K2 Abruzzi Ridge Documentary
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- K2 filmed in first person by Japanese climber follows the June 2018 Expedition of K2's spectacular Abruzzi Ridge/ Abruzzi Spur route in detailed discovery of what it takes to summit the worlds second highest mountain.
-------Abruzzi Ridge/Spur Route--------
The standard route of ascent, used far more than any other route (75% of all climbers use this route) is the Abruzzi Spur, located on the Pakistani side, first attempted by Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi in 1909. This is the southeast ridge of the peak, rising above the Godwin-Austen Glacier. The spur proper begins at an altitude of 5,400 metres (17,700 ft), where Advanced Base Camp is usually placed. The route follows an alternating series of rock ribs, snow/ice fields, and some technical rock climbing on two famous features, "House's Chimney" and the "Black Pyramid." Above the Black Pyramid, dangerously exposed and difficult to navigate slopes lead to the easily visible "Shoulder", and thence to the summit. The last major obstacle is a narrow couloir known as the "Bottleneck", which places climbers dangerously close to a wall of seracs that form an ice cliff to the east of the summit. It was partly due to the collapse of one of these seracs around 2001 that no climbers summitted the peak in 2002 and 2003.
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The man who is fells name is Serge Dessureault - a firefighter from Montreal. What you see in the video is part of his equipment that fell after him.
Oh thank god. I was hoping that wasn’t the man himself that was falling. That’s something I don’t want to see.
Yes.
@@smitty8254 Well he still felt, just wasnt shown in the vid, probably because of UA-cam Regulations. RIP
@@bengarms9873 I’m aware he still fell. I was just happy we didn’t have to see it.
Thank you for the name !
No music, only panting. this is probably one of the finest mountaineering videos. Thank you
I agree. The panting brings home how hard they are working. It sounds almost desperate and when you hear the breathing and see the steepness of the pitch, you don’t need anyone telling you how hard this is. It speaks for itself.
seriously, so peaceful to watch. I love the crunch of the snow, climbing gear and wind. makes it feel very authentic and genuine
@@S0ulinth3machin3Totally crazy. Despair is quite fitting. Crazy! People don't belong there.
How music could completely ruin this!! Thank you for not.
Truely incredible and amazing footage. Many thanks for the two climbers who provided the footage. It’s not until you see this kind of footage that you begin to understand how bloody difficult and treacherous this mountain is! Thank you for not spoiling it with elevator music but simply the raw footage. Cheers,
I can't wrap my head around the fact that people like Rienhold Messner summited all 14 of the 8s alone and without oxygen. It seems likely that he was the one who crash landed in Roswell coming from another planet.
This are only the preparatory stage for acclimatization. It gets very difficult & dangerous, especially at the very top, where there is a small mountain of seracs just hanging over the little bottleneck passage, which is the only way in.
In 2008, an expedition of international climbers suffered 11 KIA out of 18. 9 of these casualties were directly caused by ice avalanches
Yes, except for that it is all rope assisted. 99% aerobic and 1% skill. That is if you want to refer to clipping in and out of carabiners as “skill”.
@@AtomicB-zq2cwsettle down. As if you could do it yourself or something lol 🤡🤦♂️😂
Mountain climbing takes a special person. Someone I’m not and never will be. Thank You for letting me ride along.
The GoPro really provides context on how effing steep this mountain is. Respect.
During the 2008 expedition, falling seracs killed 9 out of 18 climbers, with 2 more climbers perishing in unrelated incidents, bringing the deal toll to 11. Serac field at 31:24 & 28:53
Breath-taking from the beginning. A true privilege to follow this climber. Sad for the guy who felt off and the Japanese climber who didn't came back, as many others... K2 is just off the charts
Not really. Any jackass can cling to a fixed rope all the way to the top. It is more about physical conditioning than climbing ability once you penetrate to 8,000 meters and above.
@@wapiti3750 any jackass so... Also you?
@@wapiti3750 I have a feeling you don't know anything about climbing a 8,000m mountain so please go ahead and delete your comment 😂😂😂😂
@@wapiti3750 wow your ignorance is off the charts
@@flyhigh8113 yeah and this man seems like went without 02 until camp 2(hence the panting )
It's so terrifying seeing the sheer power of this mountain and mother nature. I am glad you were blessed with good weather and a successful climb. It is truly an incredible feat
In total awe of the porters who go up there without ropes to fix ropes for the mountaineers. They are the true champions.
