10 Horrifying Tragedies on Lhotse

0:00 - Jerzy Kukuczka — a 6 mm market rope snapped 200 meters below the ridge 19:00 - Barna Vago and Rakesh Bishnoi — two deaths in a single weekend, May 2025 32:50 - Vladimir Bashkirov — a hundred meters from the tents, and the oxygen failed 47:31 - Pemba Doma Sherpa — a fall in the couloir, watched from Everest 1:01:41 - Milan Sedlacek — twelve years on the fixed ropes, two meters below the summit 1:18:48 - Ivan Tomov — brain edema and a stretcher built by two strangers 1:32:43 - Khudam Bir Tamang — the silent avalanche, two meters from his friend 1:46:47 - Rafal Cholda — a fall on the snow traverse where there were no ropes 2:03:08 - Sergey Samoylov — the Lhotse-Everest traverse dream and a body found at 6,800 m 2:17:29 - Pavel Kalny — he survived a 200-meter fall, but they could not carry him down Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and Everest's closest neighbor. Climbers take it as a bonus, an easy add-on to the season, and almost everyone who died here died a few meters short: two meters below the summit, a hundred meters above the tents, one minute of walking from a camp where the tea was already boiling. Ten stories from the mountain still called easy: Jerzy Kukuczka and the six-millimeter rope bought at a Kathmandu market, Vladimir Bashkirov and an oxygen set that would not work, Pemba Doma Sherpa, whose fall was watched from Everest, Milan Sedlacek, who hung on the fixed ropes for twelve years, and others. Stay to the end: the last story closes the collection with a rhyme nobody saw coming.