Same here, even more of a coincidence that I know many rock climbers that have practiced and climbed among the best in the world in Czech Republic, but I was never interested in anything related to it until I found this channel.
I’m so impressed by the stories you find. They’re so detailed, unique,and interesting. I also notice that you cover events months before I see them on other channels. Criminally underrated
Andres was my guide climbing in Mexico in 1998. He was a superhuman mountain climber and a cool dude as well. I will never forget toasting 3 summits with 3 consecutive tequila shots. RIP dude.
@@gregkosinski2303 LOL….drinking didn’t come until afterwards. That said Mexico City is well over a mile high itself. Poor Andres had to help carry me to my hotel room.
The way the various mountains were shown and identified on the photo towards the beginning of the video was excellent. I wish other people when discussing mountains, or routes, or features of a mountain would do similar things. It makes it all much easier to comprehend, and a viewer is able to learn so much more.
Changabang is indeed a beautiful mountain, just as a tiger is a beautiful animal. I'm glad these gentlemen were able to experience the elation of standing on the peak before their tragic demise.
i never *really* wanted to climb a mountain until i read about the ones who do it to experience a solar eclipse on a local peak. they can watch the moon's shadow race across the face of the earth.
I knew Andres since childhood, always looked up to him, since he was a couple of years older than me, he was supercool exceeded at all kind of sports he participated in, passionate about just anything, great lost. Godspeed Andres!
I fall asleep to the replays of these vids. Can u make a second channel with much longer vids? At least 45min to an hour. Just find something and keep talking LOL. But seriously, longer!
This mountain looks INSANE!!! I love watching these climbing channels (since I stumbled across 'Into The Void') and this is the most precarious pinnacle I've seen by far... it must be the most difficult mountain to climb in the world eh? Are there any others on par?
Many others are on par and are even more difficult, like Cerro Torre, Torre Egger and the Trango Towers (The Great Trango Tower is officially most difficult mountain on the planet to climb and has the second highest vertical drop on the planet), the first mountains that come to mind, because they are made out of fully vertical slopes with nowhere to hold on to. Other honorable mentions are Huandoy Sur, Janny, Dhalaugiri, K1. Some other mountains were summited once and then only summited again after more than 40 years later due to the sheer difficulty they pose, with some of the climbing expeditions taking close or more than a whole month to summit the mountains. All of the mountains I mentioned in the comment were covered right here on this channel, telling the stories of some of the disasters that happened on them, and some of them are absolutely gut wrenching to listen to.
Most of still photos were taken by Roger Payne, the former general secretary of the British mountaineering Council on a separate expedition in which Brendan Murphy was killed. Roger himself died on July 12, 2012 in the tragic accident in the Alps.
its no wonder there are so many disasters. now we learn that they are letting random blacksmiths with absolutely no mountain climbing experience, just climb up any high peak in order to test their metals??? that makes no sense. these countries should be ashamed of themselves bc all they care about is getting the climbing fees
To me, I don't consider rocky mountains to be beautiful. I prefer the lush trees and forests of lower ranges. I can understand why so many think that the hard rock mountains as beautiful though so don't think that I'm trashing rocky mountains. There solitude is quite beautiful.
It is a mountain in the context of a landscape. I take it you have never seen the Andes or been to Pakistan or Nepal. Nepal is jaw droppingly beautiful. Truly stunning landscapes.
One of the biggest differences in the esrly ascents was the lack of accurate weather forcasting. Back then you just had to risk getting caught out. Climbers these days have access to highly accurate weather data and it lowers the risk by tons. The early guys were just made different. I cant imagine the risks taken. The weather will kill you up there. Tough guys. Todays climbers just dont even touch the mountain if theres potential for a snow flake.
"Todays climbers just dont even touch the mountain if theres potential for a snow flake." Because weather forecasts are not 100% accurate and weather in high mountain ranges can change from sunny to dangerous, fatally cold, complete whiteout and outright lethal in mere minutes. What do you want them to do? To climb nearly vertical 7-8 thousand meter mountains in winds of 200kph in temperatures of -60ºc in complete whiteout conditions where they can't even see their hands in front of their own face with enormous avalanche and rock slide risks capable of wiping out a whole town just to show to you they are big tough guys? Give me a break. Have you ever heard better safe than sorry? Start practicing and you might get to live long enough to have grandchildren.
@POLARTTYRTM that's not what I'm saying. The early climbers would look outside, see its sunny, and go for a 4 day summit push. Today it's possible to accurately forecast 4 and 5 day windows for your summit climb. That ability just didn't used to exist. And yes they are extremely accurate but I will concede that individual mountains definitely create their own weather. And no i never said go climb a mountain in 60 mph winds or whatever. I'm just saying back in the day the risk was way higher. And those guys did it anyway and had unbelievable achievements. Today you can fly a helicopter between peaks and use highly accurate forecasting and have sherpas set everything up for you ahead of time to set a "record". Today's climbers are weiners compared to Messner and the titans of the golden age.
