I watch all these channels that cover mountaineering disasters obsessively and I just want to say that I am grateful you take the time to honor the Sherpas.
I do the same. No idea why I am currently obsessed. I have zero desire to climb Everest. I have been watching these videos so much that in my dreams when I sleep are about rescuing people off mountains. It makes no sense; I am a high school teacher. Lol.
Me too! And I would never climb anything, especially in the cold, not even a molehill lol. I love watching these docs when it’s cold out. If makes me feel even warmer and safer than I already am.
@@karendavenport6824 I feel like these docs let us see the mistakes of others, the inevitability of the unexpected, and the futility of the human condition as climbers pursue an honorable goal. It makes ME feel better about not taking some very risky risks, and similar to crime shows, it makes me feel safer because I am not in this situation.
A woke tendency to genuflect. In every video there must be multiple comments indicating a fervent desire that all Sherpas receive anilingus. They are the rock stars of their community, and they are also paid very well by the standards of their community. Maybe they should be paid better, different issue. They can and have unionized. How much would they be paid if there were no self-important douche climbers, maybe 0, maybe they would be riding the back of an ox.
The absolute one thing about your Chanel that warms my heart is the respect you give the climbers. It's easy to paint them as anything but normal, but you genuinely seem to care about the mark they made before and after they were lost. Thank you.
Hearing that someone was found only X metres/feet away from a camp, seems extra tragic. I know, even if he had made it all the way to the camp, there's no guarantee he would've survived, but it's just that feeling of that it was so close, he was almost there, and still...
Yeah it’s strange to think about. On my first trip to Everest the day before I got to camp 4 there were people talking about a man who died in his tent at camp. I asked what happened and I guess he was coming down and said he felt sick and made it all the way to camp and laid down and just died. You never know
Everyone wanted to be one of the firsts to climb Everest in categories such as, first man to climb without oxygen, first woman, first German, first Malaysian, first American, first American woman to climb without oxygen, etc.etc., it never seems to end when this mountain, no matter how you slice it, it was first climbed and the summit was reached in 1953.
You do an amazing job in telling these stories, maybe make a few about tragic boating expeditions to make your portfolio grow! Either way keep up the good work my friend!
I was a peak bagger in Colorado in the 90s. My dream was to get to Everest Base Camp and pack out some extra trash because the place was becoming one giant frozen dump. My gut said to stay away when I saw the crowding getting worse and worse up there. Chalk another one up to intuition, it saved my life.
Best book I read about 1996 is John Krakauer's book. Published a year afterword. People shouldn't take Everest lightly. With overcrowding it's even worse now. Waiting to summit is now deadly. Rainbow valley on both sides of the well used routes.
Not everything in the book is true, the best example is Anatoli Boukreev's story that in the book made him "the bad guy" but he was actually a hero, risking his life to save 3 people while no one else wanted/could help (including Krakauer...), world's mountaineering society accepted him as a hero. The movie Everest is actually a more true version, plus multiple youtube videos about the 1996 tragedy, for example: ruclips.net/video/OkT7Di2LPuQ/видео.html
Just an FYI, that's Ama Dablam in your introduction, not Mount Everest. Also, you might consider doing an episode about Peter Boardman and Joe Taster, who disappeared on Everest's unclimbed (at the time) Pinnacles route on the Tibetan side in 1982. Boardman's body was discovered years later, but Tasker has never been found.
Dont forget Mallory and Irvine. After all, it is more and more widely believe, that Mallory actually reached the summit in 1924 and died on the way down. His body only being found in 1999, which is, when the speculation began, as to how he couldve gotten there from his last known position - basically only by going over the summit. And Irvine's body has never been found, tho it was possibly spotted by a Chinese expedition in 1975.
@@dfuher968Except that the vast majority of people already know about Mallory and Irvine whereas few know about Boardman/Tasker. Much as I’d like to believe they made it in 1924 it’s unlikely they summited, they were too late in the day going for the summit, and the technical difficulties of the 2nd and 3rd step were too difficult for climbers in the 1920’s, especially at that altitude with archaic equipment and clothing, certainly too difficult for Irvine, who had no experience on Himalayan mountains. On the other hand, the photo of Mallory’s wife was not found on his body in 1999, so that’s some evidence that he at least might have made it. Also, it’s now a common theory that the Chinese disposed of Irvine’s body, most likely throwing him down the Kangshung Face, thus destroying any photographic evidence of their possible ascent and assuring the Chinese of the first ascent from Tibet.
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As much as i keep seeing these, something scary is drawing me in. You confront your fear, first drawing into it, later wishing you were any other place.
Living Hawaii, I'd just like to make one gripe. Everest is the highest point on Earth, but not the tallest mountain if you take into account the distance from base to peak. Mauna Kea is the tallest combination of Seamount and Mountain, being well over 33k feet tall, 18k of it being under water, compared to Everest being 29k feet. It's dumb I know, but I feel Mauna Kea rarely gets her recognition that she deserves! Great video btw
It might be easy if you're able to walk 14 miles straight up hill in 0 degree weather and colder, but then you have to get back. It might be easy in terms of mountain climbing but as far as things to do it's extremely hard. The death zone means all bets are off, your body is dying, no matter what shape you are in altitude can get you and if you stop moving nobody is going to help you down, believe that. Everyone you called friend will walk right by you and watch you die..still sound easy?
