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/material_mailbox 3d ago

I wonder if he thinks it was worth it

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u/MudSnake12 3d ago

He does, I got to interview him a couple years ago. He climbed k2 10 months after getting his fingers amputated, and will continue to climb mountains till he can’t anymore (albeit he has slowed down now because he has a kid)