Back in the day I read into thin air and told my brother it'd be cool to climb everest and he said that the book was supposed to discourage me, not encourage me
Big Tex.... Anything you need... and I mean a n y t h i n g . . . just holler and we'll be right there to support you in your life long dream. We got you buddy. LETS DO THIS !!!!!
I am a retired construction worker. I would have a VERY hard time trusting those flimsy aluminum ladders placed horizontally across the crevasses. But then, I would never put myself on the Khumbu Icefall to begin with. I have accidentally put myself near death several times in my life. I would never enter or even approach any "death zone" willfully.
@@williamcobbett4943 Metals, especially aluminum, get very brittle in the cold. One wonders if those ladders ever get picked up and inspected for cracks.
@@ralphaverill2001 I swear we have better regs on building sites than they do, it makes my assehole twitch watching them cross those ladders. In the off season, if it were me, i would have got something built with smaller gaps, if any, for the feet.. something with proper locking nuts . Baffles me.
@@williamcobbett4943 the ladders are thin to be lightweight. It's a lot of work to get them installed in the first place. It's not like you can walk around the crevasse
I have always had a fascination with Everest. Read and watched everything I can get my hands on. I have no desire to try summiting. I am a spectator, never will be a participant in this insanity.
I can't imagine standing somewhere for a few minutes no matter how thrilling is worth all this. Possible brain damage, losing limbs, ultimately dying. I have too many other things to live for.
How often do you get into a car? Nearly 40,000 deaths in the US with nearly 5 million injured just from automobile accidents. You don't need to imagine putting yourself on a mountain to take on those risks
I summited Everest in 92. I was thirty then. There were teams from several nations there that year. It was an amazing experience. The people, my two sherpas (who are still friends with me to this day) Nepal, Katmandu, the culture but it was much harder than i expected and took almost two months in total. Have old fashioned camera photos of it as we did not have smart phones or go pros then.
Fortis, what an amazing feat to accomplish. Congratulations. Even if I could do it I wouldn't. The bodies would freak me out. Going to Base camp would be cool though. 😎
Fantastic achievement Fortis! And great how you are still in touch with the Sherpas. It's something I could never imagine doing, nor would I ever want to, but I love watching these documentaries and have a lot of admiration for the people who have climbed Everest.
As a mountaineer with 30 years plus experience I can see the thrill of being on the highest peak on earth but at the same time I can see the stupidity of it. On average, for every six people summiting there is one death, those odds are a no brainer. You can die at base camp from avalanches and ice falls or sickness. You can die on the icefall by falling into a cravasse or being hit with falling ice. The avalanch risk at camp I, camp II and camp III especially is horrendous. 27% of Everest deaths are avalanches. Camp IV on the south col has little risk geologically but you're in the death zone and risk of sickness from various illnesses is massive. Between camp IV and the summit is a real high risk factor through falls, sickness, bad weather but the down side is if you fall ill there is little help in the death zone and back at camp IV. All in all you have to be a huge risk taker and not value your own life much to attempt.
I never knew that avalanches were such an issue there. I've watched several pieces on Mt. E and have never heard any peeps mention that! Thank you for sharing that... Pertaining to the sickness you mentioned; are you referring to "altitude" or like "a cold" sickness?
@@Matthew...1979 Pulmonary edema is a common illness and accounts for many deaths and injuries at high altitude. Basically your lungs fill with fluid similar to pneumonia. Acute mountain sickness is very common too, not really a known killer but it slows you down and puts you at risk from other factors such as frost bite and fatigue.
I definitely know that I would be one of those deaths if I ever attempted this lol. So I will definitely NOT ever attempt this. I wouldn't mind at least visiting Everest, but admiring from a safe distance.
Ed and David are such phenomenal climbers! I could really see the depressed and saddened demeanor during the 1996 tragedy! They both did so much to help. I also like how David spoke so honest about 8,000 meter peaks are not for novice/inexperienced climbers.
Thanks to everyone who's done it or died trying. I can vicariously enjoy the experience on tv with a beer and a pizza in my living room, which has loads of delicious oxygen by the way.
When I was young, I was told that I had a gift for climbing. I also loved, and still love, the mountains. It is one of my life's regrets that I never found the time to seriously take up mountain-climbing. However, regarding the world's highest peaks, the more I discover about the "death zone" and the general risks associated with ultra-high altitude climbing (crossing crevasses, etc etc), the more I conclude that attempting these sorts of peaks is just crazy, and a form of insane Russian roulette 😨. I take the same attitude to this as I do to marathons: our bodies were not designed to do this kind of thing.
