How the hell do you only have 2K subscribers, with quality like this? You have another account or something? This is so damn good, and I'm really glad I found your channel. I'll be here for the long run. Trust me.
Thank you so much! No I don’t have another channel, I edit for other people as my job but wanted to make my own content on the side. I’d love it if I could focus on this full time
People underestimate how difficult it is to climb a mountain. Climbed a 2800m mountain in Murree, Pakistan and experienced 2 separate near-death experiences and heck there's a proper trail for climbing that mountain. Can't believe people are brave enough to climb an 8000m mountain. Respect
Heh, true. I went 2 monts ago to mountain which is popular ski track, went to highest peak at around 1500m with regular snow boots, and when was almost at top i started losing grip because those 100m were at high slope. And i was thinking to go to another highest top at mountain peak nearby at around 2000m also without any gear, which is easy comparing to some peaks in this video. But now i have serious doubts 😄😁
@@V.o.i.d.v _Not_ an achievement? Wtf are you talking about? However much the trek has been commodified, you still have to make the climb. It's still a grueling endeavor. Don't shrug off the difficulty of Everest just because of its commercialization or because other summits are more difficult. Damn, it's incredible the stupid shit you read on the internet sometime. You climb Mt. Everest and some idiot on his phone, sitting on the toilet shrugs and goes, "so? that's no achievement". 🙄
This is, by far, the best analysis of K2 I've ever seen. I climbed a 14,439 foot (4401 meters) mountain in Colorado. There were three serious moments where I wasn't sure we were going to survive the climb. Much respect to the climbers who brave the 8000 meter peaks. Especially K2. Just looking at it from base camp is intimidating. I just subscribed to your channel. Look forward to more content in the future.
Thanks so much Dave, I REALLY enjoyed making this video. Massive respect to you for climbing that mountain, I suppose that thrill of not knowing 1000)% you're going to survive is why some people climb them? I bet theres no feeling which replicates reaching the peak
Agreed on your comment about this video. I climbed Long Peak in Colorado which was pretty intense. It has claimed the most lives of any 14er in CO, I have a GoPro video on my channel of it. Although I wouldn't say I was afraid of not surviving it, I'd reserve that fear for some of the more intense 14ers such as Pyramid peak or if you were climbing a 14er in winter with risk of avalanche. Everest or K2 is on an absolute different level than anything in Colorado.
Annapurna is the most dangerous mountain in the world to climb. With a fatality rate of around 32%, Annapurna's sees approximately 32 who not survive per 100 successful summits. SO this video has the wrong title!
@@johnair1 There are other 8000 peak around K2 that are even deadlier than Annapurna., but like Annapurna, not many climber go for the 5 or 6 tallest mountain.
@@astorsphinxx This is calculated differently, based on how many deaths occur per successful summits rather than deaths on total climbs. This is because plenty abandon the climb at different points of the journey so the numbers would be very skewed
It is locally known as “Chegori”. My brothers and i, we are obsessed with mountains and are lucky to be born in Pakistan. You should also read about Nanga Parbat or Killer mountain also in Pakstan
I watched 14 Peaks too. However there is one part where he has to ascend two mountains in 36 hours or something. I got the impression from the documentary that he actually walked from one peak to another and didn't technically ascend to the second peak
@@reptongeek Everest and Lhotse are very close. A number of people have climbed them on consecutive days. Lhotse from the South Col isn't particularly difficult.
First of all, I wouldn't say it's "getting better" per say...Mount Everest as literally become a trash dumping place for "mountaineers" and I truly hope that K2 stays more protected than Everest is. Secondly, it's absolutely insane to me after seeing this video how someone like Reinhold Messner did non-oxygen supplemented ascents on these mountains and climbed Everest solo. That man is a legend.
This is some savage quality content. I have zero interest in mountain climbing but I could not stop watch. Amazingly investigated, written, narrated and edited. When I saw your subcount I assumed you had "stolen" the video. My bad, you really deserve hats off - keep it up, instantly subbed!
I have so many heath issues there is no way I would go climbing, it would mean practically certain death. But I really enjoy listening and learning more!
@@EverythingExplainedd Annapurna shakes it's head. Annapurna's sees approximately 32 deaths per 100 successful summits. The basic premise of the video is plain and simple misinformation that a 20 second check on any comprehensive mountaineering article. Get your facts right.
It’s crazy how project possible was able to do all the 14 including the beast of k2 and Annapurna. This video does an excellent job truly showing how difficult that feat was with an explanation of the rigors of one mountain
@@hearmenow909 they had to film most of the footage themselves, while climbing the mountains.. Netflix only agreed to do the documentary after they done most, if not all 14
It's because of k2's unrelenting steepness. Only small relief on the shoulder but getting even to that point is a giant accomplishment most seasons. And k2 has very high avalanche danger which has also claimed many lives. Most beautiful mountain in one of the most rugged, beautiful, and remote places on earth.
Everest has claimed more lives than K2, but the important fact is that far more people have climbed Everest than K2. 6 641 have climbed Everest and there's been only 310 deaths. You also gotta remember that those 6 641 include only those who reach the summit: plenty more people climbed everest, but most of them don't try to reach the summit or have turned back. Statistics from Nepal tell that on average, Everest attracts 1000 climbers per year. In contrast, K2 has had only 377 people reaching the summit and 91 have died trying.
This video sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole looking for the hardest mountains to climb, after reading a few articles from mountaineering magazines and watching some videos on the subject I found a mountain called 'Ngadi Chuli' - A bit over 200km West from Mt Everest there has been only one confirmed assent (in 1979) to the peak and one unconfirmed (in 1970 - both climbers died in a fall during the decent) No one has even tried to climb it since 2014.
A mountain not climbed much times doesn't mean that it's hard. Gangkhar puensum, Muchhu chhish has still never been climbed despite people trying Muchhu chhish many times. However if you want to know about a more difficult mountain then read about baintha brakk, latok peaks and you will find the difficulty levels of mountains.
Let's hope the foreign climbers treat the K2 sherpas well. Read an article where a Mt. Everest climber was near death and miraculously hauled back by one sherpa to safety. Only for that climber to thank only his sponsors and not the sherpa who literally carried him down the mountain on his back.
Highest I've climbed is 6001m or 19,688ft (Deo Tibba, Himachal Pradesh), which I did at the age of 16. I'm native to the Himalayas myself so high altitude is not a huge problem for me, but having being brought up in the urban side of India, I lack the same stamina as my folks back in Uttarakhand. I could only dream of K2!
Altitude above 8000 meters is a problem for all human bodies. You aren't particularly special in the death zone even if your body has been acclimatized to altitude. You might have more time than an average person but your clock is ticking
I live in Islamabad and frequently travel to the mountains in the North. I only wish to reach K2 basecamp someday. Climbing K2 is out of question for me. Just watching the videos send shivers down my spine.