I’m not a climber but I assure you they use ropes too.
Yes they are! If they didn't pave the way most of these expeditions would fail. There would be many more deaths. Everyone talks about the sherpas, who deserve the credit they get, and then some. But no one mentions the porters. And they do the lion's share of the work. For *pennies.* All while being abused, physically, verbally. Some of these climbers that you look up to are some mean, abusive, a**holes.
Sure, the ropes climb always up first and than they fix themself and call the climbers 😂 @@jbvap
champions of what? killing themselves? so senseless...
This channel continues to blow my mind. Absolutely the best quality footages of mountaineering! Thank you so much for that.
Stressed me out just watching this. Love it.
Just… wow. I don’t have any of words, just incredible admiration.
One of the best doc. I have ever seen. Congratulations
I've been watching movies, other video's pictures & articles for more than a decade and this is y far the best I've ever seen. Finally "The Chimney and the Serac up close as they are. I finally understand how steep it is there. Fantastic video and journey. Thank you fro sharing it. God Bless those who have lost their lives on this Mountain. Stay Safe Brother.
Touching the void is my favorite.
This is the most extreme and dangerous sport. I love watching it but will never do it in a million years. Respect the climbers...
Climbing videos rarely show the descent, but that is what I'd dread the most out of this climb.
Yeah decent is always more fraught on any mountain. When climbing your centre of gravity is at least rotating you towards the physical face of the mountain so for any trip, slip or imbalance you will almost immediately correct it hand with minimum effort whereas on descent c of g is rotating you forward so any mishap will immediately set you off on an uncontrolled fall unless you catch it immediately.
I read Bonatti's account of his experience during the first ascent and the difficulties are just so understated! Had no idea it was so technical. Thanks for sharing this great footage.
Nope
I hope people know you made it look easy. Believe me, this man is in the best shape of his life, and he knows it .enough said
This is the best video of climbing that I have seen till date. I am obsessed with Himalayas and have seen tons of videos but this one is raw and most beautiful. Thank you
Glad you liked it!
This is the Karakoram not the Himalayas! Great video none the less!
Not the Himalaya though, Karakoram
It's good but you don't watch many documentaries on this subject eh ? Lol ...theres an incredible amount of good documentaries on this
@@killlr0ynot in first person view like this one there isn’t. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
Unbelievable !! Each and everyone of these men have more strength, bravery, and guts than I could EVER have !!! I'm so in awe !!
Women too - Lisa Thomson took part of the video at around 29:15
It looks a challenging scramble and makes me wonder how difficult it was for those who initially roped the route.
Imagine Bill House looking around and finding the Chimney and deciding to go for it.
yea how long does that guide rope stay there?
The serpas go ahead and plant them, the most skilled natural climbers in the world.
Is everyone using the same rope to get up? Those others ones look so worn and old
Réal Life audio was just awesome. It chills to think it’s the same way down!
This is amazing GoPro footage.
Really dig the raw footage. It makes it feel like you are there climbing with them.
I can't imagine the kind of drive it takes to do something like this. Grateful others are adventurous enough to do it and share their experience.
Great perspective. Nice without a lot of editing and voiceovers. The double ladder looked insane.. Totally broken and tangled in some spots and nowhere to go but straight up! Damn
I love videos like this! It keeps you on the edge of your seat.You almost feel like you're there.
Outstanding footage. You really realize how you have to be in amazing shape to pull off such a climb.
What an incredible achievement! And holy sh*t those seracs are terrifying.
Seeing all those broken and tangled ropes must be terrifying!
I'm a drifter backpacker, retired, ex, two children. Doing great thanks to their mom. This is the best show today. Just sayings.
I can cook pretty good at knots, clean freak.
What an accomplishment. Simply amazing.
Yes it was!
I'm only a little bit in, but this is the closest, I think, we can come to climbing a badass mountain without actually doing it. Shout out to you brave souls, but how I love my comfy chair right now!
Thank you so much for sharing part of your climb. This is by far the best I’ve seen. So personal and true.
Congratulations
Glad you enjoyed it!
The pitch is absolutely insane!
This looked incredibly hard and treacherous. Now imagine doing it in a blizzard with the wind howling at 100kph.
I want to thank you for sharing your valuable, exhilarating and amazing experience with us all, it has to be one of the best I've seen on UA-cam. Thank you!
