What’s really scary now is that it’s turned into something where people have to literally stand in line to reach the summit.
Especially the Annapurna one, you still climb up to 5+k meters in altitude, and seeing the actual mountain still towering over you is crazy once you realize.
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
Link at the bottom has previous update
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]
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.
> 3000m is nothing
Not (to speak of the other Peak Pobeda) in Yakutia.
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-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.
The mistake was in all likelihood innocent.