Passion and emotion force climber to reach at summit but survival instinct force you to come back... I just went on a small mountain....yeah very happy to reach at top but high altitude make you sick, you feel severe headache, so you know that you have to go back for your survival.....so with sad heart, you start to come back.
It's definitely alot more than the previous year, but 200 people out of everyone in the world is still... Not very obtainable for most people. So let's hope it doesn't come to that!
Heh, whoever thinking climbing at 5 6 or 8km height gonna be easy (especially when they know how much it costs, and there is no man made "proper path") is crazy person, and should not be allowed to climb lol 😆
K2, like all mountains, doesn't try to kill you. It's more about the fact that it doesn't even deign to admit you exist. The mountain just is. And it's implacable in that "itness" if there is such a word. It's like the great oceans of the world. It's just there and if you intrude the consequences are on your own head.....
The Karakoram highway is a sketchy road through Pakistan, in the direction of K2, which passes through valleys and between some very notable mountains (Rakaposhi/Nanga Parbat), however, the highway ends before reaching the high glaciers where K2 and the most of the high karakoram is found. So maybe the guy means he will travel on the karakoram highway by motorcycle, which is 100km from K2 at it's closest
When people attempt to summit mountains like K2, what happens to all the supplies used to get there? What happens to ropes, ladders, oxygen tanks, garbage, etc? Just curious if humans are destroying just another place we insist on going. Don't take my question wrong. I admire people with the physical and mental strength to climb and I absolutely love the beauty of the video.
Only the disrespectful troglodytes leave their trash up there. Because Everest has become so commercialized, it’s full of a bunch of bored rich people who think it’s someone else’s job to clean up after them so it’s turning into a trash heap. You don’t see this on mountains like K2 and Annapurna because the only people venturing up those mountains are serious mountaineers who have a true respect for nature and the environment, so they don’t leave their trash behind for someone else to deal with.
I myself climbed the Mt. Everest base camp last year. At 5360m in altitude, the drop is air pressure becomes really apparent, even to the fittest. The temperature at some places dropped to -20 degrees Celsius. And its not like the trek is made easier with comfortable tea houses and all along the way. The accommodations at the top are bare minimal, and toilets are almost non-existent. I still wonder how me and my team of 24 made it from Lukla to the base camp in just 9 days. It is by far the hardest thing I have ever done.
Oh by no means did I mean to discredit how hard Mount Everest is, I just wanted to put in perspective that it makes an already extremely harder thing even harder. Massive respect to you for doing that!
@@herbert9241 In the mountains, there are always locals. The official name in India is mountain tribes, which includes the more popular Gurkhas, Lepchas. They don't need to live on the mountain to name it, as long as it's visible from somewhere. K2 clearly wasn't
@@LittleUniverse-5 that name came waaay after 1947 when the Chinese govt attempted to rename all British named peaks to decolonise and assert dominance over PoK
I live in an area that has many 7-10,000 foot mountains (2-3,000 meters) and I am regularly in and around and on top of them. The storms that can come up are fast and violent. I have extreme respect for the mountains, and can only imagine what these bave people go through. Highest I've ever been was 12,000 feet which feels like nothing in comparison.
Yeah. It's a specific mountainous area in north of Pakistan and Nepal along their borders with China where mountains specifically rise to extreme height like easily above 20000 feet. Breathtakingly beautiful. However rest of the mountains to the south are of average height like 7000 to 15000 feet.
Absolutely magnificent short documentary of this truly awesome mountain. I get goosebumps just looking at it, incredibly beautiful and yet terrifying at the same time. It would be an ultimate dream walking the route to the base camp! You have certainly gained a subscriber, and I have liked and shared this great video! Thanks so much 👏👏
I lvie in California where in Yosemite, people die regularly. Some are climbing El Capitan. a vertical face about 4,000 feet above the valley. Others fall off falls and peaks as much as 5,000 ft. I admire their guts, but I think I enjoy life enough to keep going.
@@jansnauwaert1785 correct. No sherpas with our expedition in 2008. There are high altitude porters, if you hire them, but they are not stronger than a fit climber.
Whenever I watch a video about K2, I think about the 2021 winter summit that the 10-man nepalese expedition achieved. Winds of up to 40mph and temperatures that drop to -40c. That's without the fact that this mountain is extremely difficult to climb even in summer. Must have been a hell of a journey.
I'm can safely say that all the recent successful summit attempts were possible only because of guided route that was set up by nims dai and his team back in 2019.
@@EverythingExplainedd People also forget that his lung capacities are way above average and he's a trained Special Force guy. That's not your average climber.
according to google "It is often estimated that about 10-15% of people who attempt suicide eventually die by suicide". This mountain has a 20% fatality rate ... so yeah, attempting to climb this mountain is quite literally a suicide attempt, so i cant say i feel sorry for the victims of this mountain.
This is by far the best K2 explainer video I’ve seen on RUclips. You should do more videos on the rest of the 8000m peaks. Liked and Subscribed, looking forward for more.
Brings back memories of climbing Half Done mountain in Yosemite. I'm older now and my memory is not so good any more but here's how I remember it. I got used to the higher climate by riding my motorcycle up into the Sierra Mountains of California. As I got into the death zone my bike began to sputter and I had to carry 100 pounds of gear on my back for miles to get to base camp at Curry Village. I left before sunrise because you must go up and back before sundown or you will die. You begin by having to walk under a 1,000 foot hight water fall of cold snow run off. You get cold, wet and all you gear is soaked. The rocks are slippery and one wrong step and you will slide for 3 miles until you land head first into a pile of razor sharp rocks. It gets harder after that and when you get to the final climb you look straight up about 2,000 feet and see a rope ladder hanging off from the top. You are so tired you leave most of your 100 pound pack behind so you can climb the rope ladder. While you are gone there are monsters that live in the rocks who come and destroy all your gear looking for food. Rumor has it the monsters where put there by the base camp store so you will have to buy new gear when you get back. One look at the rope ladder on the sheer vertical 2,000 foot climb to the summit and I said @#$$%%%^^^ this - I'm going back. Just then a 10 year old kid in shorts and a T-shirt started up the rope ladder. So I knew the kid was on a suicide mission so I followed up behind him to try and rescue him ( or was I ashamed he was going to climb it and I was afraid to? .... I forget). I told myself, "don't look down." For once I followed my own advice that turned out to be good. Once on the summit, looking down, I could see K2 in the distance. I savored the moment and the view, knowing I had to leave within 12 mintues or I would die. The trip back was harder than the trip up. The rock monsters had eaten all of my food and I was near starvation as I entered the base camp. I had lost 20 pounds. I went to the base camp cafeteria at Curry Village and ate 40 pounds of food. I slept well that night knowing I was the first person in history to see K2 from the summit of Half Dome mountain. And that's the way I remember it.
