 Okay, July 22nd 2014. We're on our summit push. We just came out from advanced base camp We're up here taking off a few layers Hey guys, where are we going? All right climb on So I'm going K2 Yeah Life is full of small steps and now we're about to go on the airplane to head up the Stardew Wow Stardew Ladies mountains just looming here above the airport. Just an awesome awesome scene They're kind of walking through what's called the bazaar. This is the general market and You know pretty much you can buy just about anything that you want here So this is this is Kami so coming I summited Everest together in 2011 strong strongest Sherpa ever Okay, so the the highlight of the day so far is that everybody's gotten popsicles Everybody's enjoying their popsicle Skardew Skardew We're in Skardew. Do we? Skardew Concordia Hotel Skardew Well, okay, I guess there we have it Let's look at the map here really make sure where we are and it looks like that we are in Skardew so we're here just in a beautiful area next to the river and some awesome awesome mountains and We're here next to the hotel on the garden area and these are the jeeps that we're going to use to go up and Go ahead and head on up to Skoli and you tell these things are really tricked out these drivers are incredibly proud of them They keep them perfectly clean. They buff them up. And so here's some of the folks around here Hello, sir And all our gear goes in these less glamorous Vehicles, you know pile it all up here, but you can see these things. They are just unbelievably tricked out So they got chrome on the engine all you call you gear heads out there You'll love this. Let me show you the inside of one of these babies So we'll actually sit back here in the back and hopefully these curtains will be up So we get some fresh air in here, but some of these things don't have curtains on them So here's the inside of one of them The road itself that we'll be on is unbelievably bumpy and dirty and dusty And we'll be in these things for like the next eight hours today Where are you taking these guys? Where are you going? Skoli Okay, so here's the problem. You see the rock is actually coming down This slope and what's happened is is come down and made The whole rock the area wow these are big rocks now coming down And it's made the entire road way too narrow for the teeth to get through So here we are in a skoli and these are the porters starting to gather very early We still have over an hour to go but they're gathering to Get work So everything is weighed by hand here a little hand scale Including all these little wooden boxes that have Mostly food in it. It looks like but the porter won't carry more than about 25 kilograms To attempt K2 I'm back here to uh to honor mom and my aunts and everybody else with Alzheimer's have a mission. I have a cause and That cause will push me further and harder than I've ever pushed in my life And if there's any doubt that we were on a glacier This is actually ice here underneath the the dirt Well, it's July 7th, 2014. We're at the Goro to camp and Just a beautiful beautiful morning. We got a light dusting of snow overnight And today we're going to head up to concordia and then over to a broad peak base camp or spend the night Okay, beautiful beautiful morning here. This is looking towards concordia The big mountain that you see looming right there. That is called g4 gas or brahm 4 These guys are helping each other on the loads. That goes climbing jumping down Look at this Well, it's july 8th, 2014 and we're here at broad peak base camp got in last night And it was totally cloudy, but look what we see this morning There it is there's k2 Oh my gosh, look at how big that mountain is It uh, it's 13,000 feet from where I'm standing to the summit And it might as well be 13 miles or 13,000 miles It's a huge mountain. We'll be taking probably the abruzzi spur That's the uh, the route the ridge on the far right hand side of the mountain I'll zoom in there. You can kind of get a little bit of a feel for it as much as I can with this camera Go up and we'll hit the shoulder up there and then uh going up to the summit There's the summit. I'll zoom in on that a little bit You really can't see that big old sarac has clearly I'd like to but It's up there and it's waiting for us Okay, we're approaching a k2 base camp that's down here at the bottom On the moraine of the Goodwin Austin Glacier. You see it's really Just carved out on top of the rocks Lots of tents here So I'm at the gilky memorial on k2 This is really hallowed ground A lot of plaques are up here to honor climbers who have died climbing k2 They have a beautiful view There's k2 There's k2 base camp down there Let's go up You can see some of the plaques Sadly there's too many up here A lot of them have nails that are carved into metal plates. Some of them have pictures Some are Very sophisticated Some are very simple and very old Some have worn away and then there's some I carefully make my way around To one that's very special to me Okay, it's july 11th 2014 and this is a very important day. It's an auspicious day on the buddhist calendar And hence we're going to have our puja this morning before we start heading up Oh Okay, we're getting everything prepared to go up for our first rotation looking at a lot of different food here You got the sherpa coffee Got the sherpa coffee Okay on the way to abc for our first rotation up to camp one and hopefully camp two And some money We're about 17,500 feet between abc and camp one that's mad up there You can see this is uh, this is pretty steep and it gets even steeper Yeah, I would say right now it's around uh 40 degrees and it'll increase to around 50 to 60 here shortly Looking back down. There's uh Garrett and rick coming up If you look out you can see camp park abc tent down there It appears that we have a nice less narrow blade here and here we have uh Watching the club my mind's going some type of Anyway, very secure at betons Uh Then we have a variety of knots fishermen