That's not true at all. Our bodies were designed for marathons and more. Humans are the only animals that can and have hunted through "persistence hunting." This means literally running animals like gazelles to death. This was still practiced in Africa until at least the mid 1980's. When we keep the animals running while following it, it eventually overheats and dies on its feet, then u simply walk over and process the kill. Humans can run ultramarathons and there are guys out there who run 20 miles or more every day no problem. It's just that most humans are too unwilling to bear the conditioning it takes to do these type of things in today's world. But rest assured, we are fully capable and our bodies are designed for endurance and adapting to changes in altitude, temperature, activity levels, food scarcity, etc.
@@DavidThomas-qq4hf false from the get go. Wolves for example, do it even better. Cannot consider the rest of your idea as if faulted at the beginning. Next time will be better
Just cause someone’s body is never in good enough shape to run marathons. Has nothing to do with limiting your human potential by poor training and diet. After discovering Wim Hof (who climbed 7200meters of Everest without shoes, wearing shorts. And also disproved ‘death zone’) I run for avg of 2hr+ every day. With zero sore-ness. Often I run more just because my legs feel infinite. I know they’re not. But I’m not arbitrary limiting myself. And if you believe your body can not run for extended periods. … You’re limiting yourself without even trying. Now Is high altitude an Unnecessary risk! Yes!!! But conditioning your body is not risk. The risk comes from When you sit still watching tv for so long u start to spread your self-created belief- that human physical endurance should be restricted to a low limit. When you’re laying on your death bed you’ll probably be bitter. I know my body has already done many things- that impress the hell out of me. And now you’re spreading-to the next generation- to limit themselves. Because u were lazy- and maybe u haven’t discovered Wim Hof in cold water. Or you’re too lazy to try. But I feel sad for you. “No Human is limited” - kipchoge, ran a marathon in under 2 hours.
@@DD-d6d3Dude, these guys are not tourists and amateurs who join guided expeditions to climb the Everest. They’re pros who have been doing it since the 90s. David helped to bring Beck Weathers down the mountain in 96 on the then deadliest day in Everest.
If you read Ed Viesturs’ book “No Shortcuts to the Top”, he writes about this Nova expedition and says that Rob Hall’s body was no longer on the mountain. Ed figured that ice and snow pushed the body off. If you haven’t read any of Ed Viesturs books, I highly recommend them.
I actually work with a guy who was part of one of the British Army teams that climbed Mount Everest a few years ago, I've heard enough about it to know without ANY doubt that climbing it is FAR beyond my physical capabilities, even when I was at my top fitness level aged about 22 and also in the Army, it would have been beyond what I would have been able to do. I've been to 15,000ft in an un-pressurised skydive plane, and breathing is no problem whatsoever, however when I've been at a similar altitude climbing up a mountain, it's a TOTALLY different situation! Breathing feels like you just aren't getting any oxygen, and everything you do feels hard work, even walking up a gentle slope requires a rest after EVERY step, and that was at just over HALF the height of Everest! Even if I trained for a year with an Olympic coach, I'd still never get up that mountain as I'm almost 50, and my lungs are damaged from years of smoking, but massive respect for the people who do have the fitness, and skills to go there.
It a Mental game up there because the pain is forcing you down. Doug Scott the great mountaineer once said "There was no oxygen so we just pushed thru anyway" and all of the climbers at base camp laughed because they all understood what he was talking about.
Barry Bishop, who was one of those who successfully climbed Everest in 1963, participated in an expedition to Ama Dablam, another mountain in the Himalayas, in either 1961 or '62. I don't remember the exact date. In any case, medical checks were a constant thing. In Bishop's own words, he felt like a 150-lb. man being forced to carry a 250-lb. man! The Death Zone is well-named and it seems like no matter how you train, it's Everest that makes the rules.
Mr. Snow..excellent documentary.. Thank you Interesting on how important and vital is to have these climbers in tip top shape. Again we so appreciated your channel.
What is even more amazing is that there are Ravens flying around up there!!! WTF are they eating?.....and how on earth are they getting drinking water when everything is froze solid?. One must admire these birds for being so tough, they put people to shame on the survival scale without any doubt!.
As a trucker some of the downgrades I've traveled in inclement weather is enough mountain thrill I need. Some of the county roads of Oregon, Idaho, Washington, I-17 Phoenix to Flagstaff, Pennsylvania, even Vermont during the winter will have you on high alert with 40k+ pushing you 😆.
Thank you so much for the great quality video. I have watched this so many times...as I do all of them. I love to see that ridge before the Hilary Step.
Great documentary ! Very informative and interesting. I felt bad for David. I have Asthma and sometimes my throat feels constricted. Like breathing through a straw. When that happens I used to get very anxious. I think David probably had some type of anxiety attack. They handled the situation very well and I’m glad he is ok. Congratulations to the team and thank you David for sharing.
