Shriya was the definition of a Narcissist! She hid the fact from her husband that she was remortgaging their home to be dragged up a Mountain for bragging rights. She put her Sherpas life at risk by refusing to go back down and the lives of those who tried to help.
At 9:27 her husband has such a strange look ... my first thought was that he's thinking " it's too good to be true ... " . Perhaps I shouldn't have said this but I have to wonder if he had wanted to divorce her or was feeling abused by her ... ? Please forgive me ... I do have a very vivid imagination . Maybe it is the shock of losing his wife that he looks so strangely there ?
At that moment, people take risks. They don’t think of the consequences. Climbers forget that it as very difficult to climb down as it is tough and they are tired and most deadly is the weather which changes very fast.
Just imagine being so close to the top after all the effort of making it that far. It would be tempting to just say screw it I've got to finish what I started. Watching a few video like this one should be required before the ascent!
Struggling with your mortgage and taking out a 100k loan to fund an Everest climb is insanity. Thats like buying a 100k porche only to drive 1000 miles, take some pics with it, and throw it away. I swear these Everest climbers are insane.
That's most definitely 💯 truth of the matter! She had left grieving husband who in debt to pay off her second home mortgage all by himself on top of his grieving. 👏
@@bobjohnston9154 The easy part is getting up there but the real danger comes going back down. Most people who don't make it down die of arrogance, over confidence, thnking the job is done. I never liked going through the Kumble Icefall, hated it. You haven't achieved anything until ypur safely over those blocks of ice the size of houses for the final time.
Living near Mt. Everest for the past 30 years. I am Belgian. This area is becoming like a playground for non experienced trekkers, "climbers" and non local trekking guides. Time has come the Nepali government takes serious action. Too many of our beloved Sherpas are dying, leaving there family beraved.
Not only are the families of the sherpas bereaved, they also then have no one to bring in an income. The Nepalese government needs to seriously consider the damage being done, both to the mountains and the sherpas. As for the climbers, arrogant and ego driven, make a difference by spending your money on providing for the sherpas families, those loyal men who risk their lives so their entitled clients can take a selfie. Allow the sacred mountains the peace they deserve, leave them be, the watchers of the world.
@@nuclear9977 I would say you haven't been paying attention. It's been a "playground" for at least 2 if not 3 decades. The numbers of first time climbers has increased exponentially since the 1990's. It's not becoming.. it IS.
Just because you can afford to basically get hauled up Everest and back down again, doesn't mean you should. Professional climbers train for years to scale Everest, but now you have overprivledged morons who feel like they must conquer Everest as part of their "personal journey"'. Problem is they take others with them when they die. I feel bad for the sherpas. It's not fair they make slave wages to shuttle inexperienced rich people into the death zone. They arrogantly refused advice to abort and turn back. So they basically sealed their own fate
I'd be more impressed with these dreamers if they donated the money they spend on climbing Everest to the Sherpas so they wouldn't have to put their lives at risk anymore.
So let me get this straight. Inexperienced and ill fit climbers dismissed the advise to turn around when experienced climbers and sherpas told them/her not to? I'm sorry I don't feel bad.
@@marillica87 Well you do have a point after listening to the video. She was repeatedly told to turn around and refused, and others did turn around. They also didn't bring enough oxygen. I guess every situation is different. It's a shame but she was ill-prepared for sure
It is not that they didn't have enough oxygen, they did. It was that she was so slow in her climb that they stayed more time, hence la king oxygen. But the thing is there is only enough weight a human can carry when climbing, hence the importance of being fit enough to do it
Her ego was her undoing. Her drive to climb and descend successfully was nowhere near the level of her conceit. Nobody borrows $100k for such risky ventures.
Then , she had left her husband in dept to pay for her house second mortgage all by himself for her achievement goal and death on top of his deep grief of losing her. He would be suffering much more longer financially along side of losing his wife. It is not worth it for her suffering love ones in the end.😢
I watched another documentary about her. Apparently she had to be taught everything, including basics like putting on the crampons to her boots. She was lucky that her body was airlifted and she could get a proper send-off.
That photo of her in the yellow isn’t her at the summit. It is a fake photo she photoshopped in a rented suit in Canada. It gave the illusion that she had was an experienced climber. You can hear about it on “into the death zone” It’s all very sad. Confidence and arrogance are two very different things.
I love her Wikipedia line: "...which included a computer-generated photo of her purportedly in front of Mount Everest, and also organized several fundraising events which raised little or lost money. As a result, her expedition was financed by taking out a second mortgage on her home." Why she is notable to have a Wikipedia page, im not sure.
There is literally a documentary made about this woman and there is NOTHING to romanticize about her. She was NOT fit whatsoever when she made up her mind to do this. She decided to start "getting in shape" by going on small weekend hikes prior to her trip. She lived in Ontario, and the areas where she would go hiking are not necessarily even moderate hikes. Don't even get me started on her photoshopping herself to boost her big ego and pretend she had achieved something she clearly hadn't. She is a prime example of someone who puts others in dangers just due to her own vanity and not putting in the work required to achieve something like this then cheating her way to it. She is embarrassing. She deserves 0 praise; if anything her story should be a cautionary one. Describing her as "beautiful" is ironic because I'm sure she'd love that considering how into herself she was and the fact that there's nothing else of relevancy in terms of skill when it comes to climbing to describe her as. I recommend watching that documentary, and seeing how she pulled off this scheme and how her own family describes her. Absolutely embarrassing.
I was in Nepal on a climb just 5 months after she perished. Remember reading about the case and how incredibly underprepared and inexperienced she was but still decided to do it. Guess to inspire or fulfill a dream etc but so nonchalant and dismissive of the incredible dangers and efforts it takes to scale big mountains. Walked pass her gravestone at the Everest memorial site and although it's always sad when someone dies it's just madness what she did and equal madness that the trek company decided to take her there, a complete novice. Unfortunately money talks and combined with her ignorance, I'm sorry to say, it can only end with one thing
How did you go five months after her?? It’s too late and the season to climb is over by then… that doesn’t make sense that you were there to climb five months after her.
Maybe if there was an unwritten rule when you summit and then start descending if at any point you have to be push, pulled and carried all the way back down the mountain it means you technically did not complete the whole task. Maybe that would prevent some stubborn unprepared climbers from making bad decisions. Climbers like her probably know how you get down the mountain doesn't matter the summit is the finish line, forgetting you still must have the energy and drive to get down safely.
It's not about being stubborn. If you know anything about climbing, especially in high altitude, you understand that these people are making poor decisions because they are hypoxic and can't think straight. Even some excellent experienced climbers have died on Everest. It's a frightening thing because no matter how you tell yourself you'll turn around at a certain time, it's like being drunk, and the impulse is to keep going. I personally don't understand the allure. I would love to visit Base camp and see Nepal but have no desire to climb massive mountains.
@@Justicia007 It's definitely about being stubborn. She (and many others) made poor decisions long before ever getting to the mountain. Physically, she wasn't prepared and had no business there in the first place.
@@onthursday1599 Your point is well taken. After hearing about her particular circumstances, she should never have even attempted the mountain. She was unprepared and inexperienced, and worse didn't have enough oxygen.
Dying of exhaustion. I'll think twice before I say I'm "dead tired", Hearing what people endure climbing mountains like K2 and Everest, it's draining just listening.
Without any disrespect for this deceased lady- it is always tragic and painful to lose a loved one- but I find this kind of extreme activities utterly disturbing. In my opinion, if someone knowingly wants to take a risk, where death is included,there should be an unwritten "rule", that if the worst happens,then you are on your own. Why should other innocent people put their lives at risk in a rescue effort or other climbers interrupt their climbing for which they have paid a lot of money?!?
I disagree that people should not be allowed to engage in adventurous activities like this. But you do have a point that one should not become dead weight and put other people's lives at risk trying to save them
Because its a woman. Men in her predicament are just left there.... to die, and always left there forever. Why are Sherpa's going up there to retrieve women's bodies putting their lives at risk.?
>there should be an unwritten "rule", that if the worst happens, then you are on your own. some teams have this and certainly the more experienced climbers are well aware you can't risk your life to save someone above 8000m or you just end up with two dead bodies. Heroic and amazing rescues have indeed happened at high altitude but it's not something you should expect will happen if you run into serious trouble
This feels like an AI generated video, the language and terms used. The abrupt ending "Reared in mumbai india" What is this language? Is she a cow on a farm? "She wanted to do something for her country, This patriotism led her to summit mount everest but only if she knew that this dream would turn out to be fatal for her." Did she want to go up there to die?