@@EverythingExplainedd ah, just the rambling memories of an old man, but thanks kid ! ...I really enjoyed your video....I had heard of K2 but did not know all the interesting things you presented. Well done.
@@lw216316 Yosemite is in the United States. K2 is, quite literally, on the other side of the world, in Pakistan. If you saw it you must have had an hallucination.
Commercialization and bored rich people who can pay for a dozen personal porters and Sherpas to carry/do everything for them, including short roping them to pull them up the mountain.
I remember I watched a video about K2 a couple of years ago, and while people were ascending they saw 1 human body just rolling like a ball from that mountain. He died obviously, I believe he was a fire fighter from Canada. That video stuck with me. edit: Found the video. It is called "K2 Abruzzi Route Climbing 2018" and 2:28 mark.
Excellent video, slightly debatable title. Using fatality rate alone (deaths:summits) to define deadly the top three are: 1. Annapurna 33% (1 in 3), 2. K2 25% (1 in 4), 3. Nanga Parbat (22%) Thank you for a great video.
thank you! I know Annapurna is technically but 2nd most deadly mountain is a terribler title haha. I plan to make a video on Annapuruna. 'Annapuruna: The Silent Killer'
K2 looks menacing. It would be cool to make the trek and stand at the base of the mountain. I’m sure an experience you’d have to see to explain. Hard pass on climbing it, or any other mountain for me though. Respect to those that do.
All the death-rate percentages on the 14ers have been coming down in recent years due to better preparations and equipment. But, there was a time in the late 90's, early 2000's that K2's death-rate was about 33%, only second to Annapurna I! Many years, nobody would succeed at summiting. Now, unfortunately, it's taking on the "turnstile" identity that Everest has had for years! Also, the serac above the "bottleneck" on K2 might be the most intimidating section on all of the 14ers! The only one I find comparable are the enormous seracs that are present on Nanga Parbat in the Mummery Spur. These mountains are a different world which is why I've always had the utmost respect for the high-altitude mountaineers that have survived them.
I honestly hope k2 stays a difficult challenge and doesn't end up like everest. It used to be an accomplishment, now it's a tourist attraction. Dropping fatalities is good, but by removing the challenge you remove what makes it special
nah mate calling everest a tourist attraction is false and true. there are 1000s who visit the base camp and return, they just go to watch the mountain thats it, there are only very few ppl who are the elite few who climb and conquor the summit and stand on the highest point on planet earth its one hell of an achievement. i suggest you climb a mountain yourself you will understand how mind bendingly difficult it is and especially harder if u add the extreme conditions like snow
@@aryanram02A lot of bored rich people are paying for a ton of personal porters and Sherpas to carry and do everything for them, including short roping them so the Sherpas can physically lift them up the mountain. Fortunately, China has opened up the Tibetan face again and they are instituting strict laws regarding who can climb, with one criterion being documented proof of at least one prior ascent of an 8000m climb. Thousands of people on Everest every single year are those who have no business being on the mountain but have enough cash to convince guides to take them anyway. Shriya Shah-Klorfine had ZERO mountain climbing experience but because she paid the guides enough they decided to teach her how to mountain climb during the weeks at base camp. When I say she had no climbing experience, I mean that she literally showed up at Everest Base Camp without even knowing how to put on her crampons. She died on the mountain. Her situation is hardly an anomaly either. Fortunately, with mountains like K2 and Annapurna this will never happen because those beasts kill 23% and 32% of the best of the best, respectively. You won’t find anyone willing to guide a novice or someone with no experience up those mountains. Because there is so much established infrastructure and routes it’s possible to get a physically fit, rich idiot up Everest. It’s also well-known that while Everest is the highest peak in the world, it’s far from being the most difficult to climb. K2 will never become easier to climb and you’ll not soon see guides and Sherpas getting physically fit, rich idiots up that monster.
K2 is frightening, Annapurna is more dangerous, although the Ogre is the scariest and probably hardest to climb followed by Cero Torre which looks terrifying! Beautiful to look at though! Enjoyed the vid 👍
@@jaishreeram3180 Indeed it is forbidden to climb the sacred mountain and it looks like a death wish anyhow! If it were possible, I'd take my chances on Kailash over the Ogre though!
Are “Sherpas” on K2 actually know as High Altitude Porters? I was under the impression Sherpas are a Nepalese ethnic group living near the base of Everest that work as porters and guides on Mt. Everest. High Altitude Porters are Pakistani.
I apologise if I got that part of the video wrong, but I believe they are Sherpas. For example: explorersweb.com/k2-and-cho-oyu-sherpas-advance-despite-strong-winds/
@@EverythingExplainedd I believe you are correct. My apologies. It looks like Sherpas are often brought in from Nepal to aid expeditions. Here’s a quote I pulled from another article: “In Pakistan, there are a limited number of highly qualified and skilled HAPs but there are efforts to train more. Many expeditions bring Sherpas in from Nepal to support their teams and fix ropes on K2 (and Broad Peak, the Gasherbrums, etc) and Pakistan doesn’t like this at all. Each Sherpa must have a full price climbing permit and there have been discussions to ban them as they are viewed as taking the jobs of the HAPs. All of this results in higher prices for Pakistan climbs, but they are still less expensive than Everest. A permit to climb K2 is around $1,700 versus $11,000 for Everest. Thankfully a ban on Sherpas has not happened as the Sherpas and HAPS work well together and a transfer of skills is taking place faster than if the HAPs climbed on their own. Personally I think having more local support in Pakistan is good for everyone, but they need to have the same skills as the Sherpas if more inexperienced climbers continue to attempt Karakoram peaks.” www.alanarnette.com/blog/2016/06/12/k2-will-never-become-everest/
Very high quality explanatory video about K2! Just loved it. Please keep producing more content like this on other 8000 meter peaks too. Just subscribed you and looking forward for more videos like this! Cheers mate 🍻
thanks alot Malik! There is a very wide range of content on this channel as I kind of just make videos on whatever takes my fancy at the time haha. Ill Defintely do another mountain video
I remember watching a documentary about a team that went up there in the early 90s, it was aired in 1995. A lass who part of the team, documented the climb, Sadly an avalanche killed her and a couple of others, the remaining team ended up turning back. The lass was British, her death made the headlines in the main papers as i remember.
Excellent video . . . very well narrated and researched. So help me god if it is yet another one of these A.I. generated videos I seem to keep running up against. Those are a dead giveaway if you are at least moderately educated about mountaineering and familiar with the history of these peaks and legendary climbers and expeditions. Geezzz, I hope you are an actual person as your videos and information is great . . . and factual!
