I am watching just before bed also. I truly believe that the mountains have a soothingly, heaven feel to them.... Thank you so much David Snow for another well made documentary on this amazing mountain xx 🙏🙏
I wish the climbing clubs here in Chile would setup some trams, cabins with hot meals, cables, etc. All we have here are mules to help us get to base camp. 😆 Getting to the summit of a 5,000m plus mountain in the Andes is a five to seven day ordeal.
It's so beutiful at the top looking down onto the massif. I summited in 2008 after spending a week climbing and trekking in the Dolomites. We were lucky enough to get the perfect weather window, for a summit, so we made our way straight there...it was too good an opportunity to miss after having to turn back the previous two years due to bad weather. The guides were awsome, they're like super-human.
21 years ago I reached the summit of mount blanc with our mountain guide Martin Moran who sadly passed away climbing an unclimbed mountain in the Himalayas. I fell through the snow on an overhang and found myself hanging on a rope with a 5000 ft drop below, luckily I was connected to three other climbers and they pulled me back up. Never attempt to climb these mountains on your own. We saw someone fall to his deaf after being hit by one of those rocks.
thank you for sharing your story. Very tragic to see people losing their lives doing this. I will hike on lower altitude but not climbing up any mountain. Hills and etc are fine.
Знакомые маршруты 😍 Вы шли на Гору не в лучшую погоду, но Гора Приняла ВАС и Отпустил - 🙏😇 Шамони прекрасно, как и сама Франция! ❤️💖 Спасибо за возможность, которую Вы нам подарили, чтобы увидеть всё ещё раз! 🙏❤️
When I went weather was awful and on the summit bid my guide got lost in the dark and a small snowstorm. Our tracks were getting covered up almost instantly, visibility just a few meters. Thankfully it didn’t take long to before we found the touchlights of a group heading up and followed their tracks back to the hut. Weather was bad all week : /
Interesting the guides left at 6:30 on summit day. They also didn’t seem concerned with passing through the Grand couloir then climbing the arete during the middle of the day. I left the Gouter hut at 2 am. Took me four hours to summit. I had it all to myself at sunrise. I’m going to climb the Italian route next time. It’s a beautiful place
I was actually kind of cool with it all, until they started talking about the crevasses. Then they got to the falling rocks part, and the three people who got killed the previous day. Oh. Then the cabin sort of looked pretty cheery, until they mentioned the minus five degrees, and more crevasses, and "mist" (fog), and how it's easy to get lost. Yeah ... I think I'll just order pizza, and call it a climb! Hurrah! I am valorous! (As in discretion being the better part.)
Mont Blanc is such a formidable challenge for climbers but what is most engrossing is the thought that Everest is twice the height of this famed Alpine peak.
Everest is higher but Mont Blanc is actually relatively "higher" than Everest if you measure from basecamp and Chamonix. Mont Blanc: 4808m-1037m = 3771m_Everest: 8848m-5364m=3484m. But yeah, its much harder to gain altitude in thin air than on Mont Blanc.
It would be interesting to compare the number of climbers that have lost their lives on each peak. i recall reading accounts of mountaineers who approached a lady sitting on a resting post on Everest. Her blue outfit and amber hair were evident on rear guard approach but when viewed in elevation was shockingly discovered to be skeletal. @@AndrewFredericia
A little overdramatized. In my late 20ties I climbed it from the tram end station to the summit and back to Gouter and after a few hours of rest (mostly spent melting snow for water to drink as I could not afford to stay at the cabin) again to the summit and back down to the tram. All in 30 some hours. There are crowds reaching the summit every day as long as the weather is reasonable. I mean, it is not much more than a long walk. A bit of fitness is all that is required.
It makes sense, after seeing the shape of the climbers in the cabin, you can tell anyone up for the adventure could make it if the weather allows. By the way, how expensive was the cabin?
@@justins4814 In my experience Aconcagua was a completely different league. Much more physically taxing. However, I was also more than 10 years older.
God I wish I could get there. Being in the Northeast of USA is rough... Not many high alpines to climb... Adirondaks and Catskill but only 5000 feet. Gotta go to Colorado for some 14's. It's a bummer.
I'm in Colo and I thought the 14ers here were getting too busy-then I see Everest and this Mont Blanc, Everest of Europe. They're so busy! It's a turn off. Now I want to go to the PacNW for some glacier climbing....
Looks child's play compared to karakurams range in Himalayas. Mont Blanc 4800 meters, summits in karakurams top above 8000 meters . Almost double the height 😳. You could imagine.
