What happened to Chantal Mauduit on Dhaulagiri?

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  • Chantal Mauduit was the 4th woman to climb K2. She was born in Paris, France. She had climbed six of the fourteen eight-thousander mountains. Chantal reached the summits of those mountains without the use of supplemental oxygen.
    She was rescued by Ed Viesturs and Scott Fischer on K2 in 1992. In 1995, near the South Summit of Everest, she lost consciousness, and was rescued and carried all the way down to the South Col by Rob Hall and other climbers. She died on Dhaulagiri, the world’s seventh highest mountain in May 1998 with her Sherpa Ang Tshering.
    This is her story.
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  • @AnnaLee33
    @AnnaLee33 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Thank you for this respectful video, mentioning things like her teenage years and the death of her mother, and her humanitarian interests.

  • @adler923
    @adler923 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Once again, you show me why you're my favorite high altitude climbing TH-cam channel. Thank you for the thoughtful and respectful video about someone I did not know about. You treat the subject seriously and I appreciate your attention to detail. You're the best!

  • @ligance
    @ligance ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The great Ed Viesturs' book had interesting passages on Chantal. He was of the opinion that she was climbing beyond her abilities, and often had to be rescued at great effort and danger to others. She would give 110% to get to the top and then would have perished many times over had she not been rescued. And then gave zero thanks afterwards, multiple times. Very selfish behavior, if his accounts are to be believed.

    • @dabneyoffermein595
      @dabneyoffermein595 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did the video say she tried Everest 8 times and never summited? If so, I've never heard of that, at least not in the oxygen era. So many rescues, really odd. what was she being rescued from? Viesturs might have a point if that were to be true (that she did not thank people for rescuing her.) Seems like if this Ed Viesters is to be believed, there would be more accounts of this. Please share your personal account of your time with Chantal if you have one, perhaps she was just a very complicated person, very shy, and not too gifted when it came to hardcore mountaineering the big-boys. She seems so at peace with her studies while on the mountain. I wish she would have submitted Mt. Everest.

    • @francoisfoue
      @francoisfoue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually, Ed had given up the ascent of K2 when Chantal reached the summit with a russian climber who reached the summit 2 hours after her (i have the complete story). Her vision problem came because her glasses had been crushed by a backpack in the last camp before the summit. One of Chantal's very close friend said that Ed was unhappy with Chantal because she had turned him down as a boy friend. True or not, I don't know but it is very plausible and would explain why Viestrus had this opinion about her. She also participated in rescue teams for other climbers like all people would do in such cases.

  • @sprkl5d
    @sprkl5d ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Another heartbreaking loss. Its so thoughful that you tell so much about the climbers especially those who died on the mountains. May Chantal rest in peace.

  • @crochetknit1845
    @crochetknit1845 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I like your way of describing the whole person, not just how they died. Please continue.

  • @laurabell48
    @laurabell48 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That video was very well put together with lots of details, thank you!

  • @victoriapendleton4099
    @victoriapendleton4099 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Men kept bailing her out. Obviously not strong enough

  • @normanmackenzie8130
    @normanmackenzie8130 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a lovely person chantal was... it it so saddening to know she is no longer with us. You have made a wonderfully respectful video of many female climbers, especially of a lovely free spirit that Chantal Mauduit was , may they all forever Rest in Peace.

  • @jeannekeweloh3359
    @jeannekeweloh3359 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nice video about the life of a courageous and inspiring woman, thank you! ❣️

  • @studebaker4217
    @studebaker4217 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thank you for telling us Chantal's story. Your prodigious research is, as usual on your channel, blended with huge respect for people and their value in inspiring the rest of us. Keep it up (I've just subscribed after all!).

  • @oldbat2ccats
    @oldbat2ccats ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the respect and honor with which you treat the subjects of your videos, watching the tributes and hearing her thoughts expressed coupled with the peaceful music and spectacular photography is stunning. Thank you.

  • @uberkloden
    @uberkloden ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fantastic climber, athlete. Like a fighter, bomber pilot in WW2, you only get so many chances. RIP.

  • @francoisfoue
    @francoisfoue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Actually, on K2, the other climbers had already given up their ascent on K2 before rescuing. She had become snow blind because of broken glasses crushed by a backpack inside a tent. Her climb of Lothse was the first solo woman climb. About Tibet, she cimbed to the top of Notre Dame's cathedral spire in Paris to put the tibetan flag a few days before the chinese prime minister visited France.

  • @tomashertz1155
    @tomashertz1155 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    It does not matter how prudent you are when climbing. You cannot control nature. You cannot predict the unpredictable. If you climb long enough and high enough, it becomes a numbers game, and her number came up. We constantly say that mountaineers die doing what they love. I always wonder what goes through their minds the second before their life is taken from them. Would they give back all their summits for extra time with loved ones, or would they think that this is the way it is meant to be? I climbed for ten years and only at moderate altitude. The more I learned to more concerned I became about the minefield of mountaineering. You don't have to go to the Himalayas to die at high altitudes. People die on Ben Nivis as well.