I've summitted 23 mountains and you're right: up is easy, down is hard. Not only are you tired and depleted but you get a little punchy, too. It's almost like being drunk. I've never had altitude sickness but even simple dehydration can make you slur your words. Plus, the adrenaline and excitement of getting to the top is now gone. The summit fever has passed because you've already done that, now it's all downhill, literally and figuratively. A lot of people check out and get sloppy because they think the hard part is over. But consider this: When you are going uphill, you are placing your foot first and then shifting your weight onto it. Going downhill, you are basically in a controlled fall, placing your foot _after_ shifting your weight. One bad step and it's a long way down.
I've read in one of the various books that when you summit Everest, you are unable to enjoy it because you are so sick and dehydrated, unable to even think straight, and just want to come back down and rest. For Months, You trained and saved and focused your entire life to get to the top of that mountain and when you get there you just want to get down.
@@aquachonk I've got mild altitude sickness before, the migrain it caused is very annoying if not dangerous. Every descent step i took my head felt like it was stung by thousand needles. Also good point about the weight shifting in descent, my leg almost give up from constantly stopping my body plus 15+ kilos of backpack on every downhill steps. My friend almost died after sliding down the slope as his leg has simply given up. Thankfully a big boulder and his carrier bag saved him. The bag was full of tents and provided him enough cushion to soften the hit
With regards to the Russian team... if one of your team members decides to turn back because he doesn't have the strength, wouldn't it be basic human decency for all 3 to go back and protect each other?! Letting him attempt to return on his own is insanely callous. To hell with your summit bid when a person's life might be at risk.
Human nature, over 40 people walked past and didnt help me as i stumbled, fell and rolled myself down annapurna coughing blood 🩸 from altitude sickness. Got myself to basecamp slept for over 24 hours, everyone looked sheepish and avoided me, never felt so alone, like a weak dog cast out from the pack
That's been a long argument about ehtics with mountaineering unfortunately a lot of climbers believe in self rescue and put all value on summiting over human life. I wonder if and how hypoxia affects the decisions these climbers make while at high altitude.
All the decisions depend on so many factors. I think he would have had a better chance if they could have called for rescue and stayed with him until help arrived, but their situation, culture, and thought-process at the time can lead to wildly different choices.
Yeah it's strange. In cave diving, you're NEVER supposed to go alone, and always have a buddy. I don't see why it should be different for mountaineering. If you're a team, shouldn't you act as a team? I see why these guys left without him (likely summit fever, no excuse, but still).
Anyone who's interested in Everest should look into the George Mallory story!! There's a pretty good chance he may have summited first.. his climbing partner had a camera that's never been found.. I believe Kodak put some information out about how to handle the film if it's found.. if pictures were taken on the summit that film could prove it the first descent
Yeah, I take the words of all the pros, who have climbed Everest, who are saying, that the only way for Mallory to get from his last known position to, where his body was found, was to go over the summit. Hillary himself never denied it either. His remark, after Mallory's body was found in 1999, was, that in his opinion a successful summit also required getting down alive. So by Hillary's own words, it doesnt have to be the hardcore camps, that have evolved, that its either Mallory or Hillary, 1 gets all the glory, the other gets nothing. Its perfectly possible, and resonable, for both to get their deserved credit. Mallory for being the first to reach the summit, and Hillary and Tensing for being the first to successfully summit and live to tell about it.
That is a lie. Conrad Asker the first to find Mallory body said “ google “ that wasn’t any way Mallory could summit with his clothes etc etc. he said too that even for him with all new technology was very difficult and by the was to be a complete summit you have had to come down too.
3:41 tell me that the shot of Everest at this timestamp doesn’t look exactly like the Paramount studios logo!?! 🧐 Right? Also, great video. Very informative. R.I.P. To all those lost chasing the summit…..🕊️
One of the survivors of 1996 said in an interview that if you want to be safe, don't climb mountains. 1996 spurred much belief that climbing Everest needed to be made safer, but the truth is that there will always be risks associated with mountaineering. They call it "The Death Zone" for a reason, and having the ability to successfully come back alive doesn't guarantee that you will, in fact, come back alive. And that's not including the multitude of other risks.
because if you run out of oxygen at a high altitude you re done for, but if you summit without oxygen to start with your body is used to little oxygen and even tho it s more tiresome your chances of survival are higher
Even though more people have died on Everest then K-2, it’s ONLY bc there have been less attempts to climb it (or even harder of a climb, Annapurna). However, statistically speaking… Annapurna and K2 are considered the most deadly bc of the percentage rate of lives that are taken. With Annapurna and K2 being almost tied at 22-23%, making 1 in 3 or 3 climbs resulting in death. Whereas, Everest for every 100 people that climb, there’s only 1 death.
WINGSUIT FROM EVEREST Most of the deaths that happen on the 8K+ height mountains happen on the way down. In context consider a wingsuit/ram-air parachute descent. One brave soul has already accomplished this - but that was from 24,000 feet - not quite the top. The density of the air on 8K+ peaks does not provide sufficient lift for a wingsuit. Instead the winds will slam you into the mountain's rocky face - killing you. HIMARS is an artillery rocket designed to locate its target through geopositioning. A mini-version strapped to the back could fire a summiter who is wearing a wingsuit, off the peak of Everest towards the very center of the valley below dropping the summiter now descending thousands of feet downwards in seconds over terrain that had taken hours and days to climb. After the ignition shuts down at a much lower altitude where the air is thicker, the mini-HIMARS is dropped and the wingsuited descender speads the wings of the wingsuit and glides to still lower altitudes. The glide continues over the Khumbu icefall, and further into the valley. Miles and miles of the mountain's base passes below. The target, a hotel at the base of Everest wherethe grass is green, awaits. It is summer and the air is warmer at this altitude. The descender opens the chute and targets in to the great green lawn. The hotel guests are gathered for cocktails in evening dress at sunset. End of the Quest: Landing, less than an hour after summiting Everest, the summiter zips out of his wingsuit. He is has been wearing a tuxedo underneath. Taking a seat at the central table, the sommelier brings a chilled bottle of Dom Pérignon (sponsors choice) and a glass saluting the applauding awe-struck guests who begin to surround the summiter. Noting the champagne is not quite cold enough to meet expectations, brought from the wingsuit is a container of ice harvested from the Everest summit to fill the ice bucket. The summiter toasts the mighty Everest that dominates the surrounding Himalayas as the sun sets.
