THEY’RE SMILING, BUT THEY’RE ALREADY DOOMED — How Nanga Parbat DEVOURED the Best Climbing Team

On June 24, 2017, a GPS device recorded a normal ascent to 6,270 meters. Fifty-seven minutes later, the dot on the screen suddenly dropped 150 meters… and remained motionless forever. Alberto Zerain and Mariano Galván disappeared on the Mazeno Ridge, the longest and most committing route on Nanga Parbat. In this video, we reconstruct their final climb: the storm, the wet snow, the slab avalanche, the tracker data, the delay in the rescue operation, and the fatal moment when the SOS button was never activated. The true story of a truck driver from the Basque Country who summited ten eight-thousanders without oxygen — and vanished on one of the most dangerous routes in the Himalayas.