She died on Kyrgyzstan's remote mountains
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- Mehri Jafari was a 43-year old alpinist from Iran. In 2021, she planned to solo Pobeda and Lenin Peak as part of a previously unfinished project.
She was an experienced climber and a member of the London Mountaineering Club.
Jafari originally went alone to Pobeda. She had previously regularly climbed mountains and made solo ascents. She was experienced in that region. In 2008, she climbed the neighbouring Khan Tengri peak (7,010 meters) alone, becoming the first Iranian woman to do so.
But she knew that she was not technically prepared to climb Pobeda alone. Her plan was to join other climbers and go up via the normal fixed route. She joined a team of four from Iran. However, she struggled to keep up with them on the way up.
At 6,300 meters, she slipped and fell down the side of the mountain, and disappeared onto the glacier far below. Subsequent search and rescue mission was failed as she was buried by avalanche.
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Hey guys, I just wanted to say how grateful I am that you came with me to search for my friend Mehri. I will never forget the brave effort you made to help me, especially since no one else wanted to come along. Thank you so much and I wish all the best for you two❤❤❤
Best regards
Alex
Another excellent video. 👏 Thank you for sharing this story about an inspirational woman, and for naming & shaming those 3 Iranian climbers. While I completely appreciate that climbers take responsibility for their own safety & tough choices need to be made, _climbing is a privilege - not a battle of attrition._ Those 3 men wouldn't be on Pobeda without the community supporting them, including the locals, people at base camp _and_ fellow climbers... ignoring protocol & turning off your radio to ignore any calls for help is a slap in the face. I _guarantee_ those 3 men would be quick to jump on the radio expecting help if they got stuck high on the mountain, yet they seemed to have few qualms ignoring those same people who would potentially come to their aid. Making a call that it's too dangerous for you to help someone is absolutely fair... switching your radio off to avoid making that call is not. RIP Mehri & Reza 🤍
You just nailed it. Thanks for commenting.
I'll just keep looking at these mountains. Never ever climbing them.
This was a very nicely done video. I especially liked how you let us know about Mehri. RIP Dear One
Thank you so much
As a slightly different topic, and completely agree it's tragic her loss of life. What a mountain! The scenery is beyond unreal. Also, how amazing to have so much footage of her, getting her hand taken care of, and footage of the other climbers. Great story beautifully told and put together. Thank you.
Truly an excellent presentation. Rich in facts and superb video clips sourced. The death of Jafari being all the more poignant given the extensive footage of her here.
Your videos get better and better with each new release. Thanks for sharing your endeavours. 👍
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Thank you for all of the amazing videos and stories you share!!
Wtat a true hero Mehri was. Those 3 Iranian climbers were anything but brave.
They lacked even simple human decency. But they made the summit, so that is all that matters.
I hope their "glorious" achievement comes back to haunt them. They deserve that and more for their complete anf utter selfishness.
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Thank you so much!
Great vid.
She wasn't properly acclimatized and had a fresh hand injury.
Exercised extremely poor judgment by turning back too late with a predictable outcome. RIP
I have lauded every video of your channel that I have watched, so I feel qualified to now praise the amazing consistency that you achieve - always top quality in every respect, thank you.
Thanks
I agree 🙂
At first I was disappointed with the Iranian climbers who did not stop their ascent and go look for the fallen Jafari. Then I thought, why didn't the base camp at the bottom, 6,000 km down, insist Jafari STOP(!) and wait for help getting back down. She was in distress and behind 1.5 hr. The EVEREST climbers of experience don't stop on EVEREST either, generally speaking and many dead people are left in view of others years later. There should have been an organization in place to assist before she fell, not after. It is unfortunate that she was in a situation which called for a choice, her or them. They chose self. That is the world, of risk, the professional climbers want to live in and therefore, that is how the world will see them too whenever they are in distress.
Sad, but very interesting video. In a way I think that if you choose to climb alone, you've thereby accepted that you won't be able to rely on the same support as someone who paid to be part of a team. That said, being part of the team didn't help Adineh. I don't believe borrowing the longer rope to try and look for him would've changed anything regarding him, but the team"mates" presumably wouldn't have had neither strength, nor time, to continue to the summit had they tried, which makes their decision sound selfish. On the other hand, rope climbing comes with a risk, and can you you really demand that others risk their lives for someone who's most likely already dead?
Perhaps it's just like how choosing to risk your life looking for someone by foot on a crevasse filled glacier should be a choice. There's no guarantee that someone else going by foot to look for Jafari earlier, definitely would've found her. Maybe they would've, maybe they just would've gotten themselves killed in the avalanche, or falling down a crevasse.
I love that expression "She died doing what she loved". She loved tumbling down a mountain to her death. She was not part of the Iranian team and they had no responsibility to search for her dead body either before or after they had summited. She was totally responsible for her own actions and for her death. RIP.
I always learn something new about High Altitude Climbing from your channel. I never heard of this story - thank you again for your excellent posts!
Our pleasure!
Mount Poebeda is a very difficult peak to climb.
I gotta say that your english just gets better and better everytime i come here. Im impressed with how fluid your reading is. Youre really sounding great! Love your videos.
(Do you have another channel... im sure i heard you elsewhere before...)
Lots of love from Canada 🇨🇦
Thanks for watching. Sorry, I don’t have another channel. I think you listened to someone else sounds familiar.
