The Ladyfinger Peak (Bublimotin) Disaster

[@cjhood3091]

It's so refreshing seeing really well done videos about mountains other than Everest and K2. Keep up the good work, friend.

[@aazhie]

absolutely agree. There's so many lesser known locations, always fascinating to hear about a new mountain I've never heard of!

[@SgtJager00]

I love how you give attention to much less known and documented mountains and have a more refined approach to what makes a mountain truly one of the most difficult to ascend. Whereas many channels will say a mountain is the hardest based solely on its height, mortality rate, and/or popularity, you show many people what are, in fact, the most unrelenting mountains in the world. Idk if covering mostly mountains burns you out, but know that mountain lovers like me are very grateful for these videos! Also, is mount Denali on the list for future videos?

[@POLARTTYRTM]

I was now just responding to a guy swearing that K2 is more difficult than the Trango Towers, a family of peaks that can take up to a whole month or more to climb and go down in one expedition, deemed almost unanimously the most difficult peaks to climb on earth, lmao. K2 is just popular and climbed all the time, some ACTUALLY difficult mountains have not seen a successful summit for DECADES now and many of them have less than 10 successful summits in all of history. That's why they are such a small niché in the community, because they are so difficult and dangerous that almost no one dares to try them, even the most hardcore climbers. People who are clueless funnily enough are the most confident in their words.

[@roderickflint1330]

I agree

[@atheistsince1210]

OMG please I couldn't live with Morbid Midnights mountaineering videos !!!!!

[@kirstybrown1185]

⁠@@POLARTTYRTM you’re moaning about people chatting 💩 by doing it yourself? 1 in 4 people who summit K2 will die. You’re describing Everest climb being done by many people. K2 is so dangerous whole years pass with no one being able to summit. Yeah, Trango may be more difficult but saying K2 is easy is incredibly silly, at best. You’re right, you said that nonsense very confidently. You sound pretty young, gonna assume you’ve got all your information from YT then had the audacity to be such a hypocrite without even realising it. 😅 Your excitement about mountains is great but you can always learn more.

[@POLARTTYRTM]

​@@kirstybrown1185 ​ You are moaning about bs and you do it yourself expecting me to take you seriously while you use emoji like a teen girl who is glued to their phone on snapchat all day? K2 only sees more people die because it's more popular and many people that try to climb it are not experience enough. Also, not 1 in 4 people will perish, that's a wild exaggeration of the fatality rate which is NOT a rule of thumb, if it was like that every single expedition to the summit of K2 would see multiple dead people EVERY SINGLE TIME, yet that does not happen, it's an approximation, so what you are claiming, is not the case, that is an exaggeration you are making of the 20% fatality rate. If that is the case then please explain how so many successful summits to K2 happen all the time without anyone in any teams pass away, I though 20% of them WILL pass away though? Why does not that happen, huh? Also, if you actually knew how to read I did NOT say K2 is "easy", it's not by any means, but its difficulty completely PALE in comparison with the niché peaks that only appeal to an extremely small community of the most dedicated, risk-taking mountaineers that have world-class rock and ice climbing skills to even THINK of trying to ascend some of the hardcore peaks out there, as in being dedicated to climb peaks in the likes of Cerro Torre, Torre Egger, K1, Muztagh, Huandoy Sur, Jannu, Changabang, and other mountains of that caliber that are composed of mostly bare vertical rock walls. K2 has only seen so many ascents because it's popular, meanwhile, many peaks that are a testament to human limits have not seen more than 4 successful attempts in all mountaineering history. You seem to break a record of bs said per comment even if it's short. You are truly the one who has no idea what you are talking about. There are mountains out there so difficult that their last successful summit was over 40 years ago.

[@Skymaster.47]

I love how this channel makes video on less known mountaneering tragedies. Respect!

[@dennislower4742]

I'm really glad I found your channel. You have taken me down the rabbit hole of mountaineering expeditions. Thanks from Suffolk Virginia

[@samcar06c]

Always great to see someone's from southern VA! I grew up in Portsmouth/Chesapeake!

