The Terrifying Last Minutes of 21 Ultramarathon Runners

[@biscuitandbailey]

The fact that the villagers had to save people when they organizers were busy contemplating wether to send help or not because it would ruin the “marathon” is absurd

[@williamafton4427]

Like how authorities and government leaders were too busy contemplating/arguing over what to do after the Fukashima disaster

[@nickmaclachlan5178]

There's a particular trait in Chinese and other Asian societies, where to go back on what you have said or agreed to is a massive loss of character and respect. It shows that you may have made a poor decision before and even if you know yourself to be wrong you have to carry on regardless to "save face" and protect your reputation. I have worked with Chinese people in the past where there was obviously a problem caused by incorrectly sized gas pipework causing low gas flow (I am a combustion engineering specialist). The obvious and easiest remedy would have been to change the pipework for larger diameter runs, but they wouldn't do that as it would be admitting they were wrong. They chose a different solution which they were told wouldn't work and ended up having an explosion in their boiler. I try my hardest not to work with Chinese people now........

[@redblade8160]

@biscuitandbailey The idiots who went on the marathon are to blame!

[@simonfea2]

​@redblade8160 No, God is to blame for creating weather. Or maybe the sun for creating wind.

[@badgerbun]

You've obviously never served on a Vulcan ship before. "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few"

[@supercowgaming]

9:07 "However not all the found runners needed help. Some already had frozen to death." Man I wasn't expecting the follow-up sentence to be that grim. Smh.

[@nhatho1723]

Right?! I thought "wow! humans are so resilient! oh....nevermind..."

[@zachariaholmsted786]

Good two sentence horror story.

[@DELTAFORCE747HD]

I’m glad I wasn’t the only person that noticed 😭😭

[@lavapop1900]

Exactly I took it as though the runners knew it all and they were okay not death

[@TheGameOverture]

Wild they were worried about overheating, but then freezing to death was what happened...

[@jasonorjoshlee7607]

The woman who ran 68 km in that weather is extremely impressive…like how??

[@mlzovozlm]

considering she aimed for 1st place, likly elite runner, she probably ran past the area before the rain even came, it's not like the entire tens km square all got the same weather

[@bitters879]

Because China is almost as scary as North Korea when it comes settling for less than first, regardless of how things end up.

[@SuperLordHawHaw]

@@bitters879 Not true

[@SuperLordHawHaw]

@@mlzovozlm This was pretty much it. She was just ahead of the squall.

[@jarlwhiterun7478]

Dumbness

[@bigchungus8108]

As tragic as this event is, I think the fact that they were all out looking for eachother to provide aid really helped to reduce the amount of casualties.

[@MsAmira1988]

I wouldn't call an ultramarathon a "regular running competition". It's pretty intense what these athletes go through!

[@jayhuewt2002]

Heck, a regular marathon is 42.2k and even that isn’t healthy for the human body.

[@Vergil3489]

yeah. really unfortunate and sad situation, but i can't see why someone who is 60+ years old would consider taking part in a competition like this

[@RileyRunTheCity]

​@Vergil3489, you'd be surprised most ppl who do Ultra marathons are over the age of 50. Runners are some strange ppl lol and I run myself I just stick to half marathon or less

[@dubstepforever99]

Meanwhile i can't run more than 200 meter without being exhausted.

[@troybaxter]

​@@RileyRunTheCity this is true. The running group I am in is full of 30-50 year olds (minus a few 20 years old like me). And these guys RUN. These guys always talk about when the next ultra is going to be and who is going to participate in it. Heck, they are literally talking about the next Ultra in 3 months after having just finished an Ultra this past weekend. Ultra Marathon runners are insane. Meanwhile I'm over here struggling to get past a half (note: I have done a marathon once so far).

[@christopherandrews9232]

Not me, but my mom. Back in the mid 70’s, before I was born, she was invited to go on a boat out on Lake Erie with her friends. She had to work that day, but her friends told her to call off sick. There was a total of five people. She decided the day before to go to work. Lake Erie is known for its unpredictability. It’s good that she didn’t go because a freak storm erupted and everyone on board died, except one, he managed to swim to shore. Myself and my two sisters were almost never born

[@mrdiippzzz7444]

Glad your mom survived but just to inform you, you still would of been born if your mom had gotten on that boat. You are actually carried by your father until he passes the seed to your mother. So you just might have had a different mom. 😊

[@LtEvangel]

@@mrdiippzzz7444 impossible. she/he would not be exist because the father have millions of sperm, and she/he might or might not survive inside different mother..