I enjoyed this, had not heard of this incident, thankyou for doing this.
Sad story very well done. While I believe the Iranian group should have gone and tried to locate the fallen climber they were under no obligation to do so! She may have been of a common nationality which is why I think they should have gone and tried to find her she was not part of the group! It would have been dangerous to try and find Medri and they would be risking their lives to attempt it. RIP Mehri!
Such a dangerous pass time..one wrong step, one unexpected avalanche, one unfortunate fellow climber...so many fatal ways to have your life cut short.😮
I just found your channel. Very well done. Subbed ❤
Thanks and welcome
So very sad. Excellent job telling her and others stories. I am new to your channel and very glad it found me!
Welcome!
Nice video, great storytelling!
Inspired by her very tough girl sad for her not completing her goals☮️
Dying young as a result of ego based decision making is not very "tough."
First I must say your work is very much appreciated.
Secondly, people suck and after I'm done with my chore I'll share a recent experience that will disgust me until I pass.
Perhaps levels should be required like in skiing. Stop and use the bunny slope before trying the victory of the highest hill. Perhaps add some chair lifts every 3,000 kms too.
That was excellent, never heard about this. Thanks
What an accomplished and noble woman. A huge loss to the world. Rest in peace.
Her ambition greatly exceeded her skill.
Great channel thanks for posting
Our pleasure!
So many selfish egotists in this sport. Why did none of the Iranians wait for her or check she was okay? Unbelievable.
They are not allowed to do
Already dead.
She seemed to have been a delightful person with a good heart who catered for disabled people.
Shame to those iranians who turned off their radio when told to go look for her after she fell. They accomplished great disgrace and shame for their country in my mind.
Sorry but I think they are under no obligation to abandon their own plans at great personal cost, risk their lives, go search for a dead body in a dangerous area. Mt Everest is covered with unrecovered bodies. It would be different if there was a chance that she would be alive but it seems obvious that is not the case. Also she should have abandoned her climb once she was injured and struggling. Don't make others responsible for your bad choices. If you take the risk to mountain climb, ultimately it's on you.
Your comment sounds the most logical to me.
Very well done….
I struggle with the mentality of extreme climbers.
I don’t climb. Never will.
And that’s good, on numerous fronts.
Most climbers have inflated egos. I think actually WANT to commit suicide by mountain. Some succeed.
An absolute pointless hobby and waste of a life 😔
Yes, like smoking
So many times the attitude is "every man/woman for themself".....
If the Iran expedition was sponsored by their government and she was in exile they would not help her
Even if she is not exiled, I still don’t see the point why they wants the Iranian team to go down and find her. It’s not like she might still be alive and need to be rescued.
She was dead for sure,why iranians or others to put their lives in danger?
After watching this, was she 100% physically fit? Was her hand injured? I'm seeing mountaineering as a "death sport"!? I watch video of another female climber after her death. Come too find out she had too be physically rescued by others from mountains twice, an she kept at mountains until mountains killed her! What's the big deal about dying for mountains???
Please consider putting the mountain height in feet for those of us who don't know metric 😊
Multiply by 3.28.
x 3ish
Turn around time is 2pm, not 6pm. 😊
Never climb a mountain with Iranian government team. The corruption hate violence and lack of human kindness in the culture is evidence of its decadence
All you can hope for is that she didn’t suffer long before dying.
Yay, she was the first woman to not give a crap about others who loved her and would dearly miss her if anything happened while she was putting her life at stake, all for her ego and adrenaline high.
Why are you even here then?
There was no point in trying to find her. She was dead. She did not die doing what she loved. She died in terror, praying that she would not die, until her neck snapped. Her body is alone, abandoned, rotting under an avalanche. That is nothing anyone loves. Stop spewing stupidity.
Sorry, I had removed my comment thinking it was too long but since you liked it, I've put it back on.
Neither of the deceased parties would've survived that fall and as dangerous as the ice glaciers were and risk of a avalanche even if they searched for them they likely would meet their own demise. Life's short as it is why tempt fate for notoriety? R.I.P. to those who lost their lives. So sad they had so much life left ahead of them.
Definitely need subtitles with this one.
You need to learn English better then
🙏🙂
Nice people refusing help to one of their own tur ing off their radio. 😢
She was already dead. Why risk their own lives to recover a corpse?
How sad is her story. Facing death alone, and possibly feeling lonely.
How about take a warm cruise to Aruba instead!
She was a solo climber, so she was alone and she knew the danger.
Some people do it for being famous in the mountaineer stories and some for their souls and their strength.
I'm sure she didn't suffer for long after the first bounce.
I hope the Iranian country has something to say to their climbers for being INCREDIBLY selfish, ignoring orders and DEFINITELY not following the tenets of Islam..
Sounds like these people had no business being on the mountain and I have no sympathy for the one who flew off after failing to try to recover Jafari..
The lesson? Don’t depend on the Iranians.
Lol
She was a solo climber sounds like she didn’t have the ability to climb and basically forced herself on the Iranian team…imo.
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When in this terrain you really can’t depend on anybody.
Don't climb with Persians.
If sh3 is from Iran why is she outside without burka on?
She didn't want to be a sex slave?
I don't think solo climbs on these peaks is a good idea.
Sounds like she didn’t have the ability to climb with them…in other words sounds like she forced herself on the Iranian group.
Nope.