It totally does. "The higher he soared" "It was a sharp contrast to his ascension" unless homeboy was welcomed into the eternal kingdom it's definitely called an ascent 😂
The culture of climbing has become twisted and disfigured into an ego cult. When is a responsible voice going to stand up and say it's time for a restart? People who have much to live for die the same as if they were playing Russian roulette. As a non-climber I think it's terrible. Maybe they could build a road to the summit so all these people could ride to the top in their Range Rovers.
The first part of the path is actually traversed over a moving glacier that's constantly creating new crevasses. Man doesn't have the technology. This mountain is and people's experience here are a reminder to me how finite we really are...
It's almost like Everest is this "white privilege vanity project", for rich westerners (I realize this woman was not white, but she was definitely privileged) It's all about ego, another dumb bucket list item used for bragging rights on social media. The fact that her group ignored the sherpas telling them to abort the climb tells me all I need to know about this woman. She thought her money entitled her to make it to the top, and she wasn't going to let a lowly sherpa tell her no
I may be the odd man out but I don’t feel sorry for anyone who dies while risking their life for enjoyment. I’m an adrenaline junky and the best to say it is “ you gotta pay to play”.
Personally I have even less sympathy when it's a climber who has little to no experience that tries to attempt the tallest mountain on Earth, risking the lives of the Sherpa's who do most of the hard work for you because you wanted some clout. If this truly was her dream she would have taken it more seriously and actually prepared for it, instead she felt like she could just buy it, in my honest opinion. RIP and all that but you shouldn't have been on that fucking mountain.
I 1000% agree. It's not hate. I skydive and I know it's dangerous. If I die doing what I enjoy most, I don't want any one feeling sorry for the risks I made.
Apparently, it really helps if you’re born and raised in a high altitude, mountainous region of the world. That makes sense since that one guy from Colorado was doing fine with only one oxygen bottle but had to turn back because of the weather or he would have summited with no problem. That’s a bummer…I hope he got another opportunity to go for it.
He did summit later. He turned around that night because he helped others get down. Here's a good documentary on this. Look up Fifth Edition and Shira Shaw.
Yes, it's a huge advantage being used to high altitudes. That's why the Nepalese are very good at climbing so high. That's why most Everest tours have Sherpas to help everybody to get up & down safely.
Seems like a lot of climbers don’t understand that when you’ve pushed yourself to the limit, you can’t just stop and call it a day like playing any other sport. You still need the stamina and health to get back down. I understand the drive but it’s not worth your life.
There’s a reason it’s called a LIMIT!! When your body and all bodily functions have begun to shut down there is NO jump start that will enable you to carry on, no matter how much courage or determination you have!
I can almost understand wanting to climb Everest way back when it was a rare accomplishment. But, now it seems literally almost anybody can do it. And the “traffic jams” near the peak prove it. It’s nothing special anymore. Matter of fact, now a days it actually just seems foolish and ridiculous. People pay tens of thousands of dollars to go to Everest to die.
While it's not a universal explanation in my humble opinion climing Everest feels like a silver bullet. Meaning ppl with ego issues or desperate to accomplish something would think of a the ascent as an easy way to "do something meaningful". I'm not trying to judge it too harshly since I can myself relate to wishing for silver bullets. People out there, give yourselves more credit for the little things you've accomplished. Pat yourselves on the back once in a while. And for the love of God, compare yourselves to who you were yesteday, not to who someone else is today. Have a good day!
From what I've read it's the Southern routs (easiest) have the majority of crowding but there are harder routs that more experienced climbers go for which are more of an accomplishment
wh, Because these people are not MOUNTAINEERS, they are amateurs who think if they pay enough to have someone DRAG THEM UP to the summit of Everest they’ve accomplished greatness! In their ignorance they assume somehow they’ll get back down, that it will be easier when NOTHING could be further from the truth!! Ignorance is NOT bliss, on Everest it’s a Death sentence.
You don't even have to be a "climber" to summit Everest. You need to know equipment, have extremely good cardio, and enough strength to get up the Hillary Step. It's all set up for you.
@@jonathanmosher72 I've watched enough youtubes to make my summit attempt next year. I can also save heaps of money on the Target end of winter sale to get a warm jacket and a pair of boots.
@@jonathanmosher72 If you haven't climbed it you know pretty much nothing about it. It's like the first time you had sex, absolutely clueless & all over before the main event was reached. With all due respect there are over 300 dead bodies scattered over the mountain. Did they all die because they couldn't afford to go shopping at Kamandu.
I have summited 2 out of 3 times. In the occaison when i got turned around Russell our expedition leader absolutely drummed into our ears "If you are ordered to turn around by our Sherpas then you must do this. If you disobey this order & get in trouble then we WILL NOT risk the lives of my sherpas to save you by sending help up the mountain to rescue you. The mountain will still be there next year. This lady knew the risks & was told to turn around & decided to roll the dice & paid the ultimate price. Getting up to the summit is the easy part, more people die coming down (About 71%) due to under estimating the climb down. When you summit you are still in the death zone & are given only 20-30 minutes on the summit to take picture etc. You must get out of the death zone ASAP & get down to camp 4 you are reminded constantly that the clock is ticking. "If you get stuck above camp 4 overnight then you might as well be on the moon. One thing i noticed in the photos is that the summit of Everest is only the size of a large dining table & some of these photos appeared to have a very large summit. Maybe i am wrong but it looked diffrent. RIP to Shriya.
@helpstopanimalabuse8153 awesome! That had to be quite an adventure every time. Thank you for sharing! I'm jealous. My brother and we're saving money to go to Everest when I ended up having a ruptured brain aneurysm. I still go to the mountains a lot, but Everest will never happen for me now.
I’m not a climber, heck, I’m not even an active person. But these Everest stories are fascinating to me and interesting. I keep coming for more, it’s not even about making to the top, coming down is just as critical. Those companies should also be accountable, allowing novice “climbers” puts everyone at risk and clearly threatens the lives of everyone else in the group. ALSO, why are people so selfish and stpd???
The Sherpas and guides tried to turn her around. She ignored them and continued. People pay them good money to help keep them as safe as possible but there's nothing that they can do when a client ignores their advice.
Our expedition was through IMG (International Mountaiin Guides) & when you appy in writing you must submit your moutaineering experience. This is checked & if you are lucky to be selected you then send your deposit in. When you arrive at base camp you are run through a series of tests climbing shorter mountains & when you climb to Camp 2 & 3 he sets a time time trial. If you do not pass then your off the mountain, no exceptions. So there are some procedures that split the average climber from time wasters.
@@robinohio3290 Irrespective of the circumstances she was a human being who had loved ones & i am not going to disrespect her memory. May her memory bring home to others who are considering climbing Everest & have no experience to get some climbing experience & fitness training somewhere before tackling the big one. Everest is not a walking track & easy. Everest is difficult from the Kumble Icefall to the Hillary step. Everest is a atmosphere of heart break, pain, shattered dreams & death. Underestimate it & your own peril.
As a climber ( not even close to Everest standards) my climbing partners and me have 1 rule we don’t break and that’s simple ….if u have to ask anybody if they think it’s safe ? It isn’t go back climb again next time …. And u didn’t climb anything if u didn’t make it home
These pictures really make the True Mountaineer really want to climb Mt. Everest, not! This is unbelievable. But, everybody wants to be able to say I climbed Everest, you know bragging rights. Successfully climbing to a summit is only half a success, climbing back down safely is the real accomplishment. Sad that she was allowed to still push on, not listening to her guides, which she agreed to do if asked.
I read somewhere that you couldn't climb Everest unless you had experience climbing, when and why has that changed? This mountain is not the time for practice or trial and error. You don't normally learn from your mistakes on these mountains, you die from them and in doing so it endangers the lives of others as well.
I find it difficult to feel sorry for Mrs. Klorfine. Everest eats up experienced mountain climbers at an alarming rate. If you are inexperienced you put everyone else at risk and you have absolutely no business being there without the appropriate training.
