00:02Anatoly Ukriev
00:03Okay, before we get into this
00:05Annapurna 1
00:0726,545 feet
00:108,091 meters
00:12First 8,000 meter peak ever climbed
00:15Back in 1950
00:17Death to summit ratio
00:1932%
00:21One climber dying for every three
00:24Who make it back down
00:25Not because people are careless
00:27Because the mountain
00:28Steep faces, collapsing seracs
00:32Avalanche shoots, storms with no warning
00:35Genuinely does not care
00:37It's not the highest
00:39It's just one of the most efficient
00:43December 25, 1997
00:45Christmas Day
00:47At around 18,700 feet
00:50On the south side
00:51Three climbers are fixing rope
00:53In a steep couloir
00:55Essentially a natural avalanche shoot
00:57Directly beneath enormous overhanging cornices
01:00On the western wall
01:02One of them is Anatoly Ukriev
01:05Ukriev, 39, was one of the strongest
01:09High-altitude climbers alive
01:11Kazakhstani, Soviet-trained
01:13Famous for his no-oxygen ascents
01:16And his almost superhuman endurance
01:18He'd written a book about it
01:20And just a year earlier
01:22During the catastrophic 1996
01:25Everest disaster
01:26The one that became the subject
01:28Of books and films
01:29He'd made multiple trips
01:31Back into the storm
01:32To physically drag exhausted climbers
01:35To safety
01:35He was, by any measure
01:38The last person you'd expect
01:40To die on a mountain
01:41He was on Annapurna
01:43For a bold winter attempt
01:44Alpine style
01:46No bottled oxygen
01:48Minimal fixed ropes
01:49With Italian Simone Moro
01:51And Russian cinematographer
01:53Dmitry Sobolev
01:54Around midday
01:56Without warning
01:57A massive snow cornice
01:59Broke high above them
02:01And triggered an avalanche
02:02That thundered down
02:03The full length of the couloir
02:05The slide hit all three
02:08Moro was swept roughly
02:10800 feet down the slope
02:12And dumped near their Camp 1 tent
02:14Badly injured
02:15Hands ripped down
02:17To the tendons
02:17He clawed himself
02:19Out of the snow
02:20Tried to find the others
02:22And found only debris
02:23Help me
02:24Bukriyev and Sobolev
02:26Had simply vanished
02:27Under blocks of ice and snow
02:29The size of cars
02:32Helicopter rescue teams
02:33Made repeated attempts
02:34In the days that followed
02:35From the air
02:37They could see the avalanche path
02:38But not Bukriyev or Sobolev
02:41Their bodies were never recovered
02:45Iñaki Ochoa de Olsa
02:47May 2008
02:48Annapurna 1, South Face
02:52Iñaki Ochoa de Olsa
02:54Iñaki to everyone who knew him
02:55Was 41
02:57From Pamplona, Spain
02:58A veteran of more than a dozen
03:008,000 meter peaks
03:02Always without supplemental oxygen
03:04Always fast and light
03:05Exactly the kind of climber
03:07Who looked at Annapurna's
03:08Seldom climbed east ridge
03:10And thought
03:10Yeah, I want that one
03:12He and Romanian partner
03:14Hordia Kolibashanu
03:16Had turned back short of the summit
03:17Due to dangerous conditions
03:28At around 24,300 feet
03:32When Iñaki suddenly seized
03:34Collapsed
03:35Became semi-conscious
03:37And largely unable to move
03:38Suspected cerebral injury
03:41Combined with pulmonary edema
03:42His brain and lungs
03:44Simultaneously shutting down
03:45In the thin air
03:46What followed was five days of this
03:49Five nights at altitude
03:51In a tent
03:52While an improvised
03:53International rescue effort
03:54Formed around him
03:55Climbers from Romania
03:57Switzerland
03:58Kazakhstan
03:58Russia
03:59Canada
04:00Some of the strongest
04:01Alpinists in the world
04:03Attempted to reach him
04:04With drugs and oxygen
04:05Swiss legend
04:07Uli Steck
04:08Made an immense
04:08Solo push
04:09From base camp
04:10All the way to camp four
04:11With medications
04:13He found Iñaki
04:14Too weak to move