[@GoogleUser-uv9bo]

Whoa! Red pill blue pill type moment for your mom! 🥺😭

[@mangosteenmontoya]

@@mrdiippzzz7444Irrelevant and disrespectful.

[@mrdiippzzz7444]

@@mangosteenmontoya She said she would have never been born. That’s not true. Nothing I wrote was mean what I said is a fact. Literally started it with I’m glad your mom survived. You can feel however you want about it. Statement remains true. Fathers are the providers of life. Mothers are the creators of life.

[@theerepenterakatheecomfort277]

In case you are confused about the woman who was still running. The video said she was unaware of the storm and she was about to win so she was ahead of the storm, it said she was in a separate area from the others who were harmed aka aware

[@ellemmenn2930]

Thank you for sharing

[@jlvandat69]

I began flying in my late teens, and learned to watch the weather very carefully when planning. It was a habit that paid off in nearly every pursuit since. KZbin is filled with examples of tragedies easily avoided by more attention to weather conditions. Ironically, we live in a time when such vital info is readily available and generally reliable.

[@MsJubjubbird]

Runners don't pay that much attention to specific winds. Cloud and wind are fine to run in. But if the organisers knew something else then they should have cancelled it. You put your faith in the organisers that if really terrible weather is ahead that it will be cancelled.

[@jlvandat69]

@@MsJubjubbird Understood. My point was that having a strong interest in weather due to my background helped in whatever activities I engaged in.....but that sort of background isn't usual.

[@MsJubjubbird]

@@jlvandat69 I do watersports as well as run. For watersports, I will know the wind and swell by the hour. To run I just care that it's not going to be stupidly hot or really stormy and that's good enough. It depends on the activity. One would think the organisers would be onto it and you could trust them

[@jlvandat69]

@@MsJubjubbird Absolutely.......that "should" be a safe assumption. This event in China is incredibly sad.

[@Holly-hm8wu]

This isn’t on the runners, this is the pilot equivalent of Oshkosh not being canceled with an occluded front threatening. There would still be pilots trying to fly in just because they haven’t canceled the event. This is gross negligence on the event organizers.

[@gvdhhfvv]

The rule of 3's i learned is 3 weeks with no food, 3 days with no water, and 3 hrs with no shelter.

[@earthandsky464]

and 3 minutes without air

[@driftingporpoises4225]

@@earthandsky464and 3 seconds without brain

[@simpsonedward7734]

3 milliseconds without phone

[@ddahstan6876]

Well, from my own experience, you can survive up to weeks (if not months) without food but only days without water. But then it all depends on how resilient your body is and your survival instincts. I was a very young "boat person" and lived through weeks with pretty much no food and water. While some other kids died, and some other adult bodies gave out when we were rescued onto an island, I was still doing a marathon in the sand trying to have fun with the crabs. 😀

[@jessepitt]

@@driftingporpoises4225 I’m pretty sure a lot of people live their entire lives without one.

[@cathyorendorf]

In April 2012 my son ran the Boston Marathon. Before the race the runners were given the option of deferring their candidacy until the following year because it was going to be unusually hot day and they were worried that many people would be affected badly by running in that heat. We had traveled from Delaware by car and stayed at a hotel, so my son decided to run anyway. He was affected by the heat, had a slow time, but was still happy about his decision to run. The following year, 2013 was the year of the Boston marathon bombing, my daughter and her husband in 2012 had been watching the race from right where one of the bombs exploded in 2013, we were so happy my son didn't defer until the following year.

[@davidh6300]

Back in 2009 i decided not to go hiking near Marysville outside of Melbourne because i was tired from work. That day was the infamous black Saturday bushfire. About 180 people tragically died.

[@nhatho1723]

I remember when this news broke. Some of China's top ultra runners died on that mountain. A dark day in the ultrarunning community.

[@TheBooban]

So it’s true? Why no real video? Makes me think this is all fake.

[@dorianrustik6880]

​@@TheBoobanit's China... known for media suppression and human rights violations.

[@Ashpkfmdmdmdmd]

​@@TheBoobanthe youtube description has 5 different source.

[@TheBooban]

@@Ashpkfmdmdmdmd oh ok. Still odd no real video or pictures.

[@Ashpkfmdmdmdmd]

@@TheBooban there's a genocide happening to the Uyghur people, committed by the CCP, just because theres no visual evidence doesn't mean its fake.