The big difference between someone doing that for a long time and someone only having this one chance at reaching their goals is the ability to back of if something feels wrong. Ask Conrad Anker how often he stopped an ascent. Its not easy because you are so focused and determined. When I was solo mountaneering in South America I only reached half of the mountain peaks I tried. Its normal to go back
Rick. She was a strong willed, proud woman but that’s not NEARLY enough to ensure even a reasonable chance of success on Everest! There’s a fine line between Pride and fatal Arrogance, and in this instance the Expedition leader should have made that call and ENFORCED it, no matter how much she was willing to pay.
The country that Everest is in needs to change policy. Too many people slowly snaking up the mountain, and waiting hours to summit is causing many people to die on the way down!!!
Inexperienced and defied the orders of their lead.. i feel sympathy for the families that had lost a loved one, but I can't feel sorry for the inexperienced climber.
Why do you feel sorry for them? They are well adapted for their work, very competent , well respected, and contrary to popular belief, well paid. They are hardy people who don't need to be called victims.
Glad she made it to the top and it was recorded for her family. Looking at her face she may have been experiencing cerebral brain swelling (or layman term Acute altitude sickness) . When i made the ascent my emergency kit has dexamethasone. My doc told when to take based on what i might experience. Apparently, it is fast acting. It is a break glass in emergency drug. I'd probably gave her mine and see if she becomes more alert. I didn't need EPO since i spent 45 days in Colorado at Breckenridge (greater than 8000 ft) . Got a blood panel and the doc said thumbs up. I'd recommend everyone get a blood panel to screen for anemia, etc they are only 25 bucks and you are spending 80k cash anyway. Also, my Doc gave me Serevent (an inhaler that treats exercise-induced bronchospasm) but i didn't have to use it.
Some people like this and Stockton Rush are willing to push the boundaries of life and sometimes as sad as it is they fall out of bounds and forfeit their lives.
I honestly think that the whole climbing tourist business needs to be stopped. They're just creating whole ecological disasters with all of the bodies, gear, rotten food and human waste that is left behind by each and every climber.
This is easier said than done; something needs to change regarding livelihood of locals and not make them dependent on the climbing economy and once that gathers critical mass the costs could potentially sky rocket due to the forced limit in the supply of Sherpas making it entirely cost prohibitive to under take the task; but this is just theoretical; it is not gonna happen
She should have trained in Vail like the other climber !! I live in Toronto and know the area she was training and there's no way it prepares you for altitude, we're at sea level. I was in Vail April of this year for down hill skiing and it took me about 2 weeks to really begin to get used to the altitude and I work out a lot here in TO and tried to prepare for the altitude change before I arrived in Vail. Shameful that just because people have money they can put other lives at risk.
It was very strange - one minute they were pushing and pulling her (still alive ive) towards the rock chutes, next minute they talked about her corpse. I even replayed part of it to see if I missed something.
Shriya wasn't a "Climber", she was a "Dreamer". Nothing wrong with that, but her experience "climbing" were trails that we would play on as 7 year old's. The only time she tried actually climbing, she died.
I feel sorry about the fact mountaineering has become a big business and a playground for people looking for their ambitious aim or destination, who just want to fight and win. Mountaineering is being in a great nature, admire beautiful peaks and breathtaking serracs and crevasses. It’s great to see ridges and snow fields without any human traces. Summitting always is just an option, coming back is the duty. I refuse to admire people risking their lives on mountains just for nothing. And I convict the travel agency taking this woman to the summit. She didn’t know anything about mountains, climbing on ice, using oxygen and behavior in the dead zone. But she was a paying guest, too! Husbands who support their wives in practicing their hobbies or who follow their dreams are good husbands. But if someone follows something foolish and destructive you also have the duty to prevent him or her from a big fault. So I cannot understand that her husband and her family never tried to talk her out of the Everest adventure. Her husband, her children and her parents would still like to be with her among them. A life ended for an imagination!
I've never been interested in climbing but I do know this fact: The vast majority of climbing accidents and deaths occur on the descent. Ever see a cat get stuck in a tree or climb one yourself? Climbing up is easy, the descent is much harder.
Very well put together dude & very sad for those & their kin, that didn't make it there, or more importantly, didn't make it back down... I heard somewhere, probably here, that there are around 200 unrecovered bodies on Everest...😐
There are over 350 deceased bodies on Everest. Some sherpas use the bodies as markers so people will not get lost. There bodies are still pristine & frozen solid except their heads. There is no nice way to describe the heads. The heads are caved in & their eyes are still their hanging out of their sockets. It's something you don't want to see more than once Gave me nightmares for months. On Everest where you collapse is where you die.
When someone is told very clearly that they need to turn around and they refuse then it needs to be made clear that they’re on their own. If the leader of the expedition calls the attempt off for safety reasons then there should no expectation of sherpa support.
at 5:25+ "a Swiss man and ....... also decided to continue .........these 4 people met death on their way back" -in the Wikipedia list of people who died climbing Everest there is no Swiss listed for the year 2012 -what was his name?
Truth is there shouldn't be any stopping or queueing, that wastes time and more importantly oxygen. Both of which are limited to make a successful climb during the safety window. Now there's 1200 people trying it a year.
Climbing this mountain is pure ego. It’s not about the challenge or beauty of nature. There’s hundreds of places in the world to experience that without risking your life and the lives of others
I was feeling indifferent and puzzled by my lack empathy for this lady after only being 1 minute in. I see many comments reflect the same. I never feel bad for these people. You tell them it’s a death wish and do it anyway so they must not actually care or are too arrogant to believe they aren’t invincible. I only feel sorry for the children that some of them leave behind 😢
It wasn’t patriotism; it was ego. She wanted to do it her whole life but she did it for Canada, which she lived in for only a few years? Give me a break. And the people who tried to save her life, putting their own at risk, weren’t “her two Sherpas” ffs. They are human beings with free will, names and personal dreams of their own. “Sherpa” isn’t a job title; it’s a regional ethnicity. Romanticizing her death to top it off. She had ZERO mountain climbing experience. She selfishly put lives other than her own at risk to sate her vanity. And who cares if you think she was beautiful? That doesn’t make her life more valuable or story more interesting. There are climbers and there are mountaineers; the differences between them are vast. She was neither. I hope the team her husband hired (Nepalese people; Sherpa, no doubt) were well compensated for retrieving her body from a dangerous area. How could he have no idea she wasn’t fit to climb, anyway? That’s weird. It doesn’t matter it someone reaches the top of the mountain if they didn’t make it back down.
I don't know why i like to watch videos of mount Everest from the safety of ny warm bed, with my cat on one side, my sleeping baby on the other, my water bottle by the side table and the comforting thought that I dont have to worry about pulmonary or cerebral oedema, frostbites and falling into crevices.
How did everyone else die? I thought the whole team lost their lives. What happened between her/their passing and the geography professor finding her? Who initially told her husband what had happened to her (and the assuming the team)?
If I'm to die, then let it be on the peak so I can be in photos with other climbers for years and years...to come...no. one would waste their energy to drag me to the edge and toss me off
She was dragged up mountain by sherpas. She a achieved nothing other than throwing her life away for some narcissistic pursuit. The best climbers in the world avoid summit fever and climb a mountain to experience it, only attempting a summit if it is somewhat feasible for them. She had no business being on that mountain.
She didn't climb a damn thing. She was untrained. The Sherpas carried her gear up the mountain. Then they carried her up when she broke at 6000m. And they carried her back down again. 100k mortgage on your home for what?!?! Social clout.
China's greed to allow amateurs on Everest is disgusting. I've climbed much easier mountains, low altitude, but its still damn hard. Throw thin air into it, and it becomes less amateur friendly. The deaths are sad, but also avoidable
She didn't accomplish anything, she could NEVER have reached the top without the sherpas, and they had to carry her down. I wouldn't call this an accomplishment. That was a badly failed attempt.
I completely agree. Congratulating yourself for successfully summiting when your capacity to safely descend is so limited is like an airplane pilot being proud he took off knowing he has never successfully LANDED a plane!
All those narcissistic people go to Everest and end up dying there. So many corpses polluting the sacred mountain, no wonder the mountain will have no mercy on climbers.
