Annapurna: High Peaks and Dangerous Treks on the World's Deadliest Ascent
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Simon, can you make a video about K2? Please and thank you.
I did the Annapurna circuit in November 2001. It was just myself, another female, one porter, and a guide. Everyone else chose to not go because it was just after 9-11 and people were still afraid to travel. It was great that, not only were we a tiny group, but there were very few other groups too. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.
I got a lot of respect for those hardcore mountaineers! It's one of m biggest dreams to climb a 8k one day... But my physical conditions are so bad that I would need a year of constant training to even try such a adventure. Probably even more 😅 hope it was as great as you expected it to be!
Well done mate!
You should write up a trip report! I love reading or watching people's adventures. It inspires my own. Everyone should step out of thier comfort zone and experience something like this. I haven't scaled any 8k peaks, highest was 2k, but have rode jet skis in the gulf of Alaska, done many weeks long hikes ect.
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Crazy to me that that's how scared 9/11 had people, considering that even flying on 9/11 would've been less likely to kill you than climbing this mountain. I flew around that time as a kid (a wedding that couldn't be postponed), but I wouldn't climb this mountain even if I were given enough money to never have to worry again
Trekked to annapurna sanctuary few months ago.Seeing this mountain upclose is something else
I agree, I did the Annapurna circuit in 1991. Spent three weeks doing day walks from manang to various glaciers, viewpoints and alpine lakes. Saw the entire north face of Annapurna IIII drop off in an utterly immense avalanche. Absolutely eye-popping.
It’s like Rohan from Lotr but 1000x more epic ❤
Yesss, the Simon and Co. bombardment begins!
8am pacific time is my favorite part of the day
1:45 - Chapter 1 - The massif
2:30 - Chapter 2 - The dangers of annapurna
3:55 - Chapter 3 - Nepal reopens its borders
5:25 - Mid roll ads
6:55 - Chapter 4 - Summiting annapura (1950)
12:05 - Chapter 5 - A tale of two mountaineers
14:15 - Chapter 6 - Trekking annapurna
15:55 - Chapter 7 - Disaster at annapurna 2014
18:10 - Chapter 8 - Modern day concerns
- Chapter 9 -
- Chapter 10 -
Ed Viesturs has an interesting story of his ascent of Annapurna. He said they had to straddle this tiny ridge and scoot on their buts their way up toward the summit because of the route they decided to take. It’s crazy that even today with all the advancements in high altitude mountaineering that this beast was successfully climbed in 1950, before Everest and K2 yet it still remains the deadliest of all the 8kers.
Actually the straddle and scoot up the dangerous 14 meter summit ridge was for the summit of Shishapangma. The summit of Annapurna is a final snowbump at the end of a long 4000 foot snowfield. This is all described in Ed Viesturs: The Will to Climb | Nat Geo Live which you can watch here on TH-cam. I figured you've already seen it but probably have gotten the names mixed up.
That straddling was actually on Shishapangma. The straddling was required to reach the true summit.
His ascent of Annapurna however was still interesting, because he also climbed along with two Italians who he had dubbed the Mario Brothers. They were always smoking cigarettes and traded food with Ed and Veikka. Once Ed and Veikka summited, they wanted to get down as fast as they could. They lost sight of their willow wands during a whiteout, as Annapurna would not let them go. Annapurna was Ed's nemesis, and his last 8000m peak required.
This was all mentioned from Ed's book, The Will to Climb. But all in all, read all of his books instead. His book on K2 is by far my most favorite.
I met Ed and heard him speak at a sales conference many years ago. His accomplishments are an incredible testament to commitment to a goal and its execution. He is a very intelligent climber and “reads” mountains and conditions incredibly well. Why he is alive to tell about it. He knows when to retreat and not let his vanity create a dangerous situation in those hostile environments.
Oh yes! One of these for each of the 8000ers please!! :D
K2: The Savage mountain? That's definitely one to cover
Dhaulgiri I was mentioned in this video and, as it turns out, is not unclimbable
The story of Herman Buhl, the first man to summit the 'Killer Mountain' (Nanga Parbat) is also worth making a video about! Only person to be the first to summit an 8000er and the first to do it solo at the same time. He lost a crampon on the way down and had to bivouac overnight on a ledge, standing up and holding onto the rock to avoid plummeting to his death.
Only cover Everest if you're going to do the Rainbow Valley, and the story of Green Boots, who people simply stepped over instead of helping, and used his corpse as a landmark for years.
