HORRIFYING Mountain Stories

As majestic as they might be, mountains are not without risk. Whether it is the altitude, weather, remoteness, or simply due to humans being involved, mountains offer unique dangers and incredible stories. Welcome to Horrifying Mountain Stories!

[ScaryInteresting]

Hey everyone! If you enjoy this video and want me to cover any stories that you think would fit this series, reply to this comment with your suggestions! Thank you all for watching!

[Petrolhead]

You are the only channel I watch for this type of content. Other channels have sensationalized content, classic "Top 10" style of editing with very excited voiceover and stock photos that don't make sense or don't match the location. Yours are realistic and the explanation of gear and techniques is technically accurate. You explain technical topics without losing novices and without boring those with knowledge of the field. Your voice is calm and very nice to listen to. Also, your VO is very well written, and it never sounds like you're trying to make a cringy WatchMojo video.

[LinaIsNotANoob]

I've experienced the third man factor when I got into trouble my first time kayaking. I probably wouldn't have died, but I definitely would have needed rescuing if the voice hadn't been there to tell me how to get myself out of the situation. Simultaneously very comforting and terrifying.

[Myster-Man-Channel]

My grandfather told me when he got lost while in Korea looking for a comrad who had not returned (during the Korean war), he nearly entered a clearing when heard his friend say "I am coming, turn around and follow your muddy steps back to camp". He returned to camp and asked where his friend was as he expected him to return and that is when they told him that his friend had been killed, found in the clearing that was a mind field and they had recovered his body before my grandfather even made it to the area. Makes you wonder.

[morphman]

Third Man Syndrome is quite fascinating. It is not that they cannot survive without it, it is their own minds grappling with the fact that they need someone else there to motivate them, so their normally internal thoughts take on an external form to become this motivator.

It can only give advice that they themselves know, but in the moment it feels like they did not know it.

[MeduseldRabbit]

Third man factor has also been reported by race car drivers. Dale Ernhart Jr swore that he felt someone pull him out of a wrecked car that was burning, but video and witnesses all saw him climb out. Honestly, you could probably do a whole series on auto racing disasters and near misses.

[Tsumami__]

Crazy that the Transworld Snowboarding article doesn’t mention the very distinct possibility that the figure the sherpas saw 1300 meters below them was Marco dying of exhaustion and sliding down the face of the mountain, and instead lists two less likely scenarios and mentions the fact that his sister apparently believes he is alive in Tibet somewhere, which is impossible.

[VoteZombie]

I would love to hear more Third Man Factor stories. There are very few of them on YouTube. It's fascinating

[hellyeah_ellajane]

I would love it if you covered the story of Scott Adamson. He disappeared climbing Ogre II in Pakistan a few years ago. I only met him a couple of times, but he was my husband’s cousin. Such a neat dude 💛

[sstritmatter]

4:57 - I learned something tonight. The Third Man Factor. I've had that and it was so comforting I'll always remember it. I had anxiety (luckily outgrew it) as a young kid but didn't know what it was. Sometimes it was all I could do to stay in school and not want to come home. One time when I was ready to have a tears breakdown, a man's voice came into my head and it was just comforting and it felt like a secure rope to my life and diminished my anxiety a lot. The voice sounded similar to Dana Hersey, who was a tv broadcaster out of Boston at the time. It worked so well I never forgot it, and I sometimes talk to myself in my head as third person when I've encountered dangerous situations throughout my life. I thought I was a weirdo and never brought it up to anyone LOL - now I know there's something out there that's at least similar others have experienced. That's really neat!

[healthcoachadrian]

As a mountaineer, it scares me when I hear your stories but they are also a good sense of knowledge and learning from peoples past mistakes! I love your channel.

[Noodler]

An interesting tidbit I read in a paper is that above 6000m, the partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere is the same as the ideal in your blood. This means that above 6000m, it's physically impossible to saturate your blood with oxygen. I assume this is why acclimatization can only get you so far.

[LMS]

Your story telling is so much better than others. A very clear, relaxing voice to listen to. Other youtubers (I won't name names) are starting to just get ''too into it'', if that makes sense...added noises (and very repeated in most videos), sensationalized version of the story (i.e. with some details we can't possibly know)...well done and congrats on the quick growth of your channel, you deserve it!

[wyomingadventures]

Green Boots had a friend for awhile. David Sharpe died in that cave too. There's another interesting Everest story. David tried climbing Everest on his own and Russell Brice's team got criticized for not helping him. He wasn't on Russell's team. Russell has never lost anyone from his guide service. Russell knows how to run a Everest guide service.

[Ash.]

i remember when i lived in colorado, our family use to hike up the mountains. i stepped off the edge of the mountain, past these ropes blocking it (for obvious reasons) and started sliding down and below me it looked like a deep abyss of trees tens of thousands of feet below me. i managed to catch myself and climb back up but damn that was scary. i was about 10 or 11 at the time so i didn't realize how dangerous it was to go past those ropes, or what purpose they served.

[MrChologno]

Interesting to see that at a certain point some people value more an accomplishment than their own life. Great video as always, thanks for the explanations.

[nashgrier]

LFG!!! Love all the vids but especially enjoy the mountain ones, Hope your channel grows expeditiously

[SkateboardRanch]

So cool that you are covering Marco"s story, i read his story in an old Transworld Snowboarding Magazine (I think) and was quite moved by it. It always amazed me that his story never went more mainstream and has never been covered more! Great work with new series, I'm all in!

[niofo]

I didn't know it's called the third man factor in english, i always read about it as just this presence or companion. Our famous climber Krzysztof Wielicki mentioned this during his mad accomplishment when he soloed broad peak in one day. He mentions that there just was this presence following him, and he was really chill about them. Also in Elisabeth Revol's book she mentions it during her descent from Nanga - that this presence was messing with her and convinced her to take off her boot. As a doctor it's always both fascinating and scary seeing what our brain is doing on high altitudes with lack of oxygen. A doctor in my hospital who accompanied some himalayan expedition did some research on the topic, and it's just wild, how we can be unable to do just the most basic and simple things in those conditions - and obv the fact that it's so demanding and hard work to even get up there is not helping. I have mad respect for mountain climbers, but i'm not going anywhere near that height ever XD

[juanignaciocasares]

I love the level of detail that you put into these videos and how you care to explain various concepts related to the event, I think it really makes the story more comprehensive and enjoyable.
I'm a med student and that explanation of altitude sicknes was perfect. Even though it was a summarized version, the fact that you cared to explain how athmosferic preasure affects hematosis, and the phisiological reactions to low oxigen levels demonstrates the amount of research that you put into your work. Great video!