    • @dana102083
      @dana102083 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Im afraid the warming of the high peaks is going to increase a lot of disasters even more than already. So much can go wrong, glad you came to this conclusion early enough. 🙏

    • @AtomicB-zq2cw
      @AtomicB-zq2cw ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Of course it matters how prudent a climber is. They are much more likely to die if not prudent. You do not seem to know very much about how things work in general.

    • @sterlingmatsui154
      @sterlingmatsui154 ปีที่แล้ว

      I truly believe that Chantal would have chosen the exact climbing life-path depicted in this video, despite it costing her life~as would the majority of Alpiner Climbers☆☆☆...

    • @dana102083
      @dana102083 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@AtomicB-zq2cw but they said when it comes to nature.. Mature doesn't care how prudent you are. I get what you mean but also get what they mean.

    • @Loralanthalas
      @Loralanthalas ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah. You can die in a car wreck carrying a laptop to work. Give it long enough you'll be in an accident. It's just numbers and TOTAL and complete randomness of fate.

  • @keithireland6627
    @keithireland6627 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sometimes you need a friend to tell you to stop before you get killed great video.

    • @francoisfoue
      @francoisfoue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      impossible, I am the brother and there is nothing you can do about it when climbers reach such a passion and level

  • @disssmith3102
    @disssmith3102 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've never heard Chantal story. Thank you for telling me.

  • @jhors7777
    @jhors7777 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for posting this well researched and well presented video

  • @nicosmeets1709
    @nicosmeets1709 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Chantal left an eternal gift to our Sherpa people.

  • @risingwolf
    @risingwolf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ed Viesturs said that on Dhaulagiri Chantal's tent look drifted over, not smashed by an avalanche, which surely would have dislodged it from its platform. And the Italian who first tried to open the tent reported that it was slumped under drifted snow, not avalanche debris. The broken neck claim would not make sense as there was no evidence of an avalanche or a block of ice striking the tent. The official broken neck story leaves much doubt.

  • @ericastier1646
    @ericastier1646 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Finally you put subtitles in your video, it's absolutely needed with your incomprehensible voice.

    • @AnnaLee33
      @AnnaLee33 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      rude.

    • @ericastier1646
      @ericastier1646 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@AnnaLee33 It's not rude when it's true.

  • @kathduncan9618
    @kathduncan9618 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great story! Thank you.

  • @seabee73
    @seabee73 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Nice video and reflection of her life.

  • @mirceagabrielcirca807
    @mirceagabrielcirca807 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very touched by this story.❤❤❤

  • @joshthemediocre7824
    @joshthemediocre7824 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Hey at least she was a real climber. She died doing what she loved and probably wouldn't have wanted it any other way

  • @kevinbrooks1104
    @kevinbrooks1104 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This little girl, took on the world . Won some and lossed sum. You cannot deny her beauty. Her denial to use oxygen could have got herself killed 2x but she felt it would cause people to cast shade on her achievements

  • @georgiaknudsen5377
    @georgiaknudsen5377 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Twice people risked their lives to save her and then retrieval of body - selfish

    • @francoisfoue
      @francoisfoue 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually, on Everest, Fischer was there already and helped her down after she refused oxygen on south summit to reach the top since she wanted to make it without oxygen. On K2, climbers were there already as well. On the last camp, the day of the final climb, they were 4 climbers, including Viestrus who give up the ascent the day she made it to the top with a Russian climber who reached the summit 2 hours after her. On the way down, bad weather and blindness (because of broken glasses) came - all climbers were going down and she was rescued at camp 3. nobody gave up the summit for her and made it later that year because of bad weather

  • @shieldmaiden2660
    @shieldmaiden2660 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video as usual!

  • @hexadecimal7300
    @hexadecimal7300 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thankyou. Nicely done.

  • @peteraleksandrovich5923
    @peteraleksandrovich5923 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    People risking their lives to recover the body of a crap narcissist climber? Nauseating.

  • @junkequation
    @junkequation ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Hearing stories of climbing these extreme altitude mountains always strikes me as selfish and foolhardy. This woman survived several close calls and only survived because others decided saving her was more important than their own summit push which does not always happen.
    You're just placing yourself in absurdly dangerous situations that puts the lives of others at risk when you need rescue. And for what? Your own sense of accomplishment, I guess.
    I'm not impressed with people who summit these mountains. I think they're sort of assholes.

    • @rialachner1380
      @rialachner1380 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What you write is certainly correct. This woman lived like an eagle and probably also loved this incredible feeling of freedom up there in wild nature. She accepted the dangers for this. However, with Chantal it was obviously the case that she was an unusually strong woman who nevertheless ignored her physical limitations and naturally involved other mountaineers, some of whom repeatedly put their lives at risk because of her and/or gave up their own expedition - and from her According to witness statements, there was zero gratitude. She clearly had no natural fear, but also no natural consideration, empathy or real humanity. That is actually the downside.
      She was obviously extremely mentally robust! It's entirely conceivable that she was a narcissist. When you see her on videos, she is always full of happiness and has an unusual aura in addition to her external beauty. She knew how to consciously use this and use it for her own purposes - ice cold! My impression was that her all-male mountaineering colleagues loved her presence. It's still a miracle that they all survived.