Good show, I'm reading Ed's book right now and following along with the movies he mentions. It's such good info and hopefully it leads to a successful climb at everest in the near future.
What's up Dave? Look man I'm convinced that you are 100% incapable of posting anything less than amazing videos. You take all of us right there, but we're in the comfort of our own homes, lol. You're the man, Bro.
I recently climbed up a 6000m peak in Bolivia, got caught in the middle of an electrical storm and had to "rush" down as quickly as possible despite being virtually unable to walk better than my toddler. I'm done.
🥶😬 I love watching all the MT Everest documentaries,so beautiful up there,I always think about the bodies just laying up there for years,alone😥 and it just blows my mind people pay over 50,000 maybe more now, to try and reach the top. Just amazing,29 thousand ft up.Mind blowing.
I would love to someday see these huge mountains in real life. I can’t imagine how beautiful this must be. I live at the bavarian alps, so our highest mountain is the zugspitze with 2.962m 😅 but i would never like to climb everest.
I climbed Mt. Whitney in in the Sierras in 2018...14,505 asl. At 12,500 I was leaning on my poles counting pebbles at my boots when I snapped out of it and kept trudging. Atop Whitney I stared up at some imaginary angle with the realization I was almost exactly half the altitude of Everest. I can't imagine but would love to find out what the Himalayas are like. Kudos to every person who has summited there, and RIP to those who died trying.
This is just something I would never want to do. It seems like a nightmare. It doesn't look appealing at all. Props to the people who find this kind of thing enjoyable. They're tougher than me.
As a Canadian I can do the cold-that comes down to layering and proper gear, the hiking as I’ve worn crampons and hiked across frozen lakes as well as snowshoed, but the altitude no as I’m in a low lakes region. I’m happy to challenge myself with my local terrain and at-times wild weather.
Andrew Irvine and George Mallory had to do all this without any modern-day ladders, fixed ropes, helicopter, or any late 20th century technology whatsoever! Respect ✊
I think people need to remember, going up is a quarter or half the journey, making it down is a whole different thing. And now that it’s a tourist trap and basically any idiot with legs can go up.. so dangerous
I can kind of understand the cold, I did a job in Utica New York back in 92/93 winter, the average temperature was 10 degrees. One weekend while we were there we had to go up right next to Canadian border to a power plant to take care of a small cpl hour job. The temperature up there was 0 and there was a 25 mph wind. we could only work outside for about 20 minutes before our faces started freezing and it was hard to talk because your face didnt want to work and our hands would not be able to use hand tools after 20 minutes as well so we would have to go indoors to warm up for about a half hour. A cpl hour job ended up taking all day to complete. According to the chart with the 25 mph wind the temp was -24 degrees. So I can even imagine being in -40 with a 100 mph wind !!!!! and on top of that low oxegen,...... no thanks
I SUFFER WITH A LUNG CONDITION & 3 WKS AGO I WAS HOME ALONE & LITERALLY, ALL OF A SUDDEN I COULD NOT BREATHE, THE AIR I WAS BREATHING IN DIDN'T SEEM TO BE GETTING PAST THE BACK OF MY THROAT, BOY DID I PANIC, (WHICH MADE IT WORSE) MY MEDS WEREN'T WORKING & I REALLY THOUGHT THAT WAS IT, I THOUGHT I WAS DYING. IT WAS THE WORST FEELING I'VE EVER HAD IN MY 50 YRS, OMG! SERIOUSLY, I WOULDN'T WISH THAT ON ANYBODY. I CALLED 999 & THANK GOD I DON'T LIVE FAR FROM OUR HOSPITAL, WITHIN MINUITES THE AMBULANCE ARRIVED, I HAD TO CRAWL TO MY FRONT DOOR TO UNLOCK IT & PRACTICALLY FELL OUTSIDE. I CAN ONLY PRAISE OUR EMERGENCY SERVICES & WHAT THEY DID FOR ME. SO I COULDN'T HELP BUT FEEL FOR DAVID, I KNEW EXACTLY THAT SAME FEELING. I'M SO GLAD HE MADE IT SAFELY BACK HOME AS DID I. GOD BLESS YOU DAVID, FROM NOW ON KEEP YR FEET FIRMLY ON THE FLOOR! ✌️🙂
Infarcts whether they're in your brain or lungs, are forever. Many people get minor altitude sickness as low as 5,000 feet, but coughing up foam or blood, disorientation, loss of sight, dementia means your circulatory system is in dire condition. You get down or you risk blood clots.
am also think about the first who summit the evrest first .. it's also my one of the dream but because of 2 blunts a day habit i always afraid of my lungs which is the most important thing for this job
I admire him, but doubt his decision to take Carter beyond Camp4. If he could have denied him. Don't know how that works, but he was supposedly the Guide. Also, it's sad that he was the one who showed brain damage.
