The Summit
On Netflix. Absolutely riveting documentary about the 2008 K2 disaster where 11 mountaineers died over the course of two days. What was unique about this compared to other mountaineering disasters was that weather had nothing to do with it - which is what causes most of the deaths on Mount Everest.
K2 is simply one of the most dangerous things a person can attempt to do, and on this expedition the mountain simply decided to exert its dominance over puny humans.
Put another way, you are safer playing Russian Roulette than attempting to scale K2 - where the historical death rate is 1 in every 4 climbers.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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