2:05 "A lesser known statistic about Mount Everest is that strictly numerically speaking it is the deadliest mountain of the planet" Well, strictly numerically speaking the deadliest mountain of the planet is Mont Blanc in the Alps between Italy and France. In 1994 an estimate suggested that could have been between 6,000 to 8,000 fatalities on its slopes.
hmmm .. excellent choice on this one, way to cover a lesser known season. I think there's a tremendous article in the '97 AAJ about this if you're looking for more info or different perspectives.
The mere fact that there are no red arrows in the thumbnail hints strongly at the quality of MM's content. Unfortunately quality is a rare thing for this kind of subject matter except for a few exceptions like this particular channel.
Must be horrific for the people at home hearing stories of how your loved ones have died on the mountain (e.g. New Zealand Radio station) whilst they actually were still alive.
Love this channel. I also agree Sherpas being acknowledged since they are the real climbers without whom most of the people attempting probably would not make it.
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A guy was telling me about him and his brother climbing Everest... but I didn't hear a word of it because i watching a How It's Made video about shoe laces.
Great video- Everest is every bit as dangerous as it is beautiful and wild. Would be a dream of mine to climb it, but I do dislike that so many people attempt and summit it now. Congrats to those people who fry & summit, too- takes incredible bravery, skill & training to climb it, easy trial or not, it takes incredible endurance due to the altitude. Very cool! Thanks
"The Matterhorn does see an estimated 3000 summits during any given year....it helps to understand just how many people are attempting to climb the Matterhorn in any given year and how relatively few of them actually perish. The loss of any of those climbers is tragic of course, but the death rate on the peak is incredibly small."
I think everyone appreciates how you honor the dead, but just FYI you can't use RIP for Hindus/Buddhist Sherpas it's actually akin to a curse. You can say may they pass on in peace.(apko sadgati mile)
Everest could be everything but beginner peak to summit. In fact you might need some experience and knowledge on high mountains before going to Everest, and at least summit of one high peak over 7000 or 8000 meters. Everest is not as scary as K2 or Annapurna, technical climb not close to it but temperature, winds, O2 level, avalanches and other dangers are big part of climbing Everest. Expedition style climbing Everest is tourist in a way comparing to alpine style first accents. Everest is not the deadliest mountain. If you compare success summits with rate of dead, K2 has a about 377 summits and 77 dead, Everest 6000 and 310 dead. It means every 5th dies on K2, and every 19th on Everest.
I'd say Everest is the deadliest mountain in that so many inexperienced people try to climb it. The grand majority ascending K2 have trained for it. A large portion of those paying to be guided up Everest have no business being there whatsoever. The "easier" mountains that attract idiots, attract death.
@@aquachonk Inexperienced climbers go to guided expeditions, people with lot of money to spend on something cool and for a good pictures for Instagram. Even they train a lot so they can make they way up Everest, and often stay forever up there. K2 climbers are different, they are very skilled and experience climbers, mountain guides and mountain rescue, mountains wolf. I compared a number of successful climbs with dead rate. On K2 every on every 4 climbers 1 lost his life, on Everest every 19th or so. Anapurna and K2 have biggest dead rate.
Incorrect. K2 has around 800 successful summits and 96 deaths. This stat is from 2023. Everest has 11996 successful summits and 340 deaths in 2024. The 6000 number is how many people did it, not how many summits there have been, since obviously many people made the trek more than once (think of all of the Sherpas).
isn't mount Mount Chimborazo the tallest point on earth? Everest may be the tallest mountain, but Mount Chimborazo is set upon a higher part of land on the earths crust, giving it a bit of a boost 0:51
Chimborazo is furthest from the center of the earth, because the planet isn't a perfect sphere and bulges around the equator. Everest is the highest above sea level, which is the relevant metric for determining things like oxygen levels and temperatures, the key challenges for high altitude mountaineers
Also, despite the popularity of Mount Everest, it is nowhere near being one of the most climbed peaks on the planet. Only around 500 people summit it each year.
All the sherpas deserve to have monuments. It makes no sense to me that these guys can carry hundreds pounds of gear up this dangerous mountain getting themselves killed to help them out; aren’t more famous and well paid of the groups. All sherpas should have a fund set up as a pension for those who serve as sherpas. The pension fund should pay children and widows money if they die. The rules for climbing Everest are too lenient!
My buddy knows a guy from Nepal. He said him and his friends back home would sit around and smoke and watch people climbing up the mountain."Crazy white people, we don't ever go up there" is roughly what he said.
I nearly died on Mt Everest in 1997 - I had been heavily drinking in the base the night before we set off to claim the North Face - and half way up I received news that Labour had won by a massive landslide! Ironically, I lost my footing and actually caused a massive landslide! Great days!
