The Deadliest Summer in the Karakoram

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[@macgeek2004]

Your FIRST ever sponsor was RAID??? Is this the type of content we should expect from your channel? That you will take *ANY* sponsor, no matter how dirty or morally dubious? Have you ever done any research into RAID as a sponsor or as a product? If you were given money by the KKK to post anti-Semitic ads, would you run those, too? You need to do some *SERIOUS* thinking here.

[@griffith500tvr]

You are badly mispronouncing the word "couloir"...

[@kikaklaus9515]

@@griffith500tvr actually not so bad. On the other hand I do not expect Americans to pronounce Italian names correctly. Although in the meantime it should be clear that it's VERSACE and not weSSACCI

[@dissimulii]

lol 132K views, 10 upvotes on your pinned comment.

[@knomesaynmafk4789]

​@dissimulii 1 year later and it's at 12. Hmm maybe people don't like raid adds

[@jamesm3471]

Everest has been done too many times by too many people. Now amateur climbers w/ cash to burn want K2’s summit for their trophy case. There are now traffic jams w/ scores of climbers stopped, in a conga-line, all tied in to a single fixed line, in the Bottleneck, under the Serac! That’s absolutely insane, & because the Abruzzi Ridge is the easiest way up a most difficult mountain, they all take that route, & because the Karakoram weather windows are notoriously tight, they all go up at the exact same time! Tragically, it’s not if, but when, & soon, that there will be some kinda new “K2 Disaster” probably w/ an appalling body count…

[@jennachester5588]

From what I’ve read K2 is much more difficult than Mount Everest. I’m not a climber; I live in Florida and hate the cold. Mountain climbing fascinates me! I can’t imagine wanting to climb in the freezing snow with such a high possibility of death. RIP to all of these guys.

[@jamesm3471]

Until recently, K2’s sheer difficulty has prevented mediocre climbers from reaching its middle slopes & ridges, never mind making it to the summit. Furthermore, traditionally K2 is climbed without bottled oxygen, and fixed rope is used sparingly if at all. A lot of K2’s summiteers were the elite of the climbing world, all of them were good climbers - and still, nearly 1 in 4 died on descent, bc K2 is a very dangerous peak to climb. Nowadays, many commercial mountaineering companies want to offer, at great expense, the opportunity to climb K2. Previous clients who did very well at altitude, climbing Everest, will be encouraged to try K2, its summit now being what Everest’s summit used to be in terms of bragging rights. It will still be a very hard climb, but the difficulty can be ratcheted down at the right price. Teams of hired Climbing Sherpa and/or elite Pakistani HAPs will fix nearly the entire route with rope, each camp will be stocked with piles of oxygen bottles, and each client climber will have at least one, if not more personal Sherpa, HAP, or professional Western guide, to melt ice for water, help with equipment, help with the climb, et cetera, basically do things that, traditionally on K2, the climber does for him or herself. Ultimately, money can make much of the climb a little less difficult, but it can’t make it any safer really. When parts of that Serac above the Bottleneck give in to the forces of gravity, it could give a toss about the number of climbers beneath it. A hellish storm packing 160 kilometer winds may arrive 2 days earlier than forecasted, and stay for as long as it pleases, and when it does, all the goose down & Gore-Tex in the world isn’t gonna save you, if you get caught out in it.

[@kenhiett5266]

@@jamesm3471 Ropes and bottled oxygen have been used regularly on K2 since the beginning. Even the few who climb it naturally use ropes on most of the sections except the shoulder and the final slope to the summit after the traverse. Even elite climbers prefer to be under safety when the going gets steep and K2 is notoriously sharply angled in most places.

[@nancytestani1470]

Yeah, I just cannot get over that, traffic jams for Everest! WTF..

[@b01tact10n]

The pics and footage looks like people with $ marching to their dooms. I would try everest but the traffic jams looks very morbid.

[@MegaAngryspoon]

Reading the article with Schmidts wife. Denali didn't want to be a mountaineer and argued with his father about it, then later the father insists they be a father son duo going to K2 and Denali follows Martin in K2 so he doesn't leave him alone. Feel like Martin really got Denali killed. ""Of course Denali made his own decision, but my children know you couldn't really say no to Marty if he's saying, 'I'm going up.' I want to dispel this mythology that Denali was going to follow in his father's footsteps and be a guide. He was not. He loved the outdoors and he was a wonderful skier, but he was just emerging as an acknowledged artist and he really wanted to teach.""

