me.

[@alexyo2440]

What's stopping you from discovering them? Only your will to a great adventure!

[@daniellee5147]

@@alexyo2440 because I live in Nevada and I'm at work!

[@rogerscurlock2927]

Only 7? This mountain needs to get those numbers up if it intends to compete with Everest. Lol.

[@Mt.Everest.]

I was just going to say that's nothing compared to Everest

[@daniellee5147]

@@Mt.Everest. I understand I meant it's crazy to me that there is most likely a pile of seven bodies laying there. Everyone knows there's more bodies on Everest.

[@lukedornon960]

While peaks at the equator may be farther from the center of the earth, climbers benefit from reduced gravitational pull compared to more polar peaks.

[@KB-313]

Imagine being at a dinner party and some dude starts talking like Morbid

[@Mt.Everest.]

Morbid isn't real it's a Robot 😅😅

[@rfcbass6810]

Pro tip. Speed up video by 1.25x to make the guy's speech bearable.

[@niniv2706]

Thanks ... Makes sense, now .

[@TheChocolatBlanc]

👍

[@straubulous9511]

Thanks for the idea. I prefer 1.1x at the moment

[@Jillian-c5u]

Wow thanks

[@kamakaziozzie3038]

👍👍

[@eigleenalegri2664]

Government regulations cannot prevent avalanches.

[@ivorybilled8983]

Are there no names and photos of the avalanche victims?

[@phatnat7080]

Hmmm.. interesting 🧐

[@douglascoleman1252]

Just a hopefully, helpful ,comment...could you PLEASE do something about that flat slow narrative. It can very hard to get involved with what you're describing.

[@badbadrobotrobot959]

I agree!

[@ArchFundy]

I'd suggest a different font for your numbers. The current one is difficult to read. Maybe try something plain and bold.

[@Za7a7aZ]

Then there are the mountains who have the most distance to climb measured from base camp.

[@Loudwhigvang]

Sea level at the equator is farther from earth center than the summit of Denali

[@ShadeEmberi]

I am not sure what better standards would do to help with an avalanche

[@youngcloud2047]

Is no one freaking out about only the guides being unearthed??

[@Mt.Everest.]

No! They had more experience and they ran faster

[@classicmicroscopy9398]

So long as there are mountains there will be idiots who die trying to climb them.

[@talpark8796]

🥱

[@classicmicroscopy9398]

@@123-olmngresx Driving cars is more or less unavoidable. Climbing a mountain is a choice and a stupid one IMO.

[@123-olmngresx]

Your so out of shape you can barely get up the stairs in your mama's basement you call home. Of course you don't understand Mounteering in a Real Man's Sport.

[@juliansanby8518]

Driving a car is not unavoidable, how do you think people got around before cars were here? If you don't want to climb then don't but at least have a little respect for those who do, there are many highly skilled mountaineers who climb for the love of the outdoors and the view from the top is often amazing, even from a relatively low peak like Snowdon in Wales.

[@69-m2x]

Suuuup 👌

[@cherubcherub1698]

Goodness, the more I hear about avalanches the better I feel that if it had to happen at least it was quick and they didn't likely suffocate

[@Mt.Everest.]

How do you know that? They could have been trapped in pain and languished for hours even days before dying

[@PlummySack79]

Ooch aye dinnae be scart ta ge ma baws a wee smack aboot eh 🤙👌

[@katemaloney4296]

You can talk about it. You can describe it. You can't show it. KZbin guidelines are archaic.

[@justanotherjezebeI]

Well, now I have another geo-location travel goal on top of point Nemo.

[@ihuffandipuff]

pain

[@Nefville]

Yeeeaaaah..... The issue mountaineers never talk about is the oppressive white snow, making it hard for *all* climbers to advance. We don't hear much news about that, now do we? And I just hope that folks watch out so the white snow doesn't blind them and keep them from seeing what's really going on!

[@Tommytakanawa]

Bruh. No. Stop. Get help.

[@chrimony]

But what about the black ice, trying to trip up their footing?

[@Nefville]

@@chrimony I don't think anyone got it but I was quoting a Key and Peele sketch about black ice. Check it out, its hilarious.

[@joeb6853]

Been there.

[@matt.stevick]

Chimborazo

[@cherubcherub1698]

Wait... But is it a geologist who figured that stuff out or nah? 😅😅😅😅

[@LeamSerrano]

Can you do a document about the hello Kitty murder in 1999

[@arnicus208]

Call it morbid then blur the photos. 👎🏼

[@Meowface.]

Is this the Burger King foot lettuce guy ?

[@andychatton7609]

Dude, you creep me out!

[@TheTeaCupKiller]

“…anyways”

[@jacoblas1371]

I watch Scary Interesting, but now prefer your videos as your voice is better.

[@taylorswiftkaraoke4984]

that joke was pretty funny

[@maxshea1829]

Narrator: Marvin the Paranoid Android

[@badbadrobotrobot959]

I want you to know that I'm very depressed.

[@enzyme181]

This dude bores me to death

[@MikeHunt-fo3ow]

did they know theres nothing at the top before they started? i could see if theres the worlds best strip club with the best steak dinner id think about going

[@ritualj0int]

Algorithm ❤

[@nightdipper5178]

Gringo-up de-mountain, but Gringo don't go down.

[@richardmcquade9832]

Informative video annoying narrative style

[@PlummySack79]

* ANYHOO

[@richardsager7144]

Is our fate set in stone or Gods hand…

[@Pericalypsis]

Earth needs to lose some weight around its waist. You'd think doing billions of laps around the Sun would mitigate this ... but middle age is cruel.

[@inappropriatejohnson]

Charles Darwin wins again. Yay evolution!

[@123-olmngresx]

Darwin was a ice climber. 🧊

[@inappropriatejohnson]

@@123-olmngresx "an" precedes vowels, "a" precedes consonants.

[@123-olmngresx]

@@inappropriatejohnson Tell that to Charles sucka. I'm a climber and still alive.

[@nedialkosimonov3893]

This robot voice is so bored!

[@strangerous1313]

Made it 5 minutes. Can't go any further. Your monotonic delivery is horrible, and you lost the story setup in minutiae.