04:15Doctors in Spain
04:16Advised by radio
04:17Throughout
04:18His teammates
04:19Rotated in and out
04:20Of the tent
04:21Keeping him warm
04:22Talking to him
04:23During the moments
04:23When he was conscious
04:24For five days
04:26While the mountain
04:27Did everything it could
04:28To stop anyone
04:29From reaching him
04:30People tried anyway
04:32He died on May 23rd
04:34In the tent
04:35At altitude
04:35His body was left
04:37On the mountain
04:39Ian Cleff
04:40May 30th
04:421970
04:43This one is going
04:45To bother you
04:45Because the timing
04:47Is just
04:47It's almost too cruel
04:49To believe
04:51Ian Cleff
04:52Was 33
04:53From Yorkshire
04:54England
04:54Considered one of the
04:56Finest British
04:57Alpinists
04:58Of his generation
04:58Technically brilliant
05:00Consistently reliable
05:02And by all accounts
05:03The kind of person
05:04Everyone wanted
05:05On their team
05:05He was part of
05:07Sir Chris Bonington's
05:081970 British expedition
05:10Attempting Annapurna 1's
05:12Huge
05:12Unclimbed
05:13South face
05:14A massive
05:15Multi-week
05:16Siege-style assault
05:18One of the most
05:19Ambitious undertakings
05:20In British climbing history
05:22Weeks of fixing ropes
05:24Establishing high camps
05:26Working the face
05:28In brutal conditions
05:29And then
05:30On May 27th
05:32Success
05:34Dougal Haston
05:35And Don Willans
05:36Forced a route
05:37Through the upper face
05:38And reached the summit
05:39The expedition
05:40Had done what it
05:41Came to do
05:42The team started
05:43Clearing the mountain
05:44Packing up
05:45Coming down
05:47Ian was descending
05:49With fellow climber
05:50Mike Thompson
05:50Passing beneath
05:51A notorious
05:52Overhanging
05:53Serac
05:53That the team
05:54Had nicknamed
05:56The Sword
05:57Of Damocles
05:59The Serac
06:00Collapsed
06:01A large section
06:02Of the ice cliff
06:03Broke away
06:04And triggered an avalanche
06:05That slammed
06:06Directly into Ian
06:07Thompson escaped
06:09And ran down
06:10To raise the alarm
06:11Ian was buried
06:12Where he fell
06:13His teammates
06:15Recovered his body
06:16And carried it down
06:17To base camp
06:17For burial
06:18At the foot
06:18Of the face
06:19Chris Bonington
06:21Dedicated his book
06:22Annapurna South Face
06:23To him
06:23The summit
06:25Had already been reached
06:26The ropes
06:27Were being pulled
06:28The mountain
06:29Was supposed to be
06:30Done with them
06:31And then the feature
06:33Literally named
06:34The Sword of Damocles
06:35Dropped on the nicest
06:37Guy on the team
06:40Samuli Mansika
06:42March 2015
06:44Annapurna 1
06:45Samuli Mansika
06:4736
06:48Finnish professional guide
06:50And high altitude climber
06:51Known for fast
06:53Solo ascents
06:54Of 8,000 meter peaks
06:55Usually without
06:56Supplemental oxygen
06:57He'd joined
06:59A commercial expedition
07:00On Annapurna
07:01Using their logistical support
07:03But climbed ahead
07:04On his own
07:04The way people
07:05Like him
07:06Tend to do
07:06He had a strong
07:08Safety record
07:09And the kind of
07:10Experience that makes
07:11Other climbers
07:11Feel better
07:12Just by being
07:13On the same mountain
07:14He summited
07:15Solo
07:16No oxygen
07:18On the descent
07:19He and a 35-year-old
07:21Nepalese guide
07:22Working with a separate team
07:24Moved down together
07:25Separated from the main group
07:27On the upper mountain
07:28Somewhere on the descent
07:30They fell into
07:31A hidden crevasse
07:32Radio contact
07:33Was lost
07:34They didn't come back
07:35To camp
07:36Search teams
07:37Began looking
07:38But altitude and terrain
07:39Made it slow
07:40It took until around
07:42March 31st
07:43Roughly a week
07:44After they went missing
07:45For rescuers
07:46To locate both bodies
07:47Inside the crevasse
07:49During an aerial
