Ungrateful Socialite Endangers Climbers on Deadly Mount Everest Excursion | Sandy Hill Case Analysis
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Some people climb mountains to see the world, some people climb mountains so the world can see them...
With how polluted Everest has become there are much more scenic climbs that are just as hard but the ego brings many to that which brings the headlines.
@@canterburytail2294Ou, that's true! Photos taken around Everest camps are just horrible 😣 Trash, trash everywhere 😤
Find a hobby GIRLBEATER
She embodies tha Aries sign.
I climbed a mountain twice in one day as a 16 year old just because I got myself lost. Spent 3 days entirely alone in the jungle. I walked out on my own using every bit of instinct and 16 year old invincibility I had. I've never once really respected these types of trips ever since. I actually just can't stand that people actually go to rescue them. Just let them there. If they make it out good for them. If they don't, good for us. It's not like I couldn't do it as a child. As a grown adult they should have more experience and knowledge if anything to work with.
Imagine being so self-absorbed and aloof that you dont give credit to people who physically saved your life...
Just goes to show that money can't cure self-absorption
She was a big part of the chain of catastrophe that led to the 96 disaster. Fisher's Sherpa short-roping her up the mountain meant that Sherpa wasn't able to help Hall's lead Sherpa fix the ropes over the Hillary Step. It created the bottleneck, that created a delay... It's not her fault directly, but like too many others, she wasn't ready for the climb, but felt entitled to go anyway because she had money, and a hunger for fame and glory.
Everest has this appel du vide syrens' call that has ended with so many to stay on the mountain forever.
Amen! It's fascinating. The rich glory hounds that end up as snoot-cicles on the slopes of Everest seem to legitimately lost the ability to gauge danger, due to their money acting as a kind of security blanket at sea level. They think that they can pay 100k plus to guide companies' and be entitled to not only success in "achieving" their goal, but also take it as a guarantee that they will also be returned safely home. Too many of them learn the last lesson they will ever learn up there, that money can do a lot, but it can't always bring you back home from 8k meters. And too many die with their last words begging for people to save them.
I understand the situation with the money brought in selling permits is important to Nepal, and can't begrudge them the income stream. But at the same time, seeing these huuuuge queues of climbers before the Hillary Step makes me wince. It takes lives and leaves corpses and garbage up on there, that are extremely difficult, dangerous, and not always possible to bring back down...@@DamePiglet
Sounds like every wealthy person in the world.
There was another climber on another mountain recently, where the Sherpa saved his life, carried him on his back down the mountain. The guy never so much as thanked him, and on top of that blocked him from his Instagram account. !
Sounds like a complete sociopath. 3 divorces suggests she'd be a nightmare to live with too.
My buddy Tim Wilson said if you been married 7 times it might be you
And she appears to be a psychopath
Very much indeed. Some people just can't function in life with relationships. She certainly sounds like one of them.
Typical Boomer female.
She also hooked up with a guy on the mountain, cheating on her husband.
I can't believe she said "There were no heros on the mountain, the guides were just doing what they were paid to do." 8 people lost there lives because you wanted to be seen as a professional climber without actually having to do any work to become a professional climber and they had to drag your body back to camp because you couldn't walk.
David Breashears was there in '96 also. He's made several IMAX climbing films. In '98 he released "Storm Over Everest". He witnessed the '96 storm and helped to try recover bodies. He's interviewed several climbing survivors from that f'd up day on Everest.
He has climbed the summit 5 times.
RIP Breashears.
You can take the princess out of the Porto potty but not the potty out of the princess
I get it. To most being a hero means taking risks for others without any kind of personal incentive. Once someone is being paid to do a job then they can’t be heroes. I find that definition an excuse to demonize heroics but it’s a very common belief among the upper middle class and above demographics.
I did not understand the Porto part?@@MrKurtfinn
To be fair that wasn't her fault, they died for unrelated reasons. Hall, Harris, and Hansen all died due primarily to Hansen, Namba and Fischer died just from getting lost, and the 3 Indians died due to summit fever causing them to stay out way longer than they should have
If my name was SANDY HILL, I wouldn't climb mountains
Lol :D
😅😅Amen
Nominative determinism strikes again.
It is ironic.
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She couldn’t give those men credit for saving her life because then she would be admitting she didn’t conquer Everest. Someone had to literally carry her down the mountain.
Sandy Hill has to be the most ironic name ever for a crappy mountain climber.
i dont even know how that would be possible
Sandy Hill crapped her way down😮.@@somaraisan
And possibly even admit that she contributed to the deaths of others…
This is what rich people do. Don’t nothing and take all the credit. That is how corporate capitalism works today. The common taxpayer, the bottom 99%, pay for everything bailing out corporations and banks. Reagan calls it “Too Big to Fail.”
Ever notice that when they publish the list of people who have summited these mountains they never include the Sherpas? Hundreds if not thousands of Sherpas have made that same summit but they never get credit. Only the rich and famous and western “mountaineers” get on that list. Some Sherpas have summited two dozen times.
Sending love and peace to the Sherpas! ❤❤❤
Sherpa guide Kami Rita has scaled Everest 29 times.
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And most people don’t know anything about him.
There is a sherpa who summitted Mt Everest at least five times and she moved to the US and works at Whole Foods. It's unfair.
@@calci2679why?
Anatoly did all of this without oxygen himself. He is a true badass.
Her life is saved by 2 men and she says afterwards: "Which 2 men is that?" Wow.