[@prismpyre7653]

classic narcissistic psychopath-- but then, I think half the people on these mountains are- at LEAST

[@AcuraLvR82]

Your background music is perfect for the channel. It literally gives me a sense of frigid impending doom. Like as if I was there myself freezing to death with multiple broken bones and hypoxia setting in. Mountaineering is truly a dangerous sport, and I believe you are the only media that goes to great lengths to point out how so, as much of it is glamorized to excess in the media.

[@dellahicks7231]

I sit where I live in Canada, simultaneously watching the weather and the videos on this channel, while looking through the window at the three feet of snow outside. Our overnight temp last night was near -40°, and we will have weeks of that on end until the end of February, which is why we treasure our short summers so much. I hear the temps in these places in July from the videos, when we are actually cramming as much deck and lake life we can into our lives, and marvel at the opposite ends of the spectrum!

[@RRaymer]

What’s more remarkable is how cold the Karakoum can actually get through temperature inversion. There is a valley in India that recorded -60C at the town of Dras which is insane if we consider the latitude of India to record such low temps. You could only imagine if the were weather stations at higher altitudes in the Karakoum rather than relying on satellite data, extreme temps of -70 and below probably occur more often then we think there

[@dellahicks7231]

@3lines950 Not sure about anyone else, however it takes a bit for me to get my head around those facts! I know -50°, that first breath when you walk out the door is almost a shock to the body, cannot imagine taking it at -70°! No -50 is cold enough, Thank You very much! 😄

[@someoneelse293]

Today is March 1st in Australia... our first day of autumn... the horrible season of summer is the furthest away it can be... it's still brutally hot but the worst is hopefully behind us for the year... and i look forward to the milder season of winter... lol... fr

[@theriikk]

@@dellahicks7231 I think at such a high altitude, -60 would feel much worse than sea level. The air is thin, and there are no obstacles to block the wind. The wind chills alone would make the temperature feel much colder than it actually is. Probably even -40 would feel colder than -60 at such an elevated altitude.

[@ZwipeAir]

Inbetween alle the channels who make content like this, I always find me going back to yours. You are really talented in bringing up the vibe of being lost and lonely in such a horrific situations. Sponsor well deserved, hope they paid good

[@rilmar2137]

As a Polish person, I salute you - you did a really good job at pronuncing Polish names

[@이이-n4z8y]

Yea, becuase they're so hard to pronounce, not.

[@CMTHFAF]

@@이이-n4z8y Seriously?!?!?

[@이이-n4z8y]

@@CMTHFAF Were you trying to type a thought, or were you just being a typical splitass?

[@이이-n4z8y]

@@CMTHFAF You conveyed your thoughts exactly as you have them, which are nothing.

[@CMTHFAF]

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[@hobartw9770]

You have the creepiest voice of all these type channels and I mean that in the nicest possible way.

[@davesmith5656]

Really good point about the effects of altitude oxygen deprivation on task performance. One strictly mountaineering expedition video climber said that at 22,000 feet (IIRC) it takes a half hour to lace up your boots. I would imagine that for most people, above 26,000 feet you sit there for half an hour trying to figure out what laces are for! Imo, those 8,000 meter peaks are really all about weather, oxygen included as a component of "weather". Everything becomes difficult, thought becomes clouded, and you have ice, snow, wind, avalanches, and sub-zero temperatures. From base camp to peak, you could move those mountains to some tropical region and they'd be a walk, a hike, an excursion. Everest base camp elevation above sea level is 17,600 feet - higher than an awful lot of mountains' summits. Gasherbrum II base camp elevation above sea level is 15,500 feet. The highest point in the Rockies, Mt. Elbert, is 14,400 feet.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