I've done a backpacking hike up to 15k feet, or 4,500 meters, in elevation, and was physically in marvelous shape in my youth, yet, the thinness of the air had me at a constant level of elevated breathing, with my heart pounding, at the top of Mt. Whitney, California. It's a strange sensation to breathe in deeply, yet, you don't feel the lungs filling with air, when at that thin-air altitude. How those mountain climbers can do up to the base camps elevations without supplemental oxygen is incomprehensible.
Excellent video! However - there is just as much oxygen at 8000 meters as there is at sea level. It is a common misconception - it is the low pressure that doesn't allow the oxygen to bind to hemoglobin as well.
I live in the uintas, which aren't nearly as high up by any means. Ive watched people go up stuff i had a cigarette lit for and they needed to do it with the cans if oxygen you buy. Ive seen people who are climbing out mountains pass out in my family's taxi on the ride over to their campsites. We've had to go retrieve people before they even start. I've seen people get incredibly sick. Im not even in shape. So i can't imagine what something like this would be for anyone. Anyone, period. We're only meant to live so high up. We're only meant to climb so high. Im used to mountains, i was born here, i will stay and i will go in the ground here in the rockies. I couldnt live anywhere else... but K2 makes me nauseous looking at it. It's like the body of an elditrch being trying to remove itself from the earth
How the hell do you only have 2K subscribers, with quality like this?
You have another account or something? This is so damn good, and I'm really glad I found your channel. I'll be here for the long run. Trust me.
Thank you so much! No I don’t have another channel, I edit for other people as my job but wanted to make my own content on the side. I’d love it if I could focus on this full time
@@EverythingExplainedd very good work than.
@@durajetarifi5112 thank you!
Better yet, you could say that they have K2 Subscribers ;)
@@Mattipedersen I'd be high if I didn't a mount to believe in that
A friend of mine is still on K2. Died on descent.
RIP Bruce Grant.
RIP Bruce Grant
Damn man thats sad :(
Sorry to hear that
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God bless 🙏
People underestimate how difficult it is to climb a mountain. Climbed a 2800m mountain in Murree, Pakistan and experienced 2 separate near-death experiences and heck there's a proper trail for climbing that mountain. Can't believe people are brave enough to climb an 8000m mountain. Respect
Exactly, the difficulty of the actual climb is hard enough. Combine that with weather, altitude, heavy equipment, lack of oxygen etc, it’s insane
Heh, true. I went 2 monts ago to mountain which is popular ski track, went to highest peak at around 1500m with regular snow boots, and when was almost at top i started losing grip because those 100m were at high slope. And i was thinking to go to another highest top at mountain peak nearby at around 2000m also without any gear, which is easy comparing to some peaks in this video. But now i have serious doubts 😄😁
I climbed MT. EVEREST December 19 2020.
@@User_92020 Everest isn't an achievement anymore since it's been so heavily commodified.
@@V.o.i.d.v _Not_ an achievement? Wtf are you talking about? However much the trek has been commodified, you still have to make the climb. It's still a grueling endeavor. Don't shrug off the difficulty of Everest just because of its commercialization or because other summits are more difficult. Damn, it's incredible the stupid shit you read on the internet sometime. You climb Mt. Everest and some idiot on his phone, sitting on the toilet shrugs and goes, "so? that's no achievement". 🙄
This is, by far, the best analysis of K2 I've ever seen. I climbed a 14,439 foot (4401 meters) mountain in Colorado. There were three serious moments where I wasn't sure we were going to survive the climb. Much respect to the climbers who brave the 8000 meter peaks. Especially K2. Just looking at it from base camp is intimidating. I just subscribed to your channel. Look forward to more content in the future.
Thanks so much Dave, I REALLY enjoyed making this video. Massive respect to you for climbing that mountain, I suppose that thrill of not knowing 1000)% you're going to survive is why some people climb them? I bet theres no feeling which replicates reaching the peak
I live only a few miles from mt elbert! Living at 10k for elevation is a trip!
3 times on Elbert? What?
Agreed on your comment about this video. I climbed Long Peak in Colorado which was pretty intense. It has claimed the most lives of any 14er in CO, I have a GoPro video on my channel of it. Although I wouldn't say I was afraid of not surviving it, I'd reserve that fear for some of the more intense 14ers such as Pyramid peak or if you were climbing a 14er in winter with risk of avalanche. Everest or K2 is on an absolute different level than anything in Colorado.
i climed elbert 2 marches ago.. hip deep in snow, geez
The fact that its so remote that it had no local name is Savage in itself
Annapurna is the most dangerous mountain in the world to climb. With a fatality rate of around 32%, Annapurna's sees approximately 32 who not survive per 100 successful summits. SO this video has the wrong title!
@@johnair1 There are other 8000 peak around K2 that are even deadlier than Annapurna., but like Annapurna, not many climber go for the 5 or 6 tallest mountain.
@@johnair1 doesn't 32% fatality rate means for every 100 people who start climbing the mountain, only 68 make it back alive?
@@astorsphinxx This is calculated differently, based on how many deaths occur per successful summits rather than deaths on total climbs. This is because plenty abandon the climb at different points of the journey so the numbers would be very skewed
It is locally known as “Chegori”. My brothers and i, we are obsessed with mountains and are lucky to be born in Pakistan. You should also read about Nanga Parbat or Killer mountain also in Pakstan
I watched a documentary about the guy who climbed all 14 of the 8000m mountains in the same 1 year period which is absolutely crazy 😮😮😮
Project Possible, thats what inspired me to make this video, amazing doc from Nims and his team
I watched 14 Peaks too. However there is one part where he has to ascend two mountains in 36 hours or something. I got the impression from the documentary that he actually walked from one peak to another and didn't technically ascend to the second peak
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Even in winter?
@@reptongeek Everest and Lhotse are very close. A number of people have climbed them on consecutive days. Lhotse from the South Col isn't particularly difficult.
First of all, I wouldn't say it's "getting better" per say...Mount Everest as literally become a trash dumping place for "mountaineers" and I truly hope that K2 stays more protected than Everest is. Secondly, it's absolutely insane to me after seeing this video how someone like Reinhold Messner did non-oxygen supplemented ascents on these mountains and climbed Everest solo. That man is a legend.
Yeah I did mean it very lightly, insane acheivments
K2 is getting way more people post covid and i swear I saw 200 this past year 2024 and 100 2023..
I'm sure they'll eventually trash that mountain as well
K2 may be even worse than Everest!
This is some savage quality content. I have zero interest in mountain climbing but I could not stop watch. Amazingly investigated, written, narrated and edited. When I saw your subcount I assumed you had "stolen" the video. My bad, you really deserve hats off - keep it up, instantly subbed!
thank you! Nope all myself includign the research, script, voice and editing. Hopefully ill be able to commit to this full time one day
I have so many heath issues there is no way I would go climbing, it would mean practically certain death. But I really enjoy listening and learning more!