@@adventurfly879 ok but most of these isolated and extremely difficult peaks that not even most of the most proficient and professional climbers dare to try are not loaded with sherpas or anything to do the job for them, the climbers themselves do all the job alone, they climb alone. It's already far too dangerous even for the most experienced climber to try to summit, do you think a sherpa is going to go there and help them? You should research the topic a bit more before commenting. These isolated and extremely dangerous and mostly vertical mountains are rarely climbed for various reasons, including the fact that they are so dangerous and difficult that most climbers outright refuse to even try to climb anything on them, sherpas are not on them to help anyone, the climbers are there all by themselves with no external help doing all the job alone. This is not an Everest vacation expedition where even people with no experience can go and climb, this is extreme hardcore climb for people who do not fear danger or death.
Accidentally watched some of this video at .75 speed and it genuinely sounds like when I used to listen to podcasts and suck down nitrous in my car, which was always parked. Is that your real speaking voice?
Scientists should look at the dna of mountaineers who keep climbing these high altitude mountains...even if they already lost fingers or toes on previous climbs. I mean there must be some significant difference somewhere. I for one already fear getting my food from the freezer and in no million years will seek the freezing cold up such a 8k mountain.
So the "disaster" was simply the most common cause of death for alpinists and two guys were involved? Jesus these channels are scraping the seabed at this point.
The word "circumnavigated" doesn't work in the context in which you used it. It would mean they don't deal with the highly varied and technical climbing sections but instead find some other way up, but obviously they do attack those sections as well which is why you were specific about the pitches in the first place.
I know it is dumb but I can’t stand the language around summiting and climbing. “Conquer” “battle”. Like, why don’t they say “honoured” “permitted” instead? The mountain isn’t out to do anything but be a mountain, and if climbers love and respect them so much why not use language that reflects that? 😂 thank you for reading my mini rant! Love this coverage ❤🎉 thank you.
Because of you I now have a mountain obsession, keep up the great work
Welcome to the club brother, glad to have you here
Same here, even more of a coincidence that I know many rock climbers that have practiced and climbed among the best in the world in Czech Republic, but I was never interested in anything related to it until I found this channel.
@@POLARTTYRTMu all nuts im quessing u clowns 🤡 don’t get it mountains that high r not meant to b climbed whts the Phucking purpose of it smh
Me too
I’m so impressed by the stories you find. They’re so detailed, unique,and interesting.
I also notice that you cover events months before I see them on other channels.
Criminally underrated
Andres was my guide climbing in Mexico in 1998. He was a superhuman mountain climber and a cool dude as well. I will never forget toasting 3 summits with 3 consecutive tequila shots.
RIP dude.
Jesus dude you must have been in amazing shape. Even at sea level, I get a couple drinks in me and I lose all my cardio.
@@gregkosinski2303 LOL….drinking didn’t come until afterwards. That said Mexico City is well over a mile high itself.
Poor Andres had to help carry me to my hotel room.
Super cool you got to experience that
The way the various mountains were shown and identified on the photo towards the beginning of the video was excellent. I wish other people when discussing mountains, or routes, or features of a mountain would do similar things. It makes it all much easier to comprehend, and a viewer is able to learn so much more.
Am i the only one obsessed with these videos?
No
5:15 this picture is absolutely horrifying.
Changabang is indeed a beautiful mountain, just as a tiger is a beautiful animal. I'm glad these gentlemen were able to experience the elation of standing on the peak before their tragic demise.
Love the consistency and quality of the uploads mate! Thanks for the great content
I do appreciate these videos. Keep them coming! Here's a comment to help with the algorithms lol
Un vídeo Espectacular, amigo!
That bivouac on the thumbnail is UNREAL.
That is one beautiful peak! Thanks again Morbid Midnight👏👏👏👏
RIP Brendan Murphy, friend and mountaineer.
I'll never understand mountain climbers. Terrifying. Thanks for the video.
i never *really* wanted to climb a mountain until i read about the ones who do it to experience a solar eclipse on a local peak. they can watch the moon's shadow race across the face of the earth.
What a shame. So many of these stories are driven by stupidity, but these guys were just unlucky.
That is part of the sport of mountaineering unfortunately.
i just come for the pronunciations, i feel like every word is a hurdle that our fearless narrator jumps over
When he finishes half the hurdles are on the ground.
❤ happy Thanksgiving thanks for a geat 2 years of videos morbid midnight
Happy Thanksgiving Morbid Midnight!