At altitude, it's actually physically exhausting to muscle the laces through the eyelets or even fight them to catch the hooks on boots... SO you lace a couple eyelets, pull through, and then stop and straighten up to catch your breath before continuing. Your hands get unsteady, shaky and clumsy, like you're trying to do EVERYTHING with super-thick gloves on, even though you're bare handed in a warm tent. Mistakes get made, like forgetting to skip an eyelet while you're running one lace up the boot... and you have to withdraw the damn thing and take ANOTHER f**king break... catch your breath. You puff like hell, heaving freakish lung fulls as long and slow and deep as you can, but it just does NOT seem to do any damn good, either. You sort of recover, but never fully... AND as soon as you get the boots laced... NOW you gotta try and TIE them!!! AAAAARGH... Your brain doesn't completely shut down on "sensibility", but you miss details like the "skip an eyelet" thing... It's easier than you think to put your coat on only to look down and see three sweaters and an undershirt are still on your bedroll, all arranged in graduating sizes for layering properly... AND you undo and backstep to try ALL OVER AGAIN... AND no matter how much rest you get, you're perpetually tired, like your new favorite addiction is somehow sleep deprivation, only you've been careful, scheduling and KEEPING strictly to an 8 hour nightly sleep cycle for plenty of rest and recovery time... sometimes as little as 6 or 7 but NEVER less than that. SO you don't even really notice that you're losing mental faculties. It's just little things, at least at first... They don't seem bigger or more glaring as time goes on. It just stacks up. No single thing like "just one bad step" actually kills you. It's all the little details that have made life harder and more anxious as you've pressed on, all building up to the point that you take a few desperate missteps... and then the "fateful one" that everyone remembers. If you were on the proper trail and going the right way in the first place, you wouldn't be so close to the edge that one step would put an end to you. It's a mountain, not a high-wire... SO no, you could put the ENTIRE Himalayan Mountain range right on the Equator, and it would STILL be a horrific BITCH to get up any of those prominent peaks... not a hike or excursion, and certainly more adventure than you'd enjoy with that umbrella-fruity liquor cocktail in your hand. Basically, unless you like truly putting yourself through the ringer and making every possible aspect of simply living difficult, you're probably going to HATE mountaineering. I (personally) ain't left a DAMN THING up there. I grew up in the mountains, and have been up several noteworthy peaks... It's cool if that's your thing. I'll go fly my winged go-kart, ride my motorcycle, go cave diving, or even parachuting... AND I happen to like umbrella-fruity liquor cocktails on a hot sandy beach... or even in the middle of the g** d*** desert. ;o)

[@kathyborthwick6738LakotaEmoji]

Excellent analysis!

[@davesmith5656]

@@gnarthdarkanen7464 ---- Just saw your reply (nine months later)! Thank you for your first-hand description of the altitude effects, and how the accumulation of "little things" can lead to one of those being fatal. (I've never been above 12,000ft.) Heck, I procrastinate on taxes at sea-level, making excuses! The single one "little mistake" that is most damaging, I imagine from watching videos, would be a rash decision to continue upwards when all logic indicates that either the time window or the weather window has closed. I have had experiences with "foggy morning sickness" (joke), but I never landed on how much mental concentration plays into high altitude climbing. I still think that with so many fatalities attributed to avalanches, blizzards, and -40C temperatures, those peaks would be much easier in warmer latitudes. I've watched video about Trango Towers, which I gather are another world of "technical" above K2 - they are much lower altitudes, but weather isn't, that I understand, such a big factor. I like sea level waterfall pools you can swim in - no hippos, no crocodiles, lions, buffalo, mambas, plenty of light, no blizzards ... just big hotel bills. I idly and inconsequentially wonder ... with your tolerance for high altitudes and your abilities to focus, you probably handle alcohol really well! I wish you well on your mountaineering - plan your climb, and climb your plan!

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

@@davesmith5656 Well, better late than never, I suppose... AND thank you for reading... and a thoughtful response. AND yeah, in some technical sense, a majority of disasters actually started days before "that fatal step" or "the critical incident" that we get told and shown about. On that, you are right. Might not account for every disaster, but a majority. Warmer latitudes might help, but with the relative temperatures at altitude and thinness of air, probably not as much as you might think. Airliners routinely take domestic and "short haul" flights around the 20,000 foot territory, and still hit freezing temperatures and deal with the consequences with jellied fuel, ice consumption in the engines, and laminate icing layers screwing up the leading edge of wings, unless they have adequate preventative systems and redundancies. Ice has put planes down in Texas AND Florida in the summertime from heights like that, and hail has to come from something there. I'm not 100% sure if my Germanic ancestry is more or less responsible for my capacity to "hold my liquor" than my mountains-country upbringing and lifestyle... or perhaps the shear quantities of liquor I've gone through over the years... haha... In any case, anymore, I prefer to only get as far up the mountains as my bike will carry me (mostly Lazy) and maybe the occasional walk over the likes of backbone rock to the swimming hole, where I can sit with about 3 fingers of the good stuff to watch the girls until they're shivering uncontrollably and their lips are turning blue... Springwater can be as cold as 34 F in the summer around here, but it's amazing what you can get used to. In any case, best of luck in your own pursuits of sea level waterfalls and avoiding the hippos... I've heard they like chocolate, but I found that source a bit dubious. ;o)

[@Operngeist1]

You know Marty really loved the mountains when he named his son after one

[@craigstephenson7676]

It’s a great mountain to be named after. In my opinion the most beautiful in the world.

[@prohibidax1519]

@@craigstephenson7676 the coldest lolll

[@hgrunenwald]

I wonder if his son ever wondered if he was almost named McKinley.

