>>1413589gotcha. but since we're having a civil, logical discussion, deaths also only tell a small part of the story of how difficult a range is. like you said, the alps are basically in downtown europe, and thus immediately accessible to tens of millions of people, and easily accessible to hundreds of millions, many of whom have no more experience than seeing videos on youtube and thinking "i could do that" who then google "beginner hikes" and go out underprepared, both in equipment and knowledge, and get lost, or caught in a storm, or whatever. torrs del pianes, however, have almost no deaths annually, but has extremely challenging mountain, but they require an 11+ hours flight for most people.
factors like length of climb, grade of technical climbing, angle, rock quality, presence of mixed terrain, weather variability, and elevation make better measurements of difficulty. however each one influences the experience of the others, so no one is most important, and there's no convenient formula for adding them to determine overall difficulty.