To me as long as you make it to the top it should count. Then you can give credit to the first to summit and descend separate recognition but I believe Mallory and Irvine to be first as well but that’s just my unsolicited opinion 🙃
@@Nuttyirishman85 There are a million reasons why a photo cannot be located on a body that fell from a considerable height and was discovered decades later.
11:46 - The events of 1997 reinforce the lessons of 1996 and _at most_ the story serves as a mildly recontextualizing "coda" but it's a major stretch to say there's enough contrast to call them _"antithetical"._
You say that everest is an intermudiet mountain it is by no means intermediat nothing at 8000m is it is certainly not the most difficult to climb altough that depends if done by fair means it is one of the hardest for sure due to the altitude
A family friend of mine named Garrett has summitted Everest hundreds of times, I don’t want to downplay the deaths but I want them to be in perspective.
Which perspective is that? That Garrett willingly and knowingly funnels his finances into supporting a "sport" that turns a blind eye to unchecked littering, environmental harm, and exploitation of poor local populations? That he feeds an untenable enterprise that does not properly vet people for skill, psychological fitness, or general health, but only checks their wallets for thickness? Or that he has stepped over and around hundreds of corpses for vainglory? I'll bet it's the corpses.
Climbing everest is a straight forward affair even for beginners, a staight forward affair??? Are you serious ? It's comments like this which is responsible for people dying on the mountain with little or no climbing skills. You obviously have never climbed it. Go & take a walk on Everest & see the 200+ dead bodies still frozen in pristine condition except their heads & tell them it was simple & staight forward. A fair few people will watch this & what you are saying is reckless & completely innapropiate. If you don't summit after leaving camp 4 & get caught up on the mountain overnight you might as well be on the moon. It's certain death. Think about what you are saying. This isn't some game it's life & death.
Very good response. People makes this videos without knowledge and no responsibility at all. That's why have a turn back time. If you do not summit until 2pm, turn back or you would not have daylight to reach high camp and will spend a night at high altitude, which means you are very much dead.
@@JohnSmith-ux3tt Have you ever climbed Everest. I would be surprised. Kumble ice fall are pieces of ice the sizes of houses continually moving day & night with the only ladders across the crevices the only way to cross, then the incredibly dangerous Lhotse face , then the Hillary a very technical face. A straight forward climb. Just unbelievable comment. I have seen too much death up there for these comments to not be corrected.
I watch all these channels that cover mountaineering disasters obsessively and I just want to say that I am grateful you take the time to honor the Sherpas.
I do the same. No idea why I am currently obsessed. I have zero desire to climb Everest. I have been watching these videos so much that in my dreams when I sleep are about rescuing people off mountains. It makes no sense; I am a high school teacher. Lol.
Me too! And I would never climb anything, especially in the cold, not even a molehill lol. I love watching these docs when it’s cold out. If makes me feel even warmer and safer than I already am.
@@karendavenport6824 I feel like these docs let us see the mistakes of others, the inevitability of the unexpected, and the futility of the human condition as climbers pursue an honorable goal. It makes ME feel better about not taking some very risky risks, and similar to crime shows, it makes me feel safer because I am not in this situation.
A woke tendency to genuflect. In every video there must be multiple comments indicating a fervent desire that all Sherpas receive anilingus.
They are the rock stars of their community, and they are also paid very well by the standards of their community. Maybe they should be paid better, different issue. They can and have unionized. How much would they be paid if there were no self-important douche climbers, maybe 0, maybe they would be riding the back of an ox.
Makes me wanna never go and save 60,000 and not by switching car insurance..
The absolute one thing about your Chanel that warms my heart is the respect you give the climbers. It's easy to paint them as anything but normal, but you genuinely seem to care about the mark they made before and after they were lost. Thank you.
Hearing that someone was found only X metres/feet away from a camp, seems extra tragic. I know, even if he had made it all the way to the camp, there's no guarantee he would've survived, but it's just that feeling of that it was so close, he was almost there, and still...
Yeah it’s strange to think about. On my first trip to Everest the day before I got to camp 4 there were people talking about a man who died in his tent at camp. I asked what happened and I guess he was coming down and said he felt sick and made it all the way to camp and laid down and just died. You never know
@@alanluscombe8a553 How tragic. To survive all the dangers out on the mountain, make it back to his tent, and it still wasn't enough to be safe.
@@alanluscombe8a553 Reaching camp 4 is by no means a safety. That last camp is the highest camp of them all and it is still in the Death Zone.
Everyone wanted to be one of the firsts to climb Everest in categories such as, first man to climb without oxygen, first woman, first German, first Malaysian, first American, first American woman to climb without oxygen, etc.etc., it never seems to end when this mountain, no matter how you slice it, it was first climbed and the summit was reached in 1953.
Climbing without oxygen in the death zone should be forbidden, simple as that.
You do an amazing job in telling these stories, maybe make a few about tragic boating expeditions to make your portfolio grow! Either way keep up the good work my friend!
I was a peak bagger in Colorado in the 90s. My dream was to get to Everest Base Camp and pack out some extra trash because the place was becoming one giant frozen dump. My gut said to stay away when I saw the crowding getting worse and worse up there. Chalk another one up to intuition, it saved my life.
Nobody summits Everest. You know that yourself. It’s a big secret I know but some of us know the secret.
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It was actually 15 people died on the slopes of Everest in 1996. What made that year 'famous' was 8 people dyeing in 1 day on the May 11th attempt.
Best book I read about 1996 is John Krakauer's book. Published a year afterword. People shouldn't take Everest lightly. With overcrowding it's even worse now. Waiting to summit is now deadly. Rainbow valley on both sides of the well used routes.
I read it myself and thought it was excellent.