[@etherealtranslationtm]

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[@BahamutBreaker]

Reaching the summit but then dying during the descent appears to be a VERY common occurrence.

[@B.Dav22]

Cause idiots expend themselves just to reach the top and don’t realize that’s only halfway 😂

[@NoName-oz3gj]

Always love your videos on mountaineering. Didn't know Gasherbrum I had an incident like this before, Keep up the good work!

[@baginatora]

Regarding the Marty and Denali Schmidt video- there's an article, stating those were not their remains. A DNA test was done and it turned negative.

[@TerminusCodex]

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[@kathylynch1033]

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[@Lord_Sully]

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[@joshthemediocre7824]

Usually if a bunch of people are giving the thumbs up sign in a picture, that means everything is NOT okay and they are subconsciously trying to give themselves a sense of security that everything IS okay. I made that up but it sounds good..:)

[@angelalovell5669]

Josh, you bandit, that made me laugh. Sounded legit as shit.

[@keiththompson2172]

I thumbed up your comment

[@firstnamelastname6216]

Mediocre.

[@sultanniazi2394]

As someone from Pakistan and has been to k2 and Concordia and seen so many dead climbers including the ones from 2008 disaster, the numbers will only increase. As the world realises its K2 that’s the holy grail and not Everest and with Pakistan in dire financial straits, more and more permits are being given out and much cheaper than Everest. More deaths expected as this is a real mountain. Everest has tea stalls all the way to base camp. Trust me Karakorams are a totally different ballgame.

[@thosbaus4742]

Do u think k2 is harder to ascent than Everest ??

[@GrumpyMeow-Meow]

@@thosbaus4742I have met several climbers. According to them, K2 is tougher and deadlier.

[@shannawallace7855]

​@@thosbaus4742it is, according to people who have done both.

[@tonyg-2jz82]

That's not even a question...of course K2 is much much harder and deadlier to climb.

[@WheelinWeenie]

@@thosbaus4742its not even close

[@truthylucy7068]

I'll never understand the fascination of such mountain climbing. Especially dealing with such elements & unpredictability. I find this to be such a dangerous hobby! Yet, the fearlessness of these individuals is nothing short of insane! My heart goes out to Mrs. Shmidt losing both her husband & son. That not being bad enough but to find out the conditions in which her loved ones were found! Incomprehensible, for any loved one to go through! 😥🙏

[@tessfabled4115]

Apparently a sample was taken from the remains, DNA tested and it was NOT from Marty or Denali, so that's somewhat of a relief for her, but I still feel for whoever to whom those remains actually belong, and their family :(

[@truthylucy7068]

@@tessfabled4115 Thanks for sharing! Yes, to have that be the last photo you see of your loved ones is beyond cruel. They should never have been allowed to view under any circumstances. Or the public for that matter, no benefit comes from this only pain & horror. Imo

[@isabellind1292]

@@truthylucy7068 It wasn't very thoughtful to immediately text the man's wife to tell her you think her husband just fell off the mountain.

[@202cardline]

The psychology is an interesting study - especially of those who climb Everest - it seems many people treck up these mountains because in a lot of ways it’s easier, and more simple than “real life,” and being able to conquer a mountain gives you the idea you can conquer anything else. People who do extreme sports can also get addicted to chasing a high that is always moving farther and farther out of reach. For mountaineering there’s always a bigger and better challenge. Also ego, but nobody really wants to admit that. It’s said the thing that’s harder than climbing Everest is summiting it and not telling anyone. Aside from that the view is great, I can easily imagine someone becoming passionate about that!

[@truthylucy7068]

@@202cardline your response I believe is right on. I didn't want to offend anyone by saying ego. I believe that's part of it & they're definitely adrenaline junkies. How do I say this, I'm fascinated by the individuals drawn to these dangerous hobbies. Yet, also envious that they're so fearless & indeed live life on the edge! ( no pun intended, lol) It's all I can do to get myself on a plane without being half in the bag! Lol. Yet, once again fascinated by those that enjoy flying their own planes. I think it's the NO FEAR factor I envy! 😃

[@mspolarbear2239]

I absolutely love your channel. I subscribed immediately when it popped up on my KZbin channel. I really appreciate all the hard work that must be done to upload these videos. I watched all your videos over 2 days and enjoyed everyone of them. Thank you.

