Quest For K2 Surviving The Summit 

I am from Pakistani and I am from the northern areas of Pakistan 🇵🇰. K2 is about 10 Hours from my town by Jeep. I am proud of each n every inch of my Motherland. I am very happy for those who have achieved the summit. But after seeing this video, I am also very sad 😢 that the a mother and a young wife is died n never found 😢😢. On the other hand I respect those Chileans who made it and there team work and humanity save a life a of there friend. And they do not live him alone ⛰. Respect ✊ for those all. And my condolences to those who left us for ever 🌹 my God be pleased with them and give them rest in haven 🤲🏼. Pakistan Zindabad

Tragically, Allison Hargreaves Son who had also taken up mountaineering, died at Nanga Parbat in 2018.

The commentator said something very profound. The will to win can be even stronger than the will to survive. That is why most people will die on the descent.

Man, that Chilean group was incredible. Just doing absolutely all they could and what they must to bring their whole summit team down safely. Far from the “every man for himself in the death zone” attitude that has surely saved many but doomed some others, these guys showed what partnership and compassion is all about. Not only did Christian not abandon Miguel, he went back for his oxygen. Mitrian(?) nearly didn’t summit, he was so exhausted, yet he also retraced 600’ of altitude to deliver supplies and hot drink to his friends. One of the most inspiring and touching stories from the 8000m mountains that I’ve ever heard. Bravo guys.

Dude was tripping at the top of K2, impressive!!! RIP to all who never made it back!

The loud music drowning out any narration totally destroyed this video for me.

Jeff Lakes (Cdn) was a childhood friend of mine. As teenagers, we skied together on Red Mtn, Rossland, BC. He got into climbing, I went to University. Ran into him in Rossland in '93... & he was talking about having become more involved in mountaineering. I told him to be careful. He was a good friend.

Ok guys we have 3 minutes at the summit before we must go down.. what? 3 hours? Perfect! Lol

... I actually managed to find, and collect 2 polished slabs of K2 flank white granite, with those amazingly unique bright blue copper compound spot inclusions. They're looking down on me from my bookshelf as I type ...

All of the hardships and sacrifices that people go through to climb these mountains is so inspiring. Humans can accomplish so much

if you have a family at home you have no business climbing K2, its as simple as that.

God damn it Miguel you jeopardized the entire mission. I'll have your badge for this!!!

When I was a teen, I climbed the alps as well as East German, Czech and Polish mountains and rocks, in both summer and winter. "Summit" had never occurred to me then. It just didn't mean anything. I never actually sought that marking stone that apparently means I "conquered" the mountain. That was before social media and I'd never talked to climbers before. I didn't even know "summitting" was a thing, haha.

68 days stuck in bad weather. You can't say K2 didn't warn them.

Peter Hillary {Edmund Hillary's son} wrote a two page synopsis of the tragedy surrounding Alison Hargreaves which was absolutely amazing. He was on the climb and turned back. They {he, Hargreaves, and about 5 or 6 others} were about to go up the Bottleneck but Peter turned back. Alison was actually standing ahead of him waving him forward, "c'mon" but he was uncomfortable. Some angry lenticular clouds were rolling in and he got a bad feeling {mountaineers who live respond to those "bad feelings."} So Alison and a couple of Spaniards, and a few others {6 or 7 in all} made it to the top but that was it. A vicious storm rolled in suddenly with vicious winds and they were all literally blown off the mountain..............do not pass go do not collect $200. Heck, Peter had all he could do to get back to the tents. Peter wrote this chilling account of it though {Greg Child's wrote a chapter about it in one of his short story books called "That Dangerous Summer" or something to that affect.............very good.} The last chapter of Peter's description is amazing though. It went something like this, "imagine yourself in a locked trailer. The trailer is pitch black. It is 30 degrees below zero and the wind is blowing 100 mph. The trailer is tipped on its side."...................That is not remotely as good as Peter's description..................If you can Google it............Peter Hillary K2 article.............or Peter Hillary on Alison Hargreaves. You'll find it.

K2 the magnificent. Annapurna and K2 are the ultimate test's.

feeling very sorry for the lady, she had the courage to summit k2 and she gave her fascination of conquering the peak and she gave it all to this fascination, may god bless her soul in heavens

K2 mountain is the beast toughest to climb and the most dangerous to climb in the World

Music so loud, you can't hear the narration.

