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With today tech - cameras, drones - the tragedy would unfold like a reality TV. Several months ago a woman broke her leg and stuck as a result at 6800m on Pobe

by trhway 4mo ago

With today tech - cameras, drones - the tragedy would unfold like a reality TV. Several months ago a woman broke her leg and stuck as a result at 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia and died in several days while the whole country was watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr02F36YdQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr02F36YdQ

no-name-here 4mo ago
Text: https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climber-natalia-nagovitsina-has-died-kyrgyzstan-s-mountaineering-federation-says https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climbe... Link at the bottom has previous update
throwup238 4mo ago
For context: One climber died and a helicopter crashed trying to rescue her. No one's ever been rescued before at that altitude on that mountain range.
21asdffdsa12 4mo ago
There was a video-stream company that got famous live-streaming a technician who fell when dismounting a condor-egg camera.
- verzali 4mo ago
  ... pied piper?...
TFNA 4mo ago
> 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia I thought, “There’s no way a peak in Russia can be that high”, and indeed, you got the unit wrong, this is 3,003 m. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Pobeda_(Sakha) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Pobeda_(Sakha)
- trhway 4mo ago
  you've got the wrong peak. 7439m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jengish_Chokusu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jengish_Chokusu 3000m is nothing. Mount Shasta is 4200m and we, just regular guys, walked up to its summit without any experience, etc. in 2 days. People easy do it in 1 day.
  - TFNA 4mo ago
    Jengish Chokusu is in Kyrgyzstan, not Russia. And during the Soviet era it was part of the Kyrgyz SFSR, not the Russian SFSR. You’d have to be talking about events happening before 1917 (when it was part of the general Russian Empire) for someone writing in 2026 to reasonably describe it as “in Russia”. > 3000m is nothing Not (to speak of the other Peak Pobeda) in Yakutia.
    - dredmorbius 4mo ago
      From the Meduza story linked earlier in this subthread: Russian mountain climber Natalia Nagovitsina, who got stranded on Kyrgyzstan’s Pobeda Peak on August 12 after suffering an injury during her descent, has died... <https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climber-natalia-nagovitsina-has-died-kyrgyzstan-s-mountaineering-federation-says https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climbe...> The climber was Russian. The peak, Kyrgyzstani. The name "Pobeda" means "Victory" in Russian. Mountains (and other geographic features) often share names, and specifying which and where can occasionally be confusing. Tolerance for someone mis-remembering elements of a story helps avoid tedious comment litigation.
      - TFNA 4mo ago
        Confusing a country that won independence from its colonizer with said colonizer (regardless of whether it was a typical geographical misconception around "Russia" or a mere slipup) is pretty insensitive.
        dredmorbius 4mo ago

by trhway 4mo ago

no-name-here 4mo ago

Text: https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climber-natalia-nagovitsina-has-died-kyrgyzstan-s-mountaineering-federation-says https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climbe... Link at the bottom has previous update

throwup238 4mo ago

For context: One climber died and a helicopter crashed trying to rescue her. No one's ever been rescued before at that altitude on that mountain range.

21asdffdsa12 4mo ago

There was a video-stream company that got famous live-streaming a technician who fell when dismounting a condor-egg camera.

verzali 4mo ago
... pied piper?...

TFNA 4mo ago

> 6800m on Pobeda Peak in Russia I thought, “There’s no way a peak in Russia can be that high”, and indeed, you got the unit wrong, this is 3,003 m. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Pobeda_(Sakha) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_Pobeda_(Sakha)

trhway 4mo ago
you've got the wrong peak. 7439m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jengish_Chokusu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jengish_Chokusu 3000m is nothing. Mount Shasta is 4200m and we, just regular guys, walked up to its summit without any experience, etc. in 2 days. People easy do it in 1 day.
- TFNA 4mo ago
  Jengish Chokusu is in Kyrgyzstan, not Russia. And during the Soviet era it was part of the Kyrgyz SFSR, not the Russian SFSR. You’d have to be talking about events happening before 1917 (when it was part of the general Russian Empire) for someone writing in 2026 to reasonably describe it as “in Russia”. > 3000m is nothing Not (to speak of the other Peak Pobeda) in Yakutia.
  - dredmorbius 4mo ago
    From the Meduza story linked earlier in this subthread: Russian mountain climber Natalia Nagovitsina, who got stranded on Kyrgyzstan’s Pobeda Peak on August 12 after suffering an injury during her descent, has died... <https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climber-natalia-nagovitsina-has-died-kyrgyzstan-s-mountaineering-federation-says https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/03/stranded-russian-climbe...> The climber was Russian. The peak, Kyrgyzstani. The name "Pobeda" means "Victory" in Russian. Mountains (and other geographic features) often share names, and specifying which and where can occasionally be confusing. Tolerance for someone mis-remembering elements of a story helps avoid tedious comment litigation.
    - TFNA 4mo ago
      Confusing a country that won independence from its colonizer with said colonizer (regardless of whether it was a typical geographical misconception around "Russia" or a mere slipup) is pretty insensitive.
      - dredmorbius 4mo ago