Woow.... Amazing documentary...
My nearest death zone ap river dried season ruclips.net/video/yszBpyTZoaA/видео.html
Yes indeed
5uz5hggg
Back in the day I read into thin air and told my brother it'd be cool to climb everest and he said that the book was supposed to discourage me, not encourage me
Ppl dying for glory is always titillating. 😄
These Everest videos motivate my lifelong dream of never, ever coming within 100 miles of Mount Everest.
I believe in you, you can achieve that dream.
Big Tex.... Anything you need... and I mean a n y t h i n g . . . just holler and we'll be right there to support you in your life long dream. We got you buddy. LETS DO THIS !!!!!
Do it to impess Jodie.
You the man! You could start smoking to help you train for not climbing the mountain.
That comment made me chuckle :) watching this from the safety of my quilt covered bed!!
Even if I wanted to climb Everest, one look at a ladder across a crevasse, and I’d be saying, “Nope, I’ll meet you back at the lodge.”
Yup!
😂 check out our most recent episode with a crazy mountaineer!
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Same here. No Khumbu Icefall for me😱...
I don't like hiking, snow, scared of heights, don't like being cold. So whyI am fascinated with these documentaries??
Same! 😂
If you're like me it's because you don't understand the point/ motives behind it. Paying thousands of dollars for the "privilege" is outrageous!!!
It’s fun to watch fools do their dance. lol 😝
Same here 😭😭😭
Right? Best case scenario, you live, but lose fingers and toes from frostbite 🤷🏻♂️🤯
I do love watching these documentaries huddled up in my bed with a hot drink. Cannot get enough of them at the moment, I think I have summit fever.
Lol.Same
I am a retired construction worker. I would have a VERY hard time trusting those flimsy aluminum ladders placed horizontally across the crevasses. But then, I would never put myself on the Khumbu Icefall to begin with. I have accidentally put myself near death several times in my life. I would never enter or even approach any "death zone" willfully.
Agreed made. Can't they build something safer?
@@williamcobbett4943 Metals, especially aluminum, get very brittle in the cold. One wonders if those ladders ever get picked up and inspected for cracks.
@@ralphaverill2001 I swear we have better regs on building sites than they do, it makes my assehole twitch watching them cross those ladders. In the off season, if it were me, i would have got something built with smaller gaps, if any, for the feet.. something with proper locking nuts . Baffles me.
Those flimsy ladders are scary - like what if the knots don’t hold or if the end slips on ice and falls. Fall in crevass and instant burial vault
@@williamcobbett4943 the ladders are thin to be lightweight. It's a lot of work to get them installed in the first place. It's not like you can walk around the crevasse
I can't get enough climbing documentaries, and at the same time I'm fascinated by something I am way too chicken to ever attempt.
I can’t imagine what motivates someone to do this, but I’m fascinated nonetheless.
Some people think that high altitude climbing is evidence of pre-existing conditions.
Glory. Pride. Everest is the ultimate achievement to mountaineers.
Endorphins is as addictive as morphine.
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Sense of adventure
I watch these to see the beauty of the mountains from the warmth and safety of my home.
Great documentary! Jodie Foster's voice is so incredibly soothing and calming! Great choice for narration! Excellent work!
Thank you Dr. Lecter. Clarice appreciates the compliment.
I was like, Scully!
I have always had a fascination with Everest. Read and watched everything I can get my hands on. I have no desire to try summiting. I am a spectator, never will be a participant in this insanity.
Perfectly said !
I would like to trek to base camp to see the beauty with my own eyes
@@terrilane2973 Same! I would love that!
Same! 😂
Jody foster has a very very pleasant voice
Some should tell Jodie to do ASMR
Well hello clarice
Hinckley thought so too.
I must say, this is by far the best channel on the subject of high altitude mountaineering.
I can't imagine standing somewhere for a few minutes no matter how thrilling is worth all this. Possible brain damage, losing limbs, ultimately dying. I have too many other things to live for.
really? name one
How often do you get into a car? Nearly 40,000 deaths in the US with nearly 5 million injured just from automobile accidents. You don't need to imagine putting yourself on a mountain to take on those risks
You sound very sensible!! I am fascinated by all the 8000 Meter peaks. However I would never set foot on any mountain.
I summited Everest in 92. I was thirty then. There were teams from several nations there that year. It was an amazing experience. The people, my two sherpas (who are still friends with me to this day) Nepal, Katmandu, the culture but it was much harder than i expected and took almost two months in total. Have old fashioned camera photos of it as we did not have smart phones or go pros then.
