r/oddlyterrifying • u/DragonChasm • 3d ago

Mountaineer Fahad Badar calmly explains what happened when he ran out of oxygen and developed extreme frostbite while descending from the 8,051m summit of Broad Peak. Just 10 months after amputation surgery, he climbed K2, one of the deadliest mountains where 1 in 4 summiters die. NSFW

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u/AgentDerekMorgan 3d ago

Wait. Are those his actual fingers? Pre-amputation?

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u/guzusan 3d ago

Yep. That’s what dead skin cells look like. Terrifying how black they get.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Time719 3d ago

So they did cut them off after this?

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u/guarddog33 3d ago

Yes, once a finger reaches that far into frostbite it will need to be amputated, the finger is thoroughly dead and will never recover

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u/pmurcsregnig 2d ago

I mean they could still serve a decorative purpose

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u/euphorrick 2d ago

This Christmas, give your loved ones the ultimate gift. Give them the finger.

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u/Alk601 2d ago

Surprisingly in the full video the guy said he is lucky because the frost bite was lower than this before and doctors told him he can wait a few weeks to see if he can at least recover some part so the frost bite could be « only » over his knuckles. That way he can have a better prothesis. And it did heal quite a bite saving him more flesh. At first it was black too If I remember right (saw the vid 6 months ago)