I admire your work. Great research and the scripts are fantastic!
I knew Andres since childhood, always looked up to him, since he was a couple of years older than me, he was supercool exceeded at all kind of sports he participated in, passionate about just anything, great lost. Godspeed Andres!
Another fine video, Midnight, thanks.
Imagine climbing a mountain like this with this music playing
Your videos are so informative and well produced !
I fall asleep to the replays of these vids. Can u make a second channel with much longer vids? At least 45min to an hour. Just find something and keep talking LOL. But seriously, longer!
That Longstaff guy looked cool
I’m addicted to these videos thanks for the upload
This mountain looks INSANE!!! I love watching these climbing channels (since I stumbled across 'Into The Void') and this is the most precarious pinnacle I've seen by far... it must be the most difficult mountain to climb in the world eh? Are there any others on par?
Many others are on par and are even more difficult, like Cerro Torre, Torre Egger and the Trango Towers (The Great Trango Tower is officially most difficult mountain on the planet to climb and has the second highest vertical drop on the planet), the first mountains that come to mind, because they are made out of fully vertical slopes with nowhere to hold on to. Other honorable mentions are Huandoy Sur, Janny, Dhalaugiri, K1. Some other mountains were summited once and then only summited again after more than 40 years later due to the sheer difficulty they pose, with some of the climbing expeditions taking close or more than a whole month to summit the mountains. All of the mountains I mentioned in the comment were covered right here on this channel, telling the stories of some of the disasters that happened on them, and some of them are absolutely gut wrenching to listen to.
these guys desire and strive to get to a place that you could not pay me to be on.just the thought of standing on the peaks gives me a chill
Fantastic content as always, keep it up!
So they were just never found?
Doubt it. They died near the very top of one of the most inaccessible mountains in the world. Only a few people have ever been up there.
I love listening to your content
Oh shit, I'm addicted to these videos and youtube sure knows it but just keeps fueling my addiction.
The fact that they called their friend to announce their possible death makes this story so heartbreaking. I can't imagine what it's like
I've never heard of Changabang. Fascinating !
Excellent content
Recommended you to make video for Hristo Prodanov on Everest. 1984 he made Western road on Everest , hardest way to climb Everest .
I think this channel is mostly tragedies!
@@willrainey Hristo successful ascended Everest without oxygen and died in 8700m when he was make atempt to descent in bad weather condition.
Climbing down is so much more difficult and one is generally more tired
You also be slippin.
You had me at "the". 🎉
Most of still photos were taken by Roger Payne, the former general secretary of the British mountaineering Council on a separate expedition in which Brendan Murphy was killed. Roger himself died on July 12, 2012 in the tragic accident in the Alps.
Well I was going to bed....lol Always excited to see a new video. Yer awesome keep up the great work!
Andreas was part of the discovery channel's documentary on climbing everest. Sad to hear of this 😔 glad they achieved one final summit
We're almost to 65k my boy!!!
How about video on tragedy on mount magazine in Arkansas
I was like who died on mt magazine. 😂 Because I've been there. Compared to the mountain part of stories like these, mt magazine is a hill.
Imagine...
...If your name was Tom George Longstaff. 😂
its no wonder there are so many disasters. now we learn that they are letting random blacksmiths with absolutely no mountain climbing experience, just climb up any high peak in order to test their metals??? that makes no sense. these countries should be ashamed of themselves bc all they care about is getting the climbing fees
Kewl we all love disasters from a distance. 🙃 (I'll watch vid now)
I appreciated the thug life glasses making an appearance.
"Thundering down chongabong slopes"
sounds like something a gnarly skater would say.
that‘s one of those gnarly looking mountains
To me, I don't consider rocky mountains to be beautiful. I prefer the lush trees and forests of lower ranges. I can understand why so many think that the hard rock mountains as beautiful though so don't think that I'm trashing rocky mountains. There solitude is quite beautiful.
It is a mountain in the context of a landscape. I take it you have never seen the Andes or been to Pakistan or Nepal. Nepal is jaw droppingly beautiful. Truly stunning landscapes.
Your videos are great. If you could narrate in longer than 2 to 3 word phrases they would be much better. Thanks for posting!
A bunch of the text isn't all on the screen, like some mountain heights.
Just gonna say your videos are great but the music in the background makes all your videos blur together when trying to watch multiple in a row
Not my brain reading this as "gangbang disaster" like HUH 🤣
Lol same I was like 😮😮
@@jennypeters4012 lmao thank you for the reassurance that I'm not the only weirdo who read it that way!
One of the biggest differences in the esrly ascents was the lack of accurate weather forcasting. Back then you just had to risk getting caught out. Climbers these days have access to highly accurate weather data and it lowers the risk by tons. The early guys were just made different. I cant imagine the risks taken. The weather will kill you up there. Tough guys. Todays climbers just dont even touch the mountain if theres potential for a snow flake.