@@EverythingExplainedd Annapurna shakes it's head. Annapurna's sees approximately 32 deaths per 100 successful summits. The basic premise of the video is plain and simple misinformation that a 20 second check on any comprehensive mountaineering article. Get your facts right.
It’s crazy how project possible was able to do all the 14 including the beast of k2 and Annapurna. This video does an excellent job truly showing how difficult that feat was with an explanation of the rigors of one mountain
yeah nims and his team are crazily skilled mad men ahah
Giving up is not in the blood Sir.
They didn't it, was fake, hence the minimal footage of each mountain. That's TV for you, or Netflix, all the same thing, faking reality.
@@hearmenow909 they had to film most of the footage themselves, while climbing the mountains.. Netflix only agreed to do the documentary after they done most, if not all 14
@@hearmenow909 dont be that stupid. its ok to be a little bit stupid but not that stupid
It's because of k2's unrelenting steepness. Only small relief on the shoulder but getting even to that point is a giant accomplishment most seasons. And k2 has very high avalanche danger which has also claimed many lives. Most beautiful mountain in one of the most rugged, beautiful, and remote places on earth.
yeah it is brutal from the start
Even reaching to the basecamp of k2 takes days and damn the views are out of this world
@Usman Zaffar tum se na ho paye ga😂
@@KingClawDont forget all those crevasses on the way just to basecamp. Trust me just these crevasses are savage
Everest has claimed more lives than K2, but the important fact is that far more people have climbed Everest than K2. 6 641 have climbed Everest and there's been only 310 deaths. You also gotta remember that those 6 641 include only those who reach the summit: plenty more people climbed everest, but most of them don't try to reach the summit or have turned back. Statistics from Nepal tell that on average, Everest attracts 1000 climbers per year.
In contrast, K2 has had only 377 people reaching the summit and 91 have died trying.
Damn😵
This video sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole looking for the hardest mountains to climb, after reading a few articles from mountaineering magazines and watching some videos on the subject I found a mountain called 'Ngadi Chuli' - A bit over 200km West from Mt Everest there has been only one confirmed assent (in 1979) to the peak and one unconfirmed (in 1970 - both climbers died in a fall during the decent)
No one has even tried to climb it since 2014.
I have informed my husband that if we run out of money in retirement, this will be our retirement plan.
@@MedicalAutonomyProjectA grandiose way to go, to say the least
A mountain not climbed much times doesn't mean that it's hard. Gangkhar puensum, Muchhu chhish has still never been climbed despite people trying Muchhu chhish many times. However if you want to know about a more difficult mountain then read about baintha brakk, latok peaks and you will find the difficulty levels of mountains.
The fact that it hasn't even been attempted in a decade...is extremely telling just how uber-dangerous this mountain must be.
@@arshiham247 Just looking at photos of Baintha Brakk make it seem an impossible climb. Even it's name of 'The Ogre' is intimidating.
Let's hope the foreign climbers treat the K2 sherpas well. Read an article where a Mt. Everest climber was near death and miraculously hauled back by one sherpa to safety. Only for that climber to thank only his sponsors and not the sherpa who literally carried him down the mountain on his back.
yeah the sherpas are the REAL MVPs
That guy from Malaysia
Thanks for the video! I enjoyed K2 mountain from the comfort of my home.
Karl, I’m with you on that one…
I love watching videos of it but I don’t think I’ll ever climb it!
Highest I've climbed is 6001m or 19,688ft (Deo Tibba, Himachal Pradesh), which I did at the age of 16. I'm native to the Himalayas myself so high altitude is not a huge problem for me, but having being brought up in the urban side of India, I lack the same stamina as my folks back in Uttarakhand. I could only dream of K2!
Would you ever go to basecamp?
I have visited Mt. Everest base camp at the age of 17. Also climbed few mountains back in my Himalayan state Uttarakhand,India.
Can you have s3x on top? (as a native)
Altitude above 8000 meters is a problem for all human bodies. You aren't particularly special in the death zone even if your body has been acclimatized to altitude. You might have more time than an average person but your clock is ticking
@@gregorymorse8423 Cool story bro. Can you have s3x at the top? (as a native)
I live in Islamabad and frequently travel to the mountains in the North. I only wish to reach K2 basecamp someday. Climbing K2 is out of question for me. Just watching the videos send shivers down my spine.
its a scary old mountain isnt it
i can't even imagine the feeling of getting to the top after all this effort and then going back down just insane how people can push themselves
Passion and emotion force climber to reach at summit but survival instinct force you to come back... I just went on a small mountain....yeah very happy to reach at top but high altitude make you sick, you feel severe headache, so you know that you have to go back for your survival.....so with sad heart, you start to come back.
Last year may give climbers the impression K2 has become “easy”. This could be a set up for a disaster.
Great point Marianna, let’s hope that’s not the case. All it takes is for a random bit of bad weathrr
Ya i was thinking the same thing.
It's definitely alot more than the previous year, but 200 people out of everyone in the world is still... Not very obtainable for most people. So let's hope it doesn't come to that!
Heh, whoever thinking climbing at 5 6 or 8km height gonna be easy (especially when they know how much it costs, and there is no man made "proper path") is crazy person, and should not be allowed to climb lol 😆
@@milosstojanovic4623 true
K2, like all mountains, doesn't try to kill you. It's more about the fact that it doesn't even deign to admit you exist. The mountain just is. And it's implacable in that "itness" if there is such a word. It's like the great oceans of the world. It's just there and if you intrude the consequences are on your own head.....
its very intereting, I did the same when researching this video
Very pragmatic of you
Great video. I’ll never climb it (or any mountain for that matter lol) but I will be nearby it at some point on a motorcycle.
thank you, i also will never climb it ahha
Nearby K2 on a motorcycle????
The Karakoram highway is a sketchy road through Pakistan, in the direction of K2, which passes through valleys and between some very notable mountains (Rakaposhi/Nanga Parbat), however, the highway ends before reaching the high glaciers where K2 and the most of the high karakoram is found. So maybe the guy means he will travel on the karakoram highway by motorcycle, which is 100km from K2 at it's closest
@@bentownsend4017one of the best trips anyone can have......
Karl Rock U should visit the scammers on mount everest! also love the videos
The absolute best description of what to expect when attempting to summit K2! Well done and thank you.
Ive seen alot of mountaineering videos and this is one of the best. Wish it was longer.
Good job
thank you so much!