She's disgusting....
That’s actually insane hey
Wait for it!
The truth always reveals itself .
Not only is she a sociopath, but she has bad grammar.
You might defend that by saying that she was in no physical of mental shape to have known who saved her from the mountain. You then would have to explain why she didn't make it her life's mission to find out and thank those responsible for saving her. My theory was that she considered they were only doing the job they were paid to do. Although they might agree with that in an exemplary show of modesty, coming from her it's complete self condemnation.
She would have had sufficient oxygen, sufficient food, and a working toilet had she remained in her living room.
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Underrated comment. Bravo!
She would also have endangered fewer lives.
@@WilliamBrowning i dk man ive walked into a few stanky bathrooms and she does look like the type to eat a bowl of broccoli and cabbage ... with caviar
She would need a large and very efficient toilet to put up with all her crap...
A skilled and diplomatic way to call this woman a raging narcissist
The truth is the truth.
you mean , unt!
Her remains would only be considered trash by experienced climbers.
i dont get it, guids, sherpas, oxygen.... why is it considered such a great achivement? i can only applaud the sherpas
You forgot the ladders !
@@captain-poppleton special very expensive clothes as well
@@captain-poppleton The sherpas set the ladders and the ropes. Sherpas aren't paid what they're worth for babysitting ego-driven amateurs who want to risk their lives.
I agree, but you have to trek for 2 weeks to reach the base camp and climb for 10 hours in a death zone where human life is not compatible. so it is an achievement, albeit one that only rich people get to brag about
@@mime514 yes it is difficult - but it's not "i climb the everest" .otherwise i crossed america - oh wait - with a car, that's still not easy. etc etc... you want the "badge" of climbing the everest - climb it
These idiots have destroyed that poor mountain leaving garbage everywhere
Including themselves
Would you die over a snickers wrapper ?
@@ryanaines6617 Thirty tons and counting. People leave tents, oxygen and fuel canisters, clothing, food preparation and consumption articles. . . In addition, six tons of human waste are left yearly. Even when teams remove the detritus from the mountain, it creates a biohazard for the surrounding villages.
@@pricklypear7516 Yet the Nepalese don’t complain and keep issuing permits. Pretty hard to collect tents etc at 8000m even though they’re trying.
@@pricklypear7516the government now says that human feces must be put in these certain baggies they supply and be taken with you off the mountain.
This case makes me glad that my hobby is lying in bed watching TH-cam videos. At least nobody has to come save me!
Lol! Alright; Carrie.
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But do you have enough Potato Chips with you‼️⁉️🤣
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I was a river guide years ago. I have had many people who claimed all kinds of skills. Bragging about various rivers that, in their opinions, Concorde. Yet in the thick of it when their adventure suddenly went bad. They didn’t come through, or had the necessary skills to deal with the situation. Many of them simply fell into a defeatist mindset. Literally saying “Let me die”.
Fortunately, I have not lost anyone on my guided trips. Though, had too many times that, that was severely tested. But I and with the assistance of others prevailed in keeping everyone safe. But to this day, it amazes me. How easily people give up. It is the main reason that I don’t do commercials guided trips anymore.
Dude I’m in the same boat. (Backpacking guide). I can’t tell you how many times people have said “I can’t keep going” or feign an injury. Look guy - I that’s not an option. I’m not going to carry you.
@hannahmeixner6616 EXACTLY why I stopped doing any kind of meetup/internet group adventure stuff (climbing, canyoneering, heck even hiking). Had a guy on the main trail of Whitney (class 1) suddenly crumple to the ground at the switchbacks and demand a helicopter... Eventually, rangers showed up and we basically buddy-systemed, arm-over-shoulder the guy back down the mountain - with the rest of us carrying his pack. So entire trip for 5 people fails cuz biggest bragger guy shows up out of shape? (maybe he enjoyed drama, center of attention kinda thing?) Went to ER in Lone Pine... They gave him some fluids and discharged him in 45 minutes... Doc whispers, "we see guys like him all the time....." as we're leaving..... I can't imagine being a guide and getting that guy as a client...
@@sdrizapeople like that is why I am a solo backpacker or very picky with my trail buddy. Group trips? Nah thanks.
If I were a whitewater expert (which I am certainly not), I would still listen closely to the guide. There are always unique aspects of a particular river that only the guide knows.
I always admire people in that line of work - and also rescuers. I just wouldn't have the temperament for it: my patience would snap with people who put themselves in these positions, risking their lives, for bragging rights, especially those who have families back home.
She grew up being pushed easily up the social mountain by her parents and never learned to climb on her own.
Great metaphor
In the book about this expedition, "Into Thin Air," You'll see how Sandy Hill brought about 30 pounds of extra equipment, it was her broadcast setup so she could give daily accounts on her progress. That was lugged up the mountain by a Sherpa. In the book it also talks about how at some point, Hill, was "short-roped" up the mountain. That is a 3 foot piece of rope was tied between her and a Sherpa and the Sherpa pulled Hill up the mountain. That's just pitiful.
Per Krakauer, that was at the direction of Scott Fischer, not at her request. He was getting his business off the ground and needed her to succeed.
Didn’t she bring a VCR player or something? Carrying way too much unnecessary weight.
@@savvyroca according to Krakauer, it was a laptop and satellite phone setup so she could update a blog from the summit. You would think the golden rule would be that you carry only what you must have. Notenthat the equipment did not work anyway!
