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Annapurna · Surviving Worlds Deadliest Mountain
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Annapurna · Surviving Worlds Deadliest Mountain



Annapurna is considered to be the world’s most treacherous yet thrilling mountains to explore. Climbers who have experienced summiting other over-8000 metre peaks are particularly drawn to this majestic mountain, to its unpredictable climate changes and pristine beauty captured in this exceptional film. To climb Annapurna’s South Face is to test every last grain of strength, knowledge, and instinct in conditions that forgive no mistakes.
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50 Comments

  1. Wyoming Adventures

    I definitely can see why Annapurna doesn't get climbed much. So many dangers there. Only the mountain and mother nature determine if you get to climb it. This team made the right decision. Better to live for another time.

  2. nytnapoli

    They continued to make decisions based on the conditions and held emotions back to live another day.

  8. A Proud American

    You hire a guide not just to get you up the Mountain but more importantly to keep you alive.
    Did that genius really say that "he knew from day one that there would be two or three hours of danger and then it'a be okay". The mind of a child is a mysterious thing. He should have spent all that money to straighten those things in his mouth he calls his teeth. Rather than pay to climb a Mountain out of his league.

  16. ToreDL87

    If as many people climbed the other 7 & 8k's which are much more technical, which is what some are suggesting in order to supposedly lessen fatalities at Everest, there'd definitely be way more fatalities.

  19. Cinema Ipswich

    On the saddle ridge between Annapuna 1 & 2 you are now at 6,000 meters. As you look north, the Tibetan Plain stretches out before you. You can see the curve of the Earth, the sky above you is very dark blue. From this place there is the longest drop, in an unobstructed single sweep down to southern China. Clouds sweep up this face and fly over you, towards Nepal and India.

  20. M C Smith

    Gorgeous photography!
    After the fifth avalanche, I too would feel comfortable at Base Camp. I'm glad that no one died this time around.

  24. William Gainz Game

    They’d have more views if they would’ve died….avoid the storm, yes…. But they coulda nudged someone off the mountain….

  25. Jay Lan

    Maybe they did this, but there are some great acclimatization climbs near there to near 7000m.,, really should have been knocking those out. That would have been a very dangerous accent on an easy trail with their experience level and so little acclimatizing. Idk, do a 8000m standard trail first, just so you know how your body reacts, before you go to a place of sure death if you weaken at all, at any point above 6000m. This was not smart. They may have been really lucky conditions werent great, especially failing to push much altitude beforehand.

  27. Sat

    I am a newbie and would love to know from an experienced mountaineer like you, that can a person start 8k from the beginning or is it necessary to climb 6k,7k,8k in a serial manner, to understand the snow and weather condition in high altitude?
    Respect.

  28. Andrew Dixon

    As an observer I am inclined to ask – what's the route like from the other side?! It can't be any worse!
    I've trekked in the Everest region and nothing looked like this

  29. Kim's Pictures

    I am happy the expedition ended without an accident. Though I wonder, do you still pay even if you natural conditions stop the climb?

  30. Krystal Myth

    I know nothing about mountain climbing and even I could see that snow looks like marshmallow fluff. It did not look good.

  31. Brigitte

    This narration of this everest climbers is full of respect and wisdom and they've understood a greate wisdom of life: the way makes the goal.

  32. MrKveite1

    Surviving it is super easy for people with some brain activity because they dont go there…

  34. Richard Dyason

    T=These mountaineers had dream, however it was not a question of smoke and mirrors. It took courage and excellent teamwork, along with determination to overcome the obvious risks they neede to come – person who filmed this expedition captured their feeling and their expressions showed this in the expression on individual faces as did the gripping images of their surroundings & the peak. It certainly was a experience and a journey to be remembered. As one said they gained a victory achieved together.

  37. B. W.

    I admire the hell out of these guys, for trusting the wisdom of those who’d done this before and lived to tell the tale. I can’t imagine how hard it must have been for the young guys to accept that they were going no farther than 6300m, but it’s these trips that offer insight and wisdom for the next: This mountain has killed many who pressed their luck or who just had some bad luck. Bravo to them – this was beautiful and interesting and there’s not much cooler than being on a Swiss team sponsored by Rolex.

  38. Bo McGillacutty

    At some point every step is a battle of will over fatigue and nature's resistance. Just lifting that BOOT ONE MORE TIME is an ordeal.

  40. msmongooseable

    I've read Blum's and Bonington's accounts of Annapurna, what an absolute monster of a mountain. Everest may keep those she loves, K2 might spring traps, but Annapurna seems like she really hates.

  48. mediocre man

    So, basically, all of them were experienced climbers, professionals even (mountain guides by trade), everybody was at least 30 years old, one was 48, one was 60 (=a lot of experience in climbing), they did everything right, knew mountains, knew snow, and made the right decision – to turn back.

    This video should be shown to every climber. This is how you do things.

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