The Most Disturbing Death Story in Mount Everest History

The disturbing yet touching story of Francys and Sergei Arsentiev on Mount Everest.

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[KyleHatesHiking]

It's been brought to my attention that I mispronounced Sergei Arsentiev's name throughout this video. It should be pronounced "Sair-Gay" I believe. I always try and get pronunciations right, including this one for that matter, but it's clearly a weakness of mine. Hurts extra when it's somebody's name. My apologies, and thanks to everyone in the comments who corrected me.

[sandyfrazer]

I had a friend who was a mountain climber. He eventually died on Mount Blanc in an avalanche. He never married or had kids because he thought it was too irresponsible and I always agreed with him.

[michaela]

Mount Everest is the pinnacle of showing human stupidity. It is unbelievable to me that people will die to climb a mountain.

[thomashowlett]

"They died doing what they loved" That's just a platitude for the living. It's abundantly clear from her last words that she didn't want to die, and wasn't ready to die.

[TheLastRainShadow]

Huge shout out to O'Dowd and her team truly trying their best to help Fran. Even ATTEMPTING to carry her back is truly heroic.

[GamerCat]

The fact that it’s normal to see dead bodies on Everest is terrifying

[marcomcdowell]

Experience just means your mistakes haven't killed you.

[warpedlion]

The other tragedy here is that they had a son who didn't want them to go. It's noble to want to save your wife and I don't knock him for doing his best to get her back safely, but their son ended up losing both parents instead of just 1

[samanthakoller]

At the end, you ask if it was worth the risk.. but you left out that she had an 11yo son that asked her NOT to go… she did anyway, and then died.
So no.. it wasn’t worth the risk.

Even if they were a childless couple making this decision, there are still loved ones that would grieve. But the fact that she had a young child, and dismissed him asking her not to do this? No. Not only was it NOT worth the risk, it was incredibly stupid and selfish.

[katemaloney]

I can't feel sorry for them. I get that they wanted to set records, but their first responsibility should've been to their child. I hope their son found real parents who loved and cared for him.

[consciousobserver]

I deeply appreciate Kyle's honesty and humanity on this channel. He doesn't seem to have a bloated ego like so many content creators. Protect this man at all costs. ✊️

[fearlessvic]

I just don't understand why they risk not only their lives, but possibly that of others. Such a waste!

[drunkvegangal]

I went to Nepal in 2000-2001 and never wanted to climb Everest; not even hiking to the first, initial base camp! Even back then it was a conveyor belt of rich, entitled tourism where anyone with enough money was welcomed by one trekking company or another to 'give it a go'. The idea of climbing over dead humans, and heaps of human waste and trash cannot be viewed as a 'good time'.
Walking through the Annapurnas, however, tea house to tea house, is amazing :D

[dmbeaster]

If she cannot walk down from the First Step despite ample oxygen and treatment, she is dead. There is no way to drag someone down from there. It does not matter that she still had a flicker of life in her. She cannot survive or be saved.

These two risked this outcome by climbing without oxygen.

[mandalorianmama]

The fact that the Uzbek team gave her two bottles of oxygen is very telling of their character

[Itriedtakennames]

Francis reportedly asked her young son whether she could go climb Everest, which seems considerate, but puts the son on a terrible position. If the son said no, he gets to live with crushing his mom’s dream. If he says yes and she dies, then he has to live with the fact he could have said no and “saved her.”

[dennqw]

After watching almost all your videos involving Mt. Everest, it's impossible for me to believe that ppl 1- Expect help 2- Arent ready to be left behind 3- Arent ready to die on that mountain.

[powderriver]

There are enough life-and-death risks even attempting to climb Everest, let alone take stupid risks like not bringing oxygen. NOT worth one’s own life. Ridiculous.

[criticalevent]

I'm not someone who understands the whole climb Everest without oxygen challenge. Do people take pride in diving shipwrecks or caves without oxygen?

[Warcrimeenthusiast]

If the sherpas have to carry all your crap and set up your camp, then you didnt accomplish sh!t