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. This is a BBC Radio

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Claire Balding with another edition of Ramblings.

The one thing I have yet to hear during my journey around the Nisdale Way is the sound of the Curlew.

And the Curlew is actually the symbol of the Nisdale Way.

I've seen it on all the signs with its great long bill, but I haven't heard it. I have high hopes today though, on my last

day, the last leg of this 53-mile trek into Pately Bridge and this is as far away from the River Niddeal as

it gets. If you want to follow us on a map, by the way, it's on OS Explorer 298, which is Nidderdale,

and the whole of the route, the whole Nisdale way, is in one map, which is very handy.

And we are starting today, grid reference 222-632, Monkwall, it says, which must be connected

to Fountains Abbey.

But I'm pretty sure that the people I'm walking with will know I'm going to be joined by Margaret Lawrence and Chris Bennett and John Byron's

I've turned up a lane that says Nisdale away in the hope that Margaret John and Chris I can see them actually there we are

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