Bottled oxygen keeps you alive? The real pro's climb Everest (and even the far more difficult K2) without supplemental oxygen. It is trophy hunters who congest the big mountains these days, using multiple oxygen bottles which the sherpa's have to carry for them. About time that is made illegal and these dangerous mountains become for the professional climbers again, instead of selfie spots littered with trash. RIP beautiful lady
If one manages with O2 bootles one time doesnt mean he will tge second. Body chemistry is working against them, tibetan descend people can hope so but far worse for valley dwellers.
One person made it with one oxygen cylinder she nine and counting. She wasn’t prepared nor should have ignored professional advice. She lost her life out of vanity and thinking she knew best.
Her husband said that his wife never told him anything and he’s surprised they still allowed her to go. That’s rich…. So, precisely WHO was it that was supposed to stop her? SHE was told that she might not make it because she wasn’t in good enough shape, he was married to her so he must have known she wasn’t exactly a work horse; yet it’s still obvious he thinks it’s someone else’s fault for “allowing” her to go. She is the epitome of Everest today. Btw, notice how the title of this video had to state that she was “beautiful” as well…
Is there a time limit people can celebrate on the top? Also there needs to be a limit on the amount of passes given for climbing. People waiting in line in the "death zone" are actually dying while waiting in human traffic jams.
u always have time limit on the top of a mountain..i climbed mount kinabalu during my teenage, i reached the summit around 7am maybe, i forgot, but 1 thing for sure i missed the sun rise and i think i only spent 20-30mins on the summit before the guide told us to leave ...According to the guide, we have to leave the summit before 8am, as the wind become so much stronger after that, FYI mount kinabalu only about 4100 metres...just almost half of everest.....i am among the last batch to reach panar laban for breakfast(the rest house) after breakfast we have to go down the mountain...just around 17km for round trip in 2 days, but my muscle and legs cramp for the whole week after the climb......meanwhile these everest climbers have to hike 130 km just to reach the base camp.....even with proper training, the hike will take a toll on your body...moreover they have to continue with the summit climb which is so much harder....it is not wise to go for the summit...proper training, experience, knowledge only give u a better chance to survive...climbers need more than that to survive, i would say luck make up a large portion of that...u need good weather, no accident, no avalanche, and a lot of no for u to stay alive in those 8000 metres mountains
Many people died because they didn't want to turn back. Their ego is more important than their safety. I am all for mountaineering but when people take unnecessary risk, then you are really asking for it. Like those people going without supplementary oxygen, going with a pacemaker, etc. What is next? First climber to summit while on kidney dialysis? First climber who summit without wearing clothes??
Dont sugarcoat that her "triumph" when she fulfilled her dream. its not worth a human live at all. Sacrificing one to save others is worth more than climbing the highest mountain to fulfilled a dream.
Wow, so the Sherpa's pull and push you all the way up and down, and these narcissistic clients put all this victory on themselves. Glorified tourist attraction.
I cannot understand why people athletically able or not., expect that they heroically will come down from Everest alive with a trophy! It is a death wish to any able mountaineer. Everest is not anymore on anyone’s bucket list! Make the climbers clean the waste while they are acclimatising, up and down with 2 garbage bags each per day! Give the sherpas a rest. I climbed Mt Warning! Captain Cooks fav!
Shriya was the definition of a Narcissist! She hid the fact from her husband that she was remortgaging their home to be dragged up a Mountain for bragging rights. She put her Sherpas life at risk by refusing to go back down and the lives of those who tried to help.
Exactly
well said.
I hope her husband had a million dollar life insurance policy on her. He deserves it for putting up with her.
Well said!
At 9:27 her husband has such a strange look ... my first thought was that he's thinking " it's too good to be
true ... " .
Perhaps I shouldn't have said this but I have to wonder if he had wanted to divorce her or was feeling abused by her ... ?
Please forgive me ... I do have a very vivid imagination .
Maybe it is the shock of losing his wife that he looks so strangely there ?
She died of ignorance!! When an experienced Sherpa tells you to turn back then you should turn back!!!!!
Exactly!👍👍
At that moment, people take risks. They don’t think of the consequences. Climbers forget that it as very difficult to climb down as it is tough and they are tired and most deadly is the weather which changes very fast.
Just imagine being so close to the top after all the effort of making it that far. It would be tempting to just say screw it I've got to finish what I started. Watching a few video like this one should be required before the ascent!
she prob thought less of the sherpa because she was “college educated”
@@Nicana68 a very good idea!!!
“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,” Hall observed. “The trick is to get back down alive.”
let's don't forget that those companies and sherpas get paid when you get down too. Otherwise they won't give so much damn about them
👍👍😁
But many die before every reached the summit ! Just determination isn’t enuf ! Common sense! Hall word have killed so many non experienced climber
@@yeoweehuathuat8926 The problem with commonsense is that it's not very common.
YUP!
Struggling with your mortgage and taking out a 100k loan to fund an Everest climb is insanity. Thats like buying a 100k porche only to drive 1000 miles, take some pics with it, and throw it away. I swear these Everest climbers are insane.
That's most definitely 💯 truth of the matter! She had left grieving husband who in debt to pay off her second home mortgage all by himself on top of his grieving. 👏
Death wish
She was tired of living
I agree.👍👍
Yep, death wish. No experience of high altitude climbing. It's almost as if these companies are just in it for the money. Selfish woman!
"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory."
Ed Viesturs, American mountaineer who has climbed all 8000ers.
You can either get down the safe way or the quick way, but if you take the quick way, you won’t be doing much of anything afterwards.
I peed on the mountain when I got to the top and paid my sherpas to kiss each other.
@@Jolis_Parsec The fast way is called "The grand tour" by moutaineers. You get a very close look at the mountain going down & it's a bit bumpy
Reaching the summit is only half way home.
@@bobjohnston9154 The easy part is getting up there but the real danger comes going back down. Most people who don't make it down die of arrogance, over confidence, thnking the job is done. I never liked going through the Kumble Icefall, hated it. You haven't achieved anything until ypur safely over those blocks of ice the size of houses for the final time.
Living near Mt. Everest for the past 30 years. I am Belgian. This area is becoming like a playground for non experienced trekkers, "climbers" and non local trekking guides.
Time has come the Nepali government takes serious action. Too many of our beloved Sherpas are dying, leaving there family beraved.
"becoming"..???
@@davidpetersen1yes Mr Peterson
Not only are the families of the sherpas bereaved, they also then have no one to bring in an income. The Nepalese government needs to seriously consider the damage being done, both to the mountains and the sherpas. As for the climbers, arrogant and ego driven, make a difference by spending your money on providing for the sherpas families, those loyal men who risk their lives so their entitled clients can take a selfie. Allow the sacred mountains the peace they deserve, leave them be, the watchers of the world.
@@nuclear9977 I would say you haven't been paying attention. It's been a "playground" for at least 2 if not 3 decades. The numbers of first time climbers has increased exponentially since the 1990's. It's not becoming.. it IS.
SHUT IT DOWN
Just because you can afford to basically get hauled up Everest and back down again, doesn't mean you should. Professional climbers train for years to scale Everest, but now you have overprivledged morons who feel like they must conquer Everest as part of their "personal journey"'. Problem is they take others with them when they die. I feel bad for the sherpas. It's not fair they make slave wages to shuttle inexperienced rich people into the death zone.
They arrogantly refused advice to abort and turn back. So they basically sealed their own fate
I'd be more impressed with these dreamers if they donated the money they spend on climbing Everest to the Sherpas so they wouldn't have to put their lives at risk anymore.
I agree. It’s really a sickness. Too much arrogance. Too much money and too little sense. I don’t feel a bit sorry for them.
@@donnawoods8039 That makes no sense. That sounds like a welfare state. Doesn’t work well in real life (America).
@@donnawoods8039
or at the very least these dreamers should try climbing lower and easier mountains before attempting the highest one on the first go
well said.
So let me get this straight. Inexperienced and ill fit climbers dismissed the advise to turn around when experienced climbers and sherpas told them/her not to? I'm sorry I don't feel bad.
And put the lives of those around them in danger as well.
Hypoxia, lack of oxygen at altitude, is the reason these climbers don't turn around.
@@Justicia007 We must stop blaming everything on hypoxia. She was stubborn and stupid. I'm sorry she died,but she was.