I don't understand the physics of how crampons stick to ice, or how snow doesn't just detach from the mountain at any moment and slide you down with it! Or for that matter how they know that one of those rocks they pull themselves up with isn't actually a large stone that isn't fixed to the mountain face. I guess it's experience, but it's mind blowing how they have a feel for all this.
All that with thin freezing cold air at what is it 20 k feet up a mtn .its crazy but awesome
crampons doesn't stick they just sink into the ice and they get stuck inside it, and with that we can walk on a glacier without slipping.
also the all the snow particles are sticking to each other thx to the star shape. and when the conditions are just not good, like when the shape of the snow flakes bad for example or when the slopes is too steep the snow can't handle this stress and a avalanche can start
You'll cover friction in your high school physics class
@@wailer27 that’s only a tiny aspect of what affects those things.. seems you don’t understand either!
Thank you for sharing such a detailed video of your step-by-step journey. It was almost as if I was climbing there.
He didn't credit the climber..it's a Japanese climber..I think he should say who's video it is
K2 looks like a real life horror film. So much potential for death. Much respect to those that have conquered the Savage Mountain.
Exactly what I was thinking!
They're not conquering the mountain. They're just going up and down it. Do you claim you conquered a building or an apartment when climbing up steps when you climb a staircase in a stairwell? Your doing the same thing. Going up and down it.
@@brandonsavitski Except a wrong move on a staircase rarely results in death. And there are no hidden crevasses in staircases. And there is no risk of avalanches on a staircase. And there is no risk of freezing to death on a staircase. And so on. Give credit where credit's due. They are brave and risk their lives so they can admire the brutal beauty of mother nature.
@@brandonsavitski Had absolutely no idea you were the official owner of language and expression.
CONQUER:
“to deal with or successfully fight against a problem or an unreasonable fear”
So errr yeah, he conquered it.
@@brandonsavitskiI live in a two-story home. And yes, every time I get to the 2nd floor, I ponder about how I just conquered that inferior staircase. I dominate that staircase. In fact I'm about to dominate it right now.
Just imagine. Someone had to get there with out ropes. Respect to those who did so who climbed them can achieve the same
20 years ago i read books about mountaineering. I was fascinated. Now with youtube, i see that in fact most climbers are not climbing mountains, they're climbing fixed ropes. Lame!
@@alandauer8005 that's what fascinated me. Pickaxes and two man crews. Watching these videos online when people have sherparas and crew setting up for them days or weeks in advance and climbing mountains with refixed ropes and routes planned like walkways, they may have climed these peaks. But they are no match to the people before them. I couldn't even imagine what the first people to summit these peaks every session must feel, knowing they've set the path to the top. Those guy's just aren't appreciated enough
@@alandauer8005 go attempt one. You’ll pay your respects and be humbled very quickly to anyone stepping foot on one.
@@alandauer8005Even with fixed ropes, it's still incredibly dangerous.
best one yet David Snow... gives real experience of climbing... thank you
Fantastic!!! Thanks so much for sharing this raw video footage. RIP climbers.
Strong, beautiful climbing. The highlight of the video is your awareness and decision making.
Thank you for not spoiling it with elevator music!! 🏆💪🙏
Finding myself breathing harder during the chimney portion of the climb along with the climber. No way I could pull this off. It takes one heck of a talented and strong willed mountaineer to keep going. Much respect. Thanks for making us feel like we are there with you climbing.
A stunning mountain and amazing athletes but my god what a nightmare climbing up there. My heart was pounding and my breath short the whole time.
This is the best one yet!
K2 is always mighty... One mountain in the world that is full of thrill and adventurous. #k2mylove
This was absolutely fascinating from start to finish. Thank you for your incredible footage.
Respiratory rate of 75 breaths per minute....mind blowing, the physical shape you have to be in to even consider this mountain.
Ed viesturs did it without any supplemental oxygen and only one climbing partner!
@@thelasthourgetready Viesturs is a phenomenal specimen of a human being. There are very few like him! I love reading his books. ❤
@@ripple_on_the_ocean he certainly is! "No short cuts to the top is mind blowing'. I can't get enough of his books he writes with so much honesty and detail. He is truly an inspiration. I have learned so much from him to help me on my own mountaineering journey and life in general.
I love mountain climbing, can watch someone else do it all day & night.
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@@sharnabanana2319 👍👍👍
This makes Everest lol like a walk in the park. You're truly climbing. Unreal footage and much respect to all y'all with the balls to do such. Again it's like a straight cliff!!! How!?!? Wow😅
Second time watching this video, well done and great footage, it just looks so steep, balls of steel serious fitness and well able to climb, hat tip Sir 👊🏻
Man, I'm exhausted just watching this!