[@dennislower4742]

@@samcar06c me too

[@dfinlen]

Lol same yay..

[@mannyquinones6020]

You have the best channel for this type of content Bro Keep it up!

[@robinhollinger3531]

I love learning about mountaineering disasters because it's morbid, but it's a danger I will never actually experience (finally, one thing i DON'T have to worry about!)

[@ThePdog3k]

Ditto. Meanwhile caving disasters give me literal nightmares.

[@archstanton_live]

Lady finger, dipped in moonlight, writing what for? Across the morning sky. Sunlight splatters, dawn with answer, Darkness shrugs and bids the day good-bye.

[@jamesandrews8698]

Haha noice

[@Sydopath]

Keep smoking that weed bro 👍

[@atheistsince1210]

Something about the perfect synergy and unspoken sense of mystical awe that Morbid Midnight infuses into all his legendary mountaineering superhero's as soon as I saw the shape of the mountain I knew the impossible was coming into play a good name for the peak would be Devil Horn. Another perfectly addicting video !!!! 🌎💯👑

[@tomhutchins7495]

I get vertigo just looking at the photos of people on these peaks. I'd love to see more videos on these incredibly tough peaks regardless of there being a tragedy involved. Your narration and breathtaking photos along with the history of the peaks are what keeps me coming back.

[@patrickagee]

72K!!! Proud of you my boy and these vids NEVER get dull!!!!!!!

[@Sydopath]

Great video and well narrated. Great stuff!

[@zodiac138]

What better way to round out my sunday- pizza, my fav smoke and the Dopest story teller. Real journalism. Absolutely intriguing stories.Big up to the channel

[@Friedolays]

OOWWEEEE FUKU SMOKE FIJU KUIMCHE KUBACHO KIWINER POOPOO FUUUUUUJIDA!

[@sdriza]

exactly - this guy is setting a new standard

[@jro341]

If you like story telling check out The Fat Electrician, Cassius Marcellus Clay. It is a story we all need to hear.

[@eldgeth3799]

I’m looking at this and thinking, where would you even bivouac? A true nightmare

[@kirstybrown1185]

You’d likely have to take extreme hanging tents. Then risk the rock falls being an issue. Can see this being a solely alpine style climb. This isn’t an expedition rock climb.

[@mattwhite8556]

Yeah that looks nuts

[@danielfox9461]

You haven't seen how these people with broken brains will hammer a spike or hook in the rock and hang a little tent from it and somehow sleep like that, literally dangling off a rock wall?

[@jordanfarr9033]

never thought id see something that makes cerro torre look relatively chill by comparison. jesus absolute fuck

[@filipdjordjevic4830]

Your mounteneering videos are amazing!!! I'm hooked.. Ceep them comming..

[@courtneylaird6768]

😮😅 your videos help remind me why I have a fear of heights and why I will never ascend such a peak

[@debbieellett9093]

Same here😳

[@StephenFlynn-xl2fw]

I watch these videos with my eyes closed.

[@carlswenson5403]

13:50 --- just to add to your hypothesizing about this ascent, the rope-solo technique he likely used to attempt to climb this peak is something he would have very likely learned and practiced in Yosemite. There may of course be other motives involved, but technically speaking, this objective would be very similar (at least logistically) to the California big-wall test pieces like Elcap or Half Dome, and for sure would have been a natural transition for an accomplished mountaineer who had learned some more advanced technical rock climbing skills so he could attempt harder peaks

[@daveatkins3568]

“More of a sling your body over it kind of peak” no thanks. 😎✌🏻

[@o_o8203]

Considering the funeral/memorial and the timing, it seems like the motivation to do this was tied to grief around his friend's passing.

[@toscadonna]

I agree. This wasn’t a rational decision to climb this alone. I think he probably wanted to end it.😢

[@pretzelhunt]

survivor guilt can affect ones' decision-making, with someone so close to him dying so closely to him, plus where and when he was.

