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!
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.
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!).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 🙏
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.
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☆☆☆...
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 !! 😢😢
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
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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?
After a little research I can say that she used her sexuality to have Men do all the heavy lifting so she could travel light when climbing. A Man named Thor fell in love with her, risked his life on more than one occasion to save her life but she didn't love him back, she simply used Men after screwing them. Upon returning to Paris she never mentioned Thor and him risking his life to save her. The next time they met Thor said Hi! Her reply was, have we met? After some big lies to the French press she never mentioned the men that risked their lives to save her. She died on the Mountain along with the man she was with. Just desserts.
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...
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Thank you for this respectful video, mentioning things like her teenage years and the death of her mother, and her humanitarian interests.
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!
Thanks for your positive feedback.
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.
I like your way of describing the whole person, not just how they died. Please continue.
That video was very well put together with lots of details, thank you!
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!).
Nice video about the life of a courageous and inspiring woman, thank you! ❣️
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.
Chantal left an eternal gift to our Sherpa people.
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing her entire story. Not just her achievements, criticisms some have, and how she died.
I've never heard Chantal story. Thank you for telling me.
Fantastic climber, athlete. Like a fighter, bomber pilot in WW2, you only get so many chances. RIP.
Thank you for posting this well researched and well presented video
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.
Sometimes you need a friend to tell you to stop before you get killed great video.
impossible, I am the brother and there is nothing you can do about it when climbers reach such a passion and level
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.
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.
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.
Great story! Thank you.
Very touched by this story.❤❤❤
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.
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. 🙏
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.
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☆☆☆...
@@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.
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.
Thankyou. Nicely done.
Nice video and reflection of her life.
Great video, thank you!
Great video as usual!
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
Finally you put subtitles in your video, it's absolutely needed with your incomprehensible voice.
rude.
@@AnnaLee33 It's not rude when it's true.
@@ericastier1646How come I can understand him perfectly but you can't. Is the problem him or you?
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.
Twice people risked their lives to save her and then retrieval of body - selfish
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
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.
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 !! 😢😢
Hey at least she was a real climber. She died doing what she loved and probably wouldn't have wanted it any other way
Thank u for making live on the beautiful person that was my aunt
Шанталь Модюи твоя тётя? Круто. Я из Владивостока, интересуюсь туризмом.
Excellent video.
How do you do an accurate autopsy after the deceased has been drug down a mountain probably not in the most gentle manner?
Nice. Bad luck😢
Did they also retrieve Ang tsherings body?
Good question. Nothing to hear about it. I noticed this immidiately. Something is wrong.
Just ask rock climbers (like Alex Honnold) how many of their fellow rock climbers are still alive, and died climbing. The answer is staggering.
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
It is as if every mountain climber will not die of old age but take their last breaths on a mountain..before 40
Thor Kieser? never heard about it
Black Widow? never heard about it
Mountains had warned her several times to stop climbing but she didn´t listen.
If we all heeded warnings our childhoods would be much more boring and most of human accomplishments would be gone.
@@Loralanthalas Hmmmmm.....boring but alive OR exciting but dead! Such a difficult choice!
People risking their lives to recover the body of a crap narcissist climber? Nauseating.
Men kept bailing her out. Obviously not strong enough
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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.
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.
"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.
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Why do people climb on such high places. Its crazy
Terrible person. Ask the American climbers who saved her life on K2 and nearly died themselves and not even a thank you.
I know some of those climbers and that is true.
One was russian i heard, but he left them coz not ready to risk his life
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.
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.
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?
After a little research I can say that she used her sexuality to have Men do all the heavy lifting so she could travel light when climbing. A Man named Thor fell in love with her, risked his life on more than one occasion to save her life but she didn't love him back, she simply used Men after screwing them. Upon returning to Paris she never mentioned Thor and him risking his life to save her. The next time they met Thor said Hi! Her reply was, have we met? After some big lies to the French press she never mentioned the men that risked their lives to save her. She died on the Mountain along with the man she was with. Just desserts.
My last name is Savoie. :)
What a beautiful woman, inside and out. What a heartbreak she got caught in an avalanche.
My heart is broken!
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...
What a liability.........another example of a " strong wamon ".... How many men die saving their arses.
She shudve stopped
So sad. A goddess amongst us.
She was a blight on the climbing community!