Fortis, what an amazing feat to accomplish. Congratulations. Even if I could do it I wouldn't. The bodies would freak me out. Going to Base camp would be cool though. 😎
Fantastic achievement Fortis! And great how you are still in touch with the Sherpas. It's something I could never imagine doing, nor would I ever want to, but I love watching these documentaries and have a lot of admiration for the people who have climbed Everest.
Bullshit
Thanks David! I’m a new sub.
I can’t imagine wanting to do this, but like a train wreck, I can’t stop watching the people who can do this.
I just want to say thanks for continuing to add quality mountaineer programs and doc's to your channel; I look forward to all your new uploads!
way too many commercials!! I mean before and after but in the middle is just way to much I object!
As a mountaineer with 30 years plus experience I can see the thrill of being on the highest peak on earth but at the same time I can see the stupidity of it. On average, for every six people summiting there is one death, those odds are a no brainer. You can die at base camp from avalanches and ice falls or sickness. You can die on the icefall by falling into a cravasse or being hit with falling ice. The avalanch risk at camp I, camp II and camp III especially is horrendous. 27% of Everest deaths are avalanches. Camp IV on the south col has little risk geologically but you're in the death zone and risk of sickness from various illnesses is massive. Between camp IV and the summit is a real high risk factor through falls, sickness, bad weather but the down side is if you fall ill there is little help in the death zone and back at camp IV.
All in all you have to be a huge risk taker and not value your own life much to attempt.
I never knew that avalanches were such an issue there. I've watched several pieces on Mt. E and have never heard any peeps mention that! Thank you for sharing that... Pertaining to the sickness you mentioned; are you referring to "altitude" or like "a cold" sickness?
@@Matthew...1979 Pulmonary edema is a common illness and accounts for many deaths and injuries at high altitude. Basically your lungs fill with fluid similar to pneumonia. Acute mountain sickness is very common too, not really a known killer but it slows you down and puts you at risk from other factors such as frost bite and fatigue.
I definitely know that I would be one of those deaths if I ever attempted this lol. So I will definitely NOT ever attempt this. I wouldn't mind at least visiting Everest, but admiring from a safe distance.
I think your calculations are well off. Over 11,000 summits against 310 deaths is not 6 summits per death.
@@Ellemerob You're forgetting the many thousands that didn't summit. The stats are online.
Ed and David are such phenomenal climbers! I could really see the depressed and saddened demeanor during the 1996 tragedy! They both did so much to help. I also like how David spoke so honest about 8,000 meter peaks are not for novice/inexperienced climbers.
Thanks to everyone who's done it or died trying. I can vicariously enjoy the experience on tv with a beer and a pizza in my living room, which has loads of delicious oxygen by the way.
I love these documentaries. Thank you for uploading so much!
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When I was young, I was told that I had a gift for climbing. I also loved, and still love, the mountains. It is one of my life's regrets that I never found the time to seriously take up mountain-climbing.
However, regarding the world's highest peaks, the more I discover about the "death zone" and the general risks associated with ultra-high altitude climbing (crossing crevasses, etc etc), the more I conclude that attempting these sorts of peaks is just crazy, and a form of insane Russian roulette 😨. I take the same attitude to this as I do to marathons: our bodies were not designed to do this kind of thing.
That's not true at all. Our bodies were designed for marathons and more. Humans are the only animals that can and have hunted through "persistence hunting." This means literally running animals like gazelles to death. This was still practiced in Africa until at least the mid 1980's. When we keep the animals running while following it, it eventually overheats and dies on its feet, then u simply walk over and process the kill. Humans can run ultramarathons and there are guys out there who run 20 miles or more every day no problem. It's just that most humans are too unwilling to bear the conditioning it takes to do these type of things in today's world. But rest assured, we are fully capable and our bodies are designed for endurance and adapting to changes in altitude, temperature, activity levels, food scarcity, etc.
@@DavidThomas-qq4hf Fyi I _have_ run a marathon.
I agree the human body not meant to those extreme excertions
@@DavidThomas-qq4hf false from the get go. Wolves for example, do it even better. Cannot consider the rest of your idea as if faulted at the beginning. Next time will be better
Just cause someone’s body is never in good enough shape to run marathons.
Has nothing to do with limiting your human potential by poor training and diet.
After discovering Wim Hof
(who climbed 7200meters of Everest without shoes, wearing shorts.
And also disproved ‘death zone’)
I run for avg of 2hr+ every day.
With zero sore-ness. Often I run more just because my legs feel infinite.
I know they’re not.
But I’m not arbitrary limiting myself.
And if you believe your body can not run for extended periods. …
You’re limiting yourself without even trying.
Now
Is high altitude an
Unnecessary risk!
Yes!!!
But conditioning your body is not risk.