This is amazing. So proud for you and of you. This is beyond awesome! Thank you for doing this for us. Bad ass video, best I’ve seen. Feel like I’m experiencing this with you.
By far the most intense and amazing video I have ever seen on your tube
I love reading about mountain climbing and rock climbing. This video is one of the most harrowing I have watched. There are no amateurs on this mountain. At least there shouldn’t be. I have seen so many ho-hum videos of Everest and it almost looks like a tough hike compared to this.
I've been there, I can recall it like it was yesterday, I remember screaming in a cold sweat heart pounding out of my chest knowing that I would never get out of it alive, I'm dead, that's it, game over! And then I breathed a huge sigh of relief as I realized that it was only a bad dream.
This climb makes the southern approach on Everest look like a damn picnic
Amazing video,am never going to get there,I've neither the head for heights or the fitness or skills to attempt such a climb but these videos really give you a feeling for the place.Off to Iceland and have booked a helicopter ride over the volcanic eruptions happening at the moment.Its as brave as I get..I take my hat off to you incredible climbers
Absolutely incredible footage…gives a close up of just how tough and frightening this must be. Not sure if it’s bravery or stupidity.
Had your damn crampons stomping on the GOOD rope how many times? I'd want no part of that. Congrats, though. Incredible accomplishment.
Every single inch of this mountain looks so deadly.
Exceptional footage ! Captures the climb beautifully.. and of course, congrats on the summit and safe return !
Fantastic video it really puts mountain climbing into perspective for me, I could never do what you do. Props!
witnessed a fatal fall right at the beginning and still able to continue the climb, that is really something.
Somehow, apparently they live with it. One guy, I forget who, said something I found completely nonsensical, to the effect that if it were not life and death, it wouldn't be worth it. One of those "you only really live when you are close to death" people.
thankyou, very vivid filming
Well that all looks easy enough, I think I'll head up there next weekend, should be a piece of cake 🍻
did anyone ever tried to bypass the bottleneck by climbing the rock wall on the left again? like Fritz Wiessner did in 1939?
I have wondered the same
@@HunzaFolk From what i've read no. It is considered too technical a pitch to climb at that altitude.
A good watchable video David, with many details of the path pattern, need lot of mental and body strength to complete the summit, hopefully you entertained us with many other videos of your.
It is not an easy climb, even using fixed ropes. Make me wonder what climber is going up first and installing those fixed ropes. That is a real climber.
Imagine being in the lead in 1938.
Sherpas normally are the ones who climb lead and install ropes
@@JohnClam on K2? Not too sure about that. On Everest yes, but K2 is a different beast as far as Sherpa use is concerned.
Im watching them climb the chimney and thinking who put the laddery thingy they are clinging onto in the 1st place? Seriously can that part even be climbed without that metallic laddery thingymajig?
@@jimmyyeung7510 it was first climbed in 1938 so yeah.
The greatest video I’ve seen
Thk u sir
Holding my breath while watching this 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
In God we trust changes to In Ropes we trust. Or maybe it is BOTH :) Oustanding video, thanks for sharing.
Wheweeee that was amazing! CONGRATULATIONS spectacular climb.
Was that a person rolling at 2:14? or one of their belongings?
belongings
I put it on .25x speed and to me it looks like a person
@@RogueAgentX if thats a person really puts into perspective how steep the slope is.
Its a climber. No one is carrying any equipment that would be tumbling end over end that fast. Its pretty obvious .
@@RogueAgentX yeppers its legs over head cartwheeling.
Awesome video, unbelievable. This is what people want to see, actual climbers in action and the gopro is the perfect tool for this. We normally see people sprawled inside tents. One thing, where did all that nice orange rope come from ? Good thing it was there is all I can say ;)
Best climbing video ive seen
Technically it looks fairly easy. Certainly well within my capabilities. What ISN'T within my capabilities is doing those sort of moves at that altitude and with that level of exposure and commitment...Not a chance. Massive respect to those who push the limits of what the human body is capable of, and also the limits of human mental endurance, resilience and just sheer guts!
Imagine what it must have been back to 1954 when Bonatti and the rest of the group opened this way: no ladders, basic equipment, no tents and no oxygen (at least for Bonatti and his mate Mahdi). Those were wild men.