@@Skorpychan I think he has and he did mention the rainbow valley and Green boots in his video
All of those are fantastic video ideas.
In 2000 I trekked the circuit it was the most uplifting of experiences, 2002 I walked up to the Sanctuary an equally as beautiful an experience, I believe there is now a paved road by the side of the entire circuit trek, but the Sanctuary is still by foot only. The Nepalese government is trying at last to modernize the interior of the country for the benefit of the people so if you want to see it as it was, go soon.
Possibly in the Biographics channel a feature about Reinhold Messner the first person to climb all 8000m peaks all with out supplementary oxygen and without massive support teams.
Ok, so I solo trekked the Annapurna circuit in 1991. No porters and with a guide map sketched for me on the back of a napkin lol. It took me a total of 22 days but I also wound up spending about 10 days up in a Tibetan village near Manang and the chief took a bit of a shine to me and let one of his kids guide me up some of the yak trails on some (pretty extreme) day walks. Pretty sure at one stage there I got to about 5600 metres above sea level. Possibly more. I wound up spending the best part of a year living and trekking in the Indian and Nepalese Himalayas. Spent a winter there too. Nothing can truly describe it adequately. After trekking through fog and picking leeches off my skin for a week The first glimpse I got of them was on the morning of my 22nd birthday when I woke up and went outside for a pee and I looked up at what I thought was a bank of clouds then with a shock realised it was a mountain range and then the pre dawn sun bathed them with alpenglow. Glorious. Glorious. Glorious. While doing a solo day walk up an isolated valley at the base of Annapurna IIII I heard a long rumble of thunder and looking up witnessed the entire north face of the mountain flake off into what I can only describe as a monster avalanche. Thought I was screwed for a bit there lol.
I grew up in the mountains in victoria and also the Aussie outback and so I have an immense respect as well as a healthy caution for nature. Sadly many people nowadays don’t have any idea about it but the Himalayas must be treated with respect. And planning! What saved me is I had a really good parka, and critically, a really, really good sleeping bag that I paid a fortune for. It saved my life or at least my toes on more than one occasion and I still have it to this day.
The best way to view trekking the Himalayas, is that you are traversing the wrinkled face of an ancient god.
It’s an experience you will never forget….
Very cool story!
What did you work as to afford a 1 year jolly around Nepal at that age?
@@colz848 I started work as an apprentice boilermaker at the age of 15. By the age of 19 I was a tradesman and to train for the Himalayas I disdained using the site lift on a 35 storey building I was working on and used the stairs. Which included hauling E size bottles of oxygen and acetylene up them. By the time I was 21 I’d saved up about 28,000 AUD which I then blew over a glorious two years of fun and adventure throughout south east and west Asia. It wasn’t all fun and games. Was 193 cms tall and 115 kilos of muscle when I left australia. After several bouts of dysentery and one of cholera I lost nearly half my body weight….
@@planetdisco4821 I guess you then did creative writing at uni before becoming Australia's first astronaut 🤣
@@colz848 nah mate, I’m 53 now and I have spent the last 35 years working in either mines, oil rigs or high rise construction as a rigger. But yeah, I still go and do stupid things like zip lining in Laos or solo kayaking between islands in the Andaman sea. But it’s the Himalayas stuff I remember the best. I actually have thought about writing about my time there, but I’d like to go back first and sort of book-end my experiences there with an older (although not necessarily wiser lol) perspective…
First heard about this when watching the documentary on Nims Purja. That guy is one of the baddest men alive.
While we're on the topic of tall and deadly mountains, could we possibly get a future video on K2? I feel like that would make an interesting video.
K2 is the god of all mountains. Everest is a high altitude landfill and amusement park ride (with the long lines to match).
I was waiting for you to do one on Annapurna. Next: Nanga Parbat!
Ah. Mountaineering! Maybe a story about Reinhold Messner's Everest climb without supplemental oxygen? And the mystery of Mallory and Irvine's attempt and fate in 1924...?
Love anything about mountaineering! Have you thought about a story on K2? A more challenging, deadlier, only slightly shorter Everest that has a rather interesting bit of history around the name (or lack thereof)
Have you watched 14 Peaks? The K2 section was really interesting.
@@archstanton6102 not yet! But it is on my list
I've never understood risking life and limb to haul my a$$ up a mountain. I think that a year (planned well in advance) should be scheduled where no tourists are allowed up Everest. The only people allowed that year should be those who are cleaning up the crap left by decades of misuse. I know that would be a major hit to their tourist trade in the short term, but in the long term it may provide a better experience for future tourists.