The risk comes from
When you sit still watching tv for so long u start to spread your self-created belief- that human physical endurance should be restricted to a low limit.
When you’re laying on your death bed you’ll probably be bitter.
I know my body has already done many things- that impress the hell out of me.
And now you’re spreading-to the next generation- to limit themselves. Because u were lazy- and maybe u haven’t discovered Wim Hof in cold water.
Or you’re too lazy to try.
But I feel sad for you.
“No Human is limited”
- kipchoge, ran a marathon in under 2 hours.
I wish I had the courage to climb Everest but I just don’t and binge watching these vids is making me realize that even more! Great video x
Help I can’t stop watching mountaineering videos!😮
I can relate to this. I'm about to climb out of bed 😭
@@DavidF9511 Haha! Next time I'll make sure to.
lol..good one!
😆😆😆 I can appreciate your struggle.
Make sure you take your time and listen to your guides! 😉
David is a warrior! Incredible.
Imagine climbing up to 29,000 feet. It’s fascinating!
David Brashears and Ed Viesturs are living legends!
RIP David Breashears ❤❤
I've bought all of Ed's books on audiobook and listen on my 10.5 hr days at work
More like the Sherpas that got them there are legends
@@DD-d6d3Dude, these guys are not tourists and amateurs who join guided expeditions to climb the Everest. They’re pros who have been doing it since the 90s. David helped to bring Beck Weathers down the mountain in 96 on the then deadliest day in Everest.
If you read Ed Viesturs’ book “No Shortcuts to the Top”, he writes about this Nova expedition and says that Rob Hall’s body was no longer on the mountain. Ed figured that ice and snow pushed the body off. If you haven’t read any of Ed Viesturs books, I highly recommend them.
He is the Man!! all 14 without suplimental Oxygen and he submitted up to the tippy top of all the mountains Messener missed one. sadly 😢
Probably covered by snow but there is an old picture of his body online.
Its not uncommon bodies disappear and appear again when the snow melts.
I actually work with a guy who was part of one of the British Army teams that climbed Mount Everest a few years ago, I've heard enough about it to know without ANY doubt that climbing it is FAR beyond my physical capabilities, even when I was at my top fitness level aged about 22 and also in the Army, it would have been beyond what I would have been able to do. I've been to 15,000ft in an un-pressurised skydive plane, and breathing is no problem whatsoever, however when I've been at a similar altitude climbing up a mountain, it's a TOTALLY different situation! Breathing feels like you just aren't getting any oxygen, and everything you do feels hard work, even walking up a gentle slope requires a rest after EVERY step, and that was at just over HALF the height of Everest! Even if I trained for a year with an Olympic coach, I'd still never get up that mountain as I'm almost 50, and my lungs are damaged from years of smoking, but massive respect for the people who do have the fitness, and skills to go there.
Please try Wim Hof in cold water for improving the function of your lungs.
50 is not old.
50 is closer to peak performance than a 20yo
A Japanese reached the summit aged 80!!!!
No way 😮
It a Mental game up there because the pain is forcing you down. Doug Scott the great mountaineer once said "There was no oxygen so we just pushed thru anyway" and all of the climbers at base camp laughed because they all understood what he was talking about.
I love these videos, but those ladders over crevasses cause me extreme anxiety!
Yeah they look so dodgy 😳
You'd think, by now, there'd be a better way.
These are beautiful and educating videos. Congratulations.
More to this mountains are big challenges
Barry Bishop, who was one of those who successfully climbed Everest in 1963, participated in an expedition to Ama Dablam, another mountain in the Himalayas, in either 1961 or '62. I don't remember the exact date. In any case, medical checks were a constant thing. In Bishop's own words, he felt like a 150-lb. man being forced to carry a 250-lb. man! The Death Zone is well-named and it seems like no matter how you train, it's Everest that makes the rules.
Wim Hof disproved the death zone.
Mr. Snow..excellent documentary..
Thank you
Interesting on how important and vital is to have these climbers in tip top shape.
Again we so appreciated your channel.
I love to watch but I would never ever put myself in that situation.
Oh, yes you will. You’re going whether you like it or not.
Thanks for uploading this, lots of information is here ✌
Glad it was helpful!
What is even more amazing is that there are Ravens flying around up there!!! WTF are they eating?.....and how on earth are they getting drinking water when everything is froze solid?. One must admire these birds for being so tough, they put people to shame on the survival scale without any doubt!.
Is that true????
Geese fly over the top of it all, they evolved as the mountains slowly lifted.
As a trucker some of the downgrades I've traveled in inclement weather is enough mountain thrill I need. Some of the county roads of Oregon, Idaho, Washington, I-17 Phoenix to Flagstaff, Pennsylvania, even Vermont during the winter will have you on high alert with 40k+ pushing you 😆.
