10 Horrific Tragedies on Kangchenjunga

TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Zsolt Erőss and Péter Kiss — the partner turned back up to save his friend and died himself; the mountain's blackest day, five dead in a day 11:28 - Wanda Rutkiewicz — the greatest female climber spent the night alone at 8,250 m and vanished a step from her dream; still never found 23:29 - Luis Stitzinger — wanted to be the first to ski down from the summit; found still in his crampons, never changed into his skis 35:58 - Benoît Chamoux and Pierre Royer — a race for the 14th peak ended forty meters from the goal; both vanished on the north side 48:04 - Chhanda Gayen — took the main summit and two days later disappeared in an avalanche on the neighboring peak 1:00:08 - Kuntal Karar and Biplab Baidya — Purja gave them his oxygen and waited 12 hours for help; from a camp of 50, no one came 1:12:43 - Chris Chandler and Cherie Bremer-Kamp — in winter the husband died of the illness he knew best; his wife descended for four days 1:24:13 - Andrzej Czok — on the day of the first winter ascent he died lower down the slope; the oxygen from below came too late 1:37:01 - Marija Frantar and Jože Rozman — they turned back too late, 150 m from the top; with them the «curse of the women» began 1:49:52 - The price the Sherpas pay — the names no one remembered: the finale that turns all nine stories on their head Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world and the only eight-thousander whose true summit climbers refuse to set foot on, out of respect for a sacred place. Yet the mountain that man never fully conquered, out of reverence, turned out to be one of the deadliest on the planet — and it kills in its own way: not on the way up, but on the way down, once the summit has already been reached and no strength remains. This collection holds ten stories from this slope. A Hungarian on a prosthetic leg and the partner who climbed back up instead of saving himself. The most decorated female climber in the world, vanishing a single step from her dream. A skier found still wearing his crampons, having never changed into his skis. A race for a title that ended forty meters from the goal. The «curse of the women» that would not release the mountain for seven years. And a finale that turns everything on its head — about those whose hands built all these records and whose names no one remembered. Ten ascents. Ten stories of a descent that never happened.