@@marillica87 Well you do have a point after listening to the video. She was repeatedly told to turn around and refused, and others did turn around. They also didn't bring enough oxygen. I guess every situation is different. It's a shame but she was ill-prepared for sure
It is not that they didn't have enough oxygen, they did. It was that she was so slow in her climb that they stayed more time, hence la king oxygen. But the thing is there is only enough weight a human can carry when climbing, hence the importance of being fit enough to do it
Her ego was her undoing. Her drive to climb and descend successfully was nowhere near the level of her conceit. Nobody borrows $100k for such risky ventures.
Apparently someone does borrow $100K for such risky ventures. Sayin' z'all.
Don't romanticize someone throwing away their life with the "she fulfilled her dream" line. Life is precious.
she needed Jesus. She put everyone in danger and was not fit for it and she knew that..its too late now.
Yeah, I'm fairly certain everyone who climbs Everest intends on returning, even when people tell them they won't make it.
I was just about to write the same thing. Thanks!!
Then , she had left her husband in dept to pay for her house second mortgage all by himself for her achievement goal and death on top of his deep grief of losing her. He would be suffering much more longer financially along side of losing his wife. It is not worth it for her suffering love ones in the end.😢
Thank you! Over-privileged white ppl paying sherpas peanuts to risk all for their personal triumphs...makes me sick
I watched another documentary about her. Apparently she had to be taught everything, including basics like putting on the crampons to her boots. She was lucky that her body was airlifted and she could get a proper send-off.
Anyone that gets to attempt climbing Everest is lucky. Very fortunate.
Fifth Edition? Actually was a great documentary on Shrira.
@@wyomingadventures oh i think it's called Fifth Estate. I only feel sorry for the sherpa after watching the documentary. 😕
Nobody asked so stf*
she was totally unprepared, inexperienced and stupid. sorry. but when you are told to go back you need to listen.
Some ppl have no businesses being above 8,000 meters. A liability to themselves & others.
Like me😂 here here!
Some...virtually all who attempt have no business, seems to me...
@@everybodyyogastudio212 I’m I pass out on airplanes when they take off. I’d never make it climbing a mountain 🤣
I struggle hiking at 6000 feet and I started at 4500 so only a 1500 elevation change. 5.7 miles and I’m exhausted I know my limits
That photo of her in the yellow isn’t her at the summit. It is a fake photo she photoshopped in a rented suit in Canada. It gave the illusion that she had was an experienced climber. You can hear about it on “into the death zone”
It’s all very sad. Confidence and arrogance are two very different things.
She was a well known grifter here in Toronto.
@@margaretcollins9382can you tell us more about this?
I love her Wikipedia line: "...which included a computer-generated photo of her purportedly in front of Mount Everest, and also organized several fundraising events which raised little or lost money. As a result, her expedition was financed by taking out a second mortgage on her home." Why she is notable to have a Wikipedia page, im not sure.
You can easily see the haloing around her. Obvious chop job
There is literally a documentary made about this woman and there is NOTHING to romanticize about her. She was NOT fit whatsoever when she made up her mind to do this. She decided to start "getting in shape" by going on small weekend hikes prior to her trip. She lived in Ontario, and the areas where she would go hiking are not necessarily even moderate hikes. Don't even get me started on her photoshopping herself to boost her big ego and pretend she had achieved something she clearly hadn't. She is a prime example of someone who puts others in dangers just due to her own vanity and not putting in the work required to achieve something like this then cheating her way to it. She is embarrassing. She deserves 0 praise; if anything her story should be a cautionary one. Describing her as "beautiful" is ironic because I'm sure she'd love that considering how into herself she was and the fact that there's nothing else of relevancy in terms of skill when it comes to climbing to describe her as. I recommend watching that documentary, and seeing how she pulled off this scheme and how her own family describes her. Absolutely embarrassing.
What is the name of the documentary?
@diabbie,
What’s the name of the documentary?
@@miax4683just enter the girls name..you should know this by now.
Alright take it easy you whack a doo. This much anger over this, I doubt it's all about morality for you.
@@miax4683 into the death zone
I have little sympathy for any individual who's ego gets in the way of their judgement and causes great risk to others.
She was last one in line of 500people how fair is that not very
MOTHER NATURE DOES NOT FORGIVE STUPIDITY!
lets not be too judgmental we dont know the circumstances on the mountain.
@@sunsetlights100 500 line of people!? MT Everest turned into Disneyland for yuppies
@@oreocarlton3343
yes the Southern routs look to be a tourist attraction at this point
I was in Nepal on a climb just 5 months after she perished. Remember reading about the case and how incredibly underprepared and inexperienced she was but still decided to do it. Guess to inspire or fulfill a dream etc but so nonchalant and dismissive of the incredible dangers and efforts it takes to scale big mountains. Walked pass her gravestone at the Everest memorial site and although it's always sad when someone dies it's just madness what she did and equal madness that the trek company decided to take her there, a complete novice. Unfortunately money talks and combined with her ignorance, I'm sorry to say, it can only end with one thing
How did you go five months after her?? It’s too late and the season to climb is over by then… that doesn’t make sense that you were there to climb five months after her.
@@lianealbert7728ll they said was that they were in Nepal - they didn’t say they climbed that mountain.
@thakezo6416 - if her husband collected & returned her body to Canada, what you saw @ Everest would have been a (cemetery) memorial plaque.
@@lianealbert7728There are mountains on the region which are climbed in the fall. Some people scale lesser mountains in the winter.
Maybe if there was an unwritten rule when you summit and then start descending if at any point you have to be push, pulled and carried all the way back down the mountain it means you technically did not complete the whole task. Maybe that would prevent some stubborn unprepared climbers from making bad decisions. Climbers like her probably know how you get down the mountain doesn't matter the summit is the finish line, forgetting you still must have the energy and drive to get down safely.
Here here…..yes one summits only if one gets to the top and descends alive….that is summiting…..nothing else..
It's not about being stubborn. If you know anything about climbing, especially in high altitude, you understand that these people are making poor decisions because they are hypoxic and can't think straight. Even some excellent experienced climbers have died on Everest. It's a frightening thing because no matter how you tell yourself you'll turn around at a certain time, it's like being drunk, and the impulse is to keep going.
I personally don't understand the allure. I would love to visit Base camp and see Nepal but have no desire to climb massive mountains.
@@jinka6171 its "hear, hear" btw
@@Justicia007 It's definitely about being stubborn. She (and many others) made poor decisions long before ever getting to the mountain. Physically, she wasn't prepared and had no business there in the first place.
@@onthursday1599 Your point is well taken. After hearing about her particular circumstances, she should never have even attempted the mountain. She was unprepared and inexperienced, and worse didn't have enough oxygen.
>never climbed a mountain before
>goes straight to climbing Everest 👌
Dying of exhaustion. I'll think twice before I say I'm "dead tired", Hearing what people endure climbing mountains like K2 and Everest, it's draining just listening.
Without any disrespect for this deceased lady- it is always tragic and painful to lose a loved one- but I find this kind of extreme activities utterly disturbing. In my opinion, if someone knowingly wants to take a risk, where death is included,there should be an unwritten "rule", that if the worst happens,then you are on your own. Why should other innocent people put their lives at risk in a rescue effort or other climbers interrupt their climbing for which they have paid a lot of money?!?
It's ok to disrespect the wilfully stupid!d.
one of the first rules of mountaineering is don't play the hero.
I disagree that people should not be allowed to engage in adventurous activities like this. But you do have a point that one should not become dead weight and put other people's lives at risk trying to save them
Because its a woman. Men in her predicament are just left there.... to die, and always left there forever. Why are Sherpa's going up there to retrieve women's bodies putting their lives at risk.?
>there should be an unwritten "rule", that if the worst happens, then you are on your own.
some teams have this and certainly the more experienced climbers are well aware you can't risk your life to save someone above 8000m or you just end up with two dead bodies. Heroic and amazing rescues have indeed happened at high altitude but it's not something you should expect will happen if you run into serious trouble
This feels like an AI generated video, the language and terms used. The abrupt ending
"Reared in mumbai india" What is this language? Is she a cow on a farm?
"She wanted to do something for her country, This patriotism led her to summit mount everest but only if she knew that this dream would turn out to be fatal for her." Did she want to go up there to die?
It totally does. "The higher he soared" "It was a sharp contrast to his ascension" unless homeboy was welcomed into the eternal kingdom it's definitely called an ascent 😂
Now that you mention it, spot on.