@@tomhaskett5161 ..reminds me of the scene in SpaceBalls, when they're lugging around that giant hair-drier in the desert for the princess
she is extremely lucky she made it back. They had another woman from California who felt she could do it as she was always into health and fitness. She was originally from Nepal but was now married to an American in California. They had no kids as they focused on their careers. She was very successful as what she did in the business world and a type A personality. She was able to reach the summit but on her way down she ran out of energy and collapsed in the Death Zone. Her guilds first tried to pull her body down as she was still alive and was still talking, but they couldn't. They pleaded with her to stand up in their language and she tried but soon collapsed. She told them to leave her, as they were running out of oxygen and would die if they didn't get out of the Death Zone. She died on that mountain. I am not sure if they were able to retrieve her body. She had been warned several times, that she was ill prepared but being a Type A personality, she would not listen. She was desperate for bragging rights.
I believe all her life in California when she mentioned she was from Nepal, home of Mount Everest, she may have been asked, if she had ever climbed it.
She was hoping to impress people even more by saying, "Yes, I did climb to the top".
She can run up 26 flights of stairs 8 times a day??!! She should have put her energy into becoming a Fire Fighter.🧑🚒
Did she have time for anything else?
Nah, that requires helping people
@francinejones2524 As a woman, she couldn't possibly have done the job of fireman.
Oh I bet. That's what she said. Liar, liar.
I can run up to 26 flights of stairs; the “up to” is doing a lot of work in that statement…
A friend of mine went to climb Everest with a mountianeer colleague, which was a serious ambition of his, and got really close to the summit, but conditions weren't great and time wasn't in his favour, so he turned around, and I have immense respect for him for making a sensible decision, especially given that (as he would probably acknowledge) in his younger years he didn't exactly have the world's smallest ego. Also, I'm really grateful that he's still alive, which unfortunately, many people who made a different decision aren't.
I know a man,who with his best friend,walked a good portion of Antarctica. The result was two self satisfied individuals who hated each other, two books blaming each other for the problems, and two people that were so smug and overbearing that noone can stand to be around. Yep.a life affirming experience
This is hilarious and now I’m curious about these books!
Yes, please tell us the titles of these books so we can find!
“Her response was painful in many ways, including grammatically.” 🙏🏼👑
Dr Grande's delivery is so deadpan, that his jokes take a second to sink in, but when they do, I LOL every time.
Lol 😂 i laughed so hard at that part! 😂 thanks for the laugh, Dr. Grande. It’s been a rough week… needed that laugh 😂
You can take the girl out of the toilet but you can't take the toilet out of the girl.
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"Diappointment Peak" I'm dying ❣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Narcissists don't have the ability to stop being narcissists.
Sadly, I think that's true.
Read any of the books written by social worker / lawyer Bill Eddy about High Conflict Personalities (who are often but not always narcissists). For us Americans going into the 2024 national election, ESPECIALLY read "Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths and How We Can Stop!"
@@Rovingdog628Wrong. He has widespread support. If there's no cheating in Nov, he will be President.
Humans by default are self-centric and egotistical but only extreme self obsession causes narcissism.
@Rovingdog628TDS much ? 😂😂😂🤡🫏
@@rainforestrc767 The dog sure sounds like a narcissist. 🤦🏻♂️
It pains me that there are entire businesses charging huge sums to corporate egos with little experience or ability but want to be seen to be having an adventurous lifestyle. They endanger professional climbers and sherpas. It seems they all have mountainous egos which are never scaled. These people never give a damn who else they endanger or impact or hurt, as long as they are seen to achieve. Humility is a dish unpalatable to the egocentric.
Excellent analysis. Sandy Hill is THE best example of how a lady with class does NOT behave.
Ungrateful with an undeserved sense of entitlement. She is completely oblivious as to how others perceive her. Socialite or sociopath?
i dont think anybody told her “no” growing up. and more than likely her father was a huuuge enabler of her mentality smh
You think? She may have been trying to overcome the shame of her father's career as a porter potty custodian😮
Both
Every wealthy person in the world is a sociopath. That is why they are wealthy though.
Socialite and sociopath ought to be synonyms
The experienced mountain guide who short-roped Sandy Hill was indeed "a Sherpa": his name was Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa. The day before, he'd climbed with 35kg on his back for about 1000m, into the "death zone." This load included Sandy Hill's Iridium sat phone for NBC. Lopsang was also the Sherpa who tried to save both groups's leaders, Fischer and Hall, albeit unsuccessfully. He was killed by an avalanche on Lhotse that September.
Thanks. Thanks for giving us the background on the Sherpa, Lopsang Jangbu. I'm sorry to hear he had been killed that same year. A brave and hard working man by the sounds of things.
The Nepalese Mountain guides are the real heroes up there
I met two Sherpas on that trip. Very humble guys. I think they were with Halls group
Sherpa seem to love being in an exploited position in life?
@@penderyn8794 well they do tend to get hired by people who think of them that way.
I love this guy. He’s lowkey roasting her the whole time.
he isn't critical of the men on the trip, just her
@@wompppwompwomppp Correct and ultimately she wasn't one of the decision makers that led to this disaster
Without intending to excuse any of Sandy Hill's failings as a climber or as a person, she was not solely or even predominantly to blame for her or her team's ultimate failures and fatalities. Scott and Rob both made choices that fateful day that lead directly to numerous critical failures, which, given their professional climbing experience and paid positions as team leaders, should have been weighed to the safety of their clients, but was instead swayed towards the viability of their climbing businesses.