Isn't Washington beautiful?
@@HeidiAndScots Indeed it is.
Phoenix to Flagstaff is no great push?? Tell me what's dangerous about it?
@@Mt.Everest. Play with 17 if you want. I'm sure you know it's not flat.
Thank you so much for the great quality video. I have watched this so many times...as I do all of them. I love to see that ridge before the Hilary Step.
Great documentary ! Very informative and interesting. I felt bad for David. I have Asthma and sometimes my throat feels constricted. Like breathing through a straw. When that happens I used to get very anxious. I think David probably had some type of anxiety attack. They handled the situation very well and I’m glad he is ok. Congratulations to the team and thank you David for sharing.
I could watch these videos all day long as a binge day
Thanks for the upload!! Mesmerised by these videos. Id love to have the courage to do something like this. Life long dream to sleep at base camp!
Good show, I'm reading Ed's book right now and following along with the movies he mentions. It's such good info and hopefully it leads to a successful climb at everest in the near future.
What's up Dave? Look man I'm convinced that you are 100% incapable of posting anything less than amazing videos. You take all of us right there, but we're in the comfort of our own homes, lol. You're the man, Bro.
These documentaries are incredible.
I recently climbed up a 6000m peak in Bolivia, got caught in the middle of an electrical storm and had to "rush" down as quickly as possible despite being virtually unable to walk better than my toddler. I'm done.
🥶😬 I love watching all the MT Everest documentaries,so beautiful up there,I always think about the bodies just laying up there for years,alone😥 and it just blows my mind people pay over 50,000 maybe more now, to try and reach the top. Just amazing,29 thousand ft up.Mind blowing.
5000 miles….
Um maybe more
Like 50 miles
@@fastinradfordable ummmmm you are close,,almost 43...who knows where I got 5,0000 😂😂😂😂✌
I didn't know Jodie Foster did docs. I love her voice.
Is that really her? Sounds about right, very cool if true
Perfect voice. The Female Narrator's voice is calm yet persuasive.
Thanks a lot for the upload
Beautiful photography.
NOVA is a wonderful channel
Fascinating. Thanks for the great content!
Great Documentary btw …Anyone & Everyone that wants to climb mountains 🏔 should watch this Documentary first!!
I would love to someday see these huge mountains in real life. I can’t imagine how beautiful this must be. I live at the bavarian alps, so our highest mountain is the zugspitze with 2.962m 😅 but i would never like to climb everest.
I climbed Mt. Whitney in in the Sierras in 2018...14,505 asl. At 12,500 I was leaning on my poles counting pebbles at my boots when I snapped out of it and kept trudging. Atop Whitney I stared up at some imaginary angle with the realization I was almost exactly half the altitude of Everest. I can't imagine but would love to find out what the Himalayas are like. Kudos to every person who has summited there, and RIP to those who died trying.
Everyone should make the effort to bring down at least 1 empty O 2 bottle, could clear the mountain in a few weeks
Thinking the same!
Love when you release a new video. Keep up the excellent content.
More to come!
New as in 1990's?
This is just something I would never want to do. It seems like a nightmare. It doesn't look appealing at all. Props to the people who find this kind of thing enjoyable. They're tougher than me.
Well, we now know that Ed could not resist the pull of Everest and did it again, and again and again. 😀
Why humans want to go through this not only endangering their lives but the lives of those who are sent to rescue them I will never know! It is crazy!
Because it is there.
Great video. Thank you.
As a Canadian I can do the cold-that comes down to layering and proper gear, the hiking as I’ve worn crampons and hiked across frozen lakes as well as snowshoed, but the altitude no as I’m in a low lakes region. I’m happy to challenge myself with my local terrain and at-times wild weather.
Andrew Irvine and George Mallory had to do all this without any modern-day ladders, fixed ropes, helicopter, or any late 20th century technology whatsoever! Respect ✊
Well, both died 😬 I'm sure both would've rather had the modern technology if they could've lived
you know they were using oxygen tanks
You sort of forgot about the Sherpas that got them up there.
They dead though.
David, have you ever interviewed Reinhold Messner? He climbed Everest alone with no supplemental oxygen!
My dude, messner climbed all 14 8kers with no oxygen. He's built different
Dave are you ever going to run out of these magnificent videos?? Your the youtube snow mountain master!!❄🗻
Don't you dare jinx us
RIP David Breashears who left us too soon in March of 2024😢🙏
I think people need to remember, going up is a quarter or half the journey, making it down is a whole different thing. And now that it’s a tourist trap and basically any idiot with legs can go up.. so dangerous
Thanks !
I had always known that it must be an incredible feat to scale this mountain, but THIS....I had no idea it was like this.