@@jellyfishi_ LOL!
Is she a cow on a farm? 😅😅😅😅😅
I just did a chat gtp on this woman. Basically the same words popped up. They didn't even bother using a thesaurus
The culture of climbing has become twisted and disfigured into an ego cult. When is a responsible voice going to stand up and say it's time for a restart? People who have much to live for die the same as if they were playing Russian roulette. As a non-climber I think it's terrible. Maybe they could build a road to the summit so all these people could ride to the top in their Range Rovers.
The first part of the path is actually traversed over a moving glacier that's constantly creating new crevasses. Man doesn't have the technology. This mountain is and people's experience here are a reminder to me how finite we really are...
It's always been an ego cult. Now more people are permitted to join.
Social media and narcissism play large roles in this
@@JP-tv9ob great point 👌
It's almost like Everest is this "white privilege vanity project", for rich westerners
(I realize this woman was not white, but she was definitely privileged)
It's all about ego, another dumb bucket list item used for bragging rights on social media. The fact that her group ignored the sherpas telling them to abort the climb tells me all I need to know about this woman. She thought her money entitled her to make it to the top, and she wasn't going to let a lowly sherpa tell her no
I may be the odd man out but I don’t feel sorry for anyone who dies while risking their life for enjoyment. I’m an adrenaline junky and the best to say it is “ you gotta pay to play”.
Nope same boat
Personally I have even less sympathy when it's a climber who has little to no experience that tries to attempt the tallest mountain on Earth, risking the lives of the Sherpa's who do most of the hard work for you because you wanted some clout. If this truly was her dream she would have taken it more seriously and actually prepared for it, instead she felt like she could just buy it, in my honest opinion. RIP and all that but you shouldn't have been on that fucking mountain.
More than adrenaline it’s to satisfy the ego the likes n comments in Instagram n FB.
I 1000% agree. It's not hate. I skydive and I know it's dangerous. If I die doing what I enjoy most, I don't want any one feeling sorry for the risks I made.
No, im with you and i also support people going and doing those things. I think most of those who died wouldnt have wanted pity.
Apparently, it really helps if you’re born and raised in a high altitude, mountainous region of the world. That makes sense since that one guy from Colorado was doing fine with only one oxygen bottle but had to turn back because of the weather or he would have summited with no problem. That’s a bummer…I hope he got another opportunity to go for it.
He did summit later. He turned around that night because he helped others get down. Here's a good documentary on this. Look up Fifth Edition and Shira Shaw.
6 moths at 14k ft is plenty of time to acclimate.
@@Unfluencer Living at high elevation drastically alters the body, similar to how the Bajau people of the Phillipines evolved by living on the sea.
Yes, it's a huge advantage being used to high altitudes. That's why the Nepalese are very good at climbing so high. That's why most Everest tours have Sherpas to help everybody to get up & down safely.
Seems like a lot of climbers don’t understand that when you’ve pushed yourself to the limit, you can’t just stop and call it a day like playing any other sport. You still need the stamina and health to get back down. I understand the drive but it’s not worth your life.
There’s a reason it’s called a LIMIT!! When your body and all bodily functions have begun to shut down there is NO jump start that will enable you to carry on, no matter how much courage or determination you have!
I can almost understand wanting to climb Everest way back when it was a rare accomplishment. But, now it seems literally almost anybody can do it. And the “traffic jams” near the peak prove it. It’s nothing special anymore. Matter of fact, now a days it actually just seems foolish and ridiculous. People pay tens of thousands of dollars to go to Everest to die.
While it's not a universal explanation in my humble opinion climing Everest feels like a silver bullet. Meaning ppl with ego issues or desperate to accomplish something would think of a the ascent as an easy way to "do something meaningful". I'm not trying to judge it too harshly since I can myself relate to wishing for silver bullets. People out there, give yourselves more credit for the little things you've accomplished. Pat yourselves on the back once in a while. And for the love of God, compare yourselves to who you were yesteday, not to who someone else is today. Have a good day!
From what I've read it's the Southern routs (easiest) have the majority of crowding but there are harder routs that more experienced climbers go for which are more of an accomplishment
I’d rather tackle k2. Although not as tall as Everest. But it’s way more challenging
wh, Because these people are not MOUNTAINEERS, they are amateurs who think if they pay enough to have someone DRAG THEM UP to the summit of Everest they’ve accomplished greatness! In their ignorance they assume somehow they’ll get back down, that it will be easier when NOTHING could be further from the truth!! Ignorance is NOT bliss, on Everest it’s a Death sentence.
there are climbers and there are fools who think that they are climbers
I identify as a climber so the science is settled.
A lot of people die of arrogance. Not turning around & ignoring sherpas orders, also known as summit fever.
You don't even have to be a "climber" to summit Everest. You need to know equipment, have extremely good cardio, and enough strength to get up the Hillary Step. It's all set up for you.
@@jonathanmosher72 I've watched enough youtubes to make my summit attempt next year. I can also save heaps of money on the Target end of winter sale to get a warm jacket and a pair of boots.
@@jonathanmosher72 If you haven't climbed it you know pretty much nothing about it. It's like the first time you had sex, absolutely clueless & all over before the main event was reached. With all due respect there are over 300 dead bodies scattered over the mountain. Did they all die because they couldn't afford to go shopping at Kamandu.
I have summited 2 out of 3 times. In the occaison when i got turned around Russell our expedition leader absolutely drummed into our ears "If you are ordered to turn around by our Sherpas then you must do this. If you disobey this order & get in trouble then we WILL NOT risk the lives of my sherpas to save you by sending help up the mountain to rescue you. The mountain will still be there next year.
This lady knew the risks & was told to turn around & decided to roll the dice & paid the ultimate price. Getting up to the summit is the easy part, more people die coming down (About 71%) due to under estimating the climb down. When you summit you are still in the death zone & are given only 20-30 minutes on the summit to take picture etc. You must get out of the death zone ASAP & get down to camp 4 you are reminded constantly that the clock is ticking. "If you get stuck above camp 4 overnight then you might as well be on the moon. One thing i noticed in the photos is that the summit of Everest is only the size of a large dining table & some of these photos appeared to have a very large summit. Maybe i am wrong but it looked diffrent. RIP to Shriya.
Are you saying you climbed Everest?
@@wyomingadventures 2 out of 3 times. Got snow blindness on one attempt & had to turn around 350 feet short of the summit.
Best comment here.
@helpstopanimalabuse8153 awesome! That had to be quite an adventure every time. Thank you for sharing! I'm jealous. My brother and we're saving money to go to Everest when I ended up having a ruptured brain aneurysm. I still go to the mountains a lot, but Everest will never happen for me now.
@@wyomingadventures Yes 2/3 times. Had to turn back 300 feet from summit. Hugely disappointed.
With such big crowds one wonders what's the fun
Bragging at dinner parties when they get home.
Like going to Disney World. Who cares?
I’m not a climber, heck, I’m not even an active person. But these Everest stories are fascinating to me and interesting. I keep coming for more, it’s not even about making to the top, coming down is just as critical. Those companies should also be accountable, allowing novice “climbers” puts everyone at risk and clearly threatens the lives of everyone else in the group. ALSO, why are people so selfish and stpd???
The Sherpas and guides tried to turn her around. She ignored them and continued.
People pay them good money to help keep them as safe as possible but there's nothing that they can do when a client ignores their advice.
Our expedition was through IMG (International Mountaiin Guides) & when you appy in writing you must submit your moutaineering experience. This is checked & if you are lucky to be selected you then send your deposit in. When you arrive at base camp you are run through a series of tests climbing shorter mountains & when you climb to Camp 2 & 3 he sets a time time trial. If you do not pass then your off the mountain, no exceptions.
So there are some procedures that split the average climber from time wasters.
@@helpstopanimalabuse8153 that's very interesting, thanks for sharing, but it seems not all companies are as careful or thorough, unfortunately.
@@robinohio3290 Irrespective of the circumstances she was a human being who had loved ones & i am not going to disrespect her memory. May her memory bring home to others who are considering climbing Everest & have no experience to get some climbing experience & fitness training somewhere before tackling the big one.
Everest is not a walking track & easy. Everest is difficult from the Kumble Icefall to the Hillary step. Everest is a atmosphere of heart break, pain, shattered dreams & death. Underestimate it & your own peril.