[@thejudgmentalcat]

The guys who paraglided off the summit were smart...seems descents are more dangerous than ascents?

[@3tic]

far more. you're drunk on adrenaline from the summit experience, usually still recovering from acute altitude sickness if the summit was above 12,000ft/3700m, and as the final spark to the flame, you're trying to move fast to get as much ground covered as possible before sunset, because you dont want to be caught above the treeline after dark without having made camp yet and you want a fucking cheeseburger so bad you're about to keeping walking til you get to town. LOL usually, by comparison, the ascent is the easier (or less dangerous is maybe more accurate) part of the two.

[@jmurelli8416]

always, for all mountains. you're weaker, euphoric and get easy into thinking the hardest part is over

[@stef1074]

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[@MrTwotimess]

Razor-sharp ridges look dangerously scary.

[@irishpsalteri]

I love this channel.

[@BruceBlackstar666]

Thank you for adding related videos in the description

[@HandyMan657]

Thanks for the episode, Midnight. Take care.

[@FranktheDachshund]

This video caused me to have a nightmare. I was climbing this same peak without gear, when I got to the top there was no place to even sit. Realizing I was going to have to climb down, I went into a panic, then woke up.

[@phoenixmerridian9119]

is that....some personality I hear @ 7:21? Oh my haha

[@InYorFace]

Right... this video is driving me nuts cause of his voice. Lol

[@larrynicholson5810]

Another fine video, Midnight..🎉

[@jamiesnow8190]

Thanks for the content!

[@bluegreenglue6565]

Wow, I thought Ultar Sar was terrifying! Bublimotin is a bare-faced nightmare (or dream, depending on your point of view). Thank you.

[@dennislower4742]

Really like the way you weave the story

[@sergeantpeppers8858]

1:00 So we're just gonna ignore the skull in the mountain on the right? I'm not saying it was carved by aliens... but it was aliens.

[@relicdad88]

I nvr wouldve noticed that until u pointed it out creepy looking no thx I hate climbing ladders at work lol

[@Galfrid]

Yeah, aliens did it 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nonna_sof5889]

No, no it was a giant who was killed and petrified in the global mud flood. /s

[@ThePdog3k]

Thanks I didn't think anyone would see that but you did!

[@michaelwittmann2644]

I love the smell of watching terrifying disaster videos.

[@edinsoncavanirespector]

0:40 distinct sleep slopes . It’s more like a straight vertical line from top to bottom 😶

[@prettypuff1]

This is my favorite channel by far…

[@CheapSquierBassPlayer]

Legend has it that a one square foot area at the very tip is haunted.

[@bobdrooples]

Any plans to use channel earnings to go climb one of these deathtraps?

[@Galfrid]

🤣🤣

[@williamwalker-bm5mz]

LMAO😅😂

[@karyn552003]

And then a nice refreshing cave diving swim tonrelax🤔

[@piyoweb]

People climbed in VERY DANGEROUS environment and died doing so.....why would the community be so surprised....😮

[@AnthonyWilliams-ew3wp]

I can’t understand how anyone looks at this and decides it would be a good idea to climb it.

[@Galfrid]

I don't think anyone considers it "a good idea". It's more like "I'm going to be the first one up that thing" or "That looks like an interesting challenge".

[@williamwalker-bm5mz]

Life is a challenge...let alone climbing a vertical rock structure covered in snow with cold temperatures

[@ritualj0int]

Ahaha very much appreciated the meme in the middle. lmao 🤣

[@vcupiano]

They need to change the name to something more menacing like dragon tooth.

[@nicholasoberling6653]

Are you kidding? Women are vastly more dangerous than dragons

[@undertow2142]

I like “deadly shard” for the name.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

But "Ladyfinger peak" has a certain charm, a je ne sais quoi . . .

[@jtdurr03]

You've clearly never been married

[@acleanpairofsocks]

That’s one of the least welcoming mountains I’ve ever seen.

