IdleRich
IdleRich
Weirdly we got into watching videos about climbing k2 a few years ago - particularly that event where seventeen people died I'm afraid. They fucked up (various people possibly at fault) and loads of them got split up and lost at night and couldn't get down but some of them could still radio - this really dark bit where this Dutch guy couldn't locate the team 1000m below but could phone his wife in NL and say goodbye to her... he actually survived but lost a foot and some fingers I think. There was this heroic sherpa who went up into almost certain death and brought soneone down on his back - and then did it again and again.
Many interesting stories though, the German guy who got so near the top 50 years or so before anyone made it but stopped and went back for some trivial reason cos he thought he could go back the next day - but something happened and he didn't.
Also this weird one where some guy got lost on his own for ages but they found him after a few days and were like "Hey man we're here to rescue you" but he was mental from altitude sickness and he said "It's cool guys, I'm just chilling, let me stay a few days and I'll see you on Weds" so they went back down and left him and he just sat there and died.
In fact even the first one who did climb it there was some controversy about him abandoning the guy who brought them the oxygen cylinders so they could make the final charge. I think they got him to throw up the oxygen and hid or something and he had to stay outside all night cos climbing 10m down might have compromised them or something. Also some people think using oxygen was cheating anyway.
K2 known as The Savage Mountain cos of something one failed climber said on his return. Also loads of stuff about it had no name cos it's not visible from anywhere and no-one ever named it, you gotta somehow get to this village in the middle of nowhere and then walk for literally weeks to get to the bottom, in fact just to see it, and apparently some people do that and then they see it and go fuck that and turn round.
Also watched a documentary about the first team to climb Anapurna One by the hardest route - they were a load of part timers from Manchester and they were all smoking as they climbed looking like a bunch of brickies. Always think of that when I go into a Nepalese restaurant which will inevitably be named after a Himalayan peak.
Weird how this stuff is something I think I'm not interested in at all but one time suddenly went crazy and watched every single documentaru available on the topic.
Buried in the Sky also a great name for a documentary.
Many interesting stories though, the German guy who got so near the top 50 years or so before anyone made it but stopped and went back for some trivial reason cos he thought he could go back the next day - but something happened and he didn't.
Also this weird one where some guy got lost on his own for ages but they found him after a few days and were like "Hey man we're here to rescue you" but he was mental from altitude sickness and he said "It's cool guys, I'm just chilling, let me stay a few days and I'll see you on Weds" so they went back down and left him and he just sat there and died.
In fact even the first one who did climb it there was some controversy about him abandoning the guy who brought them the oxygen cylinders so they could make the final charge. I think they got him to throw up the oxygen and hid or something and he had to stay outside all night cos climbing 10m down might have compromised them or something. Also some people think using oxygen was cheating anyway.
K2 known as The Savage Mountain cos of something one failed climber said on his return. Also loads of stuff about it had no name cos it's not visible from anywhere and no-one ever named it, you gotta somehow get to this village in the middle of nowhere and then walk for literally weeks to get to the bottom, in fact just to see it, and apparently some people do that and then they see it and go fuck that and turn round.
Also watched a documentary about the first team to climb Anapurna One by the hardest route - they were a load of part timers from Manchester and they were all smoking as they climbed looking like a bunch of brickies. Always think of that when I go into a Nepalese restaurant which will inevitably be named after a Himalayan peak.
Weird how this stuff is something I think I'm not interested in at all but one time suddenly went crazy and watched every single documentaru available on the topic.
Buried in the Sky also a great name for a documentary.
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