Thanks for sharing
39:52 apparently this place "the hillary step" is now gone, the landscape changed after an earthquake.
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Why do documentaries about Everest never seem to focus on the amazing fitness and abilities of the Sherpas?
They do and it's old tired virtue signaling to harp on it.
Kept taking a deep breath.
Jodie Fosters voice is so soothing.
I can kind of understand the cold, I did a job in Utica New York back in 92/93 winter, the average temperature was 10 degrees. One weekend while we were there we had to go up right next to Canadian border to a power plant to take care of a small cpl hour job. The temperature up there was 0 and there was a 25 mph wind. we could only work outside for about 20 minutes before our faces started freezing and it was hard to talk because your face didnt want to work and our hands would not be able to use hand tools after 20 minutes as well so we would have to go indoors to warm up for about a half hour. A cpl hour job ended up taking all day to complete. According to the chart with the 25 mph wind the temp was -24 degrees. So I can even imagine being in -40 with a 100 mph wind !!!!! and on top of that low oxegen,...... no thanks
They should have designed the experiment by conducting the control psychometric tests at sea level trough radio and in a wilderness setting as well
Love NOVA and is this narrated by Jodie Foster?
I SUFFER WITH A LUNG CONDITION & 3 WKS AGO I WAS HOME ALONE & LITERALLY, ALL OF A SUDDEN I COULD NOT BREATHE, THE AIR I WAS BREATHING IN DIDN'T SEEM TO BE GETTING PAST THE BACK OF MY THROAT, BOY DID I PANIC, (WHICH MADE IT WORSE) MY MEDS WEREN'T WORKING & I REALLY THOUGHT THAT WAS IT, I THOUGHT I WAS DYING. IT WAS THE WORST FEELING I'VE EVER HAD IN MY 50 YRS, OMG!
SERIOUSLY, I WOULDN'T WISH THAT ON ANYBODY.
I CALLED 999 & THANK GOD I DON'T LIVE FAR FROM OUR HOSPITAL, WITHIN MINUITES THE AMBULANCE ARRIVED, I HAD TO CRAWL TO MY FRONT DOOR TO UNLOCK IT & PRACTICALLY FELL OUTSIDE. I CAN ONLY PRAISE OUR EMERGENCY SERVICES & WHAT THEY DID FOR ME.
SO I COULDN'T HELP BUT FEEL FOR DAVID, I KNEW EXACTLY THAT SAME FEELING.
I'M SO GLAD HE MADE IT SAFELY BACK HOME AS DID I.
GOD BLESS YOU DAVID, FROM NOW ON KEEP YR FEET FIRMLY ON THE FLOOR! ✌️🙂
what are the long term health consequences for people who climb everest and struggle with altitude sickness throughout?
Infarcts whether they're in your brain or lungs, are forever. Many people get minor altitude sickness as low as 5,000 feet, but coughing up foam or blood, disorientation, loss of sight, dementia means your circulatory system is in dire condition. You get down or you risk blood clots.
@@saffloweroyl3663 is that what happens to people with altitude sickness?
@@fnuppyfnup you feel better as soon as you go down, as close to sea level as possible.
@@saffloweroyl3663 wouldnt a little oxygen take care of altitude sickness?
@Alfred Weber 🤣👍
Very good documentery
I loVe Everest documentaries..I have asthma & I can almost feel it take my breath away from watching a video!😂
am also think about the first who summit the evrest first .. it's also my one of the dream but because of 2 blunts a day habit i always afraid of my lungs which is the most important thing for this job
I love the thrills from my IPad screen.
I like watching these Everest videos from my warm bed
Very interesting...
34:46 what bird lives that high
Ed’s voice is amazing too
When Ed Visteurs panics, you are in very real trouble...
Being a sound guy Back in 1997 the picture of mine took back me in Everest Base Camp. Jyoti Lal Rana.
I remember watching this on PBS 25+ years ago.
Why isn’t there a documentary just about Ed Viesturs?? I
There needs to be one! I love him.
I admire him, but doubt his decision to take Carter beyond Camp4. If he could have denied him. Don't know how that works, but he was supposedly the Guide. Also, it's sad that he was the one who showed brain damage.
24:15 Is that a spine between his left and and foot? To the right of the tibia and fibula?
They have the same crazy as astronauts.
Astronauts seem to be much safer though...
There are two many dangers on Everest for me.
Great documentary, but every high altitude documentary that I've ever seen has already shown that these symptoms are already known.
The Ieger, complete with its "Wall of Death." is 13,015 feet...Everest Base camp is 17,000...+12,000 more to the summit.
39:00 points to where rob hall is buried. fascinating.
What year was this documentary made anyone know please
I don't see the attraction, especially to die for, not worth it, rock and snow, I can do without it!
excellent information great