When people attempt to summit mountains like K2, what happens to all the supplies used to get there? What happens to ropes, ladders, oxygen tanks, garbage, etc? Just curious if humans are destroying just another place we insist on going. Don't take my question wrong. I admire people with the physical and mental strength to climb and I absolutely love the beauty of the video.
Thank you very much Jon! Honestly, I’m not too sure, I assume it all comes down with them
People often take gear down. If possible. But not the ropes, those remain on the mountain.
Ropes remain and sometimes oxygen tanks, but most of it gets taken down.
Only the disrespectful troglodytes leave their trash up there. Because Everest has become so commercialized, it’s full of a bunch of bored rich people who think it’s someone else’s job to clean up after them so it’s turning into a trash heap. You don’t see this on mountains like K2 and Annapurna because the only people venturing up those mountains are serious mountaineers who have a true respect for nature and the environment, so they don’t leave their trash behind for someone else to deal with.
Just check Mt. Everest and you know where the rubbish stays…
Lovely video and fair descriptions with all the sources. You gained another subscriber.
thanks Mark!
I myself climbed the Mt. Everest base camp last year. At 5360m in altitude, the drop is air pressure becomes really apparent, even to the fittest. The temperature at some places dropped to -20 degrees Celsius. And its not like the trek is made easier with comfortable tea houses and all along the way. The accommodations at the top are bare minimal, and toilets are almost non-existent. I still wonder how me and my team of 24 made it from Lukla to the base camp in just 9 days. It is by far the hardest thing I have ever done.
Oh by no means did I mean to discredit how hard Mount Everest is, I just wanted to put in perspective that it makes an already extremely harder thing even harder. Massive respect to you for doing that!
When even the locals have no name for such a big mountain, you know it's going to be extremely difficult to climb
thats so true
Maybe it's so remote there are no 'locals.' It was simply unknown before the British survey.
@@herbert9241 In the mountains, there are always locals. The official name in India is mountain tribes, which includes the more popular Gurkhas, Lepchas. They don't need to live on the mountain to name it, as long as it's visible from somewhere. K2 clearly wasn't
Actually K2 has a local name, which is "Chogori" Chogo=big, ri=mountain in local language..
Britishers misjudged it as 2nd highest after K1
@@LittleUniverse-5 that name came waaay after 1947 when the Chinese govt attempted to rename all British named peaks to decolonise and assert dominance over PoK
Best video I have watched for K2. Explicit detailing! Well Done.
thanks Pankaj!
This video was so entertaining!! The editing is amazing. I wish it could have been longer. I could have listened for 40 minutes and longer
I live in an area that has many 7-10,000 foot mountains (2-3,000 meters) and I am regularly in and around and on top of them. The storms that can come up are fast and violent. I have extreme respect for the mountains, and can only imagine what these bave people go through. Highest I've ever been was 12,000 feet which feels like nothing in comparison.
I bet! the weather is craazzzy, imagien you're that high and see bad weather inbound...
Yeah. It's a specific mountainous area in north of Pakistan and Nepal along their borders with China where mountains specifically rise to extreme height like easily above 20000 feet. Breathtakingly beautiful. However rest of the mountains to the south are of average height like 7000 to 15000 feet.
And think about this, the highest mountain in the solar system, Olympus Mons on Mars, stands at 27 km. More than 3 times mt Everest.
If most of the earth weren't covered with water, our mountains wound be considered taller too
Yeah well, the gradient is so small you wount even realize you are climbing a mountain 😊
Except the gravity there is way less so wouldn't it be easier to climb?
@@Rykiz_VidzMars gravity is roughly similar to earth tbh
I summited Olympus Mons back in 1985. I was the first. Did it without supplementary oxygen. It was quite easy really. Got a lift back with Matt Damon.
Absolutely magnificent short documentary of this truly awesome mountain. I get goosebumps just looking at it, incredibly beautiful and yet terrifying at the same time. It would be an ultimate dream walking the route to the base camp!
You have certainly gained a subscriber, and I have liked and shared this great video!
Thanks so much 👏👏
thank you veyr much R G, I LOVED making this video
I lvie in California where in Yosemite, people die regularly. Some are climbing El Capitan. a vertical face about 4,000 feet above the valley. Others fall off falls and peaks as much as 5,000 ft. I admire their guts, but I think I enjoy life enough to keep going.
I agree, too dangerous
The sherpas may be the defining factor for success rate on K2. Sherpas are important.
Extremely
As far as I know, there are no sherpas on K2 (in contrast to Everest). Not totally sure it's true, but that's what I read.
@@jansnauwaert1785 correct. No sherpas with our expedition in 2008. There are high altitude porters, if you hire them, but they are not stronger than a fit climber.
No Sherpas in K2 , They are locals of Nepal and K2 is in Pakistan...
@@bonafidestud my foot Pakistan. It’s India’s Highest Point.
Your channel is outstanding you have my sub. You deserve way more hope to see you hit the millions soon.
thanks so much Nick! I hope so
Whenever I watch a video about K2, I think about the 2021 winter summit that the 10-man nepalese expedition achieved. Winds of up to 40mph and temperatures that drop to -40c. That's without the fact that this mountain is extremely difficult to climb even in summer. Must have been a hell of a journey.
I'm can safely say that all the recent successful summit attempts were possible only because of guided route that was set up by nims dai and his team back in 2019.
Yeah which could be a false sence of security for people thinking this mountain suddenly became safe…
@@EverythingExplainedd People also forget that his lung capacities are way above average and he's a trained Special Force guy. That's not your average climber.
After reading "Kokou no hito" ( The climber)
This video shows the conditions The MC went through
according to google "It is often estimated that about 10-15% of people who attempt suicide eventually die by suicide". This mountain has a 20% fatality rate ... so yeah, attempting to climb this mountain is quite literally a suicide attempt, so i cant say i feel sorry for the victims of this mountain.
that is crazy isnt it
Beautiful documentary.... everything was well explained!! Keep it up!! 🙌🏻
Well researched and presented, thank you for posting this interesting video
Thanks Jhors! Loved making it
This is so good , loved it man !
thanks Piet! my best video for sure (so far...)
This is by far the best K2 explainer video I’ve seen on RUclips. You should do more videos on the rest of the 8000m peaks. Liked and Subscribed, looking forward for more.
thanks so much! Defintely, within a few months ill make a video on Annapurna
A place called “Death Zone” is enuf for me to stay in the car
well with such difficulties that you have mentioned, I should stick with my roof top ladder activities..
thanks mate
hahaa
Brings back memories of climbing Half Done mountain in Yosemite. I'm older now and my memory is not so good any more but here's how I remember it.
