10 Terrible Tragedies on Nanga Parbat

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Timestamps:
00:00 — Tomek, seven winters
13:52 — Delgado, ten days on the radio
27:50 — Nardi and Ballard, Mummery
41:20 — Zerain and Galván, Mazeno
53:47 — Petcu and Stana, the Romanians
1:03:30 — Go Mi-yeong, the Korean
1:15:31 — Wiśniewski, the snowboard
1:26:48 — Kolouchová, the Czech
1:38:03 — Kölblinger, six in the evening
1:48:48 — Kopeć, the quiet night

Nanga Parbat is the ninth-highest mountain in the world, rising 8,126 meters above sea level. It stands at the western edge of the Himalayas, in Pakistan, towering almost alone above the Indus Valley: from base to summit, the mountain rises nearly seven continuous kilometers — one of the greatest vertical drops on Earth.

Its southern face, the Rupal Face, rises more than 4,600 meters and is the highest mountain wall in the world. The other two faces — Diamir to the west and Rakhiot to the north — are no less unforgiving: avalanches, storms, and snow slides are part of daily life here. The monsoon covers the mountain in summer, while winter brings winds strong enough to knock a person off their feet and temperatures below minus forty degrees.

Nanga Parbat is considered one of the most dangerous eight-thousanders on the planet. In this video, we go through ten real stories that show why.