As a climber ( not even close to Everest standards) my climbing partners and me have 1 rule we don’t break and that’s simple ….if u have to ask anybody if they think it’s safe ? It isn’t go back climb again next time …. And u didn’t climb anything if u didn’t make it home
Charles, SO Simple but so brilliantly Essential to ensure that climbing is a challenging, Valiant Attempt and NOT a Kamakazi mission.
Must be enough customers up there these days to make it economically viable to set up KFC & MacDonalds' franchises, half-way to the summit.
Your just too funny. ILMAO. With that one.
At least at base camp!
Popeyes Chicken on the way!
Surprised Dollar General hasn't thought of that.
Thanks! I'm here because of you 😄🍷 not the video.
100 000 K. To pay for for your death…ridiculous…
These pictures really make the True Mountaineer really want to climb Mt. Everest, not! This is unbelievable. But, everybody wants to be able to say I climbed Everest, you know bragging rights. Successfully climbing to a summit is only half a success, climbing back down safely is the real accomplishment. Sad that she was allowed to still push on, not listening to her guides, which she agreed to do if asked.
It is not the most technical climb and as you saw, ropes and ladders are positioned for use by the “climbers.”
I read somewhere that you couldn't climb Everest unless you had experience climbing, when and why has that changed? This mountain is not the time for practice or trial and error. You don't normally learn from your mistakes on these mountains, you die from them and in doing so it endangers the lives of others as well.
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I find it difficult to feel sorry for Mrs. Klorfine. Everest eats up experienced mountain climbers at an alarming rate. If you are inexperienced you put everyone else at risk and you have absolutely no business being there without the appropriate training.
What kills them is waiting for hours in those long queues. They end up spending much more time in the death zone.
The big difference between someone doing that for a long time and someone only having this one chance at reaching their goals is the ability to back of if something feels wrong.
Ask Conrad Anker how often he stopped an ascent. Its not easy because you are so focused and determined. When I was solo mountaneering in South America I only reached half of the mountain peaks I tried. Its normal to go back
She thought she was a strong-willed woman with pride. Look at where that got her.
Rick. She was a strong willed, proud woman but that’s not NEARLY enough to ensure even a reasonable chance of success on Everest! There’s a fine line between Pride and fatal Arrogance, and in this instance the Expedition leader should have made that call and ENFORCED it, no matter how much she was willing to pay.
The country that Everest is in needs to change policy. Too many people slowly snaking up the mountain, and waiting hours to summit is causing many people to die on the way down!!!
Inexperienced and defied the orders of their lead.. i feel sympathy for the families that had lost a loved one, but I can't feel sorry for the inexperienced climber.
Not all deaths are tragic. This is an example of one of those.
Is it strange that the only people i feel sorry for are the sherpars?
Why do you feel sorry for them? They are well adapted for their work, very competent , well respected, and contrary to popular belief, well paid. They are hardy people who don't need to be called victims.
It’s actually a miracle she made it all the way up there…
Glad she made it to the top and it was recorded for her family. Looking at her face she may have been experiencing cerebral brain swelling (or layman term Acute altitude sickness) . When i made the ascent my emergency kit has dexamethasone. My doc told when to take based on what i might experience. Apparently, it is fast acting. It is a break glass in emergency drug. I'd probably gave her mine and see if she becomes more alert.
I didn't need EPO since i spent 45 days in Colorado at Breckenridge (greater than 8000 ft) . Got a blood panel and the doc said thumbs up. I'd recommend everyone get a blood panel to screen for anemia, etc they are only 25 bucks and you are spending 80k cash anyway.
Also, my Doc gave me Serevent (an inhaler that treats exercise-induced bronchospasm) but i didn't have to use it.
It’s 80K to go up Everest?
At least
@@karyndewit193 heard it's 10k just for the license to go up.
@@dangurtler7177 wow, I had no clue…
@@c3ramics wow!
"I've got MONEY !"
Mt. Everest - "Your money's no good here !".
Some people like this and Stockton Rush are willing to push the boundaries of life and sometimes as sad as it is they fall out of bounds and forfeit their lives.
I honestly think that the whole climbing tourist business needs to be stopped. They're just creating whole ecological disasters with all of the bodies, gear, rotten food and human waste that is left behind by each and every climber.
This is easier said than done; something needs to change regarding livelihood of locals and not make them dependent on the climbing economy and once that gathers critical mass the costs could potentially sky rocket due to the forced limit in the supply of Sherpas making it entirely cost prohibitive to under take the task; but this is just theoretical; it is not gonna happen
Too much money at stake for the corrupt Nepalese government and the greedy climbing industry, won't happen.
@@anuraja99 EXACTLY! It shouldn't be an either or for the livelihood of the locals, and the preservation of the Mountains.
Nepal needs to follow China's policies on climbing. They're much stricter.
She should have trained in Vail like the other climber !! I live in Toronto and know the area she was training and there's no way it prepares you for altitude, we're at sea level. I was in Vail April of this year for down hill skiing and it took me about 2 weeks to really begin to get used to the altitude and I work out a lot here in TO and tried to prepare for the altitude change before I arrived in Vail. Shameful that just because people have money they can put other lives at risk.
She didn't even have the money she mortgaged her house and left a massive debt to her husband
Its hard to imagine Toronto being a place to train for Everest.
I think you left out the part that explains how/why she died.
It was very strange - one minute they were pushing and pulling her (still alive ive) towards the rock chutes, next minute they talked about her corpse. I even replayed part of it to see if I missed something.
@@lilithowl Yup...i did the same thing.
Training for Everest by running on Dufferin street in Toronto. I’m from Toronto and that’s a joke
They should just install the world’s largest tube slide. Anyone who needs to bail out just hops in. 😂
Shriya wasn't a "Climber", she was a "Dreamer". Nothing wrong with that, but her experience "climbing" were trails that we would play on as 7 year old's. The only time she tried actually climbing, she died.
I feel sorry about the fact mountaineering has become a big business and a playground for people looking for their ambitious aim or destination, who just want to fight and win. Mountaineering is being in a great nature, admire beautiful peaks and breathtaking serracs and crevasses. It’s great to see ridges and snow fields without any human traces. Summitting always is just an option, coming back is the duty. I refuse to admire people risking their lives on mountains just for nothing. And I convict the travel agency taking this woman to the summit. She didn’t know anything about mountains, climbing on ice, using oxygen and behavior in the dead zone. But she was a paying guest, too!
Husbands who support their wives in practicing their hobbies or who follow their dreams are good husbands. But if someone follows something foolish and destructive you also have the duty to prevent him or her from a big fault. So I cannot understand that her husband and her family never tried to talk her out of the Everest adventure.
Her husband, her children and her parents would still like to be with her among them. A life ended for an imagination!
Once again, a person ill prepared to climb Everest. 😕🇨🇦
It would be a dream of mine if I could just hike to base camp and see Mt. Everest with my own eyes. A grand view I'm sure.
I've never been interested in climbing but I do know this fact: The vast majority of climbing accidents and deaths occur on the descent. Ever see a cat get stuck in a tree or climb one yourself? Climbing up is easy, the descent is much harder.
Recurring theme with these everest deaths is extreme arrogance and not listening to people that LITERALLY grew up climbing . Stupid
I'm more concerned with the story of that poor 16yr old girl. Rip to all 4.
Yes, where were her parents?
Very well put together dude & very sad for those & their kin, that didn't make it there, or more importantly, didn't make it back down... I heard somewhere, probably here, that there are around 200 unrecovered bodies on Everest...😐
Over 300
There are over 350 deceased bodies on Everest. Some sherpas use the bodies as markers so people will not get lost. There bodies are still pristine & frozen solid except their heads. There is no nice way to describe the heads. The heads are caved in & their eyes are still their hanging out of their sockets. It's something you don't want to see more than once Gave me nightmares for months. On Everest where you collapse is where you die.
@@wyomingadventures Lots of money saved, funerals, cremations and above all burials don't come cheap.
When someone is told very clearly that they need to turn around and they refuse then it needs to be made clear that they’re on their own. If the leader of the expedition calls the attempt off for safety reasons then there should no expectation of sherpa support.
But when you are suffering from acute altitude sickness might your judgement be impaired?
at 5:25+ "a Swiss man and ....... also decided to continue .........these 4 people met death on their way back" -in the Wikipedia list of people who died climbing Everest there is no Swiss listed for the year 2012 -what was his name?
