The TRAGIC solo ascent of K2 via the Magic Line 

Having met and spoken with several people who have summited K2, as well as studied its history extensively myself, I will simply say that you've done a great job with this topic. 👍👍

Great video on one hell of an alpine climber! Jim Curran’s relation of 1986 summer is such a awakening book. The Magic Line will always be for out-of-this-world climbers and that’s perfectly ok. Carominas an co. dedicated their expedition for the greatest mountaineer ever, Walter Bonatti. RIP italian legends.

Successfully scaling the Mighty K2 is a priceless moment for a climber...

I enjoy your channel so much. Your videos not only pay wonderful tribute to these incredible mountaineers but are put together well. Your stories are engaging and make us realize the amazing feats accomplished. K2 is my favorite mountain. Only a few have lived to tell the tale. This mountain is King of all mountains.

Very, very interesting video! Excellent job of showing the magic line, which I always was curious about (it looks like Messner was right about that line - too dangerous for most people). Your channel is now my favorite high altitude climbing channel. You don't copy other people's videos, you state the facts, the stats, the years, the names, you show the routes, and you don't sensationalize the expeditions without warrant. Thank you for the hard work on these videos - it has paid off! You get to the interesting points about the climbers and their personalities beautifully and with grace. I appreciate it.

Great content man this channel deserves more views

Your videos are awesome man, keep it up. Disaster/informative/storytelling style documentary videos are great.

Awesome..🙂👍

No it's not the deadliest mountain. Why do people keep saying that? Because it used to be. No longer. Annapurna is. Approximately 1 of every 3 who attempt die. K2 is majestically ranked the 2nd deadliest mountain. Besides that, I love your voice and the video. It's obvious English is not your 1st language but you have done phenomenal learning another language and able to speak it so clearly and concise.

Excellent video, thank you

you are the legend ........Namaste....for your videos......Finnster

Well researched and presented, thank you for posting this interesting video

Annapurna is the deadliest and certainly is statistically given the huge numbers who summitted K2 this summer, also Casarotto was trying to prove a point by soloing the magic line as I believe Messener had slagged him of big time for his level of ability and bravery.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you

thanks for making this video. I didn't know that path has been tested an tried before. I learned a new thing today thanks to you. P.S: It is indeed magical. what a route!! breathtaking!

Great vidio

Thank you

What a beast ❤

Just saw one of your replies fi someone and wanted to say that 6000 meters is REALLY GOOD! Look, it’s better to be alive. I attended medical school for three years before a bad car accident and I would not think to go up on those 8000m peaks. The toll that it takes on the human body is just ridiculous. The FiO2 is like 30% of what we breathe down here. I hope all the Nepalese Sherpas have a completely different make up than the rest of us … their genetics are different. They are better at extracting oxygen from the environment, and they also are better effectively using it to power their metabolism. I’m sure you saw Nims and his group power through all the 8000 peaks in 5-7 months recently. I think it was 7 months, but a lot of the time is spent waiting for approval from China to climb Cho Yo or whatever the smallest of the 14 8000ers is. As well as I believe Kachenchuhga. If that’s even spelled right. Well, there is a clip of the movie about that where you see him working out on low O2 air and you see his oxygenation curve on the TV screen … it is just amazing. The Nepalese live at like 5000-6000 feet or something so over time, microevolution has resulted in this genetic refining that we see in them. I’m sure that there are similar genes and polymorphisms in other people that live at very high altitude in different areas of the world, but PubMed has a lot of information about the Nepalese. I love watching mountaineering stuff. But I’d never do it. I simply cannot imagine getting altitude sickness and having my brain swell like a balloon and dying in a mound of snow all alone somewhere. Or getting plowed over by a massive wall of snow and buried to then asphyxiate. And even if I could climb these mountains, I would not. I have 2 daughters. It would be so selfish! I’d stop at 5000-6000 m though and climb with electronically heated clothes and in the coldest weather so that the mountain was stable. So … Keep doing what you’re doing :) Don’t die on this hill; this is not the hill to die on lol (there’s an English idiom “this is (or is not) the hill to die on” lol)

Nice job.

Wow, liked and subscribed, thank-you

Excellent video!!! Excellent pictures!!!

My understanding was that there are a couple of other mountains that are now overtaking K2 in terms of death rate. I think it was Annapurna and Kanchenjunga, but may be wrong.

the stat "1 person dies for every 4 who reach the summit" is out of date

please make a video on ed websters climb on everest via north east route. also jordi corominas extra ordinary attempt is also worth making a video.

Yes everest is so easly climb that people are going to the top for hundreds of years just to spend weekends. K2 is difficult but everest is no joke either if left without all these ropes and help that is left there.

Have you ever noticed that there's no black mountain climbers, I wonder why?

13 climbers did not die in a single day in 1986. Those deaths were separate and days to weeks apart.

You doubt Reinhold Messner?Good luck with that!

Altitude sickness laughs at experience.

I'm sorry how are these guys falling to their death? They're supposed to be using ropes and anchor points.

Annapurna is the deadliest

Good content but I only understand every third word coz u a Gupta

The Sherpas who summited K2 last winter have done the greatest mountaineering achievement in history. That climb was astonishing. Brilliant mountaineers.

And fyi Annapurna is actually the deadliest 😬 a little research goes a long way breh 👌🏼