The Dhaulagiri Disasters
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In the October of 2001, two deadly incidents would take the lives of several people on the slopes of the world's 7th highest mountain, Dhaulagiri. This is their story.
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I'm listening during my breakfast, following another night of broken sleep...
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Dhaulagiri is my favourite 8000er. Such a beautiful looking peak.
It really is, and I think is very scary looking too at the same time. It's just one of those mountains.
i love altamayo in peru
Agreed. I have seen it in person. The thing is a beast
@@viktormedina4631It is a mountain that can really only be described by the 19th century meaning of the word ”terrible”. So huge the brain can’t comprehend it, absolutely sublime
I like Broad Peak and Cho Oyu the most. Dhaulagiri is gorgeous too tho
I wonder what happened to make the one guy do the mountain solo and leave. The fact that the other three then died on the mountain makes me think that there was an issue with the team. An issue that made one man decide he'd be okay soloing the mountain. An issue that made him not only solo but leave as soon as he was finished instead of staying at base camp and urging his fellow team members on during their climb. Making that little progress each day should've registered with the climbers to get down off of the mountain instead of continuing since they only had 3 days worth of food on them.
An elite climbers drive.
His fingers got severe frost bite, which maybe explains why he immediately left the area in search of medical care...? Unfortunately he died in an avalanche in 2004 so we may never know why he solo'd it before leaving. Perhaps he recognised the onset of minor frostbite and so made a push for the summit, solo, knowing he would not be able to continue with the east face expedition?
He recognized that the other three climbers had no business being on the mountain and had absolutely no chance of success. So he left them.
Your work is excellent. Thorough and respectful, and well commentated. I love your channel, especially your mountaineering videos, keep up the good work!
The world is so small my grandmas Boss died in daulagiri IV in 1973. And He was one of the First to Go There. 2:09.
Always happy to see one of your vids posted! Great content and wonderful sensitivity! Thanks, my man!
Happy Anniversary ‼️ & A great job as usual 👍🏾
Found this channel recently. Really digging it❤
Thank you for more content bossman 🙏
@Morbid Midnight Another Perfect video! Thanks!
This channel deserves so many more subscribers.
Thanks for another great video.
Loved this episode. I learned more in this episode than I would have reading a wiki article on this imposing mountain.
Another fine video. Thank you.
Thank you for doin the work for this video.
You should do more videos other then just mountaineer disasters but other type of bad disasters! This channel is awesome 🤟 love the creepy music and intro
Terrible tragedies!
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Excellent narration, and great photos! Exhilarating channel!
I can't even blink, when you're telling their stories!
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I can feel the wind chill;
I can hear the ice crunch;
I can feel the ropes on rock;
Every step critical;
And short of breath high up!
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Wow!
Respect!
I've been watching a number of your videos and your presentation and delivery are onpoint, as I listen to your commentary and the soundtrack in the background gives off something serious that keeps me glued and wonder what's going to happen next just like a cool storytelling, I was thinking could you do a segment on the prometheus motion picture or any other alien franchise, you would definitely knock it out the park. 1:05 it looks like alien covenant
Crazy, one guy said I’m going to get this done and went home. Theses other 3 weren’t on that level at the time. Maybe they should’ve just went for it. Weird how they got so slow, damn just disappeared!!
The slow pace makes me think they must have been suffering altitude sickness up there. Would help explain why they disappeared, as the lead person may have become disoriented and caused them all to fall off or slip somewhere together.
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Here! Good morning !!
I'm reading Maurice Herzog's book on the first ascent of Annapurna, and fascinatingly, their team only decided to attempt Annapurna after first investigating Dhaulagiri and declaring it was impossible to climb. So I was surprised to hear in this video that it's now considered one of the easiest of the 8,000 meter peaks!
I don't know enough about the details of the mountain to be sure, but from Herzog's descriptions, it sounds like at the time they were operating with a different set of expectations about what was an acceptable level of danger. They dismiss climbing up the glaciers they can find because the avalanche risk is too high.
