Nanga Parbat

K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth, is visible as a dark triangular silhouette against the fading light.

Nanga Parbat in the nearby Himalayas is barely visible in the distance.

Glaciers sprawl in shadow in every direction below them.

They've done something no one else has ever done.

Mark Sinnott, the author who participated in a 2019 expedition led by Jamie McGinnis from New Zealand to uncover the mystery, discloses in his book, The Third Pole, that the Chinese might have discovered the remains of Irving and the camera and then concealed the evidence.

Next up, Gunther Messner went missing from Nanga Parbat in 1970.

In 1970, Gunther and Reinhold Messner, a pair of brothers, endeavored to climb Nanga Parbat, the ninth tallest mountain in the world.

This towering peak stands at an impressive 27,000 feet above sea level, situated at the western edge of the Himalayas.

Known as the Mountain of Destiny, it has claimed the lives of many climbers who have attempted to scale its treacherous heights.

Some people have criticized Reinhold for prioritizing his ambition over his brother's safety.

Reinhold took legal action against the two climbers and their publishers and insisted that he had done nothing wrong.

He returned to Nanga Parbat a year after his brother's passing to look for the body but found no evidence.

Mark Sinnott, the author who participated in a 2019 expedition led by Jamie McGinnis from New Zealand to uncover the mystery, discloses in his book, The Third Pole, that the Chinese might have discovered the remains of Irving and the camera and then concealed the evidence.

Next up, Gunther Messner went missing from Nanga Parbat in

1970.

In 1970, Gunther and Reinhold Messner, a pair of brothers, endeavored to climb Nanga Parbat, the ninth tallest mountain in the world.

This towering peak stands at an impressive 27,000 feet above sea level, situated at the western edge of the Himalayas.

Known as the Mountain of Destiny, it has claimed the lives of many climbers who have attempted to scale its treacherous heights.

Some people have criticized Reinhold for prioritizing his ambition over his brother's safety.

Reinhold took legal action against the two climbers and their publishers and insisted that he had done nothing wrong.

And when Hollywood needed the cast of 300 turned into Spartans, they came to him.

In 1988, he was 25,000 feet up on the RuPaul face of the Nanga Parbat when the mountain came down on his team.

That October, he went up the North side of Everest with no fixed rope, no camps and no oxygen.

Somewhere in between, he put up a route in the Canadian Rockies that nobody repeated for 37 years.

While on their summits I said to myself, 'How tame all this seems compared with what I looked upon last in the Canadian Rockies.'" The party engaged in climbing here in 1897 contained men who know not merely Switzerland and Tyrol, but Norway, the Caucus, and even the Himalayas, and all were enthusiastic over these new Alps.

Not only so, but the most expert climber of the number, Professor J.N. Collie of the Alpine Club of London, Mummery's companion on the fatal trip to climb the mighty Nanga Parbat in Kashmir, has since twice returned with other Alpine Club men to enjoy this magnificent virgin field.

So we have a perfect right to speak of alpine climbing in North America.

Modern mountaineering dates not so clearly from de Saussure's ascent of Mont Blanc in 1786 as from the founding of the Alpine Club in London in 1858.

know listeners to the Ski Podcast are super interested in hearing about your incredible achievement.

You've recently come back from Nanga Parbat in Nepal, and I have some questions about that later.

But I wondered if we could start with how you became the guy who skis the highest peaks in the world without oxygen.

You live in Zakopane, which I have been lucky enough to visit.

Yeah, and that's really interesting.

I spoke to Kit Delorier, who is the first person to ski all of the seven summits, and she told me that she made herself some neoprene covers for her boots, just to really try and focus on keeping your feet warm, which must be so important.

So you've skied down Everest, K2, and recently this summer, Nanga Parbat.

I wondered...