[@soniarodriguez6433]

This didn't happen to me, but to a friend, while we worked a part time job in the mornings, during our university studies in the afternoons, & it was my day off: On that particular day, he could not be at the bus stop that would take him from the work location to school early enough, then the bus got so crowded and my friend even ran after the bus, cursing at the driver, as this meant that he was going to be late for his first lesson on that day. Later that same evening, we all watched on TV, that the bus my friend missed, had crashed and there were many casualties. I will never forget my friend's face expression, when he realised that this delay had probably saved his life.

[@The_Raymond]

Wow

[@martinlopez2816]

Damn...

[@skarhabekgreyrukh8601]

dude.... he cast curse

[@bethrains3105]

Or his cursed killed all those people. Don't make him mad.

[@AlonDea]

09:07 "however not all the found runners needed help" - oh that's cool "Some had already frozen to death" - ooh...

[@The_Raymond]

Yeah

[@CrystalRicotta]

🥶

[@orandachildren1051]

Haha

[@starsandnightvision]

This

[@bastokrepublic]

I don't like all the stock footage clips that are not related to the actual events. really takes you out of the story.

[@szk4023]

You'd prefer no story about this or a blank screen with audio?

[@wsemenske]

​@szk4023 no just not photos of people that aren't in the story. There are many channels that talk about stuff like this and they don’t do dumb stuff like that. You see 50% of the clips don't do that, just make it 100% dumb stock footage

[@Ivellios23]

@@szk4023 Wow. You clearly have a complete lack of imagination. especially considering they did shpw pictures of the actual event, maps, animations... but there are also other things one could do.

[@charliekuhn4431]

Yeah seeing the actor Simon Pegg in the beginning of the video definitely seemed odd and threw me off a bit lol

[@RiotforPeacePlz]

The fact he wants to get more into a story about death makes me question if he was dropped on his head as a child or had some other form of a abuse.

[@ImortalPvP]

Without watching the video yet I’m betting on land sharks

[@MavHunter20XX]

You mean Tigers, Lions and Pandas?

[@ImortalPvP]

@@MavHunter20XX no I means. Shark that lives on the land, don’t they have those where you live?

[@cassandrafield9423]

You've never heard of land sharks?!? 😯

[@noahmargolis3332]

@@cassandrafield9423 what is that

[@LordCommanderSpaceAlligator]

Close. Sharknado

[@ernestmugo1765]

Imagine being fired while dead 💀

[@mondoseguendo6113]

Can’t catch a break.

[@BenSussmanpro]

Only in China can one be fired posthumously!

[@AlisonWonderland999]

...after being pushed while alive 🤔 Talk about adding insult to injury!

[@Jaggerbush]

Holy smokes. Great video. Horrible story. I had no idea this even happened. Thanks.

[@Thephreshprincejr]

Yo he died and they STILL fired or "dismissed" him! That's wild

[@Nick-rg8oz]

they probably killed him off

[@mariopsota5806]

You actually believe he threw himself off a building because of this?...clearly someone gave him a hand...

[@troobix_s]

@@mariopsota5806 You don't understand their feeling of responsability. It's not the same in Asia, especially in China and Japan.

[@digitalcurrents]

@@troobix_s If he truly had a sense of responsibility, he would have done his job properly and none of this would have happened. I think you're confusing responsibility with shame.

[@REDTD]

@@troobix_sIt’s not responsibility, it’s shame. In china they care more about face more than anything, they rather die than lose face and take responsibility.

[@martharunstheworld]

You keep calling it a marathon. It wasn't a marathon, it was an ULTRAMARATHON, a completely different style of race.

[@ewetn1]

This channel is pure ai. The voice, the script, the graphics. Some videos in their back catalog make it painfully obvious and the comments are filled with people pointing out why it's obvious.

[@martharunstheworld]

@@ewetn1 Yeah, I figured.

[@dustinbugal2069]

No, you're wrong, it's just a regular marathon with a different name..

[@randomboys1000]

@@dustinbugal2069 lmfao

[@randomboys1000]

@@ewetn1 the narrator is a real person

[@mrtruth1567]

I'm fall of 2002, I ride my bike from Seoul, so Korea to the province of North Kyung San, a distance of about 150 miles . I was an advent recreational cyclist, and an entry level bicycle racer . There was no doubt in my mind that I could not make the trip. That day , it was raining and cold, I shivered, I knew that if I stopped peddling, I would shiver and feel very cold, so I continued to peddle. It was actually the Korean Harvest holiday . I wanted to just ride my bicycle to my relatives house . The rest of my relatives went there by car or train. When I arrived , they were quite surprised that I rode a 150 miles . But to me it was nothing , and to any recreational cyclist the feat is unimpressive. I always thought that if I heard of someone peddling from san Francisco to l a , I would be impressed . But a mere 150 miles is nothing. One of my points is that if I stopped peddling in that could and rain , I would have gotten hypothermia, I knew that. That is why I continued to peddle . So I made to the city of gimcheon , north Kyung San province, s Korea. I . I received a standing ovation from 15 of my relatives . I suppose it was fashionable to be late. And that was back in 2002.