I find myself wondering whether there have been technological changes (even in the areas of say, weather prediction, or avalanche safety) that render certain routes much more feasible than in the past, or if Herzog's team just missed or misestimated something about Dhaulagiri.
I get that bad weather can put a stop to search attempts, but it didn't sound as if that was the case this time, and it still took 8 days. Can't imagine how frustrating that must've been for their families, and friends.
Can't expect search every time. Family and friends had to have known the danger and possibly they'd never be seen again
The climbers knew the risk.
It’s unreasonable that Kathmandu should have to pay for enormous costs in helicopter fuel every time some unprepared foreigner gets lost and wants rescue.
@@TheBigMan22111Only because their families are aware about the risks, it doesn't make it easy for them, or mean it can't be frustrating for them to sit on the sideline, and not be able to do anything, especially the first few days when there's still a small window of possibility for that maybe they're not dead yet.
@@omarb7164 Last I read anything about it, e.g. on some page called Forestry Nepal, the climbers themselves, their insurance, and/or sometimes families/friends, have to pay for search and rescue helicopters in Himalaya. I've also heard something about the climber Simone Moro being involved with high altitude helicopter rescues at e.g. Everest, often with himself as the helicopter pilot, and I don't think Kathmandu was involved with paying anything for that. It also said he's used helicopter to rescue Sherpas for free.
By the way, I've also seen articles about rescue helicopter crews (companies?) in Himalaya scamming/overcharging money from the climber's/hiker's/tourist's insurance companies. So I suppose it's fully possible the helicopter rescuers involved in this case perhaps asked for more pay than what the families/friends/insurance companies could afford at the beginning.
@@FinnishLapphund yeah that makes sense, maybe I shouldn’t have assumed the rescue operation is done through tax-funded municipal authorities.
What a beautiful mountain!
Sorry I'm late to this one broski!! Closing in on 50k thoughhhhh!!!!
love this channel because it feels so much less like a content farm than sorry "true horror stories channels
Having the commercials in the middle of your video sucks.
cry to the wall, no one cares
Hey man what song is playing in the background of this video? Also congrats on the sponsor. :)
I want to know this as well ‼️It’s awesome & It makes the videos so eerie and fascinating.
Great channel great content great channel - btw that's Ama Dablam not Dhaula on the thumbnail if you need some good Dhaulagiri shots hmu & I will happily share. Best
Bro the austrian climbers one of them was my grandmas boss. 2:10
For the algorithm 👊
Crazy to think about all the bodies on the mountains that we can’t see.
When you say steep slopes what degree of angle do you mean .. I’m no mountaineer but am intrigued
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1:22 that avalanche is MASSIVE
I'm sure it must be terrible when one's beloved die so mysteriously. I can imagine it's somewhat comforting to know they "died doing what they loved," but never finding their remains or getting an answer to the final question of "how" must be difficult. Thank you for honoring them.
Honoring them for what Their blatant stupidity?
Nope. I would just Feel he loved the mountain more than he loved me. Because that's what it comes down to. It's like having a spouse who would rather drink and play in the traffic. Same outcome.
@@Dovietail it is the very same. Addiction is Addiction.
These mountaineering disasters are Neppalling.
Name if background song?
Climbing it's a dangerous hobby it's just too risky rest in peace to them climbers
I’m nitpicking here, but altitude and elevation are not the same thing, though most people would probably use them interchangeably. Planes climb to altitude; people (who are still touching the surface of the Earth) climb to elevation.
At 8 thousand meters, you are at altitude haha
@@freefall9832 Yeah, I know it’s a nitpick. But he did use lower “altitudes,” too. If there was some transition level, I’d buy that. Like in aviation, there’s an altitude where you go from feet to flight levels (18,000 ft in the USA). Love the vids, but I voiceover “elevation” every time he says “altitude” 😆 Won’t stop me from watching and liking, of course.