In particular, neither correctly determined or enforced a turnaround point once they both became aware that they had begun their respective team's climb too late, given the traffic on the mountain that day, and the rapidly deteriorating weather conditions as the climb progressed. Sandy's behaviour after the fact was reprehensible and repulsive, but it would not have become a focus outside the immediate perspective of those present, if not for the self-interested choices made by Scott and Rob, who were both competing in the lucrative market of Everest climbers.
Both understood that calling off the climb on the cusp of 'success', could have a significant negative impact for both them, as the year's season was pretty much over with that final climb, because the weather would become impossible to climb through till the following year's season. So each of them were incentivised to push clients to finish successfully, and consequently tell other wealthy friends and colleagues about their experience and generate more business for the companies that guided them through. Under normal conditions, no one could begrudge their motivations, but on Everest, anything that is prioritised before personal safety can quickly become a fatal flaw in reasoning, as this catastrophe clearly demonstrates.
Not another one, you could do a whole series called Everest idiots
So many so, that I have become an afficianado of all the horror stories.
Oh yeah, going all the way back to Mallory.
The Idiotic Everest
@@TheGotoGeek There are pretty well confirmed reports that the Chinese rolled the frozen body of Sandy Irvine off the mountain.
this is old
Scott Fischer and Rob Hall were pioneering mountain tourism. They both died, but the 1996 disaster sparked interest in this sort of tourism. Nowadays, many people have been baby-stepped up Everest; so many that the achievement of topping out has little cachet any more. Climbers in crisis are left to die, since rescuing them would put other lives at risk. People have died waiting in the queue to top out. Everest is becoming an ecological disaster while lines of unserious and incapable climbers leave oxygen bottles, feces, toilet paper, and their dead bodies on this once-beautiful mountain. It's a sad, sad mess.
It’s still a massive achievement, regardless of your stature, it can take up to two months climbing up and down between camps to get climatized before the push.
@@ryanaines6617 Sorry, but it's NOT a massive achievement if you've got sherpas short-roping (basically towing) you up. Everest is the highest mountain, so everybody knows its name. But it's nowhere near the most technically OR physically challenging. It's become like a Disneyland ride for rich tourists.
how did they die when Sandy managed to make it back? mustve got seperated somehow?
@@pricklypear7516 Very experienced climbers still die up there along with rookie climbers so your point is not valid.
Environmental obsession, that's what it looks like.
Hubris and greed - a deadly combination.
My dad is a small time narcissist and can be effectively dangerous in his ways. How much more someone like this. Narcissism kills.... other people.
As a Peruvian with Bolivian family. I spent a good share of time in cities at high altitudes. And what most people don’t realize is that, it doesn’t matter how good your physical shape is or how many stairs you can climb. Once you are at high elevations all bets are off . Your body and metabolism behave completely different. Some people bodies can adjust easily while others will really struggle. And there is no real way to determine which side you will fall into. All these Everest tourist are just playing chance
I've always lived near the ocean. I wonder how I would do at high altitude.
That's correct. It's not a fitness issue. Altitude sickness can strike even seemingly very fit people.
Genetuca probably play a role
Yes. I'm from Florida and struggled with breathing on small mountains.
In December I accompanied my wife as her personal Sherpa (😅) for her ski vacation . We were in Colorado at 9000 feet , no altitude sickness but since I don’t ski I brought work to do and was fine , until I walked 500 feet to the grocery store. Then I needed to stop and rest. I also tried to use the fitness center….walking on the treadmill doubled my heart rate within six minutes. That is like an 911 opportunity ! I am 70 years old and realize I’m best at sea level.
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I know a man who worked as a waiter and delivery driver in a restaurant in Beverly Hills which is frequented by many people such as this. People who consider themselves superior because they have never had to work a day in their lives unless they feel like it. Rude, arrogant, obnoxious, entitled, pretentious, condescending. They couldn't survive a week without their family's money. But their self-esteem is off the charts.
Im that waiter but in SF. I see a mix of it all. You can tell who's earned money, and who was given money, and who may not have money. But the country club people....those people are the worst.
@charlotte33072
You don't need help with coffee and paste
@charlotte33072 why?
I hear that people in the rich enclaves in Palm Beach are terror to new servers in their restaurants. They expect you to know just what and when even though you never set eyes on them. It's not about not tipping, it's about them getting you fired.
I think you mean, their self absorbtion.
Dude, the fact that Anatoli went up and down several times is astounding. Astounding.
It's life or death up there, folks. I don't begrudge Sandy doing what she could to stay alive. The results of her marriages are a pretty good analysis all by themselves. I certainly don't envy her.
Sadly, the guy died on Annapurna back in 1997.
People like her will make that mountain much more colorful every single time the snow melts.
What incredible strength that guy Anatoli had to go back up twice and rescue two people is amazing at that altitude.
Those guys are extremely tough.
My uncle was a professional mountaineer (Alpinist/Climber).
Btw,
They don't normally use those oxygen masks. It's only used in case of emergency.
Their bodies are used to high altitudes. Well, they also stay a couple of days at a base camp to acclimatize to the low oxygen conditions.
That's why she was running out of oxygen, & that Anatoli guy, could go up & down multiple times.
@@charlotte33072Usually when you make a claim like this you are supposed to follow it with at the very least your version of the story.