[@courageouskenyan]

I would've dropped out once i learned of how tough the path was.. new KZbinr watching from Kenya,

[@Gustavo-x8f3q]

“However, not all the runners needed help… some had already been found frozen..” sounds cruel and diabolical the way they talk about it …

[@billramsey8934]

There are a lot of clueless or misinformed comments being posted. As a former ultrarunner who completed 106 ultras including 25 100-mile races over a 21 year period, I know a thing or two about ultras. The cardinal rule of running any ultra race is that you need to be fully self-sufficient for any conditions that may arise and you cannot rely on others. That means you always carry a waterproof hooded windbreaker and a poncho. Staying as dry as possible in cold, windy, rainy conditions is critical to preventing hypothermia. Having competed in a 100-miler and 2 50-milers races that were shut down due to extreme weather (i.e., winds gusting to 50 mph, torrential rain and/or snow), I've witnessed folks suffer from being ill-prepared. Not a pretty sight but fortunately, all survived. There's a Southern California Ultra Race Director who requires everyone at the starting line of his races to recite the pledge, "If I should become lost, injured or die, it's my own damn fault!" Yup.

[@ering1107]

Right but what is the lowest temperature that a race you've run was not canceled? I think the problem was that for this extreme weather the race was not shut down. Sometimes you need more than a waterproof hooded poncho to stay alive.

[@debrabrooks1327]

I ❤ Candice

[@Vasilioo7]

In world war 2 when the Germany invaded Greece my grandfather was to leave his home and to board a ship moving from the house they lived in prior to entering the ship my great grandfather felt a troubling presents as he indicated to my grandfather that no one of the family was to abroad this ship and they never did the following day the ship was bombed by the Germans killing everyone on board so I owe my life to my great grandfather wishing I knew where he was played to rest. ❤

[@blunderbuss3114]

Did your great grandfather die in Greece? There should be a death record at some government bureau that would say where he is buried.

[@BillyBob-wq9fl]

I hate to do it but I must. English is tricky. Instead of “presents” you meant presence. Instead of “abroad”you meant board..

[@RealAdvocateForLiberty]

It is beautiful that your gpa obeyed your great gpa's impression. It reminds me of the Rechabites who obeyed their fathers (in Jeremiah 35).

[@gavinlew8273]

The fact that 1 woman almost made it to the finish line despite the bad weather is mind blowing. She is Wonder Woman. 🤯 (Wow I didn't expect 1K likes on this comment. 🙏)

[@Tsukuyomi28]

She only made it 68 out of 100 kilometers

[@mikatu]

"almost"... as if she was near the finish line, with 1/3 of the race still to complete.

[@yunaliu6164]

The fact is that she runs extremely slow, so she luckily skipped the frozen weather hours the most participants encountered. She was not influenced by the weather conditions. 😂

[@digitalcurrents]

@@yunaliu6164 She was the fastest of them all and ran ahead of the bad weather. If she were slow, all the people returning would have convinced her.

[@alpinestarsbolt-mw3tr]

something tells me she got lost and found the route by fool's luck after some massivd 30-40k shortcut

[@ucfj]

Crazy. Whoever planned this should be sentenced to running this circuit himself

[@alpinestarsbolt-mw3tr]

or jumping off a highrise building? btw the profile of the running route is nothing extreme with Ultra marahon standards, in switzerland you can easily find races with tougher elevation profiles.

[@chrtra392]

I got mild hypothermia once while kayaking in the Pacific Ocean. It creeps up on you. I felt like I was drunk and shivered for hours after finally getting out of the ocean and back to my room.

[@sethchapman8001]

This is so tragic, the organizers are so guilty for this. It took until 2pm before they officially canceled the race? Inexcusable, they failed.

[@metalkicker23]

Whoever runs this channel please note, b roll REALLY degrades this type of content and makes it blend in with the other overused videos like this. A mix of real photos/animations/real footage is always the best, obviously not always possible but just a tip.

[@daniel_960_]

Nah use of it was mostly fitting

[@wsemenske]

​@@daniel_960_nah it was stupid.

[@LilyGazou]

AI

[@geometerfpv2804]

There isn't enough real footage and video to do that in any of these extreme events. Why would people be walking around filming it from good angles when people are dying and everyone is focused on rescue?