Do you even realize that multiple statements made in that book are pure lies?
Not everything in the book is true, the best example is Anatoli Boukreev's story that in the book made him "the bad guy" but he was actually a hero, risking his life to save 3 people while no one else wanted/could help (including Krakauer...), world's mountaineering society accepted him as a hero.
The movie Everest is actually a more true version, plus multiple youtube videos about the 1996 tragedy, for example:
ruclips.net/video/OkT7Di2LPuQ/видео.html
You should also read the book "The Climb"
@@awkwardautistic I have read it. And other climbing books. The Hard Way.
no one talks about 97 disasters.
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Just an FYI, that's Ama Dablam in your introduction, not Mount Everest. Also, you might consider doing an episode about Peter Boardman and Joe Taster, who disappeared on Everest's unclimbed (at the time) Pinnacles route on the Tibetan side in 1982. Boardman's body was discovered years later, but Tasker has never been found.
It is ,but after that, he's got Everest. Got to admit Ama looks great though.
@@wyomingadventures Sure, for an episode on Ama Dablam. Like the 2006 Charm box avalanche that killed six climbers.
Dont forget Mallory and Irvine. After all, it is more and more widely believe, that Mallory actually reached the summit in 1924 and died on the way down. His body only being found in 1999, which is, when the speculation began, as to how he couldve gotten there from his last known position - basically only by going over the summit. And Irvine's body has never been found, tho it was possibly spotted by a Chinese expedition in 1975.
@@dfuher968Except that the vast majority of people already know about Mallory and Irvine whereas few know about Boardman/Tasker. Much as I’d like to believe they made it in 1924 it’s unlikely they summited, they were too late in the day going for the summit, and the technical difficulties of the 2nd and 3rd step were too difficult for climbers in the 1920’s, especially at that altitude with archaic equipment and clothing, certainly too difficult for Irvine, who had no experience on Himalayan mountains. On the other hand, the photo of Mallory’s wife was not found on his body in 1999, so that’s some evidence that he at least might have made it. Also, it’s now a common theory that the Chinese disposed of Irvine’s body, most likely throwing him down the Kangshung Face, thus destroying any photographic evidence of their possible ascent and assuring the Chinese of the first ascent from Tibet.
@@mec8690 the pinnacles are still relatively unknown so a video about them in detail would be nice with that
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As much as i keep seeing these, something scary is drawing me in. You confront your fear, first drawing into it, later wishing you were any other place.
Living Hawaii, I'd just like to make one gripe. Everest is the highest point on Earth, but not the tallest mountain if you take into account the distance from base to peak. Mauna Kea is the tallest combination of Seamount and Mountain, being well over 33k feet tall, 18k of it being under water, compared to Everest being 29k feet. It's dumb I know, but I feel Mauna Kea rarely gets her recognition that she deserves! Great video btw
He has covered that before.
It might be easy if you're able to walk 14 miles straight up hill in 0 degree weather and colder, but then you have to get back. It might be easy in terms of mountain climbing but as far as things to do it's extremely hard. The death zone means all bets are off, your body is dying, no matter what shape you are in altitude can get you and if you stop moving nobody is going to help you down, believe that. Everyone you called friend will walk right by you and watch you die..still sound easy?
I've summitted 23 mountains and you're right: up is easy, down is hard. Not only are you tired and depleted but you get a little punchy, too. It's almost like being drunk. I've never had altitude sickness but even simple dehydration can make you slur your words. Plus, the adrenaline and excitement of getting to the top is now gone. The summit fever has passed because you've already done that, now it's all downhill, literally and figuratively. A lot of people check out and get sloppy because they think the hard part is over. But consider this: When you are going uphill, you are placing your foot first and then shifting your weight onto it. Going downhill, you are basically in a controlled fall, placing your foot _after_ shifting your weight. One bad step and it's a long way down.
What's insane is when some people can't physically get back down (blindness, fatigue, etc). How hopeless it must feel...
I've read in one of the various books that when you summit Everest, you are unable to enjoy it because you are so sick and dehydrated, unable to even think straight, and just want to come back down and rest.
For Months, You trained and saved and focused your entire life to get to the top of that mountain and when you get there you just want to get down.
@@aquachonk I've got mild altitude sickness before, the migrain it caused is very annoying if not dangerous. Every descent step i took my head felt like it was stung by thousand needles. Also good point about the weight shifting in descent, my leg almost give up from constantly stopping my body plus 15+ kilos of backpack on every downhill steps. My friend almost died after sliding down the slope as his leg has simply given up. Thankfully a big boulder and his carrier bag saved him. The bag was full of tents and provided him enough cushion to soften the hit
With regards to the Russian team... if one of your team members decides to turn back because he doesn't have the strength, wouldn't it be basic human decency for all 3 to go back and protect each other?! Letting him attempt to return on his own is insanely callous. To hell with your summit bid when a person's life might be at risk.
Human nature, over 40 people walked past and didnt help me as i stumbled, fell and rolled myself down annapurna coughing blood 🩸 from altitude sickness. Got myself to basecamp slept for over 24 hours, everyone looked sheepish and avoided me, never felt so alone, like a weak dog cast out from the pack
That's been a long argument about ehtics with mountaineering unfortunately a lot of climbers believe in self rescue and put all value on summiting over human life. I wonder if and how hypoxia affects the decisions these climbers make while at high altitude.
@@markhilltaco4079 I imagine you aren't in any hurry to go back
All the decisions depend on so many factors. I think he would have had a better chance if they could have called for rescue and stayed with him until help arrived, but their situation, culture, and thought-process at the time can lead to wildly different choices.
