Tragedies on K2 · Fatal Altitude · National Geographic

This story was cover so well, I love this as sad as it is, it wraps you up in the story and makes you part of it!!

it’s honestly funny people in the comments who have never climbed mountains thinking these people don’t know what they are getting into 🤣

Focus on other team's members? Really?

So Pemba made it to the summit, then back down again, WITHOUT fixed ropes, then BACK UP to rescue Marco and back up a THIRD time for Wilco (sp?) Absolutely unreal, what a tank. Indestructible man.

Hy so every time I see this video s I feel like I
Am there I it on big screen and dark feel the pain and seeing the body’s 😢 painful feeling but still feeling excited Rip all who passed away ❤ good luck to everyone still climbing 🧗 from Philadelphia USA 🇺🇸

These guys do tend to love their own mythology.

There is a full 45min doc that is way better on David Snow's channel

Gere's a suggestion.
Anyone intending to undertake this sort of climb signs a binding declaration that, should they die in the process, under NO circumstances should ANY attempt be made, voluntary or otherwise, to have their body retrieved from the point where they died. Rescuers are grandstanding at best, otherwise in need of psychiatric care.

Does anyone know why Rolf didn't summit with his wife? Was it due to not feeling well?

Sorry. there is NO reason to climb it. Look at it and walk away,,,,,,,,,

Very, very sad outcome. But it feels like the death of the Pakistani (while trying to bring down Dren's body) could easily have been avoided. Very noble but very strange decision to go up and do that. I think everyone who goes on a trip like this understands the risk they are taking and should accept the possibility of not getting a proper burial (should the worst happen). RIP :(

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Dear God, I love running and heading into the trails, but Holly smokes, my gut feeling has never let me try things that I don't think are possible for me. Dear God, I hope they found inner peace before going down like this.

These clowns had no business being on this peak. Bunch of egos.

Primadonnas

Everyone who climbs on this mountain knows the extreme dangers. But they go anyway. People die. Get over it. It isn't some kind of tragedy.

More people means more likely one member doesn’t have the required abilities putting their life and others at risk

I think the lack of oxygen makes people disregard safety. They take such bad decisions that it makes you wonder about their sanity.

These are all examples of entirely "NORMAL ACCIDENTS" (it's a textbook on the subject of accidents). The deadly days on all these mountains have a single common denominator: disorganization. These teams don't train together and have an ad hoc approach to planning and coordination. If the mountaineering industry would adopt CRM and proper administrative training/practices, including checklists, rehersed emergency protocols, predetermined abort criteria, the ability/responsibility of any team member to declare an emergency, and practicing drills and decision making at higher altitudes but not in the death zone, the death and accident rates would plummet.

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I enjoy the risks i take everyday being black in America 😂 Its most exhilarating. No need to climb a deadly mountain

I live up there 💪

If you die here, you definitely deserved it.

Should be logical - more people less work load and problems the individual. But - as well, more unknowns. With unknown people, it is difficult to assess how they react and function in exceptional, life and death situations.



Thank you David Snow for the documentary.

The hardest part would be accepting your own death and the death of your compatriots, realizing just how helpless you are. Experiencing the indifference of the universe firsthand.

I'm not surprised that some of the versions of what happened are conflicting in some parts. You have people who were up there suffering from altitude sickness, snow blindness and a lack of oxygen. Some events that happened one way, actually seemed like they happened in a different way to the people who were involved, and witnessed it, because of those factors.

Utter stupidity just for there egos

With two dead they decided to summit. This is fucked up.

how did dat diversity work out for these clowns?

they knew the risks. hubris

well 1st of all,, why you would risk yor life to give someone a proper burial is crazy, and carry a dead man down is crazy. A proper burial would be to bury him where he died, say a prayer and be done with it.

Human nature to conquer your fear and the highest obstacles. Otherwise we’re just dead consumers

An example of why the world was not created for us…but a world in which we exist.

For all their professionalism as mountaineers, the constant mentioning of "less oxygen" at those heights is misleading. The oxygen concentration in the atmosphere at 8000 m is the same as at sea level. The difference lies in partial pressure.

So many don’t realize at that high of an altitude every breath you take brings you closer to death you oxygen intake you get from each breath is slowly starving your body of the oxygen you need for your body to live! With that time is not on your side if you do not reduce your altitude you WILL die that’s a fact!

It amazes me to see such blatant vapid narcissism in many of these people.

I would hate to be in the trenches at war with this shower of cowards as long as I summit there all laughing and joking at the summit show some respect for the who died

Also, i absolutely dont see what is so difficult about turning around and going back down while knowing to do otherwise would be a death sentence.

I think i would have been fine with the view from camp 4. Look how high up it is. I dont think it would be necessary to risk my life to go any further just to say i went to the vry top

such a desolate landscape.but peaceful.

I’m so confused… when they actually got to it, it looks like they can get to the top in 10 minutes… then all of the sudden they look down hundreds and hundreds of feet, then they’re camping….. I wish I could truly comprehend the actual sheer size.

You couldn't ask for a better day in a million years ❤

Seeing Rolf and Cecilie chatting and climbing together — oh my heart. That invisible clock above Rolf’s head almost out of time. I hope he is in heaven smiling down on his wife and the happiness she has managed to create. Ah the whole things is just so sad. And still, knowing what the mountain takes, I want to climb it.

Welcome to Pakistan