[@jtse09]

@@geometerfpv2804 but it's also weird seeing a bunch of white people marathon runners when this takes place in china

[@dominickdaalhuizen1158]

Female David Goggins casually needed to be picked up against her will. Imagine how that went, "uhh guys, one chip is still passing the checkpoints"

[@MsPaperbear]

something is also wrong with the runners that don't turn back.

[@kzsposeidon3121]

If you ever use a space blanket in bad weather: stuff it beneath your clothes but above your first layer. Keeps the heat a lot better and doesn't fly away. Did that during a 130km ultra I did a few years back as well...

[@iannyanes]

An ultramarathon starting at 9am? Makes no sense at all! an 80 km ultra race starts at 5am…

[@aleksandraprivet49]

China has the same time zone across the whole country, so this logic wouldn't necessarily apply. The culture of saving face is probably a bigger contributing factor to this tragedy.

[@Duckling08]

Really? Because I run a 200 mile race that starts at 9am🤔. Bigfoot 200

[@frankblangeard8865]

They had a time limit of 20 hours and expected it to last overnight. 1:14

[@SaadiX858]

It happened around 2 years ago with me when i started smoking hashish a very pure form of cannabis plant. I was smoking with my 2 best friends at my home and we smoked about 5 joints and got really high that one of my friend almost started sleeping. It was all fun and games until my other friend woke him up and said we should go out and eat some food I'm really hungry I remember persistently insisting him lets do home delivery as we were so high but he wanted to go out on his newly bought car for a ride. Somehow i managed to stay home claiming that I can't leave home my parents were out of town and my little brother was sleeping in his room. It was around 2am when they left my house being high to get something to eat they promised not to go far enough and drive really slow even then I insisted them both not to drive under the influence, after 15 minutes of them leaving I called them and one of my friend left his phone at my place while the other one was not picking I didn't panciked cuz he was the driver after some time I closed my eyes and slept as I was high too. I woke up to my phone ringing and i noticed it was the time of dawn around 5 am and it was my best friend's father calling me I immediately answered and he told me with a shivering voice that both my best friends aged 21 and 20 have passed away in a brutal car crash in which they were caught speeding upto 140km/h according to cctv footages which i found out later. Both my friends who were brothers to me died and I never touched any drug again I suffered from major depression and suicidal thoughts after this that if I'd have insisted them a little more maybe they would be alive

[@108wee]

I wondering what this had to do with a running video until the video mentions to “write in the comments about a time you didn’t go somewhere and it saved your life” at the very end…

[@Trees100]

I'm sorry

[@cathynewyork7918]

Don't feel guilty about your friends' deaths. You tried to warn them, and they made their own decision to leave. This is NOT your fault. I am sorry you lost your friends.

[@purpleblueunicorn]

Depression is a signal to tell you to get off your ass and do something meaningful and different, also to get wary of similar situations. You can't blame everything on an event like this. Hope you're ok now though. Suicidal thoughts, we all get them when life gets rough and not progressing forward. Get goals, find your skills, get forward, work for a living and become accomplished. This fixes depression.

[@cathynewyork7918]

@@purpleblueunicorn No, we do NOT "all get suicidal thoughts" - I am 74 and NEVER had such loser thoughts. Other than that comment, your post has good advice for this Saadi person.

[@myplane150]

It's amazing how many high ranking officials tend to jump from high rise buildings in Communist or Dictatorial countries.

[@mrant711]

I know there is a team behind this channel thats working hard on making every single one of these videos and i personally think this is one of the most underrated channels ❤

[@colesmith7509]

I think a lot of it is AI. The voice is definitely not real, and AI can now compile stock footage. It would cost WAY too much to hire a whole team to make all these videos at only 163k subscribers

[@snek529]

@@colesmith7509"only"

[@ulfkarl]

@@colesmith7509 only the voice is AI, and there is nothing wrong with it, I think it is perfect, it requires a good amount of work to generate this quality of voice, everything else is stock videos and research from the author, I remember the times where videos using the voice loquendo was very popular and people didnt complain

[@KeIlyMel99]

164k subs now.

[@redblade8160]

@mrant711. You don't know anything!

[@gmeztubenation]

The silver lining of this is how the local community got together to try and save the runners. Good to know that there are good people out there.

[@steveekata7725]

We had a friend pass away from hypothermia during a marathon in Spokane several years ago. The world lost a great man that day. 😢

[@axt3462]

This proves that drinking beer is safer than running around and bragging about it.