@@deathtoraiden2080totally agree. And she/he pasted the same comment everywhere
@@bestdjaf7499: At Everest almost EVERYONE uses Oxygen, except the Sherpas. And they spend 2 or more MONTHS at base camp, during which time they climb up and down to the other camps (4 of them) to acclimatize and continue to train for the climb to the Summit. Some people think they should not be allowed to climb to the Summit without Oxygen.
Anatoli was amazing. One thing that Beck Weathers later said really applies to Anatoli. You can beat see someone’s character when that someone believes no one is watching.
Under the circumstances, Anatoli would have been fully justified to remain at Camp 4 until the storm subsided. No one was watching him. And his character really shone through.
He was at Camp 4 by himself and the wind was howling at 100 + and about minus 30. He was basically blinded by the storm and darkness but ambled out anyway - twice - and found climber, retreated to Camp 4 then ambled out again only to find another. What a spirit Anatoli had.
Two of the biggest things that stood out for me, was her *absolute* disrespect for other people- throwing an expensive necklace down the mountain in front of really poor men is despicable, but she clearly has no regard for how they live, or how doing what they do, risking their lives in mountain-climbing season is basically their bread and butter for the rest of the year. The fact that she didn't even give credit to the men who rescued her is beyond ungrateful. It's so shallow, it blows my mind how some people live their lives...
She was even more clueless than that. Before this climb, she actually commissioned the creation of another expensive necklace specifically so that she could bury it on the peak.
Lots of people bury things up there
@@yvonnesanders4308 But they don't bury custom-made jewelry worth enough money to feed a dozen Sherpas for a year.
With great privileges should be great compassion and gratitude and sharing the glory!
@@yvonnesanders4308 Lots of people are clueless and disrespectful. What's your point?
Since you brought grammar into the conversation, I want to thank you for using the word comprise correctly.
The wait for ropes to be set on the Hilary Step was the biggest factor in most deaths that day.That caused a 2 hour delay to continue to the summit while standing still and using oxygen.
nothing is more reliable than rich people pretending purchased service amounts to personal merit. They can buy any skills or expertise they want to pretend is theirs.
It seems that Sandy was so narcissistic that she may have even viewed her rescuers negatively - as people who diminished her by making her look weak. This would explain her refusal to thank them and her odd behavior.
Interesting point....I think I know someone who behaves as you describe & I feel this gives me a new insight into their psyche. TY
@@RMBlake007stop it. You're not a psychoanalyst. And assuming you know how someone's head works based on subjective experiences makes you JUST as weird as this suspected narcissist you're on about. Just saying.
@donbongz4732 no one called her a narcissist, they called her narcissistic, traits that she clearly has. You don't have to be a psychoanalyst to use discernment.
@@karliereddfan did you not read second comment? Where someone is clearly saying that a fucking TH-cam comment helped them gather clarity into the mental state of someone they know. And the OP is about narcissistic behavior, please tell me more about nobody assuming narcissism
@charlotte33072 forget about Jon. Look at the facts for yourself, including how she talks about the expedition, and let me know if you find an ounce of care, gratitude, or honor. What Sandy did was disregard everything in her zealous quest to be the greatest, taking essentials from others, including OXYGEN, and refusing to turn back when the Sherpa people who are far more knowledgeable than her told her it wasn't a good idea to continue. She singlehandedly sabotaged the whole expedition without care for others' safety, their needs, or respect for the elements. Sadly, the ones who suffered were never compensated as if they were objects.
Moral of the story, stay FAR FAR AWAY from narcissist's, you're life depends on it.
After watching this video, I got inspired to study this story more deeply. Though Sandy Hill made a few choices that made it more difficult for the team to recover once the situation went south, she really wasn’t responsible for the disaster. It was primarily the leaders who doomed the team, mostly due to their insistence on reaching the summit despite being well behind the turn-around time. Even if Sandy Hill has been impeccable in her judgment and preparation, there still would have been multiple fatalities on that trip.
*Sandy never cared about the other people who died.* To her, they were merely obstacles and burdens to be shoved off for her own survival. As is horrifically common among socialites and influencers alike, she was and is only capable of thinking about HERSELF and how she is perceived. Anatoli should have left her on the mountain and saved Yasuko instead, and Everest should have been restricted to the public after this pointless insanity. I'll always stand by that.
Media was right behind her, as is to be expected. Stop makin' stupid people famous!!
The government of Nepal seems to care only about the money they rake in from this ego-driven madness. They appear to have no standards about anything surrounding Mt. Everest. Their motto seems to be, just bring your dough and your oversized ego. The rest is up to you. I can only imagine the filth up there.
Keeping everyone off Everest because of the arrogant incompetence of a few isn’t right.
@@lauriestump7134agreed 👍🤝
@@lauriestump7134nevertheless, the country of Pakistan issues way too many permits. They have no limits on how many permits are issued and they only care about the money they receive.
And the media continues to make stupid people rich and famous; ie Mr Trump
My dad worked mountain rescue for a long time- he always shared that a Climber must be: Humble of the Mountain, respectful of natives… and to Always have a guide that worked at the area every day.
3:50 Running up stairs is hard work. But her regime of stair climbing adds up to an equivalent of about 2200 feet of climbing in a day. That’s not nothing, however, I used to run on the varsity track and cross country teams in college and I asked my coach (my coach has a masters degree in kinesiology and was a college coach for decades) about running stairs, since it is a popular training as seen in movies and TV, his response was “it gets you really good at climbing stairs”.
