Superb!

Gripping is an understatement…

Very good. Nice to see a lack of sensationalism and finger pointing.

Bloody scary stuff though seeing people slide past to their deaths! I wasn’t sure how much was reconstruction and how much original filming – even so it was gripping!

Stunning and horrific. Brilliant

slowoldman – Member
Very good. Nice to see a lack of sensationalism and finger pointing.

I think all their fingers had snapped off!
the korean team leader didnt come out of it well, but it seemed a cumulative errors and misfortune throughout

scary stuff

Had me gripped. The lure of being somewhere so amazing almost makes the risks worthwhile..
The view of the shadow of the mountain was breathtaking.

Fantastic program and as above very gripping, also unsure what was original and what was reconstruction, best thing I’ve seen on TV for a while.

Will look out for it, having spent an evening getting very drunk with Alan Hinks a lot is put into perspective on the big mountain game.

excellent. BBC4 seems to have some of the best programs on the BBC at the moment!

Got to say that it seems half of these disasters kick off with a big queue of climbers going up together at the pace of the slowest person at the front. Storyville is a fantastic documentary series (I know it’s not docs made by the BBC); they’re my lunchtime iplayer choice. Watched Blackfish (about orca who kill trainers at waterparks) and the one about Gadaffi in the last week, both superb if a bit harrowing.

It is on again on monday 10th feb.

It is on again on monday 10th feb.

Fantastic, I only caught part of it last night 🙂

excellent viewing.

And followed by Julia Bradbury in Iceland! Great night on the telly 😀

off to see if iPlayer is my friend, missed this.

Edit: yep, its on iplayer. downloading.

Managed the first 30m “live” yesterday before evening duties, Then iplayer crashed around midnight. Have a break now to catch up.

Terrible story but fascinating (so far) insight into the different teams. Not sure I would want to climb with the Dutch guys so far. Norwegians, especially the delightful Cecillie Skog, a better bet. They have the old fashioned mountaineering mentality that success is not reaching the summit, it’s getting down alive. A bit old school these days!!!

Time 33 mins for the telling commentary from Skog.

In contrast the Dutch guy seemed overly summit obsessed (fever) including over ruling advice from colleagues higher up the mountain and shouting over others in the meetings.

In a similar vein this is also a very good documentary about the Eiger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yxqy3WdxOk

“Only the mountain knows”

Watched the Iceland prog this lunchtime. Made me very happy I’ve a trip there planned with my wife at the end of March 🙂

K2 one will watch tonight.

Easter Island documentary was pretty ace too, also repeated a couple of times over the week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03srmm6/Easter_Island_Mysteries_of_a_Lost_World/

Didn’t bother as I assumed it was the ’86 Rouse/Tullis (and others) story, but appears that it was recently.

Very sad but fascinating – and benefitted from just letting the survivors and relatives talk IMO.

Rather than talk up the epic epicness of the people and task involved I mean.

That shot of the mountain’s shadow from the summit said more than words ever could about why people risk it all to climb there.

What a tragic story.

Excellent piece of filmmaking.

Excellent programme.

Says a lot about personality types.

Not sure I could look a man in the eyes then leave him to die even if I knew the consequences of my not doing. Suppose a person would have to be put in the situation to truly find out what they’d do.

They were late in the season to attempt a summit climb because of bad weather. They were late because the Korean leader didn’t get out his tent to lead the roping party. Snowballed from there.

Not sure I could look a man in the eyes then leave him to die even if I knew the consequences of my not doing. Suppose a person would have to be put in the situation to truly find out what they’d do.

My view (from the comfort of a nice warm office in the UK, admittedly) is that I would rather die on the mountain than put someone else in a position where they had to make that /\ decision, and expect my fellow climbers to think the same.

very good programme, Pemba and Favley had a book out about the expedition this year