I got used to the higher climate by riding my motorcycle up into the Sierra Mountains of California. As I got into the death zone my bike began to sputter and I had to carry 100 pounds of gear on my back for miles to get to base camp at Curry Village. I left before sunrise because you must go up and back before sundown or you will die. You begin by having to walk under a 1,000 foot hight water fall of cold snow run off. You get cold, wet and all you gear is soaked. The rocks are slippery and one wrong step and you will slide for 3 miles until you land head first into a pile of razor sharp rocks. It gets harder after that and when you get to the final climb you look straight up about 2,000 feet and see a rope ladder hanging off from the top. You are so tired you leave most of your 100 pound pack behind so you can climb the rope ladder. While you are gone there are monsters that live in the rocks who come and destroy all your gear looking for food. Rumor has it the monsters where put there by the base camp store so you will have to buy new gear when you get back.
One look at the rope ladder on the sheer vertical 2,000 foot climb to the summit and I said
@#$$%%%^^^ this - I'm going back. Just then a 10 year old kid in shorts and a T-shirt started up the rope ladder. So I knew the kid was on a suicide mission so I followed up behind him to try and rescue him ( or was I ashamed he was going to climb it and I was afraid to? .... I forget). I told myself, "don't look down." For once I followed my own advice that turned out to be good. Once on the summit, looking down, I could see K2 in the distance. I savored the moment and the view, knowing I had to leave within 12 mintues or I would die. The trip back was harder than the trip up. The rock monsters had eaten all of my food and I was near starvation as I entered the base camp. I had lost 20 pounds. I went to the base camp cafeteria at Curry Village and ate 40 pounds of food. I slept well that night knowing I was the first person in history to see K2 from the summit of Half Dome mountain. And that's the way I remember it.
that was a great read thank you very much! Sounds very intense, glad you survived...
@@EverythingExplainedd ah, just the rambling memories of an old man, but thanks kid ! ...I really enjoyed your video....I had heard of K2 but did not know all the interesting things you presented. Well done.
Are you saying you saw the K2 from Yosemite?
@@Alsemenor sure, what you said, at least that's the way I remember it.
@@lw216316 Yosemite is in the United States. K2 is, quite literally, on the other side of the world, in Pakistan. If you saw it you must have had an hallucination.
I opened this video and subscribed starightway. A good channel to come
You deserve far more subs this video is 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks Dom!
I notice K2 doesn’t have lines of 300 people waiting in queue to summit … what is happening at Everest ?
Commercialization and bored rich people who can pay for a dozen personal porters and Sherpas to carry/do everything for them, including short roping them to pull them up the mountain.
I remember I watched a video about K2 a couple of years ago, and while people were ascending they saw 1 human body just rolling like a ball from that mountain. He died obviously, I believe he was a fire fighter from Canada. That video stuck with me.
edit: Found the video. It is called "K2 Abruzzi Route Climbing 2018" and 2:28 mark.
wow that is horrowing, I can see why that stuck with you. K2 is scary
the best k2 video watched so far. amazing clarity and details.
Excellent video, slightly debatable title.
Using fatality rate alone (deaths:summits) to define deadly the top three are:
1. Annapurna 33% (1 in 3), 2. K2 25% (1 in 4), 3. Nanga Parbat (22%)
Thank you for a great video.
thank you! I know Annapurna is technically but 2nd most deadly mountain is a terribler title haha. I plan to make a video on Annapuruna. 'Annapuruna: The Silent Killer'
That was very enjoyable mate, good work.
K2 looks menacing. It would be cool to make the trek and stand at the base of the mountain. I’m sure an experience you’d have to see to explain. Hard pass on climbing it, or any other mountain for me though. Respect to those that do.
Very cool, but very scary. I’d never have the balls to climb it personally ahha
Excellent video, hope you find success with this channel in the future!
I’m more fascinated by K2 than Everest. Everest may be in the spotlight by K2 has my attention.
yeah K2 is so scary but in a cool way
It’s this death zone that gets me thinking….
I’m not entirely convinced that Noah built a boat that floated on a sea that high up.
Haha
"Summiting is optional, getting down is mandatory" - Ed Viesturs
For a short 10 min video this is *really* high quality
Thanks so much!
This was so good! Thanks for making this man
Anytime Karl! Thanks for commenting
All the death-rate percentages on the 14ers have been coming down in recent years due to better preparations and equipment. But, there was a time in the late 90's, early 2000's that K2's death-rate was about 33%, only second to Annapurna I! Many years, nobody would succeed at summiting. Now, unfortunately, it's taking on the "turnstile" identity that Everest has had for years!
Also, the serac above the "bottleneck" on K2 might be the most intimidating section on all of the 14ers! The only one I find comparable are the enormous seracs that are present on Nanga Parbat in the Mummery Spur. These mountains are a different world which is why I've always had the utmost respect for the high-altitude mountaineers that have survived them.
Wow what a powerful video! Loved it!! Can't wait for more!!
Thanks so much Karlo!
I honestly hope k2 stays a difficult challenge and doesn't end up like everest. It used to be an accomplishment, now it's a tourist attraction.
Dropping fatalities is good, but by removing the challenge you remove what makes it special
nah mate calling everest a tourist attraction is false and true. there are 1000s who visit the base camp and return, they just go to watch the mountain thats it, there are only very few ppl who are the elite few who climb and conquor the summit and stand on the highest point on planet earth its one hell of an achievement. i suggest you climb a mountain yourself you will understand how mind bendingly difficult it is and especially harder if u add the extreme conditions like snow
@@aryanram02A lot of bored rich people are paying for a ton of personal porters and Sherpas to carry and do everything for them, including short roping them so the Sherpas can physically lift them up the mountain. Fortunately, China has opened up the Tibetan face again and they are instituting strict laws regarding who can climb, with one criterion being documented proof of at least one prior ascent of an 8000m climb. Thousands of people on Everest every single year are those who have no business being on the mountain but have enough cash to convince guides to take them anyway. Shriya Shah-Klorfine had ZERO mountain climbing experience but because she paid the guides enough they decided to teach her how to mountain climb during the weeks at base camp. When I say she had no climbing experience, I mean that she literally showed up at Everest Base Camp without even knowing how to put on her crampons. She died on the mountain. Her situation is hardly an anomaly either. Fortunately, with mountains like K2 and Annapurna this will never happen because those beasts kill 23% and 32% of the best of the best, respectively. You won’t find anyone willing to guide a novice or someone with no experience up those mountains. Because there is so much established infrastructure and routes it’s possible to get a physically fit, rich idiot up Everest. It’s also well-known that while Everest is the highest peak in the world, it’s far from being the most difficult to climb. K2 will never become easier to climb and you’ll not soon see guides and Sherpas getting physically fit, rich idiots up that monster.
I do my mountain climbing in Florida. It's a real challenge right after happy hour.