4:02 the fact is climbing the other summits in The Seven Summits are no joke.
Sad fact: Anatoli Bukrejew died one year later on Annapurna while trying a winter climb. His body was never found.
And Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa, the Sherpa who short - roped Hill up to the summit of Everest so she could even brag about getting there, died in an avalanche on Everest September 1996. He was also too exhausted from helping Hill up to the summit to help Boukreev rescue the climbers after the storm struck.
An expedition for K2 made the rounds in my country, attempting to climb it in February because that was extra hard. Getting corporate sponsorships etc. so a father of 4 with one more on the way could bask in the glory.
K2 has a K.ill rate of nearly 30% but didn't only off himself but also one of Nepal's most famous sherpas and 2 other people. I have absolutely no respect for that man. It was a foolish expedition that cost 4 lives total.
If you haven't yet, you should read The Climb. AB co-wrote it and it's about that Everest expedition. A very different perspective versus Krakauer's Into Thin Air.
@@stonermeisterso what is the real truth? Who should we believe?
what he achieved in rescuing and sumiting multiple times in a day carrying people, he is a possible goat Greatest of all time climber, minimal equipment ge sometimes climbed without oxygen
Imagine having to live with knowing you saved the most rotten person off the mountain when you could have saved more deserving people. 🤮
I guess that’s why Boukreev died 18 months later?
like who?
SAR people are the same. They focus on the circumstances of the rescue, not who it is. They save your life. What you do with it after that is up to you.
@@TheGotoGeekouuuu so edgy
What does "SAR" stand for? I am uncool. So I don't get it. Thanks.@@twwtb
I've been saying for years...do some dangerous, cool stuff while you are young. That way, later in life you won't feel the need to compensate for your mis-spent youth. I don't really see an Everest summit as all that impressive now. It means you had a few hundred thousand bucks to blow.
If you’re actually analyzing this, Sandy Hill was a highly skilled, very experienced extreme mountaineer, and the so-called journalist who depicted her as a spoiled socialite had an irrational contempt for her even though they only briefly met twice.
Many of the mountaineers had satellite phones at base camp, but only her having one was a problem. Her cappuccino machine was just a regular 2 pound camping coffee pot like everyone else had. She put some powdered milk in her coffee and shook it, and other hikers joked about her needing her cappuccino. Krakauer somehow managed to not realize she didn’t actually have a 35 lb machine that had to be plugged in at camp 4.
Sandy?
Dangerously unqualified people, with money. God help us all
70% of wealthy people in America have never worked a day in their life. Just like her. That is one massive reason why we have so many economic problems here. We don’t tax them and they don’t help anyone.
she would make an excellent running mate for Trump, 2 peas in a pod
Sounds like the US govt.
The Titan submersible being a perfect example.
@@salis-salisTrump did a lot more for America than the potted plant we have now.
The Mount Everest decent is far more dangerous than reaching the summit. This applies to everyone.
1. Your oxygen tanks are running low, and most people will die without supplemental oxygen.
2. You already exhausted. The physical task on your body is unlike anything else, and there is no real training for it. The Death Zone is real. It is not a marketing gimmick.
3. There is a crash of adrenaline. On the ascent, you have a specific goal, reach that summit, on the descent, that adrenaline rush is gone. That adrenaline can help push you to the top, but it is gone to get you off the mountain.
There is "training for it", both mental and physical. As any competent mountaineer can attest, reaching the summit is less than half the battle - the descent is far more difficult, far more prone to falls. Those who mentally place their goal as "summitting" rather than safely ascending and descending the mountain are at a disadvantage. It's possible to climb a 29,000 foot mountain without oxygen, but that notable feat requires exceptional stamina, acclimatization, and training - something that few of these "seven summit peak baggers" possess. On the final expedition she took, many of the "client climbers" did not have the requisite physical stamina to safely complete the climb. A number of them paid for that deficiency with their lives.
Uh no - adrenaline isn't excreted unless your life is in jeopardy. There is excitement at reaching the summit because it's a major lifetime goal for everybody that climbs it - but not adrenaline. There have been people that have summited Everest WITHOUT oxygen. Hey donut - on the descent you have gravity as an assist. Naturally that has to be managed AND you need only get down to the highest base camp to get a big rest.
@@guydaley Have you ever done mountaineering? For much of the descent, your life IS in jeopardy, at every step you could slip, when crossing the ladders you could fall, when descending through the ice fall, you could be crushed. For an inexperienced climber, that adrenaline is what keeps them alive.
@@guydaley One doesn't need to actually BE in danger to trigger an adrenaline rush. It's only necessary that the brain perceives an imminent danger. There is a difference.
Appreciate you preparing your videos that tell the truth about news stories.
I appreciate that you articulated the story so clearly and offered your analysis in clear and concise language. It was refreshing to hear a TH-camr who actually covers the content and ends the video.
Me: Why is it known as The Death Zone?
Dr. G: Because the conditions there are inconsistent with life.
Nailed it...
is there anything worse than an ungrateful socialite? I think not!
ingratiate political
What's the difference? @@emmapeel8163
Yes. People who admire them.
@@emmapeel8163#triggered
The orange haired man who gropes her?
"her response was painful in many ways, including grammatically" LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your words are VERY WELL chosen and presented.
