The Most DANGEROUS Mountain on Earth | K2

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I remember reading a comparison between Everest and K2 that said Everest doesn't care if you die, but K2 actively tries to kill its climbers

The fact that it's usually body PARTS and not intact corpses found on the mountain is both telling and terrifying.

The fact that those sherpas climbed 7k vert in a single day, at extreme altitude, with all that old and heavy gear is incredible.

"Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory." Ed Viesturs, American mountaineer who has summited all 8000 m peaks.

“Accidentally dropped both sets of crampons.” Right. Dude realized they were nuts for trying to summit in the dark and threw that shit over the side of the mountain so they couldn’t try again.

Connecting all the camps with a red line, then having it disappear into a black line when the supplies were stripped, was a simple yet incredibly efficient piece of visual storytelling. Just seeing that black line snake down the mountain really built up a sense of dread.

Thank you so much for naming the Sherpas who supported the expedition and lost their lives. The local indigenous guides almost always overlooked, despite the fact that they're the primary reason any expedition succeeds.

The people at base camp constantly not delivering goods up the mountain is weirdly frustrating.

George Bell, after a 1953 expedition to K2, famously said "K2 is a savage mountain that tries to kill you," causing it to still be known to this day as the Savage Mountain. Incredible that these men came so close to the summit and might have made it but for a poor route choice at the Bottleneck Serac.

K2 has always intruiged me more than Mt. Everest, ironically for all the reasons you listed: It's more dangerous, it's steeper, it's more remote, it's way more challenging. ...and probably the fact that fewer people have climbed it - Everest is a tourist attraction by this point. There's no mystery to it any longer. For K2 however, there is a certain allure to it and even though I would never attempt to climb K2, its presence, the sheer massiveness and steepness of its silhouette - it's awe-inspiring and also instills a certain amount of fear and respect into you by just looking at it.

I love that you add the visuals to your stories of where the camps are/where major events occur. It helps so much with following the story and also having a better appreciation for what these folks must have gone through!

My friend Bertie died on k2 in 2006 😢 his equipment failed, it was awful. He’d already climbed Everest.

The Sherpas acsending 7000ft in a single day is just...wild. Those people are really super human!

The death toll is even crazier considering everyone with pockets deep enough can and will be dragged up Mt. Everest but only really experienced climbers to start with even try to get up K2.

The Duke of Abruzzi and his team were the smartest men in this video. They left and climbed a safer mountain.

I have learned so much avout mountaineering, cave diving and general exploring with your videos. You are an excellent story teller and it has been awesome watching your channel grow so fast! You deserve it! Here's to a Million!

props to the guy who managed to solo descend down from camp 8 to camp 1 with no supplies

I agree that referring to them all by name during the story can confuse things, and naming them all at the very end feels like an appropriate way to identify, respect, and humanize them. Great compromise :)

The thought of sleeping in a tent that is partly over the edge of a deadly drop is scary. I definitely wouldn’t be able to sleep that way.