Allison and her son Tom rest in peace togheter now :(

The first woman on Mount Evetest 1978 and k2 1986 was Polish Wanda Rutkiewicz

Instead of noisy music please give the video natural sounds of climbing,footsteps on snow,climbers talks,their every second voice...

15:37 spectacular sunset is right! I'm sorry Alison didn't make it back to her children 😔 Her son died as a teenager in a subsequent mountain accident, too 😣

Why play the music in the background. It adds nothing and detracts from the clarity of the voices.

1976 the polish climbers attempted north route which is the longest ridge of K2, infront of Skyangkangri; the last above 7,000 peak stand on the demarcation line of Pakistan Chinese border.

The Chileans are my favorite.

Please fire the guy who made the music for this!

Why weren't the other climbers that died with Allison mentioned here, well their names that is, are their lives less meaningful, did they have no family at all anywhere. For the family of those climbers I feel sorry... They had no say in this at all, but now I guess just need to suck it up.

It may be a dumb question but how would Allison have lost a boot and pull over shirt, both of which i assume she would have been wearing? It was said it was extremely windy but I can’t imagine it would knock one out of their attire. I am wondering because it makes me think she may have begun to take her clothing off due to hypothermia. Although that doesn’t make sense either, given the short time between the summit and when her items were seen. It’s truly tragic she lost her life. That all of them did. I love climbing but know I could never do anything like this. Admirable.

The loud music destroyed the narration.

Edmund Hillary strongly disapproves of the music.

Lol to the previous comment “3 hours ? Perfect! I’m just gonna lay down and take a nap”

Ghastly, blaring, distracting, intensely irritating and totally unnecessary. I'm talking about the music, of course.

It's so sad to me how, when these climbers are in dire trouble, their thoughts turn to their loved ones' back home..Sad because they were prepared to to throw their life away, all for the sake of a mountain.. I just can't get my head around the fact of someone being prepared to leave their kids fatherless/motherless. Sorry, but I think it's incredibly selfish.

"..and his crew were without peer, the strongest group of high altitude climbers in the world." Kind of sad how that guy leaves the Sherpas and similar people out of that "class".

Oh dears! K2 is the most Hardest among all 8000's.yet Annapurna has the death toll because new climbers climb MT Everest first and then others, Leaving K2 at the end because a mountaineer knows without the experience of Other 8000's, K2 simply become suicidal mission.Those who died at Annapurna among them only 2 or 3 of them summit K2 and other never even tried K2. Those who died on K2 90% of them having Annapurna and other 8000 peaks in their hands. Those who come to K2 wither they succeed or not but most of them having other 8000's peaks in thier hands Or atleast 2 summits Annapurna and NangaParbat (Only then they dare to go for K2). Summit other 8000 peaks is a kind of certification for K2. K2 having the highest percentage of failed expeditions then others. I personally love Mt Everest it looks like a Joint beast is setting on earth.very very very beautiful Mountain and then of course the nameless mountain of earth K2, Standing alone and playing with the mind of best high altitude climbers. Such a obsession.

One more great documentary DESTROYED by TOO LOUD background music.

Great filming. Imagine the guy holding the 8mm camera

Screw the loud music!!!

8,000m + mountains are so high when there’s a low pressure system in the atmosphere outer space literally gets pulled down and the climbers are in shallow space. That’s why it gets so un-earthly cold up there because you’re literally in space ! Super dangerous fact about high altitude climbing

How did you summit the mountain when you started to hallucinate palm trees 🌴 growing out of the snow? I thought when hallucination starts to set in. That is the sign for a climber to descend to a lower altitude?

Ps... Not to mention the days of Mallory & co. Those were heroic efforts by true professionals

if one goes to the mountains seeking fame and fortune oft of times they find neither Hubris is a cruel master..

This is recored from a museum video

Recurring "theme" is lousy music on mountaineering vids.

I say this for kids of the lady that died... Any parent with children should not risk their lives with a mountain like K2. This is selfish of any climbers with kids that do risk the climb as it leaves their kids parentless, so incredibly sad. NO friggen mountain is worth dying over esp when you have people that rely on you...