[@dikkop5751]

hell yeah

[@oliviaingelaere5931]

1 million beer please☝️☝️

[@OphanielH]

Nice self sooth method

[@gourami7]

Beer mile anyone?

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

.... because drinking beer has never led to anyone's death 🙄

[@fcordobaot]

Great accounting of the events, I remember hearing the news when this happened. RIP fellow runners

[@WhiteRabbit1209]

Thank you to all the heroes, local or not.

[@bananafluffster]

My parents tell me that this is how they went to school everyday.

[@The_Raymond]

lol

[@96ftt]

🤓🤓😐😐😐😐😐😐😐😐

[@joerudnik9290]

😂😂

[@omairtech6711]

Where are you from? I am from Pakistan and my late father used to tell me how difficult it was for him to reach his school. Kind of hard to remember the exact details, but he made it seem as if he had to go through hell to get to his school.

[@howieduin915]

Uphill both ways. And barefoot.😊

[@zvisger]

Oh my god a real persons voice... on KZbin... i am blessed. Thank you for existing

[@alexam.9033]

It happened maybe more than once. But lets mention that I was preparing to go to work abroad, I had the interview for a secretary job. Passed, but because of my boyfriend in the last minute I declined the offer. The body guard of the owner ( who in the meanwhile became friendly to me, we were both karateka) told me that I took the right decision...And after almost a year, I met one girl who was there working...Very serious, said that the other girl lost her mind because of what happened to them at the ”working place”. They were held as hostage, sold out to many people and forced to do lots of things, threatened. And hardly managed to escape. So...I was really lucky listening to my guts.

[@AlpinePreparedness]

I ran a 70km trail ultra where it rained 50mm and all clothing failed but what worked was an industrial bin liner, it’s the only thing that kept me warm even with full rain gear, I always carry one of those now.

[@Drumsofliberation69]

The organizers needs to be in prison for years frfr🗣️🔥

[@bruceintas]

An ultra marathon in Australia got caught by a huge wildfire!!

[@oliviaingelaere5931]

@@bruceintasfr?.

[@magicsinglez]

It’s almost unbelievable runners on a marathon could die of hypothermia. . .

[@Leafpaw1]

why? why is it unbelievable?

[@CROWBRAWLSQUAD]

@@Leafpaw1”almost unbelievable” never said it was

[@magicsinglez]

@@Leafpaw1 : i guessed they died of heat stroke. . . if you’re cold. . .just start running. Did it get to 0 degrees F or 0 degrees C? Surely it got to 0 degrees Fahrenheit?

[@manubo9847]

​@@magicsinglezTemperature was 4°C, apparent temperature due to wind gusts was -5°C, nowhere near 0°F. "Just start running" doesn't work. Ultrarunners have to constantly take in calories to not get into an energy deficit. Warming up your body takes energy they just don't have anymore. That is why most ultraraces where temperatures can get lower than room temperature have jackets/warm clothing mandatory to carry with you. I have felt cold in temperatures much warmer than this after running a long distance. It's not comparable to short distance running at all in that aspect

[@magicsinglez]

@@manubo9847: That makes sense, really skinny people are near the point of exhaustion. On the other hand, they are young and athletes. 32 Fahrenheit. . .OK, I think this whole story is fake. Whole story: faked. I have some early guesses as to why.

[@gonzayare]

Running in regular conditions place your body over the edge of his capabilities, it doesn't takes too much to collapse, I remeber a marathon in Mazatlan, Mexico, where all front runners in the race had a heatstroke, because a 10km portion of the race didn't have a single shadow from direct sunlight. If the event is running through the mountains and with poor weather you can't possibly achieve a good time anymore so, what's the point of keep running?. Every single Km you keep moving instead of looking for shelter your chances of survival drop exponentially. Somehow you have to overcome the euforia and stop for your own safety.

[@RealAdvocateForLiberty]

That is a good spiritual message too. I mean there is a spiritual parallel.

[@ArifBillahOnGoogle]

I WALKED one day 12km for the first time in my life, and I could tell you these things are VERY very difficult as you progress more and more. The pain and muscle-stress accumulates too fast. And I had a sore on my ankle for the next few days. For the last km, I had to put cushion beneath my ankle-bone with my handkerchief, the shoe wasn't enough. And that was only WALKING 4km/h, not running.

[@kyleporche7680]

I remember hearing of this just as I got into ultra running. Scary stuff.

[@darkspd31]

6 years ago I was in a situation exactly like this. I was in an ultra marathon running through the Mojave desert, everyone told me I shouldn't do it but I knew I was able to because I'm strong enough. Then the weather turned and we were trapped just like this. Only it was 120° out! We waited for hours and hours for safety but nothing came... I then woke up and realized it was all a dream, I started playing assassin's Creed Valhalla and drank a beer!!

