11 climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2.

It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history.

Rock falls, avalanches.

Huge pieces of ice.

All are big enough to kill you.

He just flew out into Devoid, and he was gone.

How did it all go so wrong?

And is it really worth risking death to feel alive?

Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death zone on vacation?

Extreme. Peak Danger. With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella.

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This is Ramblings with me, Claire Boulding.

The sky's a grey overhead, and we've got a light shower of rain blowing into our faces at the moment.

But all around, I can see colour, the light blue, the pink, the line green and the cream of the houses that are huddled together,

rising steeply from Foy Harbour and backed off by incredible structural pine trees that look like enormous bunches of broccoli.

And they mark out the skyline of this incredibly busy trading port.

The colour as well and the boats all around me.

The first thing to do is get on the ferry over to Pole Ruin.

We've come here today to invoke the spirit of Daphne.

We're in Dumorier country and I'm surrounded by experts on Daphne de Moreen

and also on this local area.

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