It’s not only about altitude it’s also about the way to reach the sumit n the weather the wind the exposition of sunlight some peaks in norway are around 2000 m from sea level but very though moutain coz of cold
@@Nathalie.R Yes thankfully. Watch ZABARDAST video here on RUclips made by French skiers. Beautiful short film in which at one point they say" we made our camps for night at around 5000m , 20 meters higher than top of Mt Blanc"
At 27:26 we see two climbers roped together on a short rope. They are not on a glacier so there is no reason to be roped together. It is called a 'suicide pact'. If you fall I will fall too and we both die".
i love watching when im stressed. mountai climbing is a learned skill although you learn a lot watching these videos, i still wouldnt try it. fear of heights..
How old is this video (original programme release date?) It'd be really nice to know the year of each of these. At a guess I will assume this video is from 1993.
Such a great video. Thanks for sharing. I've climbed MontBlanc last year with 2 of my friends and that experience was ....I have no words to describe, really. I've made this video from our trip and all of the challenges that we have gone through: ruclips.net/video/TJ68vTN7Nkc/видео.html
It is called Monte Bianco on the other side of the border. The border pass exactly through the summit of the Monte Bianco.... Italy has got the 3 highest mountains in Europe: MONTE BIANCO, CERVINO, MONTE ROSA.
@@John_on_the_mountain I am speaking about Europe if not.... the MONTE BIANCO would not be the tallest but only the 4th ... Georgia actually is in Asia.... ...
which mountains have you climbed and rate by order of difficulty 1 being easy. 10 the most challenging...my husband and i are trying to decide which one to attempt....
Ending altitude isn't the only factor...Would you say a hill starting at 0m and ending at 100m is a joke compared to a hill starting at 100m and ending at 110m?
21 years ago I reached the summit of mount blanc with our mountain guide Martin Moran who sadly passed away climbing an unclimbed mountain in the Himalayas. I fell through the snow on an overhang and found myself hanging on a rope with a 5000 ft drop below, luckily I was connected to three other climbers and they pulled me back up. Never attempt to climb these mountains on your own. We saw someone fall to his deaf after being hit by one of those rocks.
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I am watching in the AM but I most often watch before bedtime as I find them to be very soothing combined with the gorgeous visuals.
I do the same. Watch them when I go to bed. Helps send me off a bit
The Everest vids have given me fitful dreams tho....
I am watching just before bed also. I truly believe that the mountains have a soothingly, heaven feel to them.... Thank you so much David Snow for another well made documentary on this amazing mountain xx 🙏🙏
I wish the climbing clubs here in Chile would setup some trams, cabins with hot meals, cables, etc. All we have here are mules to help us get to base camp. 😆 Getting to the summit of a 5,000m plus mountain in the Andes is a five to seven day ordeal.
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It's so beutiful at the top looking down onto the massif. I summited in 2008 after spending a week climbing and trekking in the Dolomites. We were lucky enough to get the perfect weather window, for a summit, so we made our way straight there...it was too good an opportunity to miss after having to turn back the previous two years due to bad weather. The guides were awsome, they're like super-human.
21 years ago I reached the summit of mount blanc with our mountain guide Martin Moran who sadly passed away climbing an unclimbed mountain in the Himalayas. I fell through the snow on an overhang and found myself hanging on a rope with a 5000 ft drop below, luckily I was connected to three other climbers and they pulled me back up. Never attempt to climb these mountains on your own. We saw someone fall to his deaf after being hit by one of those rocks.
thank you for sharing your story. Very tragic to see people losing their lives doing this. I will hike on lower altitude but not climbing up any mountain. Hills and etc are fine.
Thankyou once again for some breathtaking views of Chamonix 👀👍❤️
Знакомые маршруты 😍
Вы шли на Гору не в лучшую погоду, но Гора Приняла ВАС и Отпустил - 🙏😇
Шамони прекрасно, как и сама Франция! ❤️💖
Спасибо за возможность, которую Вы нам подарили, чтобы увидеть всё ещё раз! 🙏❤️
The best most realistic video I have seen, I completed it and its exactly how I remembered it
Really enjoying these uploads! Would be cool to see more of international climbing documentaries!
Amazing, thank you Prof. Imam Robandi yang telah mengajak kami bertualang.
Excellent project very well documented with an equally wonderful video.