Yeah it's strange. In cave diving, you're NEVER supposed to go alone, and always have a buddy. I don't see why it should be different for mountaineering.
If you're a team, shouldn't you act as a team?
I see why these guys left without him (likely summit fever, no excuse, but still).
Anyone who's interested in Everest should look into the George Mallory story!! There's a pretty good chance he may have summited first.. his climbing partner had a camera that's never been found.. I believe Kodak put some information out about how to handle the film if it's found.. if pictures were taken on the summit that film could prove it the first descent
Yeah, I take the words of all the pros, who have climbed Everest, who are saying, that the only way for Mallory to get from his last known position to, where his body was found, was to go over the summit.
Hillary himself never denied it either. His remark, after Mallory's body was found in 1999, was, that in his opinion a successful summit also required getting down alive.
So by Hillary's own words, it doesnt have to be the hardcore camps, that have evolved, that its either Mallory or Hillary, 1 gets all the glory, the other gets nothing. Its perfectly possible, and resonable, for both to get their deserved credit. Mallory for being the first to reach the summit, and Hillary and Tensing for being the first to successfully summit and live to tell about it.
That is a lie. Conrad Asker the first to find Mallory body said “ google “ that wasn’t any way Mallory could summit with his clothes etc etc. he said too that even for him with all new technology was very difficult and by the was to be a complete summit you have had to come down too.
Always excited to see new morbid midnight videos. The best in its class on RUclips.
3:41 tell me that the shot of Everest at this timestamp doesn’t look exactly like the Paramount studios logo!?! 🧐 Right?
Also, great video. Very informative. R.I.P. To all those lost chasing the summit…..🕊️
I think that’s Ama Dablam, not Everest.
You’d be right because it’s the mountain they used. Not Everest.
Babe wake up new MorbidMidnight video
One of the survivors of 1996 said in an interview that if you want to be safe, don't climb mountains. 1996 spurred much belief that climbing Everest needed to be made safer, but the truth is that there will always be risks associated with mountaineering. They call it "The Death Zone" for a reason, and having the ability to successfully come back alive doesn't guarantee that you will, in fact, come back alive. And that's not including the multitude of other risks.
Always makes my stomach turn seeing such long queues (I'm English, it's what we're good at).
Fascinating, as always. Thanks very much for the work you put into these videos.
I can't comprehend why anyone would try to summit Everest without oxygen 😲
Challenge yourself, pushing limits, bragging rights. The reasons aren't that hard to comprehend at all.
because if you run out of oxygen at a high altitude you re done for, but if you summit without oxygen to start with your body is used to little oxygen and even tho it s more tiresome your chances of survival are higher
There is something suicidal about it. The alternative is always death.
@@TarotPolitics Not always, but the odds are stacked against ya.
No one has done anything great being warm and cozy!
Another video done well! Thanks for all your research and obvious effort to get the facts correct (as always).
Love your stories on climbing. Do you climb too? It just seems like you have such a wealth of knowledge.
Merry Christmas, and happy holidays, morbid! Thanks for the upload
Even though more people have died on Everest then K-2, it’s ONLY bc there have been less attempts to climb it (or even harder of a climb, Annapurna). However, statistically speaking… Annapurna and K2 are considered the most deadly bc of the percentage rate of lives that are taken. With Annapurna and K2 being almost tied at 22-23%, making 1 in 3 or 3 climbs resulting in death. Whereas, Everest for every 100 people that climb, there’s only 1 death.
I go to sleep to these videos. Maybe I need therapy. But I’m going to take this nap first lol
WINGSUIT FROM EVEREST
Most of the deaths that happen on the 8K+ height mountains happen on the way down. In context consider a wingsuit/ram-air parachute descent. One brave soul has already accomplished this - but that was from 24,000 feet - not quite the top. The density of the air on 8K+ peaks does not provide sufficient lift for a wingsuit. Instead the winds will slam you into the mountain's rocky face - killing you.
HIMARS is an artillery rocket designed to locate its target through geopositioning. A mini-version strapped to the back could fire a summiter who is wearing a wingsuit, off the peak of Everest towards the very center of the valley below dropping the summiter now descending thousands of feet downwards in seconds over terrain that had taken hours and days to climb. After the ignition shuts down at a much lower altitude where the air is thicker, the mini-HIMARS is dropped and the wingsuited descender speads the wings of the wingsuit and glides to still lower altitudes.
The glide continues over the Khumbu icefall, and further into the valley. Miles and miles of the mountain's base passes below. The target, a hotel at the base of Everest wherethe grass is green, awaits. It is summer and the air is warmer at this altitude. The descender opens the chute and targets in to the great green lawn. The hotel guests are gathered for cocktails in evening dress at sunset.
End of the Quest: Landing, less than an hour after summiting Everest, the summiter zips out of his wingsuit. He is has been wearing a tuxedo underneath. Taking a seat at the central table, the sommelier brings a chilled bottle of Dom Pérignon (sponsors choice) and a glass saluting the applauding awe-struck guests who begin to surround the summiter. Noting the champagne is not quite cold enough to meet expectations, brought from the wingsuit is a container of ice harvested from the Everest summit to fill the ice bucket. The summiter toasts the mighty Everest that dominates the surrounding Himalayas as the sun sets.