[@adamivester9876]

Goggins will make this his next challenge

[@CrystalRicotta]

👏👏👏

[@shilpagopinath6513]

I am a sporting event organizer, mostly marathons. Weather almost always is a challenge!

[@FeCyndiW]

I live at 7,200 feet and have run some ultras. You must carry gear for unexpected extremes and pay attention to the forecast. The weather in the mountains changes rapidly. I also did canine search and rescue for years, and subjects were found dead from hypothermia in the middle of the summer in the mountains. I am surprised that so many died in this race. Was the forecast the night before completely off in temperature? Did the organizers not have a minimum required gear list? (Exists in many races.) It seems odd that many people would start without proper gear. Such an incredibly sad story. I cannot imagine.

[@inquisitivenessandcontempl9918]

At least they had emergency blankets, but even if they did have the required layers, like fleece and membrane jackets, those could be insufficient in such weather in the open with no option of shelter. I'd think that the fact that they had run a long distance before the weather changed contributed to the catastrophic outcome for many because they may have had depleted their glycogen stores/lowered blood sugar, and the body became more susceptible to hypothermia. Also, many ultra-runners are naturally very lean with low body fat, which played against them in that situation.

[@katanaki3059]

I remember hearing about this when it happened. Good reporting. What a tragedy for these runners.

[@Sonicspeedboyz]

9:07 I thought he was gonna same something wholesome

[@redblade8160]

@Sonicspeedboyz. Learn to speak English properly.

[@theantrules6436]

@@redblade8160 prob mistyped and autocorrect corrected incorrectly, it isnt a big deal lmao

[@billybigbollox]

Thanks ….. you’ve just given me a convenient excuse why I should never run marathons or even 5k fun runs. Stay at home and eat pizza and cycle.

[@v.prestorpnrcrtlcrt2096]

Weird. I just watched a video a week or more ago with the same content. It almost feels Word for word.

[@kevinarthur8488]

See… this is why I don’t exercise

[@tiolalo85]

VICE has a short article about this race and it's written SO much better than whoever wrote for this video, I'd recommend checking it out if this narration sounds a bit "off".

[@rbz1]

One thing you can count on is people in charge of something gone wrong, is letting others die just to save face.

[@lizsteeds6697]

Especially in morally bankrupt China ... run by the corrupt, authoritarian CCP.

[@parkerflorence5332]

I can’t even jog a mile. What the hell is an ultra marathon?

[@andrescer]

"there are the weather wise and the otherwise" - Ben Franklin

[@MillionaireMikey]

and what are the otherwise? the ones who speaks from the graves

[@CrystalRicotta]

Pretty wild story, crazy that was 2021.

[@eunhyuekpark6159]

Man, I thought the last crossfits game was grim...this is next level.

[@mondoseguendo6113]

Yes, very unforgiving.

[@mtv565]

Running in the mountains area is already a major red flag!

[@dominik13579]

Nonesense

[@KenNeumeister]

I remember the news at the time, it was shocking and at the same time thinking I can see how this could happen.

[@UPN277]

Something that probably saved my life was back in Luxembourg when I was camping, there was a river and I decided to go follow it with inflating an inflatable bed and with other people that wanted it too. But I decided to not go through and went back. Upon the ride back we went along the river and it ended up at a waterfall, it could've saved my life because I wasn't the best swimmer

[@joethesheep4675]

an ultramarathon is not what i would call a "regular running competition".

[@ExistentialUselessness]

these AI videos are starting to infest everything

[@lostpianist]

I like to run in storms sometimes. I once ran 18km in snow and cold wind in just a t-shirt. I was fit enough to run at least twice as far, but the cold drained me and I felt my body concentrating heat in my core, the later, my core started to slowly cool as well so I got myself back home. You can run in the cold, wind and snow, but you have to know your limits and the effects of cold and wind. I also like to swim in cold water, lols.

[@deryckdshill2678]

I got caught in a rainstorm on Corfu. The air temperature was 25 c . I was 25 k away from my hotel and only wearing shorts and a t shirt . The wind chill returning on motor bike caused me to go hypothermic. Luckily a tourist in a car helped me with a dry sleeping bag.

[@dn-anonymous]

fantastic video - DaVinci Resolve + Blender???

[@envisiotube]

The organizers should be held accountable for not stopping the race and should go to jail after paying millions of USD.