have a figure of eight And that looks like there's a figure of eight with some type of backup here and They've equalized anchors very nicely. It's confidence inspiring If you're worried about this whole thing flaking away if you probably shouldn't be here Geology in action, so you trust your life to this this setup. I do this particular one. I guess I have no choice I didn't get to inspect it before I got up here And we're going to keep on heading up and you can see This is the way to camp one is up there just below those three black John darms that you see sticking up. It's probably another two hours for us It's july 13th 2014. This is camp one and about 20,000 feet on k2 As you can see it's really really tight up here And it's really steep coming up from an advanced base camp It took us about five hours to get up here on the first rotation to which You know, it's not great, but it's not bad at all But swinging around you can see the good one austin glacier and as I swing up towards camp two You know, this is reason that all these tents are all crowded together Is unbelievably steep and just goes straight up houses chimneys up there the black pyramids up there And that'll be our next destination Well, hey everybody this is alan from k2 base camp as july 21st leave it tomorrow morning head up to k2 You know, this is what we've been working for So you guys know what this is all about and I appreciate all your support Appreciate you coming along with me to the top. Hopefully. All right climb on. This is alan. Remember It's thursday june 24th and we're packing up getting ready to head up to camp two on our summit push Hear the boys in here doing a little Here are the other boys over here crawling out. Hey, man And that's where we're headed. Okay, here we are between camp one and camp two About 20,500 feet Taking a little break Now we're gonna get up higher From here on out against in the rock We got to worry about the rock. Is that right commie? Yes, this part is better than just because it wrote $1 You heard it here first If you pull the rope too tight There's a lot of bare glass on the route Hey, man, we're having fun now. The house is chimney And you can see somebody heading up it right now Chimney is right kind of in the middle of it And camp two Is right above really right right above that cornice right there And that's the black pyramid up there I'll zoom into that a little bit And come back around You can see the guy Getting up house of chimney right now And that's where we're going to go in a few minutes Okay, I'm about halfway up Okay, I'm about halfway up house of chimney. There's matt You may have waved matt There he is He's already climbed up it You can see the ladder Got some decent front point footholds here And this is house of chimney from the top So what is a Sherpa's pulse Oxyminor reading show at 22,000 feet? 60 Oh, good Good grade 108, Oxy 65 Easy easy on it Yeah Okay, we're at camp two on K2. Can you believe that? And this is another one of these spaces that Real estate is very very barren. You can see the winds just destroy the tents up here Just the pakistani team Little under five about five hours So here we are camp two We just got the weather forecast from michael fagan. What what do you say, Garrett? He said it's looking good for us on the 27th trace Possibility of snow but winds about 15 miles per hour on the summit cool. All right Now we're all dressed up in our down suits We're going to make the little trip up to Camp three and across the black pyramid. Here we are in the black pyramid Here's Matt, there's Garrett I can climb the ladders On top of one pyramid This is where we just came up. That's where everybody's jugging up Coming up from camp two Right down there you can see the tents off on the right Look at the picture Beautiful beautiful day July 26 2004 getting packed up to camp four There's the monster Looking at the china Over the kera quorum range These glaciers you don't want to see This is july 26 2014 you can see The climbers setting up Making good progress A lot of lines taking along They already passed the The bottleneck now all they have left is the summit They've got a beautiful beautiful day We're almost to summit of k2 We're ahead of work for this one And they're right here That's right. It doesn't come easy Not on k2 We're all working hard today July 27 2014 at the summit of k2 Unbelievable Okay You just summited k2 How's that coke taste? I believe we summited k2 Thanks to all you guys You're welcome Well done team K2 is down there And there's base camp Halfway between camp 3 Sorry Halfway between camp 2 and camp 3 Just trying to hold it together Look at all these ropes This is the ladder coming back around There's Matt coming down From the surface My urine There's more of water overnight So I don't know what to think I'm trying to get down To ABC Talk to da We'll see if there's a doctor in camp Or maybe we can call one I know it's dehydration But I'm afraid my kidneys are shutting down And my whole Lower back now Is really hurting It's not from the pack I've got less than 10 pounds So I'm gonna do my best To get down I still have trouble catching my breath Even With the oxygen I know there's oxygen down ABC It's not that far away So that's what I'm gonna try to do So Kami, we climbed k2 didn't we? Yeah, yeah We are successful and k2 But in the way It's a bit difficult Because Baldur Gilesh was a very long way That's where Alen was Very tired But it's okay, no problem Now we are in Iskarto Today we go Iskarto, yeah We are waiting for the jeep We're waiting for the jeep Well, thank you Kami so much for all your help I appreciate it man You're a great guy No problem, yeah Well, we just climbed k2 And now we're in Iskoli And we're getting ready to go Here's our steam driver How you guys doing? Everybody okay? Everybody ready to roll? Back door Back door Okay, we're there It was a good trip Hey Matt You just summoned to k2, what are you gonna do now? Sleep for 24 hours I can't go to Disneyland Climb on