[@Baltistanadventure]

Amazing,can you please send a picture of Lady finger peak with climbing route?

[@karenj.5910]

The ridge shown at 2:20 looks like the blade of a knife.

[@madmouseille]

I'm listening to this at work and 7:22 almost made me spit out my water all over the computer

[@16gauge90]

Heading off to bed, but something to look forward to with my morning coffee!

[@Friedolays]

OawweeeEEEEE FUKUSHIMA COFFEE OWEEEEAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

[@piperg6179]

Same here. I am going off to bed as you did 8 days ago. If you still want to climb this, drop a note and tomorrow morning we can work out the details. Right now i am thinking of climbing it on the long Memorial Day weekend so we aren’t rushed.

[@joek9372]

You show Ladyfinger Peak as adjacent to the Trango Towers on the Baltoro Glacier. It is actually in Hunza.

[@mattwhite8556]

Cool, I’d never heard of this mountain

[@dimebagdave77]

Manythnx Morbid Midnight 🤘

[@sdriza]

C'mon, we need a via ferrata route up to the top - with a huge price tag - could be a huge hit.

[@LeadFarmer1597]

That was Trango Monk in the Trango Towers photo, not Ladyfinger. Ladyfinger is 150km away.

[@smedleyx]

rock falls seem unfair -- you could be doing everything right with your plan, looking after your gear, watching the weather -- then some random boulder out of nowhere. kind of a socially-acceptable type of russian roulette. but at least it's less horrifying than cave diving

[@youtubeletmeintoyoutube4580]

Can’t sleep, appreciate the upload

[@Sutairn]

I am only 3 minutes into this video and I swear you have said "ladyfinger peak" 2 million times already

[@williambrasky3891]

How bout you do something more constructive with everyone’s time? All of us can tell you’ve been dying to straddle the rock hard peak of my ladyfinger ever since you got a peak at this ladyfinger! You might learn that you too yearn to squeeze ladyfinger peak into more places than you ever thought possible. Careful though, legend has it some of those piqued by the wonders of ladyfinger peak grow mad with delirium, so enraptured by the ecstasy of the experience that they’ll go up then down, and then up then down, and up and down over and over again, all day then through the night, for days on end until…. Let’s just say there’s a reason it’s said that you don’t top ladyfinger peak. Ladyfinger Peak tops you. And those able to wrest themselves away from ladyfinger peak physically report once they straddled the pinnacle of ladyfinger peak a part of themselves was left there, mentally. They say the moment you swing your leg over & begin to press your weight into that massive rock it’s as if it clears a ladyfinger peak sized hole somewhere inside of you, a hole no mere lady, nor finger, nor peak can ever seem to fill. It’s said nothing else comes close. Ladyfinger Peak doesn’t have a gift shop (for now), but if it did and if in that shop were T-shirts, it’d read, “I peaked at the peak of Ladyfinger Peak” Honestly, I forgot where I was supposed to be going with this, but I think it was something about flys and vinegar and what not. So the creator could probably be a bit more liberal with the use of pronouns? So what? Why don’t you express that criticism in a way that doesn’t make them want to go off on a long tangent about Ladyfinger peak while using “ladyfinger peak” as many times as humanly possible just to spite you? What do you think about that? You’re not the one putting in the work to consistently put out high quality videos for everyone else’s entertainment, are you? No? Then act like it. P.S. Ladyfinger Peak

[@nyrbsamoht]

great video. i question his motives. light and fast is the best option for dangerous terrain. he chose to rope solo - the most time consuming form of climbing there possibly could be - in some documented dangerous terrain. it multiplies the chances so dramatically of having an accident. having rope under tension for so long with rocks whizzing by not a good combination

[@oldschool1993]

Skip to 10:00 for the story and to avoid this guy's droning whisper any more than necessary.

[@tonyhull9427]

Isn’t that Little Monk next to the nameless Trengo tower, not the Ladyfinger peak?

