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.

I cannot tell you how happy I am this morning.

It's just gone 8 o'clock in the morning.

We were forecast very heavy rain.

So far, just little light drops are

falling and i'm up in scotland i'm to the southwest of edinburgh in the pentland hills with a bank of

slightly fading heather on my right water down on my left still and shimmery and like a mirror

and then these magnificent bear like pentland hills and i'm with a group

who know these hills and love these hills because this is their home patch and for susan falkner

you've just said to me this is your office and i'm deeply envious well what a lovely place to have an

office i'm completely passionate about this this place and I'm also fortunate enough to have a job that

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