[@DCOM20.]

the main guy died and the rest had issues. It was dealt with. Its like WW2. You cant just throw everyone in prison or hang everyone. The guy saw he was responsible and took care of it with himself.

[@Neophema]

Thank you for using the metric system. :)

[@brigittakernneriebel5503]

Francnak kell egy hegyen futkosni az életüket kockáztatva! Megérte, hogy 21-en ottmaradtak?!? Ettől függetlenül a szervezők is nagyot hibáztak, hogy nem állították le a versenyt, pedig látták, hogy milyen idő fog jönni. A falusiaknak meg remélem megköszönték, hogy segítettek a bajbajutottakon...

[@sbsb4995]

Very sad. It was not the fault of the organiser.

[@persona5305]

Villagers are the heroes

[@horus4862]

Only two people finished the race... Wim Hoff and David Goggins

[@George-rv3rt]

I find it amazing that the ruling faction did not want to advertise the fatalities. As they are normally so caring I find this almost unbelievable.

[@LauraTrauth]

My motto s "be your own aid station." I carry more gear than most marathon runners think is needed and have been ridiculed for it. But I both read the weather forecast and expect it to be worse. Much worse. That means carrying energy gel s, ace bandages, extra layers or clothes.... etc. I hope everyone running anything more than a 1/2 marathon will consider this.

[@ironpetethegreat7366]

Participating in UTMB, we had a good list of obligatory equipment to take with us when encountering the Alps' passes. One year, there was a driving snowstorm at the top of the pass between France and Italy. Thankfully I had the equipment needed to get down the mountain to safety.

[@NFLTakesWithTre]

Damn this was on my birthday. Crazy seeing so many lose their lives so unnecessarily

[@digitalcurrents]

It's so strange that the event lacked sufficient people to provide security and support. Hearing that the lack of manpower contributed to a disaster in China is crazy.

[@andreaorozco5507]

Horrible story, may they rest in peace. It’s hard on these poor athletes with years of training & pride to quit. My own was nothing close to this extreme but to stop when your body telling you to stop. I had an A-fib attack during a 10k but refused to stop. I was stupid but my time was horrible but I finish but at least I was in the city so if I collapse, then EMT’s were around. I did a marathon in Alaska all rocky terrain was dangerous but just watch my feet to not trip like many broke angles. The government & officials are to blame for location, not enough emergency response all along terrain, and should had cancelled before it started!

[@vickiwhite7748]

Wow, this is nuts. I wouldn't have ran and if I tried I would have turned around and went back. The one who took his life they probably fired him so his family couldn't collect any benefits from his job like a life insurance policy if he had one. That is horrible.

[@MsJubjubbird]

In China there is a big issue with honour. He would have been a disgrace to his family and community. Quite possibly also could have been spending the rest of his days in a "re-education" camp, which are not very pleasant places.

[@joerudnik9290]

Why didn’t they have way stations, with fluids, medical care and communications!??! This tragedy could have been averted so easily!😡🤬🤬🤬

[@johanamruka1846]

Yo this whole story is chilling😢

[@redblade8160]

@johanamruka1846. It doesn't take much to chill you, then.

[@CrystalRicotta]

It’s got “The long walk” by Stephen King vibes.

[@TicTac2]

@@redblade8160 it's a joke

[@fernandoenriquez432]

If I was the organization I have about 42 mobile homes out there at a checkpoint

[@dolwolfianphotography]

Of course organizer and certainly local authorities who didn't want cancel as such big event BUT you're responsible of yourself and don't let your life into other hands that yours and always check the weather before any outdoor activities!

[@VoraY8]

imagine david goggins here

[@Lisa-x3n5x]

The most interesting thing about this is that it was held in the middle of the epidemic. 🤔

[@geometerfpv2804]

"dismissed posthumously"...wow. That's savage. Disgraced even in death for something he didn't even do.

[@jennilynmae]

Wow! That's horrendous

[@waynegoddard4065]

You may not of won a marathon but you won a subscriber. Well done.

[@SceneJunkiesYT]

Love the Animation and how details it is.

[@ravenderose]

I was cutting class in high school to walk into town since it was about a mile away and one day I was in the woods on the trail and I decided to head back because my mom said she was picking me up earlier but when I got home I saw there was a shooting at a Panera bread in town and that was the spot I would’ve hung out in. I remember feeling eerie because if I hadn’t of turned back then I may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[@808BJJ_Black_Belt]

Amazing how they can plan a marathon in harsh weather conditions that killed so many people . I’m glad I don’t run marathons

[@MoniqueGao]

He was worried about heatstroke so *puts on 12 layers*