[@rhobot75]

Denali Schmidt was also an artist. I live in San Francisco. I have a quit smoking buddy who was a cousin of his. We had not yet met IRL, we were friends via a quit smoking page on Facebook and something like 2 days apart in our process. My friend was coming into town and also knew I am a sort of "armchair mountaineer", plus it was a chance for us to meet. He was flying in from Colorado. He invited me to a gathering and art show exhibition at a gallery in SF, a celebration of Denali's life and art. A lot of people turned out for it. He'd done a lot of art, too! Painting and mixed media, if I remember. It's kind of the closest I've gotten to someone like that, who died up at altitude whilst climbing, doing what they loved. PS And yes, both of us are still quit, just both celebrated 11 years cold turkey no cigarettes. And we do once in a while touch base in email or text just to say, Hey. That night in SF was the only time we got to hang out in real life. But glad and grateful I grabbed it.

[@jimmyzbike]

When my guy Morbid says it’s too morbid, I’m like nope

[@bitters879]

I hate people had to suffer for me to enjoy your content... But I/we adore your content. Thanks for the effort you put into these uploads! Also congrats on getting that Raid Shadow cash! 😎 👍

[@AcuraLvR82]

But remember there is a lot of wisdom to learn in these incidents.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Those stories are tragic, too many peoples underestimate the danger of climbing and the conditions in the mountains

[@WrathofArminius]

When I hear “without the use of bottled oxygen”… it’s dumb to me. Why? Isn’t climbing the mountain hard enough? Why add “I’m going to hold my breath” to it?

[@cristianproano8686]

Because that is the "purest" way of climbing a mountain.

[@miapdx503]

When I see these wicked, monstrous peaks I can't help but wonder the cataclysmic events that created them. It must have been horrific. Just look at them! I'm awestruck.

[@elliejelly8815]

I swear to God every single channel that covers this type of topic uses the same tone of voice and speaking cadence .every single channel . Yet i consume it Despite the fact that it eats away at me sometimes

[@kneel1]

Wait a second - so how did the avalanche disembowel and decapitate them? just got ripped apart being tumbled down the rocks/mountain in the avalanche?

[@Flyingmsdaisy]

I was a Ski Patrolman/Mtn Rescue Team member in Colorado in the 80’s. It’s ugly, but Avalanches are meat grinders. Heavy snow, ice, rocks and the climber all in a mixing bowl. No avalanche related injury is impossible or unheard of.

[@kneel1]

@@Flyingmsdaisy oh jeeze thats horrifying. Is your name related to jeremy Dewitte 🤣

[@zarasbazaar]

Have you ever seen what avalanches do to trees? They're shredded. So, yes, giant blocks of snow, ice, and rock will destroy a fragile human.

[@adsromek]

I always wondered why it was called k-2. Thank you sir. One less question swirling in my brain 🥰

[@prohibidax1519]

this is a bunch of mountains in the karakoram you caN also find k3-k4-k5-k6

[@bluupill]

Could of just googled it

[@denisebyrne6571]

AKA Mount Goodwin Austen☘️🇮🇪

[@funnyperson4027]

I had no idea that volcanic activity could occur at a convergent plat boundary. Interesting

[@natsarimthings3147]

The father and son demise, I can't imagine how hard is this for the mom.

[@thomasbrennan6303]

It was probably harder for her to agree to name her son Denali.

[@krystlships]

I have a feeling you could have named this "the deadliest summer in the Karakorum, SO FAR"

[@phoule76]

Thanks for explaining how K2 got its name.

[@BonuxCouleur]

It is funny how some climbers get all squeamish and morally more virtuous when someone like Mike Horn exposes the separated head of a K2 mountaineer when a full group of 40 of these self righteous climbers walked past one of their own on Everest as he was still alive but freezing to a slow death near the infamous "green boots". Would a head severed by the mountain itself be more worthy of their "respect" than one of their own desperately seeking to be rescued? Apparently so.

[@Sushi2735]

Whenever you say they are climbing Alpine Style, no oxygen, I know it’s not going to end well. If I know that, why don’t they????

[@barbaralamson7450]

Amazing what you come up with. Absolutely love your dedication. Thank you.

[@funkoxen]

This us a great video, i never knew that the ultimate deathknight had so much influence on K2s bodycount.

[@englishcanuck4930]

Horray to a new upload. Love from 🇬🇧

[@CALO65]

i bet most searched for the schmidt video as soon as you said not to do so. i´ll wait till the end of your video.

[@bobnewton1064]

I can’t find it lol

[@hell666-59]

@@bobnewton1064 Mike Horn was the guy who took the video... if you really want to see it, start with googling him.

[@chrisakaschulbus4903]

"Do not seek it out" is basically slang for "google go brrrrr"... it sparks curiosity after all ;)

[@PrimevalDemon]

Oh jeez that video sounds horrifying. Like obviously dismemberment is possible or even probable due to pressure and ice/rocks etc but generally it feels like that type of thing can't happen conceptually because of snow being "soft and gentle" It's easy to forget that with enough pressure and the right stressors and circumstances even a blanket of snow can cut like a blade if given the opportunity.

