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. Listen to the full series now, first on BBC Sounds. This is a podcast

download from the BBC.

It's Ramblings on Radio 4 with me, Claire Boulding.

For most of this series, we have been exploring the vast expanses of the countryside with various groups.

But today, on Ramblings, I have come to a city that was known as the second city of the Empire during the Victorian era,

that for many years was the fourth largest city in Europe behind London, Berlin and Paris.

And I am standing on the east side of Glasgow City Centre,

looking up at a building that has been constructed of pink sandstone slabs

that are so big you feel that just to lift one of them would do you serious damage.

And there is a sign to the left of the doorway that says Glasgow Women's Library

It's a hand-painted sign and standing beneath it

Are six women who are going to be my guides through Glasgow today

And they're led by Adele Patrick

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