Eleven 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 cell on a vacation? Extreme, peak danger. With me,

Natalia Melman Petrazella. Listen to the full series now. First on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.

We are back, that's the good news.

Or if you've only just come to the podcast, it might seem like, quite honestly, we have never

been away, in which case, as you were, you just carry on.

But if you have been wondering where we've been, life-changing is returning for another series.

And once again, I'll meet some extraordinary people

who'll be telling me about the moments that defined and reshape their lives.

These are so-called ordinary people.

But as we all know, no one is ordinary.

I'm interested, John, in your family nickname, which is a good one.

This is lamb chop.

Now, how did that come about?

I don't know, to be honest.

I know who always come from, obviously, my siblings.

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