When people discuss the world's most dangerous mountain, Annapurna doesn't often come to mind, but it's treacherous terrain and devastating avalanches have the highest fatality rate of ANY mountain. This is Annapurna: The Silent Killer
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0:00 Annapurna: The Silent Killer
1:39 Annapurna's Remote Location
3:24 Annapurna's Deadly Altitude
4:55 Annapurna's Unpredictable Weather
6:44 Annapurna's Climbing Route
10:47 Avalanches on Annapurna
11:58 Annapurna
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When I trekked 200 miles around Annapurna in spring 1987 there were no tea houses with hot showers. We slept in tents every night, even at 5000 meters and -25 Celsius. It was an amazing experience!
When I did ayahuasca in the jungles of Belize in spring 2005 there was no electricity or indoor plumbing and I happened to have a less than ideal trip. Freaked the hell out while sweating my face off in a balmy 92 Fahrenheit. When I came to I was pouring my heart out to a monkey skull positioned atop a wooden stake. It was an experience!
You're better off playing Russian Roulette: 15% death rate
That is very true
It’d be a 100% if you give it a go 6x lol
I'd much rather die on a mountain thanks.
@@dougdavis8986what about Russian roulette at the top of the mountain.. that would be what, like 7% survival rate?
@@dougdavis8986You can play Russian roulette at the summit
A short but thorough video on Annapurna.I thought K2 was the deadliest but I think K2 and Annapurna run neck to neck. I can't imagine climbers summiting without oxygen but there are some.
Honestly was quite hard to find as much information about Annapurna as it was K2, people who climb them have BALLS!
@@EverythingExplainedd I've heard that Annapurna's fatality rate is so high in part due to a relatively low number of total climbing attemps. And that this rate is slowly decreasing as more and more people attempt to climb it because they are still figuring out the mountain, finding better routes, climbing strategies etc. and that the fatality rate is likely to drop below K2's in the future. Still a massively dangerous mountain though. Edit: Just checked and Wikipedia says that Annapurna's fatality rate has dropped quite significantly in the last years and was already below 20% in 2022 which is lower than K2 at estimated 24%
@@EverythingExplainedd From the moment high-altitude climbing has become commercial the death rate in both mountains has significantly decreased. Climbers nowadays try Annapurna at the start of the climbing season, when the ice is still hard and the risk of an avalanche is lower. Annapurna is so deadly because of the avalanches, if you take them out it is still a dangerous mountain but not as dangerous as K2. In the last years, no one died in Annapurna because of luck, helicopters carrying O2 bottles up to the higher camps and helicopters carrying injured climbers. Commercial climbing makes the mountains safer but it kills the real spirit of climbing. Of course, I don't mind helicopters saving lives, but carrying O2 bottles, etc isn't my idea of climbing.
@@pro_grapist One of the primary dangers of Annapurna is its unpredictable, rapidly shifting weather and being constructed like an avalanche making machine. You can plan and strategize for some things, but it's always going to be extremely dangerous because of that.
@@pro_grapistK2 is 25% 1 in 4 climbers die.
Unless there is a weird way death rate is calculated (like hill steepness for example), 27% deaths is 27 deaths and 73 successes per 100 people. Not 27 deaths and 100 successes per 127 people
Yeah I tried to read about this and it seems like they calculate death rate in a weird way
The sucess rate is not 73 per 100, nor the death rate is 27 per 100. Many climbers do not die, but also do not make it to the summit, so they are just not accounted for. Another thing is that you can summit the mountain and die on the way down, being accounted for in both sides of the equation. A more precise statistic would be given by deaths/summit pushes.
@@fabiocastilho7060 surely deaths on the mountain vs. Completed ascent and descents is the key indicator
Did the Annapurna Base Camp trek in June 2023. The South Face of Annapurna is the most dangerous and you can literally see memories of people who died in the course of climbing.
was the trek good? that is horrifying
@@EverythingExplainedd The trek is fabulous. This 110 KM trek is one of the best in the world. 360 view of Annapurna ranges.
Congratulations man ❤ according to your knowledge wich one is harder EBC or ABC ?
@@KasunGunasekara9716ABC.