07:49And ground search
07:51Not an avalanche
07:53Not a storm
07:54A snow bridge
07:56A thin, invisible
07:57Layer of ice crust
07:58Over a black gap
08:00In the glacier
08:01Indistinguishable
08:02From solid ground
08:03You've just nailed
08:05A no oxygen
08:06Solo summit
08:06On one of the world's
08:08Deadliest mountains
08:09You're on the way down
08:10And the floor
08:12Opens under you
08:15Noelle Hanna
08:16April 17th
08:182023
08:18Camp 4
08:20On Annapurna 1
08:21Noelle Hanna
08:2356
08:23From Northern Ireland
08:2510 Everest summits
08:27Multiple Himalayan expeditions
08:29Spanning decades
08:30A man who had been
08:32To the top
08:32Of the world's
08:33Highest mountain
08:3410 times
08:35And come back down
08:36Every single time
08:38He'd just summited
08:40Annapurna
08:40Reportedly without
08:42Supplemental oxygen
08:43Descended to Camp 4
08:45Other climbers
08:46In the tent
08:47Said he seemed okay
08:48Tired, obviously
08:49But okay
08:50He drank some hot soup
08:53He lay down
08:54He never woke up
08:55No fall
08:57No avalanche
08:59No window to react
09:01His heart
09:02Or the altitude
09:03Or the compounded weight
09:05Of everything
09:06The day had demanded
09:07Something stopped
09:09During the night
09:10Quietly
09:11At High Camp
09:13After a successful summit
09:15The specific medical cause
09:17Was never publicly confirmed
09:19Just
09:20He went to sleep
09:22And didn't wake up
09:23His wife released a statement
09:25She said he died with
09:27No drama
09:28No big story
09:29That he passed away
09:31In the Himalayas
09:32Doing what he loved
09:33I don't know
09:34That's both a comforting
09:36And a deeply unsettling
09:37Sentence
09:38When you actually sit with it
09:41Nghima Tashi
09:42And Rima Rinje
09:43April 6th, 2025
09:46Above Camp 2
09:47On Annapurna 1
09:49At around 18,400 feet
09:52Nghima Tashi
09:53And Rima Rinje
09:54Are Nepalese climbing Sherpas
09:56Working for seven summit treks
09:58Their job that day?
09:59Carry heavy oxygen cylinders
10:01And gear
10:02Up the normal route
10:03To support the paying clients
10:04Who will use those cylinders
10:05To summit
10:06Not the people
10:07Who get the summit photos
10:09The people who make
10:10The summit photos possible
10:12While they were moving
10:13Through avalanche prone slopes
10:15Above Camp 2
10:16Heavily loaded
10:17A large avalanche
10:18Broke loose
10:19From higher on the face
10:20It swept both men away
10:23Other team members
10:24Reported the accident
10:25By radio immediately
10:26Search efforts
10:27Were hampered
10:28By ongoing avalanche danger
10:30In the same zone
10:31Nghima Tashi
10:32And Rima Rinje
10:33Were listed as missing
10:34And presumed dead
10:37Expedition leader
10:38Chong Dawa Sherpa
10:39Described it publicly
10:40As a terrible disaster
10:42And specifically noted
10:43It happened during
10:44Routine load carrying
10:45For client summit attempts
10:46The word routine
10:48Is doing a lot of work
10:49In that sentence
10:50There is nothing routine
10:52About repeatedly crossing
10:54The most avalanche prone sections
10:55Of one of the world's
10:56Deadliest mountains
10:57Under heavy load
10:59So that someone else
11:00Can breathe comfortably
11:01On the way
11:02To their personal summit goal
11:04The headlines that spring
11:06Were about summit records
11:07On Annapurna
11:08The Sherpas buried
11:09While carrying oxygen
11:11So those records could happen
11:12Received a fraction
11:13Of the coverage
11:14This is not unusual
11:16It happens almost every season
11:18On every major Himalayan peak
11:20The names that get remembered
11:22Tend to belong to the people
11:23Who hired them
11:24Their names were
11:25Nghima Tashi
11:26And Rima Rinje
11:27Remember them
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