Here in the North Cascades, many peaks are basically just a day trek with some glacier travel and scrambling
Great way to get out for exercise and unparalleled views not seen anywhere else
@@KulshanStudios That actually sounds like fun, but it's more hiking than anything else. I enjoy hiking.
@@amb163 yes and no. Here it's more like pure Alpinism - Himalayan expeditionary style climbing is a whole other big thing. It's a bit antithetical to the approach we take in the PNW. We use the same skills and core gear the Everest crowd does, but we adhere to Leave No Trace philosophy, so we climb fast and light and half the time, no one would know anyone even set foot there - many of our peaks are even more technical and difficult than Everest, if you can believe it. But a lot of them are also just hikes with more ice 😅
Actually, Simon, if you ever do focal pieces about specific people from history on one of your channels, Fred Beckey is a totally underrated, yet legendary figure who deserves more attention. Dude's almost a myth
@@KulshanStudios Completely agree on Fred, that would be a great video
if they are willing to risk there lives let them they know the risks before they climb up that mountain then there willing to pay the consequences
Great video Simon. Climbing mountains is one thing I would never do.
You are a wonder , Simon. The world is better for having you .
Watch "14 Peaks" to see real bravery, determination and climbing skills. A Nepali climbing the 14 highest peaks in record time.
Nims Purja is an absolute legend.
Brilliant watch 10/10 🖒
Simon, you should do more natural disasters. El Reno tornado is a good one. The earthquake that ripped Mongolia or another hurricane like Katrina. God bless.
I’d love to see a video about the Mongolia earthquake, a quake so powerful, it ripped a scar right in the earth
Pretty sure he's done Katrina, not sure if it was this channel or another (hard to keep track).
Excellent presentation Sir ! Thank You
You should cover all the eight thousanders (14 in total). I'd love to see K2 explored
Thanks Simon. I will hopefully trek the Annapurna region fall this year!
Have fun, it's a great tour!
If you need a friend to help you remember me. Tq for your love for my country
Update please! 😅
@@MisterPlanePilot I posted the update 8 months ago 😊
Thanks for another great video!
I hope you are safe factboi.
Love that we now have a dedicated intro sweater
Thank you for sharing!
Your work ethic is inspiring my guy
I would love to visit Nepal, but I'm more into seeing the culture, landscapes & temples than climbing dangerous peaks.
I did the Everest base camp hike with my boxing club, that's a great trip to see everything you want. You still need a relatively good standard of fitness because of the altitude.
Early on one of these for once, great video 🙌
Simon's already done a vid - can't remember which channel - on tourist attractions that have been totally ruined purely because of the number of tourists they attracted, the erosion they caused and the associated rubbish they left behind. I'd hate to see these magnificent mountains added to the list.
Top Tenz a year ago. 10 amazing places that no longer exist because tourists destroyed them.
TopTenz?
If feel like I can add half of my state to that list.
@@sandybarnes887 - thank you!
@@franl155 you are most welcome
Good video 👍
I like the technical comment.about Annapurna. “It’s usually freezing”. 🤔 Useful information.
I did the Annapurna base camp trek, great experience.
An interesting Geographics channel story would be to do one on tsunamis that were in bays, caused by landslides, such as Lituya Bay, etc. These sometimes tear into forests upwards of thousands of meters! A few are recent enough to have living witness tales and are very interesting and exciting to hear about.
I love climbing .. its self control & self punishment, its a ride that your so focused one you forget what you have done as soon as your back down.
The legend and hero of the Everest air disaster of 96 anatoli boukreev died on Annapurna
Annapurna is the name of the goddess who provides food and nutrition in Hinduism
Annapurna is scary.
The mountain in the Himalayas that gives me nightmares is Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. Nanga Parbat looms over a very pretty place called "Fairy Meadows". But the mountain itself looks like a bunch of raggedy fangs hungrily chomping away while hoping some fool will be clueless enough to try and climb it.
The whole mountain on every side is practically a straight up and down wall with no place to stop and rest. Unless you like just dangling over a sheer thousands of meters drop.
Usually I enjoy watching mountain climbing videos; but not the ones for Annapurna and especially, Nanga Parbat.
You should also make video on kailash.Its also interesting
Ah, this must be the K2 waiting room :D
You could do a video on K2, arguably also a pretty dangerous mountain in the same category. Mountains like this are super scary in a very unique way, but so fascinating. The accounts of the accident survivors on Everest and others are quite chilling.