[@aurtisanminer2827]

Holy shit, that was the longest commercial I’ve ever seen on KZbin!

[@skunkrat01]

Congrats on your first sponsor MM, well deserved

[@mauricedavis2160]

As always absolutely fascinating and tragic, excellent work as always Morbid Midnight!!!🙏🏔️👻

[@adambutsch2820]

You know, i was never a big fan of matchbox 20. But after watching this, i think it's kinda bad ass their lead singer was the first one to get hit by that bolt of lightning! Push you way 'round indeed Rob.

[@ImmortalTreknique]

Congratulations on your first sponsor 😁👍👊💪🍻

[@Error_4x5]

These guys are brave as fuck but totally insane. R.I.P to the deceased.

[@starboard9551]

Biv-voo-whack. Good content, I like all the authentic photos and trail models.

[@nathanbeech8720]

Raid commercial got me good. Was not expecting that at all

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It is, in fact, your boy Raid Shadow Legends

[@hadrianwall9157]

These mountaineering type ARE mad lads...

[@a_doggo]

gotta do the disappearing climbers on kanchenjunga, and the jannu disappearance! love the series

[@samantha-lee7294]

Omg I nearly slid off the chair when I saw you had a new video....mmmm I just love love love listening to your stuff many thanks 💗💗💗

[@AkDragosani]

Great Documentary as Usual 👍🏻👍🏻

[@Vinlyguyx420x]

CONGRATS on getting your 1st sponsorship!

[@jeremykinsey7877]

I enjoy your content, I listen whilst making cabinets.

[@Za7a7aZ]

You have a window of some three days left to summit and descent…no luxuries to make bivouacs and take it easy

[@Cognition84]

WTF happened to the father and son? Dismembered at the base of the mountain after dying in an avalanche? Please follow that story up.

[@opalishmoth8591]

Force of the snow hitting them and impacting against sharp rocks / ledges I assume?

[@kneel1]

dont know?? Super confused by the random ending of this video with no explanation!!!

[@TarotPolitics]

At that height, rolling down from that mountain full of sharp rocks and heavy chunks of ice… bodies are ripped apart

[@calij586]

It wasnt the father or son. Most probably someone from the 2008 tragedy. I saw the video

[@booboomagoo1305]

I had to listen to this 3x. Artur thought his partner died so he makes a call/ text to his wife to notify her and it turns out his partner doesn't die but Artur dies frantically looking for him???? WTF!°

[@trendsstter60]

Many people fail to understand that Himalayas are nothing like Alps.. Just cause they r snowy mountains doesn't make them Alps.. Himalayan ranges are unforgiving, barren and deadly. They WILL try to kill you every step of your way. If you are not wary, it's gonna be your last journey.

[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Those sherpa’s were boss as fuck.

[@hadrianwall9157]

They are a different kind of people. If anyone ever made mountaineering into some sort of sport, they would dominate it. Hands down.

[@aquachonk]

Drink every time he says "Biv-walk."

[@leyann8499]

I shuttered after the 2nd 'biv-(WALK'?) Typo maybe? Nope. @Midnight, its 'Bivouac'

[@cwalden918]

Dude what's the name of the background music you use? It fits so perfectly with the theme of all your vodeos

[@sauce1232]

How they knew the 3 spanish been on the summit with no contact with them?

[@davesmith5656]

Hey, Morbid ... it's not "Japanese 'cooloor' ". It is "cool-WAAHR" (or reasonable facsimile thereof, with a "soft" "R", just sort of rounding off the "WAAH" - varying a bit depending on the accent de la region). The word is French "couloir", meaning "corridor", usually a gorge or valley type thing, a very common mountaineering term. On Gasherbrum, it looks like a ridge route, so I did not check to see why it would be "couloir". Just FYI.

[@Syclone0044]

I always thought it was “Cool-YAY”, no?

[@ChrisAndCats]

@@Syclone0044 if it's French, a word end sounding eeyay would be ier, rather that oir which is waahr.

[@hgrunenwald]

Nice callout. OMG, there is one tool who always wears dirty-looking flannels and tells embellished versions of true crime stories, and somehow he is extremely popular. He always pronounces "cache" like he is saying "cachet." It doesn't bother me so much that someone says a word incorrectly, but then I hear other youtubers following suit sometimes... gotta help stop the spread, in a nice way!