He does a great job. Hush🤬 Just enjoy the video.
@@dianesavant2818 I never said he didn't. Sorry if my speaking the truth - without any bias or malice - offends you.
So glad you pointed that out. Go you!
Unfortunately, I have had several serious accidents. None of them, were expected, or tempted. I find that these people who seem to flaunt death, are plainly demented.
Yo no sly this is just a serious thought I had just now. You know how valley girls and woke leftists do the up speak thing where every sentence ends in an up in tone. Like its a question. I've noticed that a lot of channels dedicated in the spooky and mysterious do the opposite its that low speak. 😅 Nexpo (the king of the format) does it and so do so many others. And honestly it's enthralling narrative melody in story telling. Just because something is notable through observation doesn't make it invalid or a criticism. In fact I find it to be a poetic narrative structure for content in the genre.
Listen, I'm a musician and I've been playing instruments since I was 9 so 24 years.
And I really appreciate art and I believe that art in all it's forms from a hand egg sportsball player to Alex Honnold on El capitan to the greats like Coheed and Cambria and Zdzisław Beksiński all contribute to the fundamental meaning and expression of the human experience.
Art and it's appreciation seems to be the way the universe, collective unconscious or "God" works through us and to me that's one reason that we exist. To create is infinite and so is expression 😅 idk maybe the mushrooms fried my brain but I doubt it...
Its west face is so spectacular that I named by handle after it. It's vertical relief rivals Nanga Parbat.
As far as saying it's one of the easiest 8000 meters to climb, well that is not the case with its west and south faces. No way
Mi padre integró la primera expedición Argentina al Dahulagiri Mal,en 1954.
Poseo todas las diapositivas de ésta tremenda hazaña.
Is there a particular reason why these climbers are going up these mountains in winter? Sincerely.
I can climb that mountain but not in the spot you're showing.
What a tragedy! I feel for their loved ones. Never knowing the full story must be difficult.
I know I'm treading out on a limb here... BUT just from the mountain's notoriety and the lack of evidence for an avalanche, this sounds like someone got a little clumsy and ONE wrong step is all it takes in a place like that. The force of gravity, lack of traction, and shear angle of slopes will more than do the rest for you. Chances are, any attempts to find them "at altitude" are just looking in the wrong place... ;o)
@@gnarthdarkanen7464 Exactly. It's not much of a mystery. They fell off the mountain and probably into an area impossible to search.
@@Weapon12 Nothing is "impossible" to search outright. It's either more difficult and expensive than seems worth the effort, or it's one of those weird little spots that nobody would expect they even could fall into...
Just because 98% of the bodies that fall from above would normally hit a debris pile and roll down and away from the mountain as you'd expect, doesn't mean 100% will... These might well be in that other 2% and that's really all it takes... AND nobody connected is going to find them. It might be decades before someone who just doesn't know any better looks in the right spot, OR someone just stumbles across the remains entirely by accident. ;o)
check you figures - its about 210 kilometers from Kathmandu🤣
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The south face is anything but easy. No one has been able to summit the mountain via this 4100m monster of a face
My grandmas Boss died om that Hill IV
probably cuz these mountains hate rich people
Wow
Yo the Swiss and Austrians are the absolute goats hahaha they been trying to conquer slabs and ice forever 😅
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the creepy music gets annoying fast. no background music is best
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Mountaineers are mostly rich Ppl that do not gaF about others. It is all about them and their Climb to the Top. No Thoughts about the Dangers. But when Danger strikes they want to be rescued, only for climbing again. No Thoughts about the Rescue Team and the Dangers they put them in. Because climbing a Fkn Mountain is more worth then a Life
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We in the US don't use the word "slope" anymore. It's an ignorant and racist slur. We say Asian-American now.
Daulaghiri is 210 km flying
Daulaghiri is 130.48 miles, flying
Daulaghiri is, roughly, 400 miles driving and/or walking
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