10 terrifying tragedies on Annapurna

Timestamps: 00:00:00 — Tragedy 1: Iñaki Ochoa de Olza and Don Bowie — the largest rescue operation in Himalayan history 00:12:28 — Tragedy 2: Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz and Vera Watson — the rope team that fell below the Central Summit in 1978 00:26:16 — Tragedy 3: Park Young-seok and his two partners — the Korean rope team that vanished on the radio on the south face 00:37:29 — Tragedy 4: Toshiyuki Kobayashi and Yasuhira Saito — the 1987 winter first ascent and two who never came back 00:49:30 — Tragedy 5: Anurag Maloo — three days at the bottom of an ice crevasse and a rescue even the sherpas didn't believe in 01:01:16 — Tragedy 6: Gabriel Denamur — the Belgian who crossed the ridge to the north and stayed there forever 01:11:51 — Tragedy 7: Christian Kuntner — thirteen eight-thousanders behind him and the serac that picked him out 01:25:30 — Tragedy 8: Tolo Calafat — «por mis hijos, bajadme de aquí» and the neighboring expedition that refused to help 01:38:50 — Tragedy 9: Chin Wui Kin — the anesthesiologist left on the ice for 38 hours while the insurance company read out the policy 01:48:35 — Tragedy 10: Noel Hanna — ten Everests, K2 and Manaslu without oxygen, and a hot soup at Camp 4 The tenth-highest mountain on the planet — and the worst fatality rate among all eight-thousanders. In the early decades, for every three people who reached its summit, one never came back. Annapurna does not return those it takes. In this video: ten true stories from the deadliest mountain on Earth. Ten expeditions, ten tragedies, ten names taken by Annapurna. A statistic that has not changed for seventy-five years.