@@KasunGunasekara9716ebc is longer and harder trek. But ebc has good facilities as more tourist visit it
Excellent video...I find mountaineering so fascinating. It has to be an incredible experience climbing those snow-covered giants, getting to the summit where so few people have been, and seeing that amazing view...Also knowing at any second you could lose your life to a fall or an avalanche. Great video man, well done. Keep it up.
thank you, I loved making these videos. This & my K2 video are 2 of my best. Hopefully you'll stick around for the other vids also! I really don't know how people have the courage to summit one of these mountains honestly
U have to be rich to do it.
@Ludacar. A great experience from the safety of your armchair at home.
I don’t know, I wouldn’t care for it one bit.
"For 100 succesful summits there are 27 deaths", that would make the death rate 27/127≈21%
Maybe my math was off damn
@@EverythingExplaineddeh it's ok, math is hard ❤ but still pretty deadly
Ok I´m sort of splitting hairs here but then again not. If number of people that have summited is 400, how many attempted it? The death rate should be counted against that number, since probably most who died didn´t summit but tried? (I did not make any research beyond having watched this vid to back my position)
@@EverythingExplaineddmaybe? Lol
Death rate is often calculated by Attempts to death ratio IG?
This is on my bucket list of things never to do.
I’d like to do the trek there to base camp but it’s a firm No Way! On climbing up😊
I really appreciate that you have subtitles, they're much better than the auto generated ones I usually have to use. Definitely glad I found your channel and definitely subscribed, this is right up my alley. Aaaaand they're gone. Lol back to the ol takes up half the screen auto gen, dang it. It's ok still subscribed 😅
thank you! Sorry about that, iv been experimenting - My best ever video about K2 nearly has 1m views and as captions just for intro - Then tried through the whole video about Orcas attacking boats, nearly 800k views So basically I think iv realised now they don't effect performance good or bad, but if they help people such as yourself, I need to add them throughout the full video for every video!
Locals will tell you that mountains have spirits, and it is said that the spirits of K2, Annapurna, and Nanga Parbat are very fickle and very angry and will kill you on a whim. I can relate to this sentiment as i live really close to a different kind of killer mountain- volcanoes. Now the ones here like Mayon and Bulusan and Kanlaon, can be summited like any other mountain, but just like the 8,000ers they have a death zone- when they erupt without warning, nothing within 6km of their eruptive vents are safe. A particularly fascinating coincidence, maybe, was when in 1997 a couple of rowdy foreigners summited Kanlaon and threw rocks into her crater. She exploded unexpectedly and killed three.
oh wow that certainly is a big 'coincidence' if it is one, I might make a video on Nanga Parabat
@@EverythingExplainedd i'm pretty sure you'll never run out of stories from all the mountains of our world, especially the 8,000-ers. i can also help locate some articles regarding less mainstream events like the said 1997 Kanlaon or 2013 Mayon incidents as told from the locals' points of view.
You may have just proved those locals correct.
Kanlaon got really mad. See? That is why nature must be respected.
Guess it would explode regardless. Volcanic eruptions are a natural process, following their own laws and cause-and-effect principles. Throwing or not throwing stones into a crater are of zero relevance. If it's ready to go boom it goes. The poor buggers sealed their fates by deciding to climb the volcano ready to erupt. Darwin award.
Been waiting for a detailed vid on Annapurna 1 for a long time. Thankyou so much for this
my pleasure! I couldn't believe that there wasn't a proper one when doing research
@@EverythingExplaineddYes there's so little out there on Annapurna
Well put together and accurate, Your grasp of the issues in this area of climbing shows.
great vids, keep up the good work!
great video as always keep it up
Thank you so much! One of my most loyal subs!
@@EverythingExplainedd you really deserve loyal subscribers
Rumor has it there will be a McDonalds on Everest by 2026.
And a ski lift to the top
It looks like it might do some business….unfortunately. I bet a Starbucks will be next door.
@@EverythingExplainedd cuz it’s hard to do a TikTok video AND climb at the same time, duh😂
@@melindahall5062 they will create a size bigger than “venti”…… “I’d like a triple Everest latte……”😂
They blame global warning for the conditions on these mountains yet never look inwards..the sheer amount of permits issued, 100's descending & ascending, oxygen bottles, human waste, plastics etc all adding to the diminishing natural beauty of these truly iconic sites.