According to 8000er Everest has a 5% fatality rate & Annapurna has a 37.91%. Cho Oyo remains the lowest of the 8k peaks at 1.46%. Look up "ALL 8000ers - ASCENTS vs FATALITIES"
There is a peak called Indrasan only 10 people have summited that peak.. i want to see a video on the Himalayas 😍
Mountaineers have. Notoriously big egos. Therefore their accounts often wildly differ,
Beware. I summitted Annapurna and never returned. Been up here for the past 10 years bro. 😢
Rest in peace to those that passed away.
I'm trying to climb all 8000m peaks. I think there is going to be a sharp up tick in deaths. I've been climbing 6000 and 7000m peaks and I climbed Manaslu and Dhaulagiri which were really important for me to gain experience. There are so many more people trying to summit the 8000ers now and they have little to no experience and they don't train very hard either.
All but gankhar i imagine?
@@user-co1gi7yd2r gannkhar isn't an 8000er
@@user-co1gi7yd2r it's also illegal to summit
@@CodyBunker i know but you said 6k and 7k. Thats why i said all but
@@user-co1gi7yd2r i have been climbing 6 and 7s. But I'm not attempting all of them. It would be amazing to climb Gankhar. I am hoping to get permission to climb Nanda Devi but this might be impossible to obtain.
Hey man really nice video but my only critic point is that I don't understand the American measurements. Pls consider using metric as well. You could just make a little site note in the corner with meters. That would be great!
I’ve watched many of your videos, and I love them. And this particular one on Annapurna seems to me to be the best on that deadly but fascinating mountain.
However, and since English is not my native language, I would like, if possible, that you could speak in a somehow slower pace. In this video you are speaking at vertiginous speed, positively.
But thank you very much, still the same.
I jus follow Simon on the internet 🖖😁
Interesting
Can you do one on Triglav in Slovenia?
As an amatuer climber, I wish I was in good enough shape to climb all these cool mountains in the Himalayans, but alas I'll get to stick to still awesome but less extreme mountains ^^
You are welcome. There are other mountains too . More the experience more the chance.
I fell in love with mountains too but im not in a very good shape so what we can do is go to very excluded mountains for that sense of accomplishment
Kinda crazy that they considered the expedition a "success" when people lost all their fingers. It's a mountain for christ's sake, not a war. And this comes from an avid outdoorsman.
Simon your beard is more magnificent than ever. It's distracting. Like, wow mountains!.... Simon's beard! 😳🥰
Bring up K2 at some point?
Another far more dangerous mountain than everest 🗻
While Annapurna’s fatality rate is truly 32%, Mt Everest’s fatality rate is far below 1%… not 14%. Not sure where your numbers are coming from.
5.7 according to 8000er.
Death rates or mortality rates are calculated in different ways. One way, which is where Annapurna’s 32% comes from is the ratio of deaths to successful summits. Annapurna has over 70 deaths and only 220 successful Summits. Everest has over 4000 successful summits and about 300 deaths, which is where your 7% comes from. The higher rate is based on the number of deaths compared to the number of “expeditions“ attempted. An expedition on Everest could have anywhere from 5 to 30 people. If a single person in an expedition dies, then the death rate to expeditions would be 1 to 1. Everest has had about 2000 expeditions, and 300 deaths, which is where the 14% number comes from. Since Annapurna‘s expeditions generally are still 1 to 4 people maximum, then their deaths to expedition ratio is very similar to the deaths to successful summits ratio. As a function of the number of people who die compared to the number of people who attempt to climb Everest, above base camp, Everest death rate is roughly 1% or less. When people hear death rate they think the number of people dying compared to the number of people trying, and so 14% is terribly misleading.
@@donsheffler 14% could also come from the common deaths to successful summits ratio, which for Everest was close to 14% at the end of 1999, which is where a number of sites' statistics end.
Could you do a Megaprojects on the British colonization of India, from Company Rule to the British Raj up to the Second World War, maybe with a companion Warographics vid about the Anglo-Nepalese War that you mention here and an Into the Shadows video on the Great Game, the Anglo-Afghan Wars and Russian imperial expansion into Central Asia? Assuming none of this has been covered already, of course.
done it at 21
According to Google the death rate on Mt Everest is about 1% over the last 30 years. Where on earth do you get 14.1% fatality rate?
"vertigo notebooks" is such a metal name wow
Can you please do a video about reinhold Messner?