Im starting to see a pattern here. Grandiose personalities love to involve themselves with Mt. Everest
It sounds like Sandy got a free ride her entire life. Thanks to the hard work of others. Her father, her husband(s), and those people on Everest. She couldnt have afforded any of these experiences on the salary of a "columnist". Im using that term generously
good you brought that up. those magazine jobs are silly and low paying, but have fake prestige because they are for rich people who want to show they are doing something instead of nothing.
If it weren’t for her father and husbands…she would be nobody. Like she is now.
How do you think the vast majority of people raise money to climb Everest?
Those magazine jobs are already given to folks that have money so the pay doesn’t matter when my sister interned the people that worked at these mags got all the new makeup and clothes and lunch and invites every night out that’s the perks of the job.. these are not random people they hire theyre all connected believe half of what you see and hear
Well, she had something that Bob Pittman liked. And, he was no loser.
New to the Channel!!! First, Your ability to tell A Story is Amazing! The way You Unpack the Facts during the story are double Amazing!! Thank You for Sharing; Triple Amazing!!! 😊😊😊
After hearing she was twice married by aged 22 and graduated with a degree in art history, I heard enough (for now).
Three things stood out narcissistic, self entitled, lack of empathy for others. Draw your own conclusions.
Spectrum exhibits differently in women maybe?
When one does not have a soul anything is possible.
They don't call it Mt. Ever-rest for nothing !! 😂
Shieeeet 😂
That joke landed in the death zone... badum-tsss ❤
You have no business on Everest unless you are a world class mountaineer.
There needs to be a skills and fitness test requirement for a licence
@@sharonrigs7999Too many skilled mountaineers died that day, trying to rescue morons.
Clever.
Beck Weathers is an example of someone who was (unlike she) experienced but selfishly obsessed, unable to control his compulsion. He impossibly survived '96 climbing accident and became a motivational speaker. His conclusions and regrets at least led him to new appreciation of his family, saved his marriage and finally forced a much needed "sobriety". EVERYONE should watch extended documentaries on him and in-depth interviews, especially those after he had some time to reflect and heal post-surgery, finally able to share his fresh perspective on everything in his life.
Saw it. Very sobering, indeed.
Helping people who don't deserve is a crime
PBS's "Storm Over Everest" (in which Sandy Hill Pittman appears, and sounds very smug) is one of the most affecting documentaries I've ever seen, I watch it about once a year. It's free on TH-cam
I'll check that out, thanks for the info.
I think I'll watch it too. I'm curious how the guides chose who to save.
Sebastian Junger wrote the book, it's great and isn't very flattering of Ms.Hill; wrote the book about the missing fishing boat, the Andrea Gail out of Gloucester, MA., too.
@@joiathegreatit boils down to whether or not it's possible to save them. If they have to be carried that it's likely they won't be able to save them. If they are incoherent and can't move on their own then they likely cannot be saved.
If you read Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air, you will read Neil Beidlemans remorseful thoughts on his inability to save Yasukos life.
@@joiathegreat ^ What this guy said. It's got to be horrific for them, having to walk right past a fully conscious person on the ground begging for help, knowing there's nothing you can do...
Yasuko Namba was also a noted mountaineer. She was the second Japanese woman to climb the seven summit. RIP to her.
In a fairer Karmic universe , Yasuko Namba would have been saved first, then they would have gone back to Sand-for-brains Hill, ;(
@charlotte33072 give it a rest already!!
Krakauer, like almost everyone else left in camp, were too played out to go rescue anyone. If you blame him you must blame them all.@charlotte33072
They had another woman who felt she could do it as she was always fit. She was determined to reach the top of mount Everest. She was originally from Nepal but lived with her husband in California. They said she had a Type A personality and once she made her mind up like clumbing Everest, no one was going to stop her, even though they did try as she was ready to do it. She was able to reach the summit but on her way back in the Death Zone, she ran out of energy to walk any further. Her guilds tried pulling her body down the mountain, but in the Death Zone, it is impossible. They had to get down or they would die as they were running out of oxygen. They pleaded with her one last time, and she stood up but collapsed and she told them to leave her. She died on that mountain. i am not sure if her body was ever brought down.
She too was looking for bragging rights but the mountain claimed her.
I heard of this story as well
She's not alone. The vast majority of wealthy people possess that same mindset.
I can't imagine. I drove a car up 14,000 ft Mt.Evans in Colorado and got altitude sickness quickly, had to descend. That's the extent of my mountain climbing😅😅
We did the same at Pike’s Peak. 14,110 feet. It was snowing in August up there. We didn’t get altitude sickness, but could definitely feel the thin air making just walking around feel like serious exertion. That’s as high as I ever want to go.
Lol. We drove up 6,288 foot Mt Washington in NH. But Mt Washington is fairly dangerous due to the weather that can be worse than the storm these people went through.
Me too! Suffered altitude dieurisis as well. That's why everyone leaps out of their cars and runs for the latrines at the top. It's funny to see the dogs leaping out of the cars for the same reason. But yeah . Being up on Mt. Evan is exhausting just doing nothing but standing there.
"Into Thin Air" is a good read about that tragic episode on Everest written by a journalist that was there.
A fantastic book
Great book but itself controversial.
Agree
Yep it's a great read. I couldn't put it down. Gripping, well written and inspiring.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Krakauer
Never heard of this story but now im OBSESSED! What a tragic story💔💔
Dude. How did I just find your channel? Who ARE you and why is your disposition so awesome. And your storytelling, suburb. And your analysis, hysterical. Cheers and thanks for your channel.