[@davesmith5656]

@@hgrunenwald ---- Thanks, I try to be polite, but fail when someone is doing a video in at least a semi-expert thing and misses a common word found on, of all places, You Tube videos. Or some video about a disaster that they guy doesn't bother to either tell as it happened, or even tell a story without crossing his own path in confusion. I know it's entertainment, but it degrades things, and as you say, gotta help stop the spread (started by open use of four-letter words by unfunny would-be comedians). The "Who / whom " thing is something that should be clarified all across the board, even $5,000,000 dollar a year news anchors misuse the two ("news"?). So common, and incorrect, to hear, "The man who [sic] they referred to", or similar.

[@hgrunenwald]

@@davesmith5656 I hear you on all points! The thing that drives me nuts more than anything is the overuse and misuse of "literally," in recent years. People on the internet seem to use it as some kind of hyperbole, just to add shock factor and emphasize something they're figuratively talking about. That, and a lot of times I hear people misusing "conspiracy" to mean, at best, "theory"-and at worst, something like "myth." Many people don't bother to say "conspiracy theory," and I don't think it is common knowledge anymore that some of these theories have been proven to be true. One of the more popular storytellers on KZbin says he was an English major, but he is hard for me to listen to. Not only does he fail to check his facts or look up the correct way to pronounce names of people and places, but also, every few sentences have a dangling participle. It is refreshing to know that other people out there still care about language!

[@patrickagee]

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[@shawnparadise6504]

Your videos are amazing. Thank you.

[@snowymatrix]

Every other team on the mountain INCLUDING his own team mate went back down the mountain but father's fatal mistake in thinking he knew better is why his son is dead and his wife is full of bitterness. Of course, as someone who understands why people feel the need to test themselves against nature I will not critique the climbers. They paid the ultimate price in the ultimate challenge. This and all the other deaths will never stop those whose human spirit propels them to soar like an eagle above all the other pidgens...

[@justinedse8435]

A gastric rupture? What causes that?

[@joshuapatrick682]

understand that an avalanche can literally rip a person apart. It’s forces on scales that are used to describe explosions.

[@ImThePronounPolice]

I love it when the narrator says "I hope you all enjoyed this video". I don't think enjoy is the right word -I think I would say-I hope you all learned something from this video. I don't enjoy hearing about all these deaths, but it's interesting to hear how they came about.

[@iSnaaacky]

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[@Just.A.T-Rex]

Grow little channel grow!

[@carlswenson5403]

Couloir = "Cool-wahr" Bivouac = "Biv-wack"

[@alict59]

According to Merriam-Webster it can also be pronounced biva-wak.

[@carlswenson5403]

@@alict59 ok .. i dont really care what a dictionary says, I care what we actually say. every other climber ive ever met on several continents over at least half-dozen languages say "biv-wack". not splitting hairs here, but ive had to spend a few nights out in uncomfortable places nearly freezing to death in the process, colloquially, we simply say "bivy" *- I take that back, I met a New Zealander who said "beevweck", but their vowels are all screwy anyway

[@leyann8499]

Never heard any Army guy add an extra syllable, 'biv-a-wak'. Its actually 'Bivouac', or past tense 'Bivouacked'. But I'm Navy

[@funnyperson4027]

0:33 I’m a little confused on where this was said as convergent -convergent plate boundaries are rarely able to form volcanic systems due to the density of the crust. Did you mean “geologically active”? Or “tectonically active”?

[@opalishmoth8591]

Normally I don’t want to judge the actions people take on these mountains. Accidentally stumbling upon a dead body while filming assent is one thing. Even forgetting that the go-pro on your helmet is filming understandable - especially given the condition of the bodies in the case. Now I will not look up the video. But if was from a handheld camera… then continuing to capture footage was a choice. And posting it online…. Disgusting. They should have just reported to base camp / authorities to then privately informed the next of kin.

[@charlesf4493]

“Return with their lives intact”. Is an interesting expression. If you mean they died then I think it is incorrect. Intact suggests something short of death, like serious physical or psychological injury. I’m not sure that’s what you meant.

[@daniellee5147]

Even if they were found, how the hell would they get them down?

[@Za7a7aZ]

Of course the modern climbing materials contribute to successful everest summits but at the time of Hillary he was almost welcomed home with a ticket parade ..now it looks as if sumitting everest is not much more than a winter pass time..

[@RadianIndustries]

Great video. For future reference, the word "couloir" is pronounced "kool-waar."

[@MrSpartanPaul]

That was driving me crazy.

[@blaydeesy2005]

Damn, just telling people not to seek out the video probably tempted them to do it. Sad part is the mother/wife possibly seeing it. Not criticizing it, just how people are. Always enjoy the video.

[@julianfowler1608]

Volcanoes??