22:42 can hear the adrenaline. He does not want to use/trust the ladder. I don't blame him. So hard to control your breathing and adrenaline. Ahhhh so impressive to watch 🤩
21:30 "Use the ladders. Easier." I'll remember that when cleaning my gutters 12' off the deck.
Crazy mountaineering right there!! Good job.
This is insanity. Only the very best climbers in the world could accomplish this. Could you imagine being caught trying to climb down the House Chimney in bad weather?! Good luck.
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how are the first anchors put in place? Obviously someone has to climb ahead with no ropes and place them. Seems suicidal to me!
The real climbers, sherpas, every year place new ropes
@@eneabertuzzi3199 That's not necessarily always the case on K2. Of course you're right if it's a commercial team, but otherwise I feel pretty sure it's a collective effort by the group. Or by a collection of teams.
i have the same question. who put the ropes before climbing? if someone ahead of the climbers putting anchors and ropes are the real climbers
The first team of the season climbing the mountain.
@@mjan92 than all the credit goes to that party
Balls of steel. Incredible.
Great video. Great endurance. Got a little scared for ya. Glad you made it.
How do the ropes get prepared above the climber? Is there someone ahead that sets them as they go?
I'm wondering about the same thing
How the heck did anyone do this without the fixed rope and ladders? Who were the ones that fixed the route with ropes and ladders first?
The use of fixed ropes is actually a distortion of climbing performance.
The performance of the first climber must be assessed all the higher.
Pretty soon they'll install a chair lift for the climbers to ride up on, and then call that mountain climbing too.
On almost all climbs, there is a leader, on the sharp end, and belayers who follow up secured to the rope hanging from the next belay. On non-tourist routes, following belayers are extremetly useful and are 100% part of the effort since they clean up the route behind the leader while offering him a belay. It happens that climbers will rotate leader-belayer roles among the team if there is a willingness and technical competence to do so, but that very rarely happens in the Himalaya hard technical routes where Sherpas do most of the real lead climbing if any for installing fixed ropes.
@@petergerhardsen20 Spoken like a genuine professional who has been on uber-difficult technical climbs! It is a such rare treat to get a master climber's expert commentary.
If you jumar a fixed rope you are simply cheating! I liken it to shooting a double action revolver by cocking the hammer. As you so succinctly reminded us, the only true climber in this instance is the hero that went up first.
Fantastic video. Thank you.
This was fantastic. Thank you!
Putting one’s life on the line literally- one line - can’t imagine
The broken rope that caused the man to fall was likely caused by crampons stepping on it.
What a bummer that would be
Number 1 tourist move, number 2 tourist move, stand in n coiled rope w crampons.
Thanks for this comment. I’ve been trying to figure out how the rope failure that killed the fallen climber happened. Like… I couldn’t think of a plausible reason why a climbing rope would fail. But damage from crampons makes total sense now.
But it says he was the lead climber of the expedition?
So incredibly intense.
Double Ladders brought out a massive bout of anxiety I have with dodgy site constructions. The fact this is thousands of feet up made my palms sweat. How old are the ladders? Do they get replaced regularly? You have nerves of steel!!!
Omg nail biting , nerve wrecking. Glad you’re ok.
A very serious congratulations to you David. I think mountaineers are a breed unto themselves and if I’m honest, a wee bit nuts as well but I do have the utmost admiration and respect for all of you. I do have one question for you or anyone reading this comment. Is this the easiest route up this behemoth?!?
Fantastic pictures - amazing!
David Snow, would you please clear up the issue of the falling Canadian climber? In the video the fast moving tumbling object is, to the best of my knowledge, the climber. Text in the vid says so then states it was followed by personal gear. I don't know of any gear that would tumble like that or fall so fast. Thank you in advance.
I saw no personal things.. Just unfortunate cartwheeling :( definite legs..:(
That was a man. Slow down the footage of your dare to get a better view
@@j_rainsgoat3929 I know that. I have argued the point to the end of my patience, that's why I asked David Snow to clear it up for the ignorant folks.
@@michaelmacgeorge1082 the guy in the video made it sound like it was a person though.. Body language and tone..
@@dana102083 I'm not asking because I don't know, I'm asking David Snow to say it so people will stop pretending it's a glove or something.
Anyone here saying that’s not a body and that’s his equipment, im sorry to say but that’s him, not gear. Slow it down if you want or pause a few times while it’s happening, it’s absolutely 100% a body :/
yes I have watched over and over and over at .25 speed