How do you know "she was smiling" ~"if only her eyes could be seen">?
Wow comments are tearing her apart😮the internet has no sympathy for stupidity.
not so much i guess
Truth is there shouldn't be any stopping or queueing, that wastes time and more importantly oxygen. Both of which are limited to make a successful climb during the safety window. Now there's 1200 people trying it a year.
Climbing this mountain is pure ego. It’s not about the challenge or beauty of nature. There’s hundreds of places in the world to experience that without risking your life and the lives of others
I was feeling indifferent and puzzled by my lack empathy for this lady after only being 1 minute in. I see many comments reflect the same. I never feel bad for these people. You tell them it’s a death wish and do it anyway so they must not actually care or are too arrogant to believe they aren’t invincible. I only feel sorry for the children that some of them leave behind 😢
It wasn’t patriotism; it was ego. She wanted to do it her whole life but she did it for Canada, which she lived in for only a few years? Give me a break.
And the people who tried to save her life, putting their own at risk, weren’t “her two Sherpas” ffs. They are human beings with free will, names and personal dreams of their own. “Sherpa” isn’t a job title; it’s a regional ethnicity.
Romanticizing her death to top it off. She had ZERO mountain climbing experience. She selfishly put lives other than her own at risk to sate her vanity. And who cares if you think she was beautiful? That doesn’t make her life more valuable or story more interesting.
There are climbers and there are mountaineers; the differences between them are vast. She was neither.
I hope the team her husband hired (Nepalese people; Sherpa, no doubt) were well compensated for retrieving her body from a dangerous area. How could he have no idea she wasn’t fit to climb, anyway? That’s weird.
It doesn’t matter it someone reaches the top of the mountain if they didn’t make it back down.
Become a Mom and experience the most amazing miracle. Nah i wanna climb mountains and post it online and have people cheer me on. Rest in Peace
If they don't listen to their guide's advice what's the point of paying for a guide.
Idiots think that the customer is always right, right?
She refused to turn back because she paid for it already 😂
I don't know why i like to watch videos of mount Everest from the safety of ny warm bed, with my cat on one side, my sleeping baby on the other, my water bottle by the side table and the comforting thought that I dont have to worry about pulmonary or cerebral oedema, frostbites and falling into crevices.
I love these videos.... Die for your dreams even if the dream is pointless .... its how the world weeds out the narcissist
Imagine being a mountain and all these people are leaving their trash, poop, and dead bodies on you.
How did everyone else die? I thought the whole team lost their lives. What happened between her/their passing and the geography professor finding her? Who initially told her husband what had happened to her (and the assuming the team)?
If I'm to die, then let it be on the peak so I can be in photos with other climbers for years and years...to come...no. one would waste their energy to drag me to the edge and toss me off
She was dragged up mountain by sherpas. She a achieved nothing other than throwing her life away for some narcissistic pursuit. The best climbers in the world avoid summit fever and climb a mountain to experience it, only attempting a summit if it is somewhat feasible for them. She had no business being on that mountain.
She didn't climb a damn thing. She was untrained. The Sherpas carried her gear up the mountain. Then they carried her up when she broke at 6000m. And they carried her back down again. 100k mortgage on your home for what?!?! Social clout.
Thanks to photo shop you to can have your picture on top of Everst without even breaking a nail.
What a selfish woman. She endangered life of sherpas just to summit. There is special place in hell for people like Shriya.
China's greed to allow amateurs on Everest is disgusting. I've climbed much easier mountains, low altitude, but its still damn hard. Throw thin air into it, and it becomes less amateur friendly. The deaths are sad, but also avoidable
Climbing Everest has become a label: "I am arrogant, selfish and narcissistic"
She didn't accomplish anything, she could NEVER have reached the top without the sherpas, and they had to carry her down. I wouldn't call this an accomplishment. That was a badly failed attempt.
I completely agree. Congratulating yourself for successfully summiting when your capacity to safely descend is so limited is like an airplane pilot being proud he took off knowing he has never successfully LANDED a plane!
All those narcissistic people go to Everest and end up dying there. So many corpses polluting the sacred mountain, no wonder the mountain will have no mercy on climbers.
Bottled oxygen keeps you alive? The real pro's climb Everest (and even the far more difficult K2) without supplemental oxygen. It is trophy hunters who congest the big mountains these days, using multiple oxygen bottles which the sherpa's have to carry for them. About time that is made illegal and these dangerous mountains become for the professional climbers again, instead of selfie spots littered with trash. RIP beautiful lady
If one manages with O2 bootles one time doesnt mean he will tge second. Body chemistry is working against them, tibetan descend people can hope so but far worse for valley dwellers.
Your ego CAN BE your own worst enemy. If you allow it.
One person made it with one oxygen cylinder she nine and counting. She wasn’t prepared nor should have ignored professional advice. She lost her life out of vanity and thinking she knew best.
The story of everest will end soon. Eventually enough people will die to close the mountain. Unfortunately, by then, a lot of lives will be lost.
hard to feel bad for overly ambitious people who ignore reality and SAFETY standards
Her husband said that his wife never told him anything and he’s surprised they still allowed her to go. That’s rich….
So, precisely WHO was it that was supposed to stop her? SHE was told that she might not make it because she wasn’t in good enough shape, he was married to her so he must have known she wasn’t exactly a work horse; yet it’s still obvious he thinks it’s someone else’s fault for “allowing” her to go.
She is the epitome of Everest today. Btw, notice how the title of this video had to state that she was “beautiful” as well…
Sure, he didn't know she had mortgaged the house... I wonder if she had life insurance and if the policy would cover for death overseas...
I suppose that if someone would be willing to carry me to the summit and then carry me back down again I might give it a try.
She really thought she the main character.
Is there a time limit people can celebrate on the top? Also there needs to be a limit on the amount of passes given for climbing. People waiting in line in the "death zone" are actually dying while waiting in human traffic jams.
u always have time limit on the top of a mountain..i climbed mount kinabalu during my teenage, i reached the summit around 7am maybe, i forgot, but 1 thing for sure i missed the sun rise and i think i only spent 20-30mins on the summit before the guide told us to leave ...According to the guide, we have to leave the summit before 8am, as the wind become so much stronger after that, FYI mount kinabalu only about 4100 metres...just almost half of everest.....i am among the last batch to reach panar laban for breakfast(the rest house) after breakfast we have to go down the mountain...just around 17km for round trip in 2 days, but my muscle and legs cramp for the whole week after the climb......meanwhile these everest climbers have to hike 130 km just to reach the base camp.....even with proper training, the hike will take a toll on your body...moreover they have to continue with the summit climb which is so much harder....it is not wise to go for the summit...proper training, experience, knowledge only give u a better chance to survive...climbers need more than that to survive, i would say luck make up a large portion of that...u need good weather, no accident, no avalanche, and a lot of no for u to stay alive in those 8000 metres mountains
@@loh-4528 ONLY 4100 metres is just a little bit less than the Matterhorn in Switzerland !
Well done on the empathetic clear, NON AI narration! Subbing.
Many people died because they didn't want to turn back. Their ego is more important than their safety. I am all for mountaineering but when people take unnecessary risk, then you are really asking for it. Like those people going without supplementary oxygen, going with a pacemaker, etc. What is next? First climber to summit while on kidney dialysis? First climber who summit without wearing clothes??
Dont sugarcoat that her "triumph" when she fulfilled her dream.
its not worth a human live at all.
Sacrificing one to save others is worth more than climbing the highest mountain to fulfilled a dream.
Not all her life, just after she moved to Canada
This is as raw as nature gets up there. You need to respect nature and the Sherpas.
Wow, so the Sherpa's pull and push you all the way up and down, and these narcissistic clients put all this victory on themselves. Glorified tourist attraction.
thing about her was that she was a local..she was living in Canada but she was a Tibetan she should of known better
I cannot understand why people athletically able or not., expect that they heroically will come down from Everest alive with a trophy! It is a death wish to any able mountaineer. Everest is not anymore on anyone’s bucket list!
Make the climbers clean the waste while they are acclimatising, up and down with 2 garbage bags each per day! Give the sherpas a rest.
I climbed Mt Warning! Captain Cooks fav!
Fuck are you talking.