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 the BBC.

It is a glorious morning and I'm on the west coast of Scotland.

If you look at a map and essentially just after Cumbria there is a massive inlet and that's the Solway Firth above it there's an almost like a lesser h as two promontories come down on the right hand side of those two if you think of the bars of

the h the right hand bar that is Wigtonshire and i've come to this area they have a wonderful

book festival here and I came

about four years ago and thought I must come back to walk because it felt to me as if it was a

a really secret, magical, undiscovered part of the UK where there weren't the massive crowds that

you might get in the late district or even the highlands. And the landscape is sensational, huge skies, really lush, naturally well fertilised land.

And everybody really chuffed it.

You sort of made the effort to come.

So I thought, I must come back.

And if I come back, I will do ramblings.

So that was my mission.

And we get a great day to do it on to explore a

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