I dont normally sub to really new channels, BUT…. You dont have ai narration, your voice is understandable, your narration is good, and the script itself wasnt bad at all, neither was the editing. Good job bud.
I appreciate that, thanks!
When for every 100 summits there are 27 deaths, the death rate is not 27%, but 21% as the 27 deaths are not part of the 100 summits. They are a part of 127 tries combined. However, this number is still crazy.
Beat me to it. But the numbers are even lower: as of 2022 365 climbers have submitted Annapurna I and 72 have died trying. That puts it at 16.5% death rate. Part of the reason the death rate was so high was due to low sample size. 2023 was a very successful climbing season with much, much lower death rates. And the more commercial attention Annapurna receives, the lower the death rate will drop. At this point it doesn't crack the top 5 of deadliest 8000m peaks
Really interesting and well done video!
thank you very much!
The death zone is called that for a dam good reason, the himan body is not built for that extreme altitude, the body and the brain are affected acutely from the altitude.
yeah exactly, HACE or HAPE are all too common for non-experienced climbers
Annapurna is within my grasp financially. I plan to climb it within the next 5 years.
Good luck
If you don't mind me asking, approximately what budget do you think is necessary?
Good luck random internet person, hope everything goes well!
Good luck
Good luck! Hope you stay safe
That was really well done. I did the Annapurna Circuit many years ago. Enjoyed your video.
Thank you so much, never been close to it so happy I did it justice from my research! I sometimes worry I don’t live up to the reality
The annapurna circuit is a bucket list dream of mine. How good of a view of Annapurna did you get?
@@nickreynolds8391I read a comment from another person who did it. He said is 110 KM, one of the most beautiful trekk on the planet. 360 view of A
@@pavelclaudiopatino419 Yeah it sounds like a life changing journey, I bet it's the trek of a lifetime!!
Love ur videos! Found you by watching some k2 documentaries and ur video on k2 popped up, only 3k views away from 1m views on that!!
thanks so much! it hit 1m today, so happy
@@EverythingExplainedd ahh heck yeah man! Great news, you deserved it!!! Looking forward to more videos from you, best of luck.
Icons used in thumbnail images are very nice, where did you get them? Also very nice video!
Anatoli Boukreev died there, that's enough proof for me to don't ever question how deadly Annapurna is.
Please do more of these mountain videos. I'm so interested in the 8,000ers.
I don’t know if you have Netflix but try to watch the 14 peaks documentary, some crazy dude from Nepal climbed every 8,000er is 7months
This mountain killed the famous Anatoli Bukreev. I think there's a memorial there for him.
and Messners Brother yes?
No, Guenther Messner died on Nanga Parbat in 1970@@thestruggler3338
FYI 27% death rate means 27 deaths for 73 successful summits, not for 100, as you said
In fact I recall having read some years back that it was 38 %!
Lol what is 27% means
Per 100 , 27 people
Well done!
Annapurna is a truly terrifying mountain. It's like it's trying to get you much like K2
Me literally just viewing the mountain from my house and watching the video at the same time. Never knew it was so dangerous though my whole 20 years i have been seeing it every morning i wake up
Sad fact that the hero of the 1996 Everest disaster, Anatoli Boukreev, was killed a year later on Annapurna.
Having to balance that ladder looks terrifying
[0:30] For what it's worth... if the death rate is 27%, that would mean that for every 73 (as opposed to 100) successful summits, there are 27 deaths.
Why is this a comment? People learn this as kids... Did you know, 1+1 is 2
@@seaneriksen2695 Tell that to the narrator. I was simply correcting his mistake.
oh my bad mate@@Strype13
That's how it is done in mountaineering though. It's not really a percentage. Just sucess:fatalities.
You can die on the descent.
Nice details, Please make video on kailash mountain. I don't why Climbing on kailash is so impossible 😮❤🙏
Even if you manage to reach the summit, that is only half the journey. Climbing down is even more treacherous compared to climbing up. So you can still lose your life!