  • @timgoodsell4053
    @timgoodsell4053 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent video.

  • @blueday4644
    @blueday4644 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video, thank you!

  • @sultanniazi2394
    @sultanniazi2394 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Terrible person. Ask the American climbers who saved her life on K2 and nearly died themselves and not even a thank you.

    • @mcciaccio
      @mcciaccio ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know some of those climbers and that is true.

  • @markjessurun7765
    @markjessurun7765 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good story however very Sad as usual if they die on a Mountain climbing because it's a DANGEROUS sport and Climbers should know when 2 stop climbing B 4 a mistake is made and they slip and fall 2 their Death !! 😢😢

  • @camitheweirdo
    @camitheweirdo ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank u for making live on the beautiful person that was my aunt

    • @vadimOK13
      @vadimOK13 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Шанталь Модюи твоя тётя? Круто. Я из Владивостока, интересуюсь туризмом.

  • @HankyDooDoo
    @HankyDooDoo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Karma got her after all, after what she did to Thor who saved her life in the past and she pretty much "spat at his face" for helping her. She used him because he loved her and she took advantage of it. I tought she was always trying to jump in every man's bed so they can do all the hard work for her and carry everything for her ,she manipulated men all the time. She had an evil soul and the person who made this video has not done a proper research about her, she had a very evil side to her which is not covered on this video

  • @JJ1_782
    @JJ1_782 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Did they also retrieve Ang tsherings body?

    • @rialachner1380
      @rialachner1380 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Good question. Nothing to hear about it. I noticed this immidiately. Something is wrong.

  • @polloloci21
    @polloloci21 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice. Bad luck😢

  • @SuperOlds88
    @SuperOlds88 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    How do you do an accurate autopsy after the deceased has been drug down a mountain probably not in the most gentle manner?

  • @TheDollyce
    @TheDollyce ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just ask rock climbers (like Alex Honnold) how many of their fellow rock climbers are still alive, and died climbing. The answer is staggering.

  • @GrisGato
    @GrisGato วันที่ผ่านมา

    Thor Kieser? never heard about it
    Black Widow? never heard about it

  • @hni7458
    @hni7458 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "It was not the right time...", no indeed it wasn't, and that's what's so fearsome. Whatever they do, and however good they are, an avalanche or loose rock can take them out in an instant - it's distressing to watch really. The route seems plain enough, but they are up against a Mountain - a very fickle female deity, according to the locals.

  • @phillipproussier3723
    @phillipproussier3723 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Mountains had warned her several times to stop climbing but she didn´t listen.

    • @Loralanthalas
      @Loralanthalas ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If we all heeded warnings our childhoods would be much more boring and most of human accomplishments would be gone.

    • @iluvmoney6767
      @iluvmoney6767 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Loralanthalas Hmmmmm.....boring but alive OR exciting but dead! Such a difficult choice!

  • @Ericstroman100
    @Ericstroman100 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why do people climb on such high places. Its crazy

  • @lisadolan689
    @lisadolan689 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🙏☺️

  • @Nick-Emery
    @Nick-Emery 12 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    I have just one question…. How do these people afford to do this stuff, are they so rich they don’t need to work and can travel around the world climbing?

  • @theresa42213
    @theresa42213 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My last name is Savoie. :)

  • @dabneyoffermein595
    @dabneyoffermein595 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What was her occupation? Was she married? What were her hobbies? We know so little about her. Please fill in the gaps if you could so kindly.....and thanks in advance.

    • @rialachner1380
      @rialachner1380 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chantal was only 33 years old - very young! I read or heard in one of the documentary videos that she was a physical therapist. But I think she barely had time to work on her job. If anything.. She probably wasn't married and didn't have any children.

  • @ObsidianFrog
    @ObsidianFrog ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a liability.........another example of a " strong wamon ".... How many men die saving their arses.

  • @sheilabloom6735
    @sheilabloom6735 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a beautiful woman, inside and out. What a heartbreak she got caught in an avalanche.

    • @iluvmoney6767
      @iluvmoney6767 ปีที่แล้ว

      My heart is broken!

    • @rialachner1380
      @rialachner1380 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chantal is said to have been NOT skinny on the inside, as it is said again and again by the most diverse and independent mountaineers who met her, who got to know her well and who sometimes saved her life. All of them received nothing but ingratitude. Apparently there is not a single dissenting voice. She is said to have been very self-centered, coldly calculating and manipulative in order to achieve all the things she thought she wanted. By the way, this also happens among men. Not too rare...

  • @JJ1_782
    @JJ1_782 ปีที่แล้ว

    She shudve stopped

  • @jamisbillson4872
    @jamisbillson4872 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So sad. A goddess amongst us.