I've met quite a few people who climbed Mount Everest and all of them were great people and humble. One lady who summited years earlier was so traumatized by the ordeal that she had great difficulty even talking about it. Regardless of what the media states, it is a life or death situation, nothing that we can imagine while sitting at home in our comfy chairs can comprehend the effort.
Once entitled, always entitled. It's a mindset that never goes away.
Excellent, informative, and comprehensive explanation and analysis of this situation. I agree with your conclusion, and I don’t understand how Sandy could begin to take credit for completion of the climb. She quit before it was finished, and she has blood on her hands for not being fully prepared. The team leaders who gave their lives didn’t quit and no doubt realized their own mistakes and had a “if only I had…” conversation with themselves in the last minutes and seconds of their consciousness!
Thank you for this presentation.
As far as narcissism goes she was ahead of her time
The 1996 Mt. Everest disaster was a cascade of failures, there’s so many things that went wrong that contributed to the disaster. Greed, arrogance, lack of safety, lack of common sense, you name it.
If Sandy succeeded with climbing 6 out of 7 continental summits AND was able to run up 26-flights of stairs 8-times daily, then anyone would empirically have to conclude that Sandy was a world-class mountain climber absolutely qualified for Mt. Everest. Dr. Todd, I’m not a mountain climber, but you were patently wrong to say she had no business trying to climb Mount Everest.
no matter how many times I hear stories of people dying on Mt Everest, I find it hard to muster up any empathy.
Self-absorbed, no empathy, seeing others as expendable after achieving their needs, narcissistic - I believe these are some traits of a psychopath.
It’s very presumptuous to write a book about mountain climbing success before you accomplished it, and that’s what it sounds like she did. RIP Scott! RIP to the others as well who perished. It’s beyond what I would attempt! Anatoli was a hero that day. May he rest in peace.
Many, ANY books are written by people with NO experience. Try reading a book about successful marriage written by two young women who’d never even had boyfriends at the time (Girl Defined).
@@noelletakesthesky3977Anatoli died ? Was that the one whe carried her down ? 😱😪
@@posseelviraYes, Anatoli died later from an avalanche on another mountain
Annapurna, in an avalanche. @@allewis4008
One thing I will say is that I don't think Sandy bears any blame for the death of Scott, in all the resources I've found his death came more so from him showing signs of severe sickness throughout the climb, clearly implying he wasn't at all in fit condition to be climbing as much as he did and ultimately paid the ultimate price for his refusal to turn back.
_"Disappointment Peak"_ was the perfect name for Sandys first summit...as well as her as a person overall.
I speculate that this is one hill of a situation that she won’t ever mentally conquer! She is not capable of empathy and compassion , both skills required to not only grasp the situation but to mentally process it as well! She definitely has no idea that she essentially turned the events on the mountain into a proverbial mole hill!
Never trust anyone that cannot or will not say mea culpa when they err, it shows a lack of character and a total lack of self awareness.
@@AnaLucia-wy2ii
Yes Ana, no gratitude is another red flag. I hope you have been doing well mo chara, peace from Ireland to you and yours.
Til next time 🤟😉👈
It sounds like she is being bullied because she is a flash, rich lady.
The climbers who passed simply weren't in as good shape as Sandy.
“Lack of empathy?” Seems more like damn-near brain dead. Wow.
Ya, lest we forget "heartless." There are soooooooo many......"I see 'brain dead' and 'heartless' people everywhere
(edit): I'm in USA hell.
Sandy Hill defeated by Rocky Mountain.
Reminds me of Sandy Hill (yes, that’s really her name.) In 1996, she summitted Everest, but then a snow storm hit and she ran out of strength and couldn’t walk out of the death zone on her own. A climber carried/dragged her to camp four and another gave her their oxygen. They had to leave others to die on the mountain to save her; one of the people who helped her went back to try and save others, but perished; 8 people in total died in the disaster. But later, when she wrote a book on the subject (and also in interviews,) she refused to thank or even acknowledge those who helped her, especially the sherpas. It’s like she didn’t see them as people. She was more annoyed that not enough attention was being paid to her achievement of being the 2nd American woman to climb the Seven Summits.
Love your Channel! And you have a great narrator‘s Voice.
If only they knew how ungrateful she’d be, they could have chosen one of the others to save.
Yes....yes...YES...just thinking that there was one other woman several feet away....who I'm positive would have been so greatful to have been saved...yet she died...because they helped Sandy instead...maybe their "job" didn't entail them to have to save TWO people in one day....stupid woman.
And that's exactly why you guys are eternally fucked up
@@charlotte33072 you've posted this multiple times, give it a rest already!
Without the Sherpa nobody could summit Everest, no matter how rich they are.
Ok let me correct myself... when I said nobody I meant the general public. I should have been more specific. The average paid client of any of the adventure companies are completely dependent on the Sherpa. I was not referring to world class climbers... yes im aware of the many people who conquered Everest without Sherpa or Oxygen. Sorry for the careless comment I made before. Love to all ❤️
Lars Olof Goran Kropp disagrees with you. But it's a very, very select club, no doubt about it.
That’s not true.
Understand your point, but not true. There is an elite group that can do Everest on their own.
Reinhold messner and several others have summited without sherpas or oxygen.
There have been many who have completed unassisted summits
“ POWER , WEARS THOSE OUT WHO DON’T HAVE IT “
A harrowing example of extreme solipsism