I have to be completely honest, you should make more of these mountain explained videos
No stress ofc, i don’t wanna sound like one of those “RAHHH UPLOAD MOAR OR ELSE” guys, i just really enjoy these!
"Well, I've decided to slightly redirect our Hawaii trip..."
do you fancy climbing the mountain?
Its a while now - 42 years to he excact - when my friend whatched the averlances crashing down there. In those days there was just nature and you.
Nothing could induce me to attempt to climb Annapurna
Could just air drop to the peak, have a look around, and air lift out. Why go to all the crazy trouble of climbing. Oh that's right, man's ambition to try to prove he is not weak, even when he is.
You are an excellent narrator
My mate and I did this in 2009. Its tough.
The most tiring and hardest times I had in my short career of climbing was ice climbing. Had to get those pics in hard every step, your spikes on your feet cld trip you any step..Wow talk about pleasure as torture or is it the opposite?😮
I BET, it looks so hard, and imagine that 8000m high...
I did the Sanctuary of the Annapurna in January 2005. Long trek to the Base Camp starting from Pokhara. For me it was difficult because I am not sportive so going to the top must be demanding.
Baljeet kaur at annapurna is something really superb to listen to.
I would be going down the mountain real fast if I had to cross one of those ladders
The squats at Annapurna Base Camp were very icy. There was every chance of slipping to a fate worse than death.
I’m pretty sure elite exped has a video on KZhead of them taking inexperienced climbers to the summit of this mountain.. I could be mistaken but I’m pretty sure it’s this mountain, and I was actually impressed by the feat because they explained it as they have never climbed a mountain like this at all..
27% is “for every 73 successes, there are 27 deaths”, not “for every hundred successes, there are 27 deaths”.
I don't understand why people do things like this.. but they are a special brave type of person. Certainly people like this are the ones who drive the human race forward to explore and to advance.
There's a fine, but clear line between bravery and stupidity. Brave people save others from burning buildings, while stupid people choose to put themselves in harms way at their own volition (and then think that they're some kind of heroes / martyrs, depending on the outcome) 🙄🙄
@@martinusv7433 There is some things to Big, for people like you to understand.
I respect the people that can climb this + K2 over the bums of Everest that need Sherpas to carry everything for them.
People in the mountaineering community don’t typically talk about mountains having a death rate, because many people will not summit or die. We typically talk about mountains having ratios or deaths to summits, and Annapurnas ratio is the highest, at nearly 1 death for every 3 summits
I looked out across the horizon on top of numerous 8000 meter peaks…. With my VR lol.
@EverythingExplainedd That is very trueIt is named Annapurna --> 'Anna Purna' for a reason
I was on Annapurna base camp on October 4-6 2023.
Man, I would love to see it with my own eyes. When you're at base camp, do you see the south face or the north face?
@@nickreynolds8391 You see the south-east face of Annapurna 1
Please make a video about Nanga Parbat!
Which video that you linked is the one showing the avalanche from camp 2?
Good Video But there's a Little mistake in the Burj khalifa Annapurna comparison, that leads to misinformation. The Annapurna itself is 4130 meters high, from base to the top. With the ground level added, the top is at over 8000 meters ,Yes. But so the Annapurna massive itself is "just" 5 times higher than the Burj khalifa, not 10 times. People always thinking that those mountains are really 8 km high when they would stand right in front. That's the Problem with the sea level specification.
that is crazy
Anatoli bukreev also was died on this mountain.
Not a 27% death rate. It's a 27% summit to death ratio, that's different. Most attempts end up in going back, usually because of weather, confidence, injuries and equipment/logistics problems.
Its crazy that nims purja climbed all of the mountains higher than 8000 meters in 7 months
I find it a very odd concept that, no matter where one goes in the world, that there should be someone there to to save you; just in case. If you choose to go into the wild then you agree to terms of of the wild, and demanding that you should be ‘saved’ if you fail to survive is peak entitlement and vanity. Go at your own risk. You aren’t special
NIce video
thank you!
The mountain just weeds out the unworthy
devils work
and the unlucky...
I need a trip to Poon Hill.