"Todays climbers just dont even touch the mountain if theres potential for a snow flake." Because weather forecasts are not 100% accurate and weather in high mountain ranges can change from sunny to dangerous, fatally cold, complete whiteout and outright lethal in mere minutes. What do you want them to do? To climb nearly vertical 7-8 thousand meter mountains in winds of 200kph in temperatures of -60ºc in complete whiteout conditions where they can't even see their hands in front of their own face with enormous avalanche and rock slide risks capable of wiping out a whole town just to show to you they are big tough guys? Give me a break. Have you ever heard better safe than sorry? Start practicing and you might get to live long enough to have grandchildren.
@POLARTTYRTM that's not what I'm saying. The early climbers would look outside, see its sunny, and go for a 4 day summit push. Today it's possible to accurately forecast 4 and 5 day windows for your summit climb. That ability just didn't used to exist. And yes they are extremely accurate but I will concede that individual mountains definitely create their own weather. And no i never said go climb a mountain in 60 mph winds or whatever. I'm just saying back in the day the risk was way higher. And those guys did it anyway and had unbelievable achievements. Today you can fly a helicopter between peaks and use highly accurate forecasting and have sherpas set everything up for you ahead of time to set a "record". Today's climbers are weiners compared to Messner and the titans of the golden age.
@@adventurfly879 ok but most of these isolated and extremely difficult peaks that not even most of the most proficient and professional climbers dare to try are not loaded with sherpas or anything to do the job for them, the climbers themselves do all the job alone, they climb alone. It's already far too dangerous even for the most experienced climber to try to summit, do you think a sherpa is going to go there and help them? You should research the topic a bit more before commenting. These isolated and extremely dangerous and mostly vertical mountains are rarely climbed for various reasons, including the fact that they are so dangerous and difficult that most climbers outright refuse to even try to climb anything on them, sherpas are not on them to help anyone, the climbers are there all by themselves with no external help doing all the job alone. This is not an Everest vacation expedition where even people with no experience can go and climb, this is extreme hardcore climb for people who do not fear danger or death.
Accidentally watched some of this video at .75 speed and it genuinely sounds like when I used to listen to podcasts and suck down nitrous in my car, which was always parked. Is that your real speaking voice?
Did they ever find them?
I wonder where they went?
Down baby...down.
One time we went on this mountion with my dad (105ft) and now I have a Obsession with Mountains😂
Even though it’s spelled different than it’s pronounced, Chongabong is a cool sounding mountain!
Wong-staff and chong-a-bong? 😅 thats a prank name right?! Oh how i wish i was sporting that name😂
For a nominal fee, some paperwork, and an astronomical amount of inconvenience, you can too!
Oh no not the tragic turn for the worse …
For the algy 👊🏼
Scientists should look at the dna of mountaineers who keep climbing these high altitude mountains...even if they already lost fingers or toes on previous climbs. I mean there must be some significant difference somewhere. I for one already fear getting my food from the freezer and in no million years will seek the freezing cold up such a 8k mountain.
To be in the presence of such. Think of the pioneers of mountaineering
So the "disaster" was simply the most common cause of death for alpinists and two guys were involved? Jesus these channels are scraping the seabed at this point.
The word "circumnavigated" doesn't work in the context in which you used it. It would mean they don't deal with the highly varied and technical climbing sections but instead find some other way up, but obviously they do attack those sections as well which is why you were specific about the pitches in the first place.
Get over yourself.
I am not hung up on myself, just people saying things that dont make sense. @@joemadda
❤❤❤
Tom longstaff
Volumes a bit low for such a soft spoken story teller. Go easy on the vocal fry. I had to use the cc to follow the story.
The Shining Mountain.
Changa bang bang changa bang bang bang.
I wanted to watch this but the inflection at end of words is sooo distracting lol once you hear iT. You can’t un hEAr iTT lol
Stop playing that same music because you are giving me nightmares.
Chongabang woah black Betty
rip
Could you make a long video of just your voice, saying whatever? It is so soothing, it would help insomniacs! 🤷♀
I know it is dumb but I can’t stand the language around summiting and climbing. “Conquer” “battle”. Like, why don’t they say “honoured” “permitted” instead? The mountain isn’t out to do anything but be a mountain, and if climbers love and respect them so much why not use language that reflects that?
😂 thank you for reading my mini rant!
Love this coverage ❤🎉 thank you.
Chong the Bong
10 seconds of that voice and I'm done.
Too bad for you.
Are you INTENTIONALLY reading this to be sleep inducing? BOOO
I wonder if their mountains smell like trash too..
changabanga is also the sound they made while falling