Siffredi was the first to descend Mount Everest on a snowboard, completing this feat in 2001 via the Norton Couloir.[1][2] In 2002, he disappeared after making his second Everest summit, while attempting to snowboard the Hornbein Couloir; his body has never been found.
Right? His body was never found, so maybe he reached the bottom and hitched a ride to escape his life and now he's in a monetary somewhere in Nepal leading a quiet, peaceful existence
It’s like winning big money the very first time you try gambling. You ought to quit while you’re ahead, but your judgement is too clouded to actually stop yourself.
Is it... is it possible he ran away? Like I've seen documentaries where people disappear only to be found years later across the country. And people be like: dude made a second life, got tired of it and came back.
Good? Stay off the fucking mountain. It's already been littered with human trash and bodies. It's no longer a milestone it's a human trash collector. Fuck him.
This one on K2 was really interesting. It goes in-depth on why K2 is so much more dangerous than Everest and the many failures of the people attempting to be the first to make it to the top.
Do you speak German or Dutch? It‘s not a documentary, but Toine Heijmans wrote a spectacular book on mountaineering called Zuurstofschuld. There‘s only a German translation though so far. I read the thing cover-to-cover in three days, best read I‘ve had in a while.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but "Scary Interesting" on youtube has some good mountaineering gone wrong stories. They're typically 10-20 minutes long.