K2 is frightening, Annapurna is more dangerous, although the Ogre is the scariest and probably hardest to climb followed by Cero Torre which looks terrifying! Beautiful to look at though! Enjoyed the vid 👍
Thank you!
What about KAILASH PARVAT then???😊😊😊
@@jaishreeram3180 Indeed it is forbidden to climb the sacred mountain and it looks like a death wish anyhow! If it were possible, I'd take my chances on Kailash over the Ogre though!
indian trying be make his country relevant, K 2 is most difficult to climb, period.
Very good content…liked and subbed!
Thank you!!
Are “Sherpas” on K2 actually know as High Altitude Porters? I was under the impression Sherpas are a Nepalese ethnic group living near the base of Everest that work as porters and guides on Mt. Everest. High Altitude Porters are Pakistani.
I apologise if I got that part of the video wrong, but I believe they are Sherpas. For example:
explorersweb.com/k2-and-cho-oyu-sherpas-advance-despite-strong-winds/
@@EverythingExplainedd I believe you are correct. My apologies. It looks like Sherpas are often brought in from Nepal to aid expeditions. Here’s a quote I pulled from another article:
“In Pakistan, there are a limited number of highly qualified and skilled HAPs but there are efforts to train more.
Many expeditions bring Sherpas in from Nepal to support their teams and fix ropes on K2 (and Broad Peak, the Gasherbrums, etc) and Pakistan doesn’t like this at all. Each Sherpa must have a full price climbing permit and there have been discussions to ban them as they are viewed as taking the jobs of the HAPs.
All of this results in higher prices for Pakistan climbs, but they are still less expensive than Everest. A permit to climb K2 is around $1,700 versus $11,000 for Everest.
Thankfully a ban on Sherpas has not happened as the Sherpas and HAPS work well together and a transfer of skills is taking place faster than if the HAPs climbed on their own. Personally I think having more local support in Pakistan is good for everyone, but they need to have the same skills as the Sherpas if more inexperienced climbers continue to attempt Karakoram peaks.”
www.alanarnette.com/blog/2016/06/12/k2-will-never-become-everest/
Great video by the way, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
There is a clan near K2 in Skardu which is called Sadpara. They are locals and are known for mountaineering.
Sherpas are an ethnic Nepalese group and they have genetic differences that allow them to not just survive but thrive at such high altitudes.
wait this channel is so perfect omg
Thanks Eyan! May I ask why? Appreciate that
I can't even manage my energy during a 10km run
Absolutely superb! Thank you!
Thanks Steve
Very high quality explanatory video about K2! Just loved it. Please keep producing more content like this on other 8000 meter peaks too.
Just subscribed you and looking forward for more videos like this! Cheers mate 🍻
thanks alot Malik! There is a very wide range of content on this channel as I kind of just make videos on whatever takes my fancy at the time haha. Ill Defintely do another mountain video
Superbly done video. Well done.
Very well done video, keep it up with more content. Your channel is very underrated but success is not far. Good luck.
Thank you!
@@EverythingExplainedd Came back just to tell you. You deserve all the views and subs. Keep going. See you at a 100k subs next
Brilliant video mate. New subscriber ✌🏻
thanks Jon
Mashallah very great research and I appreciate you for making this video and I gained too much knowledge from this video.
thank you very much!
Alhumdulilah brother
Now that I am in awe and curiously terrified, this was an epic explanation.
"K2 is a savage!"
Annapurna: Hold my beer!
facts,m gonna make a video soon. 'Annapurna: The Silent Killer'
I remember watching a documentary about a team that went up there in the early 90s, it was aired in 1995. A lass who part of the team, documented the climb, Sadly an avalanche killed her and a couple of others, the remaining team ended up turning back. The lass was British, her death made the headlines in the main papers as i remember.
Great content brother♥️💯
Thanks !
Your videos on Annapurna ans K2 are amazing 👏
thank you so much!
Great video - I was locked in the whole time!
Thanks Brrrake!
Didn't expect to see my fav F1 channel here!!
@@stuartclifton4764 well well well!
Absolutely amazing documentary.
Fantastic video. Entertaining, informative and kept my attention to the end. Your channel with blow up im sure 👊
Thank you so much! I really hope it does, would love to do this full time
Excellent video . . . very well narrated and researched. So help me god if it is yet another one of these A.I. generated videos I seem to keep running up against. Those are a dead giveaway if you are at least moderately educated about mountaineering and familiar with the history of these peaks and legendary climbers and expeditions. Geezzz, I hope you are an actual person as your videos and information is great . . . and factual!
Excellent video!!
Finally get to say I’ve been here since the beginning when u make ur 5 million sub special
I've done a backpacking hike up to 15k feet, or 4,500 meters, in elevation, and was physically in marvelous shape in my youth, yet, the thinness of the air had me at a constant level of elevated breathing, with my heart pounding, at the top of Mt. Whitney, California.
It's a strange sensation to breathe in deeply, yet, you don't feel the lungs filling with air, when at that thin-air altitude.
How those mountain climbers can do up to the base camps elevations without supplemental oxygen is incomprehensible.
And some of them do it consatntly helping other people, recovering bodies etc, INSANE skill
Seen the Karokroam range first hand, unbelievable stuff
they look so cool and so scary
Subscribed. You need much more subscribers. San Diego. CA
thank you so much!
@8:14 that view is absolutely terrifying
absoutely
Great video!
Thank you! Can I ask what you liked about it so I can repeat the success?
Very nice documentary.
I really like this video. Well done! K2 is indeed savage
Thank you! It trulllllly is
Im not gonna lie ima wing suit back to my car in the parking lot if i ever made it to the summit
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Great video man! It’s been put together so well!
thank you! my next mountain video will be live within the next 7 days. 'Annapurna: The SILENT Killer Mountain'
Excellent video! However - there is just as much oxygen at 8000 meters as there is at sea level. It is a common misconception - it is the low pressure that doesn't allow the oxygen to bind to hemoglobin as well.
oh thank you for pointing that out
Bruh I thought K2 next to Mount Everest. thanks for information 😊
Great video 👏👏 keep it up 👍😊
thank you so much!
I live in the uintas, which aren't nearly as high up by any means. Ive watched people go up stuff i had a cigarette lit for and they needed to do it with the cans if oxygen you buy. Ive seen people who are climbing out mountains pass out in my family's taxi on the ride over to their campsites. We've had to go retrieve people before they even start. I've seen people get incredibly sick. Im not even in shape. So i can't imagine what something like this would be for anyone. Anyone, period. We're only meant to live so high up. We're only meant to climb so high. Im used to mountains, i was born here, i will stay and i will go in the ground here in the rockies. I couldnt live anywhere else... but K2 makes me nauseous looking at it. It's like the body of an elditrch being trying to remove itself from the earth
subbed. great content. thanks
Thank you!