Tell the story of the mountain Eiger and what happened to Toni Kurz, that's pretty chilling, no pun intended
Can you do a Geographics about K2
What about Kanchenjunga?
All said with one breath
Mount Everest is a climb for tourists, Annapurna and K2 are where the real mountain climbers go.
Mt Washington in New Hampshire has a lot of deaths, over 100, yet its only 6,388 ft tall.
how is this guy in so many yt channels
Banqiao Dam Collapse video please?
What's at the top of the mountain? A very long drop down, I'll stay at the base of it thanks......... :S
nah let me correct you
it's anna and purna
anna means food
purna means fullfil
so Annapurna is the goddess which provides you food.
Interesting speed + accent of commentator!
we climb mountains, because they are there...
This mountain is small shear height this mountain is smaller than multiple peaks in WA
I would have thought the trashing of Everest would have made the Nepalese modify procedures.🗿
When the Brexit negotiations started, I noted that a book about Annapurna was part of the diplomatic gift exchange. I thought it was an attempt at some kind of subtle message.
This video should be about K2
It's not called the Death Zone for nothing, 8,000 + ? You're beggin' for it !
Sydney Opera House
I could climb it, but need supplemental Taco Bell...
If a narrator has a rate of speech you don’t like, change the playback speed, you namby-pamby BEE-ITCH.
This had to be said.
K2 and K1 bro
Why the wharp speed presentation????????????????
It’s probably not the deadliest anymore. There were a shit ton of summits this year and few deaths so the rate is going to drop drastically. K2 is probably the new deadliest mountain by rate. However the Dutch Rub is inaccessible because a serac broke off, so we’re back to major avalanche threats on the west ridge.
Bro Annapurna has more death rate than k2..
Annapurna is definitely more tough and deadly than k2
As most mouaineers will say, getting up there is the easiest part. Then the party really starts.
Lol dextroamphetamine is my ADHD med
Let's be honest. Herzog didn't actually write the book without fingers did he.
I think Everest’s fatality rate is much lower than that. Last I read it was in the single digits.
It greatly depends on when the statistics are taken from. I found some statistics by decade:
Before 1960: 6 summits, 13 deaths (217%)
1960-1969: 18 summits, 7 deaths (38.9%)
1970-1979: 78 summits, 28 deaths (35.9%)
1980-1989: 183 summits, 59 deaths (32.2%)
1990-1999: ~900 summits, 60 deaths (~6.7%)
2000-2009: ~2,000 summits, 50 deaths (~2.5%)
2010-2019: ~3,000 summits, 89 deaths (~3%)
Some sites' statistics ended after the 1999 climbing season, when the overall death rate would have stood at about 13.5%. One thing that makes the calculation tricky is the difficulties in determining how to count. If someone successfully climbs Everest three times, do they count as one or three summits? Some sites only count each person once, regardless of the number of summits they made. And if a climber dies of a heart attack at base camp, should that be counted against the death rate? Regardless, though, the death rate nosedived in the 90s. Still too high for me to want to try it, though.
Napal and Tibet*
Next time you're going to say something about the state of waste disposal on a mountain perhaps you should read the firsthand accounts of people who've been there and not press reports by people who haven't. If you had you'd know that Everest, more properly known as Chomolungma or Sagarmatha, is not a New Jersey style Superfund site.
No "Thumbs-up" for you today.
I am a bit annoyed, that i have to translate all the Feet into meters, but aside from that, very cool. More mountains please!
First man up Annapurna 1 true summit was a smoking plumber from England don whillans with no oxygen
everytime, simon says Nepol, i am going to lose my head. it is spelled NEPAL hence it is ne-pal. Why is English so complicated for native speaker 😉
You talk to fast man 🙂 aloe down and ors perfect👍
Dont climb mountains for glory!!
Humans can't go anywhere without turning an area to slag.
Simon should quit the fact boy game and start a mountaineering channel
Why?
Love watching videos about the Himalaya/Karakorum ranges. But it drives me nuts when the content creators put so many images of OTHER Himalayan peaks in there. Sure, most people don't know the difference. But those who are truly fascinated by and educated about these lofty summits know that many of the images aren't of the peaks aren't correct. It can be QUITE distracting and detrimental to the true appreciation of the content. After all... people like me watch the videos because we want to see images of the actual mountains being discussed. Anyways... I do appreciate the work put in to create these videos. But the researchers/creators of these videos could do a better job than they do.
Not for me. I like my fingers