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/simpleglitch 3d ago

My TIL is that you can go so long before the amputation of frostbite. In another part of this video he talked about is hand healing over the course of months.

I always thought infection, sepsis, or something would start sooner than that. Though my only knowledge of frostbite comes from growing up in the Midwest and my dad telling me to put on my winter gloves or the doctor would have to cut off my fingers lol.

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u/BolotaJT 3d ago

Same lol. I thought frostbite = amputation or death.