10 Horrific Tragedies on Shishapangma

0:00 - Sebastian Haag — an avalanche cuts short a speed ascent on an «easy» slope 24:38 - Alex Lowe — an avalanche takes the strongest climber on the planet; the glacier returns his body 16 years later 39:26 - Four Germans 1991 — vanish all at once, without bodies or a trace 52:10 - The 2023 disaster — two avalanches on the summit push end a race for the record 1:03:23 - Bruno Carvalho — dies of exhaustion on the descent, after the summit 1:18:09 - Boyan Petrov — a solo disappearance; his gear and insulin left in the tent 1:29:43 - Gomi and Miyashita — two Japanese climbers die in an avalanche 1:42:14 - Mattioli and Johnston — fall into a glacier crevasse during a rest stop 1:54:15 - Fritz Luchsinger — the mountain's first victim: pulmonary edema of the first man to climb Lhotse 2:06:06 - Sluka and Hudak — two Slovak disappearances; only their belongings remained Shishapangma is the lowest of the planet's fourteen eight-thousanders and the only one lying entirely within Tibet. It is called «the easiest and safest» of the great peaks — and that is its greatest deception. Here it is not a sheer wall or a tricky technical section that kills, but a gentle snow slope where a climber already feels safe: the real threat of Shishapangma is avalanches where no one expects them. Over its history the mountain has taken more than thirty lives — quietly, without loud headlines, choosing the most experienced and the most careful. This film tells ten stories of people from different countries and eras who climbed it and never came down. A speed climber buried by an avalanche on an «easy» slope. The strongest climber on the planet, whose body the glacier gave back only sixteen years later. Four Germans who vanished all at once without a trace. Two rivals killed in a race for the record. A soloist from whom only a tent and his insulin remained. Ten fates — and one mountain that found a different way for each of them.