K2 Bottleneck - Fàtal Climbing & Rescue. (The Summit)

PLOT: The K2 Bottleneck is located on the Southeast Spur Route (also known as the Abruzzi Spur) at 8,200 metres (26,900 feet), just 400 metres (1,300 feet) from the summit. The Bottleneck is a thin couloir, a narrow gully with a steep gradient, overhung by seracs along the edge of the ice field east of the summit.
Based on The Summit 2012, a documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster, directed by Nick Ryan. It combines documentary footage with dramatized recreations of the events of the K2.

Credits: The Summit (doumentary) 2012, directed by Nick Ryan, @popuplens, @hakonasvang, @fahad917, @naila._.kiani, @sherpa_kunga_8848.86, @deosaiexpeditions (bottleneck).

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Video Edited by Morris Brix.

[hdoutbacker]

One chance for summiting so let's start 3 or more hours late. That's genius level IQ.

[beverlyhitchon]

I have read the book ‘no way down’ about this event.
It’s truly harrowing and just heartbreaking. How the rest survived through the night is just incredible.
I would highly recommend the book for anyone who wants more information about this story. ❤

[Dulcimertunes]

I watch these because I can’t even jump off the high dive at the pool!

[claytondavis]

K2 used to be for only the elite climbers, but now has turned into the new Everest with thrill seekers attempting this peak when they shouldn’t even be there. The death toll will continue to rise because of poor planning and unprepared climbers.

[tscott]

It is hard to comment on this tragedy. Rest in peace explorers. Praying for your friends and family.

[paulgrey]

It's amazing that van Roojen survived two overnight bivouacs after summitting without oxygen.
Though with his experience, why did he not turnaround knowing they were so late?
Especially when they had no water, food or bivouac gear? van Roojen was one of the last to summit reaching it at around 6.30PM. This was van Roojens third attempt at K2.
A classic case of summit fever.
Those who bivouacked were so fortunate that there was no strong winds that night.

[kiplynch]

A friend of mine died on K2 several years ago. Not a lot anyone can do if something goes wrong on that mountain but at least they managed to bring him down.

[redgringrumboldt]

Left 3 hours late!? That's suicidal!

[MrSimplesimon]

Summit fever strikes again, and who in their right mind would like to try to get back to camp 4 in the dark? Was a stupid idea to press on.

[imarriedabrkfsttaco]

The majority of climbers who die do it on the way down. Summiting too late usually means spending at least one night in the death zone, completely exhausted, starved of oxygen, with no supplies or shelter, completely exposed to relentless raging winds and horrific temperatures well below zero. Helluva place to have to depend on your wits to survive.

[julianmansell]

When your climbing that kind of a mountain, rules are not to be broken.

[mikeferrara]

Pemba is super human. How did he climb all the way down with no rope in the night?

[boxingfan]

It does seem quite amazing to me that people continue to climb when they know that people have died or are in trouble below them. Time and time again you hear these types of incidents on these huge mountains and yet selfishness to achieve a summit seems to take priority. Might be my mindset but just trying to help someone that desperately needs help must be far more rewarding than getting to the top of a mountain.

[whoisthispianist]

Fell to death after unclipping from rope? Took 3 hours to organise gear? They seem like a bunch of amateurs on their first outing in the mountains. Surely they knew this is the most difficult mountain in the world to climb and probably the most dangerous. Why so incompetent?

[etzenhammer]

I recently learned this intro and boy was it worth it... so much in there and in the end it's incredibly hard to really get it down

[bobfunck]

"rescuing" a body from the upper section of K2 is just plain foolish.... just to drag it to C4? cmon man.

[hni]

Fredrik realised early on in the late morning that this was a desperate NoGo. It's really sad everything, and it shows the importance of understanding - and indeed accepting - the task and coherence within the group - and furthermore that disobedience of those virtues isn't only there on Mt. E. The whole situation was unreal to me. THIS AT K2???

[bradyweir]

People don’t understand how dark it is out there at night it’s nearly impossible to descend while it’s already that 80% of deaths occur on the way down this was a very poor plan by everyone once the first man fell everyone should have made their way back down regardless of if this would be the only time that Year they could climb

[thecoopjaxthedog]

The documentary The summit tells this story with original footage and interviews worth watching

[ANiMALFRiENDS_GOLDMAN]

They forget their own life For this One K2
Lifetime ambition become lifeless ambition.
I THANK THEE FOR THY SERVICE