Excellent content
2:05 "A lesser known statistic about Mount Everest is that strictly numerically speaking it is the deadliest mountain of the planet"
Well, strictly numerically speaking the deadliest mountain of the planet is Mont Blanc in the Alps between Italy and France. In 1994 an estimate suggested that could have been between 6,000 to 8,000 fatalities on its slopes.
hmmm .. excellent choice on this one, way to cover a lesser known season. I think there's a tremendous article in the '97 AAJ about this if you're looking for more info or different perspectives.
The mere fact that there are no red arrows in the thumbnail hints strongly at the quality of MM's content. Unfortunately quality is a rare thing for this kind of subject matter except for a few exceptions like this particular channel.
Must be horrific for the people at home hearing stories of how your loved ones have died on the mountain (e.g. New Zealand Radio station) whilst they actually were still alive.
Merry Christmas morbid ! Awesome vid as usual
Props for naming Tenzig first.
Love this channel. I also agree Sherpas being acknowledged since they are the real climbers without whom most of the people attempting probably would not make it.
You can also chek Bulgarian Everst expedition disaster 1984. With unique radio talks between basecamp and bulgarian monteneer stuck in storm on Everst .
My neighbour died on Everest in 1997.He was a professional guide who died of altitude sickness
Always quality story telling 👌
Great video. Enjoyed it. Thanks!
A guy was telling me about him and his brother climbing Everest... but I didn't hear a word of it because i watching a How It's Made video about shoe laces.
Thank you all for watching 😎
Hell yeah new upload
Couldn’t slam the subscribe button quick enough. Thank you!
Great video- Everest is every bit as dangerous as it is beautiful and wild. Would be a dream of mine to climb it, but I do dislike that so many people attempt and summit it now. Congrats to those people who fry & summit, too- takes incredible bravery, skill & training to climb it, easy trial or not, it takes incredible endurance due to the altitude. Very cool! Thanks
For reference it takes about 40 seconds to fall 2000 feet.
The most terrifying 40 seconds of your life
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And the last
Depends on how many things you bounce off of.
Prob fell 500' before colliding with the mountain side. Freaky stuff
@@HemorrhoidCream That's a great pfp
96 was actually 9 deaths a Sherpa was the first to taken off the mountain and died a week later after the storm
I thought the Matterhorn is the deadliest mountain in the world with over 500 deaths? But great video as always.
Annapurna 1 is the most dangerous.
"The Matterhorn does see an estimated 3000 summits during any given year....it helps to understand just how many people are attempting to climb the Matterhorn in any given year and how relatively few of them actually perish. The loss of any of those climbers is tragic of course, but the death rate on the peak is incredibly small."
Good content as always ☺️
You think climbers are tough? Sherpas are just as tough I would say. Imagine climbing Everest while carrying a half a fridge worth of stuff.
I think everyone appreciates how you honor the dead, but just FYI you can't use RIP for Hindus/Buddhist Sherpas it's actually akin to a curse. You can say may they pass on in peace.(apko sadgati mile)
I was unaware of that, thank you for letting me know! I'll make sure to do that in the future! No disrespect was meant at all of course.
@@MorbidMidnight you have shown tremendous grace with your comment. kudos!!!
This channel is lit🔥🔥🔥
It’s not the dangers of the mountain that makes me never to want to climb Everest, it’s the crowds. I would absolutely hate the crowds.
One has to ask oneselves.....WHY!!!????
Crazy how these time limits always get ignored sumit by this time or DO NOT GO
Everest could be everything but beginner peak to summit. In fact you might need some experience and knowledge on high mountains before going to Everest, and at least summit of one high peak over 7000 or 8000 meters. Everest is not as scary as K2 or Annapurna, technical climb not close to it but temperature, winds, O2 level, avalanches and other dangers are big part of climbing Everest. Expedition style climbing Everest is tourist in a way comparing to alpine style first accents.
Everest is not the deadliest mountain. If you compare success summits with rate of dead, K2 has a about 377 summits and 77 dead, Everest 6000 and 310 dead. It means every 5th dies on K2, and every 19th on Everest.
I'd say Everest is the deadliest mountain in that so many inexperienced people try to climb it. The grand majority ascending K2 have trained for it. A large portion of those paying to be guided up Everest have no business being there whatsoever. The "easier" mountains that attract idiots, attract death.
@@aquachonk Inexperienced climbers go to guided expeditions, people with lot of money to spend on something cool and for a good pictures for Instagram. Even they train a lot so they can make they way up Everest, and often stay forever up there. K2 climbers are different, they are very skilled and experience climbers, mountain guides and mountain rescue, mountains wolf. I compared a number of successful climbs with dead rate. On K2 every on every 4 climbers 1 lost his life, on Everest every 19th or so. Anapurna and K2 have biggest dead rate.
Incorrect. K2 has around 800 successful summits and 96 deaths. This stat is from 2023. Everest has 11996 successful summits and 340 deaths in 2024. The 6000 number is how many people did it, not how many summits there have been, since obviously many people made the trek more than once (think of all of the Sherpas).
@@filipferencak2717 Go to HDB and se statistics for yourself.
That first Image, is not Everest, its Ama Dablam
I hope that all these rich people help the widow's and orphans of the Sherpas........
Sara 🇬🇧 xxxxx
Seeing the queues on Everest shows what a joke it’s become. 🙄
Well done!!
I thought it was chills narrating this video
I thought Matterhorn with 500+ bodies is the deadliest.
isn't mount Mount Chimborazo the tallest point on earth? Everest may be the tallest mountain, but Mount Chimborazo is set upon a higher part of land on the earths crust, giving it a bit of a boost 0:51
Chimborazo is furthest from the center of the earth, because the planet isn't a perfect sphere and bulges around the equator. Everest is the highest above sea level, which is the relevant metric for determining things like oxygen levels and temperatures, the key challenges for high altitude mountaineers
The cornice in the thumbnail is so beautiful
Also, despite the popularity of Mount Everest, it is nowhere near being one of the most climbed peaks on the planet. Only around 500 people summit it each year.
