00:00Only true adventure enthusiasts and experts dare to climb the K2 mountain, and even for them, it is not certain that they will come back safe and sound.
00:09This summit is located in the middle of the Karakoram massif, in northern Pakistan.
00:14It is the second summit to have been misreleased to an expedition conducted in 1956, that is why it bears this strange name.
00:23The K2 mountain culminates at 8,535 meters above sea level.
00:29This is in fact the second highest mountain on the planet, just after Mount Everest.
00:34It is also one of the most dangerous places.
00:37K2 is the most formidable of the five highest mountains in the world, with a death rate of 4 people during the ascent.
00:44Avalanches, violent storms and steep slopes make K2 the most difficult mountain to climb on the planet.
00:51The air there is extremely rarified.
00:53You will only find a third of the oxygen present at sea level.
00:57Storms can last several days and cause huge problems.
01:01K2 is perhaps a little less high than Everest, but it is much more difficult to climb because of its relief.
01:08Everest has plateaus, while K2 is only escarpment from start to finish of the ascent.
01:14At an altitude of 7,315 meters, the terrain is a little flat, but the fall of stones and the unpredictable weather conditions make this area particularly dangerous.
01:28Everest may be bigger, but K2 is considered the deadliest.
01:32Everest has some popular routes, such as the South Coast and the North Strait.
01:36K2, on the other hand, has no easy access route.
01:40Even the simplest routes are actually super steep, with an average of 45 degrees from the base to the top.
01:46If Everest has places where climbers can relax, K2 is only rough.
01:53The K2 camps are tiny compared to those of Everest, and things are still getting tougher as you climb.
02:00On Everest, it happens that mountaineers take off their helmets in the least difficult areas.
02:05But on K2, protecting your head is absolutely essential from one end to the other.
02:10Rockfall, avalanche, safety above all.
02:13And let's not even talk about rescues on this mountain.
02:16The rocky terrain makes it difficult to recover an injured climber.
02:20Helicopters are not a common currency in the region, and if you manage to get one, it will cost you an arm.
02:26Everest, in comparison, is quite welcoming.
02:29These Nepalese climbers are very important on Everest, but not so much on K2.
02:34Sherpas are in a way the superheroes of the Himalayas.
02:37They allow climbers to progress faster.
02:40But on K2, expeditions are more lonely.
02:43Now let's talk about dangerous areas.
02:46The icefall of Khumbu, on Everest, is very dangerous, but the K2's strangling gull is even more.
02:52It is higher, which makes it much more risky.
02:55And the bottom line is that there have been years when no one has been able to reach the top of K2.
03:00This is not the case on Everest.
03:02The success rates there are much higher.
03:07The first expedition to this famous summit dates from 1902 and was the work of a team of climbers.
03:12But they only arrived at an altitude of 6,523 meters.
03:16It was only in 1954 that an Italian team, accompanied by a Pakistani climber, managed to conquer K2.
03:23And it was not an easy feat.
03:25In August 2022, only about 700 people had managed to reach the summit.
03:30At least 91 people lost their lives trying their luck on these slopes.
03:37Now let's move on to other super dangerous places on the planet.
03:40Like the Danakil depression in Ethiopia.
03:43At first glance, we would think we were on another planet, on Mars.
03:46These landscapes are made up of burning salt, volcanic rocks, and sulfuric acid.
03:51All in yellow and orange tones.
03:54The springs near the Dalol, one of the many volcanoes in the region, are very uninviting.
03:59Scientists have recently examined samples taken in these basins in the hope of finding signs of life.
04:05Without success.
04:07The levels of DNA in these sources are practically non-existent.
04:10The Danakil depression is therefore one of the least suitable places for life on our planet.
04:19Then we have the Death Valley, in California.
04:22It is one of the hottest places on Earth.
04:24You can cook eggs there, directly on the stone.
04:27The highest temperature ever recorded by a meteorological station in this region?
04:3256 ° C in 1913.
04:34But there is an even hotter place on the planet.
04:37This is the Lout desert, in Iran.
04:40A NASA satellite measured a temperature of 70 ° C in 2005.
04:45The heat there is so intense that the birds that cross the region sometimes fall from the sky, exhausted.
04:52Let's go from heat to humidity, and let's go to a village called Mozin Ram, in India.
04:57This place breaks all precipitation records.
05:00It rains so much every year that if you transport the Christ the Redeemer from Rio de Janeiro.
05:05This huge statue is 30 meters high, from the head to the knees.
05:10This village is located in the hills of Kasi.
05:13It falls, and is 6 centimeters from the ground.
05:18This is equivalent to 39 bags of cereals stacked on top of each other.
05:24Next stop, La Oroya.
05:26Life in this city in the center of Peru is really difficult for its 25,000 inhabitants.
05:31The air is full of dangerous substances.
05:33Arsenic, lead, and sulfur dioxide.
05:36The acid rains destroy the plants there.
05:39In La Oroya, there is a metallurgical plant.
05:42It makes gold, silver, and cadmium.
05:44This plant is the main supplier of employment in the city.
05:47But in 2007, experts declared that this place was one of the most polluted on the planet.
05:52Legends Travelander could sign the environs and improve life in this city.
06:00Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic, is the most isolated place on the planet.
06:04It is a tiny archipelago that has only 246 inhabitants.
06:08There is no place to land a plane.
06:12If you want to visit or leave the island, you have to take a boat.
06:15You have to count six days of travel from South Africa, at a distance of about 2,500 kilometers.
06:22Vanuatu, an island in the Pacific, is probably the most dangerous place to live.
06:28You would lead a life on the razor's edge, avoiding volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis every day.
06:35The World Risk Index of the United Nations classifies this place as the most dangerous place on the planet.
06:42Satellite data indicate that the sea level around Vanuatu has risen by about 6 millimeters each year since 1993.
06:50In addition, in April 2020, the island was hit by the most violent tropical cyclone, Harold, in five years.
06:57These winds reached a speed of 250 kilometers per hour.
07:02We are now going to talk about a place where people live literally crammed into each other.
07:07In Manille, in the Philippines, it is estimated that there are 46,846 inhabitants per square kilometer.
07:13If Manille is so populated, it is because of the economic growth of the city over the last 50 years,
07:19mainly thanks to its port, in full swing.
07:22More money and more jobs mean more people coming.
07:26And with the people comes pollution and bottling, which make life in Manille a real journey of the fighter.
07:32And finding a place to stay in Manille, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
07:37The lack of housing still adds to the chaos.
07:44Yakutsk, in Russia, holds the title of the city with the lowest winter temperatures.
07:49In 1891, they dropped to 64 degrees Celsius.
07:53In 1891, they dropped to 64 degrees Celsius.
07:57But this is not the coldest place on the planet.
08:00The eastern plateau of the Antarctic holds this record, with 94 degrees Celsius.
08:06If Yakutsk is the coldest city in the world, it is for several reasons.
08:10First of all, it is far from the sea and does not benefit from the influence of the oceans.
08:15Secondly, the high pressure attracts the glacial air of the Arctic during the winter.
08:19The sunlight is rare in Yakutsk during the cold season.
08:23The city rests on a continuous permafrost, which means that the ground is always frozen.
08:28About 355,000 people live in Yakutsk.
08:32What is surprising is that the temperatures reach summits in summer.
08:37In July, the average temperature reaches 26 degrees Celsius, more than in London in the same season.
08:43A really weird climate, isn't it?
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