[@Eimost]

Don't know the name but deffo not Ladyfinger

[@blackhawkorg]

Rest in Peace, Sir

[@DavidMichaels-s9y]

That's fricken crazy, buddy.

[@RabunRaban]

Good stuff. However dont think this photo captures both Trango towers and Ladyfinger Peak, as they are way further apart and could not be visible together.

[@Linda98671]

It’s sad and seems that mountain climbers will keep on until they perish, on one mountain or another.

[@croatia0728]

Drinking game: take a shot every time he says “Japanese mountaineering community”

[@SSEi02]

It’s sufficient for me to see it from a distance.

[@bluewhalestudioblenderanim1132]

the odds of someone climbing up there and down are AWFUL to say the least . . may aswell call it "finger of death" people who want to take that gamble are far less concerned about self preserervation than proving they can get up this thing

[@jpmtlhead39]

This is a Real Peak even by definition.

[@chrisschaeffer9661]

They blamed their Failures on the Death of another? Great Logic. What do you expect from people who Climb?

[@Nuttyirishman85]

Seemed like he was climbing it in honor of his boy, I’m sure they discussed climbing it.

[@wildwildhorsy]

These are some serious mountains

[@Washington-Dreaming]

Know why it’s called “Ladyfinger Peak”? ‘Cause she’ll give you the middle one if you’re dumb enough to climb her.

[@wheressteve]

Why don't you want to climb it ? Because it is there.

[@christinemorrison4418]

Stuff of nightmares for sure!

[@davidpawson7393]

Early crew.

[@tedthesailor172]

One man attempting to climb a notoriously difficulty peak and dying without success hardly amounts to a disaster. A tragedy perhaps, but not a disaster...

[@Howwhen_IQof9]

I wander of The Summit of the Gods was partially inspired by him

[@Kariakas]

What a shear peak.

[@gregkosinski2303]

I don’t know if I’d call this shocking. Shocking would be if he summited it and made it down.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Less commonly referred to as; The Stinky Pinky.

[@tangobayus]

Suicide by mountain.

[@sdickinson5234]

If you die doing something ridiculously dangerous as a hobby is it a disaster or is it just stupidity running it's natural course?

[@anthony5335]

@sdickinson5234, good question An eternal debate... Where precisely does one draw the line between "Audacious Courage" vs "Stupid Recklessness"?? Much that is "Smart & Wise" is also "Cravenly Cowardly," & much that is "Bravely Courageous" is also "Recklessly Retarded" or even "Downright Insane" What seems to matter most is the outcome. Does it succeed, or does it blow up in one's face? That WW2 Archie guy Rambo is apparently partly based upon...yeah, his little "man against world" gambit undoubtedly seemed "insanely stupid," until it worked. Even more so for the Brandenburgers who went deep behind the lines of the Red Army. One famous Brandenburger exploit was when a small group of them encountered a huge convoy of panicked Red Army soldiers who were spent. Imagine being in that position as a huge convoy of Red Army neared. Instead of laying low & playing it safe, the audaciously gallant Brandenburgers saw an opportunity that must have seemed "pure madness, pure stupidity" A Brandenburger approached the retreating Red Army, made an audacious inspiring speech about not giving up the fight & how they must fight to save the "Motherland" (funny how suddenly nations mattered when Bolshevism was under threat...days before the German pre-emptive strike began, speaking of "Motherland" was portrayed as "waycism" is today) The German Brandenburgers rallied these spent Red Army desperados & convinced them to join forces. The Germans realized that these Red Army desperados offered fantastic cover for them. Very risky, death would be slow & certain were they to have failed, but failed they did not, not here at least. Point being, any sane man wouldve called the Brandenburgers "recklessly stupid" & tried to talk them out of such an endeavor. This isnt to say it's "wise" or even "courageous" to go crawling through muck in uncharted caves no wider than a laptop screen. Maybe if there's an exceptional "cause/purpose" at hand...perhaps a treasure trove or some miraculous rare "magical cure element"...maybe then it's "wise" to do such things, but it's largely an "in eye of beholder" subjective thing, & again, the outcome is largely what matters. Part of the reason Hitler is still presently maligned is simply b/c he lost. "Yea mate, you tried taking on 'the globalists'...jolly good cause...trying to more or less simultaneously take on 4 global empires w/75% the planet's resources under their control as you only managed to at your peak control the resources of a spent penninsula...but, you lost bro, to the damn Bolsheviks too, ouch...your ppl are vanquished & occupied & vassalized...you shouldve been more clever about it mate...you shouldve waited mate...so f you! rot in hell! Long live globohomo, child trannies, legally binding no fault divorce contracts, & the rest of teh poz!"