There was an opera written about the 1996 disaster. It was very bleak and effective.
All the sherpas deserve to have monuments. It makes no sense to me that these guys can carry hundreds pounds of gear up this dangerous mountain getting themselves killed to help them out; aren’t more famous and well paid of the groups. All sherpas should have a fund set up as a pension for those who serve as sherpas. The pension fund should pay children and widows money if they die. The rules for climbing Everest are too lenient!
Nepal really should close the mountain from all forms of tourism until it’s cleaned up
Special thanks to the Sherpas that edited this video
My buddy knows a guy from Nepal. He said him and his friends back home would sit around and smoke and watch people climbing up the mountain."Crazy white people, we don't ever go up there" is roughly what he said.
Mount Everest isn’t the most dangerous. That would be k2 with I believe a 10% fatality rate for climbers.
Everest is the highest mountain but it isn't the tallest mountain. How many times does this need to be corrected?
It is the highest point on earth. This is why people climb it.
I nearly died on Mt Everest in 1997 - I had been heavily drinking in the base the night before we set off to claim the North Face - and half way up I received news that Labour had won by a massive landslide! Ironically, I lost my footing and actually caused a massive landslide! Great days!
The first summit I believe to be Mallory, Irvine. Depends if you count cresting the summit, and a pure decent in one.
To me as long as you make it to the top it should count. Then you can give credit to the first to summit and descend separate recognition but I believe Mallory and Irvine to be first as well but that’s just my unsolicited opinion 🙃
You mean the two incompetent british climbers who didn’t leave a trace or proof of their “summit”?
@@rohanmathew3168 wife’s photo wasn’t in his pocket.
@@Nuttyirishman85 There are a million reasons why a photo cannot be located on a body that fell from a considerable height and was discovered decades later.
@@Nuttyirishman85 EXACTLY!!
11:46 - The events of 1997 reinforce the lessons of 1996 and _at most_ the story serves as a mildly recontextualizing "coda" but it's a major stretch to say there's enough contrast to call them _"antithetical"._
You say that everest is an intermudiet mountain it is by no means intermediat nothing at 8000m is it is certainly not the most difficult to climb altough that depends if done by fair means it is one of the hardest for sure due to the altitude
Needs a better VO
Not to nitpick, but Everest, though the highest mountain in the world, is not the tallest.
More people have died on Mont Blanc, no?
Lol those french climbers probably think they’re cursed/blessed “EVERYONE we talked to died?”
Mt Everest is not the summit of the earth. I think that's another peak in north America
Mount Logan?
Well is it 1996 or 1997? Title says one thing, description says another….
1997. The 2nd line of the description is "Lesser known is that the following year, a similarly deadly season went largely under the radar."
@@ShiroiSenritsu 🤦🏻♂️ I should’ve read further… my mistake!
MORE CLIMBING DISASTERS!
I know what happens to the climbers who are never found due to my ski free playing days.
So they skied down the mountain?
Why this people climb, plane land parasuit n jump mountain simple n easy
nice like 999
Are you trolling saying Tenzing first?
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It's safer to jump off a 100 story building. Why risk the lives of others. It's a selfish and Self-righteous endeavor.
false Its the matterhorn in switzerland 500deaths
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A family friend of mine named Garrett has summitted Everest hundreds of times, I don’t want to downplay the deaths but I want them to be in perspective.
Which perspective is that? That Garrett willingly and knowingly funnels his finances into supporting a "sport" that turns a blind eye to unchecked littering, environmental harm, and exploitation of poor local populations? That he feeds an untenable enterprise that does not properly vet people for skill, psychological fitness, or general health, but only checks their wallets for thickness? Or that he has stepped over and around hundreds of corpses for vainglory? I'll bet it's the corpses.
@@aquachonk I don’t know what ur point here is I’m gonna be honest. Ur obviously not a mountaineer so don’t pretend u know shit about it. Dork ass mf
Right……hundreds?
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great content but please change your voice
Cool-wahr, not cool-oor.
Say thank you for watching. Not thank you all. I watch alone, as does anyone who watches RUclips.
Get to the point.
Climbing everest is a straight forward affair even for beginners, a staight forward affair??? Are you serious ? It's comments like this which is responsible for people dying on the mountain with little or no climbing skills. You obviously have never climbed it. Go & take a walk on Everest & see the 200+ dead bodies still frozen in pristine condition except their heads & tell them it was simple & staight forward. A fair few people will watch this & what you are saying is reckless & completely innapropiate. If you don't summit after leaving camp 4 & get caught up on the mountain overnight you might as well be on the moon. It's certain death. Think about what you are saying. This isn't some game it's life & death.
But he is right - compared to many other mountains it is a straight forward climb.
Very good response. People makes this videos without knowledge and no responsibility at all.
That's why have a turn back time. If you do not summit until 2pm, turn back or you would not have daylight to reach high camp and will spend a night at high altitude, which means you are very much dead.
@@JohnSmith-ux3tt Have you ever climbed Everest. I would be surprised. Kumble ice fall are pieces of ice the sizes of houses continually moving day & night with the only ladders across the crevices the only way to cross, then the incredibly dangerous Lhotse face , then the Hillary a very technical face. A straight forward climb. Just unbelievable comment. I have seen too much death up there for these comments to not be corrected.