[@modnarer]

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[@TheBaleadaMan]

soooooooo, anyone have the video??

[@Cosmic_Deity_]

Ever found it?

[@hambone950]

Anybody have the video?

[@moiraatkinson]

I can’t believe how many people decide not to use bottled oxygen on these climbs. I would have said it was worth the extra weight of carrying it. A lot of people who profess to want to climb alpine style, I think believe they can make it easier by carrying less weight, including camping gear etc. Buy you can’t guarantee being able to dash up and descend safely and quickly in these mountains. I can’t help wondering if more people would have survived if they’d had oxygen and tents to sleep in, instead of having to use bivvy bags and run out of water and food on top of being hypoxic. There are some individuals who can summit the “easier” 8,000 m peaks like Everest without oxygen, but most people are adding a huge risk. Not everyone is Reinhold Messner.

[@Za7a7aZ]

Maybe a stupid question but how come some of these mountains are so pointy and sticking out..😮

[@GottaLoveGoats]

Mountains like this are created when two of earth’s tectonic plates collide. When the two plates collide, the only release of that violent collision is up!

[@M450No]

Adventuring before 1900: WE MAY BE MAULED, STARVING, THIRSTY, LOST, AND MAY NOT MAKE IT TO OUR GOAL. WE WILL PUSH ON TILL THE END OF THE MONTH! Adventuring past 2000: 🤓Cmon guys let’s go make history. 😰😭🥺 things getting scary can you pwease send some natives to rescue us

[@Ecstaticgoat]

And all this influx of climbers heading to the karakoram range are leaving behind their trash. K2 NOW HAS BECOME A TRASH.. SIGHT

[@JavierBonillaC]

Great videos, just subscribed.

[@warm.t33th]

congrats on your first sponsor!!

[@Runehorn]

It's always hilarious to me watching people try to sell raid shadow legend and make it sound like it's interesting.

[@cantgetright_24_7]

At around 17:00 in that picture, is that a road behind that guy? And it looks like he keeps going? Can you just drive up there cuz I would do that.

[@sv4647]

That's not a road, that's the glacier that they used to teach to the mountain. And no you don't wanna drive on a glacier

[@sv4647]

At first it may look small in that picture. But it's actually ~1 mile wide I suggest to look at the picture carefully.

[@cantgetright_24_7]

Cool! Thanks for the education gentleman. Ignorance is the enemy of humanity. Thanks for doing your part. You are appreciated!

[@sv4647]

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[@bradsanders407]

You see it at the beginning of the video.

[@Skaatje]

Happy for you to have a sponsor, just a shame it's raid shadow legends. Horrible game that exploits both whales and F2P's.

[@sauce1232]

9:12 using fixed ropes is not Alpine style.

[@dirtyrottenhikers4972]

Having seen some extremely graphic videos myself and wishing that I hadn't I can attest to the advice to not seek out the footage.

[@raaga1994]

Where can i actually watch that video?

[@violagentsch]

Why were their bodies in such bad shape?

[@T3hderk87]

@@violagentsch they were ripped apart by the velocity of the avalanche and rocks. I honestly wouldn't look it up... There is another video of a Chinese team ascending K2 that includes the tomahawking body of an Irish climber falling down the mountain, I really can't unsee that....

[@violagentsch]

@@T3hderk87 thanks. I won't look it up.

[@edinsoncavanirespector9078]

28mins ?😮

[@polarisnorth]

It was a bad year.

[@nopenadaOG]

Honestly, picturing the mountain being all “sure. Yeah. Cool. Come climb me! Summit! Muwahahahaha good luck getting back down, though” Just kidding. The mountain is a mountain and subject to all qualities of mountains, and the mountains have no cares for humans and their goals. But, it still seems ironic how often they are done in by the descent. These people live hard, joy hard and die hard.

[@bluupill]

I've never heard the word "however" this many times in one video

[@Luge_Lessons]

Awesome video, love your content, but for the next time, it's pronounced cool-wah-er (couloir)... Not whatever you were saying. Cheers.

[@irishpsalteri]

Thank you.

[@PrimevalDemon]

I'm not surprised or stunned by anything that happens in regards to mountaineering anymore, stupid or sensational, none of it ever seems to follow logic. Ego is a symptom of a sickness I do not know the name of, but mountaineering surely is one of the clearest calling cards from the same. It's taken far too much yet it will continue to take more and more even beyond ourselves and our allotted time on this earth. Forever regrettable, yet forever interesting for much the same reasons.

[@EvilEyeGypsy]

Everyone dies, but not everyone truly lives. Some people are driven to push beyond the normal limits. It’s a primordial drive, and not easily ignored.