[@Benji-jj2bg]

its still a disaster bud. Your peaceful and spoiled life was built on the backs of people like these climbers. People looking for challenges and willing to take risks. But yes, I get it, you dont think its smart so how dare someone do it. People like you are the ones who prosecuted and condemned people taking risks in the past.. Some people live to challenge themselves, get over it.

[@scallopohare9431]

@@Benji-jj2bgNothing in my life was formed by this. It is recreation, dangerous, expensive recreation, but that is all. It contributes no more to the rest of the world than surfing or Yahtze.

[@ericthiel4053]

Pretty wild. This is essentially a rock climb in the middle of an ice climb. No thanks. For me, I like to enjoy the hike and climb. Something that is so adverse its no longer fun just isnt worth it to me. But to each their own.

[@TTillahFK]

...In the woorld

[@thomaseriksen6885]

Lady Fingerpeak

[@scarletmacaw]

I climbed this mountain before.

[@Maxine1630]

Me too!!

[@houseofsolomon2440]

Post video/photos lol

[@Jeh2032]

🧢!

[@Ausaini17]

I cartwheeled up this “mountain”, did a handstand on the summit, then fell to my fucking death.

[@anniehills3580]

These climbers are like mountain goats!😊

[@DavidMichaels-s9y]

Yeah, if you could , at the end of each pitch, have a warm dry calm bed to sleep in that would b different

[@batchagaloopytv5816]

pakistaaaahn 😂😂😂😂ok

[@DJ-ws6je]

Bro has peaked

[@gbedmonds1594]

This is what makes mountain climbing so insane. Dude makes a historic summit but on the way down his friend ends up dying and so to commemorate this he decides to do something like this? I just don't get it.

[@unclepauly3205]

speed up the video by 1.25 to hear this guy talk like a normal person instead of this sassy elongated crap

[@rdbchase]

"ma-SEEF", not "mass-if"

[@NerdyOG]

Akito did it

[@awesomeo422]

My cat climbed this mountain before

[@jurgschupbach3059]

Bulimie Gorge

[@jaredmehrlich6683]

🇯🇵 🇯🇵 REST IN PEACE 🇯🇵 🇯🇵

[@sethjazz7262]

Peak pointy

[@handsomedevil7072]

Looks like a fokin disaster.

[@michaeldailey7103]

Worship the Creator , not the created !!

[@Ausaini17]

No worship going on here, just climbing.

[@nonna_sof5889]

Plate tectonics? Not sure why you feel the need to worship something, but you do you.

[@michellelilljack5514]

Can't listen to.this..the weird voice

[@mercoid]

Absolutely awful narration style!!

[@rih128]

The music killed the video for me.

[@jim9983]

this video should only be about 5 or 6 minutes long. the first ten minutes was a whole lot of nothing.

[@hmd6202]

how about you get lost

[@jim9983]

@@hmd6202 anything for you sweetheart

[@jim9983]

@@hmd6202 anything for you sweetheart

[@jim9983]

@@hmd6202 anything for you sweetheart

[@jim9983]

@@hmd6202 anything for you sweetheart

[@Friedolays]

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[@mike79patton]

You can't call what that mountain has "slopes." Slopes would infer a gradual ascent. Those are walls. Vertical, intimidating walls.