Just looked up this mountain today at work and it even said the death rate for summits was 40%
Loosing my toes, fingers and possibly a limb to climb the top of a mountain 🤔 No but Thank You
most of the toes are not that useful
„For every100 successful summits there are 27 deaths“ Sorry, but that’s not a 27% death rate.
lmaoo people really wake up and say i wanna climb that mountain ! dope !
im just sitting here, breathing air, pretty wild
Mount Tambora LAUGHS at the lethality of this mountain.
Though, to be fair, Tambora was pretty loud when killing.
I’d love to stop at poon ville. Giggidy giggidy
All these mountains are dangerous man.
so very dangerous indeed
So is driving a car in rush hour traffic.
@@matthewcollins5344 Unless your Vin Deasel.
I’m glad I don’t like the cold
Annapurna rate is decreasing every year because now more climbers have climbed it and they have set the path. Now most death rate is on K2.
A 27% deathrate is not 27 dead per 100 successful summits but 27 dead per 100 attempts
It is just a mountain - not a killer. It is mankind who knowingly put themselves in danger.
It's not really 8000m tall is it. Base camp is about 5000m. You only actually climb 3000m.
Summit is a noun and not a verb!
Now imagine that the mountain was taller…
You didn’t talk about camp four?
It seems the percentages are a bit off.
Since high altitude poses such a risk due to less oxygen could someone theoretically take a drug like EPO to increase their red blood cell count and more easily acclimatize to the altitude?
Of course. One of the German climbers back in the day took meth and it kept him alive
Ok, doing some quick math here and taking into consideration the 2014 disaster that claimed the 44 lives of unskilled and under equipped climbers, the total number of people to summit is less than 400. This means at 27% death rate roughly 100 people have parished on this mountain. Nearly half (44) happened in one day. Take away that one unfortunate disaster and this mountains death rate is halved. A more accurate assessment of death to summit is closer to 14%
Those were the hikers and isn't added to the mountaineering death toll.
Hiking/trekking and climbing to summit are different things.
Looks easy tbf
To be fair it's definitely easier than K2
27% of people think not. How about you do it and tell us how easy it was
yk what a joke is? @@aceay5222
It's easier but deadlier... the irony
Ed Viesturs (who climbed all fourteen 8K meter mountains) said that Annapurna was more frightening than K2. K2 may very well be more difficult technically, but Viesturs said the constant avalanche risk made K2 the lesser of 2 evils. He said there wasn't a place on the mountain where one could feel safe from avalanche exposure. And I saw where one climber stated that Annapurna virtually rained avalanches. This climber said that he spent weeks waiting for a good weather window on Annapurna, and that you could hear avalanches coming off the mountain daily.
If 100 people make it and 27 don't then the fail rate is 21%. If 100 people attempt the climb and 27% don't make it then the fail rate is 27%.
It’s fatality rate is now 20%. Less than K2 24%
i wanna climb this dawg so bad
A 27% death rate does not mean 27 death for every 100 successful summits. In this case everyone who dies would have summited before their death.
my bad
my toxic trait is thinking I'd find this easy
My toxic trait thinking I can speedrun the mountain without any help
Poon Hill? I'm on my way.
LOL
27% means for every 73 successful summits theres 27 deaths, not for every 100. then the total would be 127 and the actual deathrate 27/127=21.25%~
Sub great vid
Maths is not the commentators strong suit
I rather being a neet than risking my life for this 😗
oh dee ah --- thank ewe pip
❤😊
First thing you said was wrong, 27% is not 27/127
As cold as minus 15 degrees? Same as a really cold day in the Scottish Mountains then?
@mc1069 possibly. I live near Manchester, about half way down the UK, only had aboutb 20 mins of snow this year. Usually a good bit colder in Scotland though.
Even -25 C is a yearly occurrence in countries around the Baltic sea.
Vocal fry is strong in this one.
Vocal fry? I don't know about that but he's certainly fried some of the consonants up. 'Eight fousanders', 'wevver', 'free' (for 3) etc. I find it very sloppy and off-putting. There were kids at school that spoke like that in my day but the teachers used to correct them. That no longer happens, it's probably seen as an attack on personal freedom. 'I fink verefore I am!' I'm not part of the 'anti-woke' brigade but this is not a good direction for the English language to be following. But it's becoming the norm on KZhead amongst English creators.