It's rather a pity Everest has become so commercialized. I suspect death rate on Everest is higher even than it should be these days, cause many have no business trying to climb it. When you see docs on what Hillary and Tenzing did, the romanticism has clearly been lost. That last bit after the south summit still seems unbelievable at the time; sadly all that is in the past now.

Truly said ,it is a Savage Mountain

Great documentary. Fucking soundtrack. It's like Starwars OST turned to 11

Harder than Everest - don't know why it doesn't get more publicity

I swear at 1:50 the climber climbing is the same infamous green boots whom sadly rests on Everest still. The outfit looks similar.

The sound man on this needs the sack!

Totally spoiled by loud music.

Can someone please help can't understand what's going all I can hear is music

It doesn't look that big until you're probably on it ..

did he just say they sat for 3 hours drinking wine ontop of K2

K2 is in the Karskorum range, not the Himalayan...

As I write Simone Moro, Alex Txikon, Tamara Lunger and a few brave others are attempting to be the first to summit Nanga Parbat in the winter. If one of them succeeds it leaves only K2 unclimbed in the winter. People talk like climbing these 8000 metre peaks has become easy because they have been climbed many times but when you actually think that 5000 people have stood on the summit of Everest that is 5ooo people who have waited on the perfect time to summit, that is 5000 who have had to use specialised gear, that is 5000 out of 6 BILLION. Climbing these mountains is certainly no easy feat and climbers must wait until the mountain allows them to reach the top because these summits are not accessible for large chunks of the year. K2 most probably will not see someone standing on its summit in my lifetime and even in the most perfect weather only the best can summit

Can barely hear the narrator through the music

Now the road to Skardu from Gilgit is being widened

Rick Ridgeway is Flea from the Chilli Peppers. Absolute doppelganger.

How could they carry enough food for 68 days?

At 1:50 the climber shown looks like he could be the ‘green boots’ climber who died in a small cave on Everest and is still there. Has anyone else noticed this? The outfit matches exactly and the guy died in 1996 just after this documentary was made. What are the chances???

when u come to k2 give respect otherwise your history. and the peoples who conquer k2 are realy brave....

#1. So many lives would be saved if only people thought ‘Oh! The weather’s bad? Let’s not go’. Instead of ‘Oh! The weather’s bad? Let’s go anyways’. #2. If she was new to the climbing world she wasn’t a seasoned pro.

RIP

Hold the phone. in the opening sequence, is that green boots? The guy who froze on Everest?

🙌

At certain poits you could hardly hear the commentator. The music is too loud .

Damn music doesn’t let me hear the commentator’s voice

Why don't you conquer your desires before your children are born or once they've left home..!

K2 is King of all mountain

This was a touching documentary

K2 is superior to Everest....simply because, you have to b a mountaineer to summit...not just a person with money and hire someone to bring u to the summit!!!!!!

I don't know if I'll never get there? But I'll keep trying till I dont get up ,

Interesting but music is too loud, some comments are barely audible.

So sad. Wonderful lady

The Polish made the Abruzzi - best Jureck!

Why the music . It's to loud

The music is irritating !!!

Thanks! But the music is horrible and too loud. Sometimes it's even not possible to hear what's being said

None of their bodies have been recovered how you got the video she made

That had to be Green Boots before Everest.

Oh, well. Alison Hargreaveses 30 yeras son just died in Pakistanin trying to climb Nanga Parbat.

K2 IS NOT in the Himalayas! Its in the Karakoram Range. I wish they would get that right.

was that green boots in the intro clips?

14:20 For Whom The Bell Tolls

...longer!!!

What part of this are you guys not getting. 1 out 3 climbs die on K2, 1 out of 7 die on Everest. K2 is the harder of the two and it has not been turned into a business for guide services to take anybody with money to the Peak

At the 17:56 mark - to the bottom left it looks like a very familiar figure there... one that is telling you not to enter 😱

K2 the killer mountain

Man is meant to conquer.

Allison Hargreaves=flying frozen corpse on K2

Himalayan mountains? Is karakoram part of the himalaya? Never knew

The music much higher than narrated lower your music please

22:20 wouldn't wine have extreme effects under the oxygen deprivation they faced?

The deadly westerlies

You should not just presume the weather is going to stay nice up there, it has been proven time and time again, it is unpredictable & can change from good to drastically bad in minutes.

Good would have been better but music volume was ridiculously high

k2 mountains of mountain in pakistan.....