When I went weather was awful and on the summit bid my guide got lost in the dark and a small snowstorm. Our tracks were getting covered up almost instantly, visibility just a few meters. Thankfully it didn’t take long to before we found the touchlights of a group heading up and followed their tracks back to the hut. Weather was bad all week : /
Good documentary, showing that's no cake walk
Interesting the guides left at 6:30 on summit day. They also didn’t seem concerned with passing through the Grand couloir then climbing the arete during the middle of the day.
I left the Gouter hut at 2 am. Took me four hours to summit. I had it all to myself at sunrise. I’m going to climb the Italian route next time. It’s a beautiful place
I was actually kind of cool with it all, until they started talking about the crevasses. Then they got to the falling rocks part, and the three people who got killed the previous day. Oh. Then the cabin sort of looked pretty cheery, until they mentioned the minus five degrees, and more crevasses, and "mist" (fog), and how it's easy to get lost. Yeah ... I think I'll just order pizza, and call it a climb! Hurrah! I am valorous! (As in discretion being the better part.)
Lol laugh after laugh after laugh reading your comment. 😂
yup...LOVE walking in places where you cant trust the ground...pizza at home snuggled up sounds way better
Mont Blanc is such a formidable challenge for climbers but what is most engrossing is the thought that Everest is twice the height of this famed Alpine peak.
Everest is higher but Mont Blanc is actually relatively "higher" than Everest if you measure from basecamp and Chamonix. Mont Blanc: 4808m-1037m = 3771m_Everest: 8848m-5364m=3484m. But yeah, its much harder to gain altitude in thin air than on Mont Blanc.
It would be interesting to compare the number of climbers that have lost their lives on each peak. i recall reading accounts of mountaineers who approached a lady sitting on a resting post on Everest. Her blue outfit and amber hair were evident on rear guard approach but when viewed in elevation was shockingly discovered to be skeletal. @@AndrewFredericia
31:13 That is a legend right there, ladies and gentleman!
Does any one have yans number ?😅
A little overdramatized. In my late 20ties I climbed it from the tram end station to the summit and back to Gouter and after a few hours of rest (mostly spent melting snow for water to drink as I could not afford to stay at the cabin) again to the summit and back down to the tram. All in 30 some hours. There are crowds reaching the summit every day as long as the weather is reasonable. I mean, it is not much more than a long walk. A bit of fitness is all that is required.
You must have good weather because mont Blanc was very hard to climb with bad weather ! 30 hours is a low ascension
It makes sense, after seeing the shape of the climbers in the cabin, you can tell anyone up for the adventure could make it if the weather allows. By the way, how expensive was the cabin?
@@caiomar Oh, no idea really. Last time I was there was in the late 1990's.
I've read on a guide website that this mountain is tougher aerobically than aconcagua and kili.
@@justins4814 In my experience Aconcagua was a completely different league. Much more physically taxing. However, I was also more than 10 years older.
Amazing movie, great job !! Congratulations ! :-)
God I wish I could get there. Being in the Northeast of USA is rough... Not many high alpines to climb... Adirondaks and Catskill but only 5000 feet. Gotta go to Colorado for some 14's. It's a bummer.
I'm in Colo and I thought the 14ers here were getting too busy-then I see Everest and this Mont Blanc, Everest of Europe. They're so busy! It's a turn off. Now I want to go to the PacNW for some glacier climbing....
@@rngalston PacNW looks so nice and Mt Rainier is a beauty
Goof to see this video again!
They stayed in the old Gouter hut, what year was this documentary filmed?
Looks child's play compared to karakurams range in Himalayas. Mont Blanc 4800 meters, summits in karakurams top above 8000 meters . Almost double the height 😳. You could imagine.
Mt. Blanc is by no means child's play.
It’s not only about altitude it’s also about the way to reach the sumit n the weather the wind the exposition of sunlight some peaks in norway are around 2000 m from sea level but very though moutain coz of cold
Have you watched mountain skiing video named ZABARDAST ? Good thriller by a group of French and an American men.
@@trueman2467 Are you from that beautiful region of Karakoram?
@@Nathalie.R Yes thankfully. Watch ZABARDAST video here on RUclips made by French skiers. Beautiful short film in which at one point they say" we made our camps for night at around 5000m , 20 meters higher than top of Mt Blanc"
Reminds me of waiting for a bus in London ....then finally one comes!
At 27:26 we see two climbers roped together on a short rope. They are not on a glacier so there is no reason to be roped together. It is called a 'suicide pact'. If you fall I will fall too and we both die".
Oh wow, I don't know how to feel about that
i love watching when im stressed. mountai climbing is a learned skill although you learn a lot watching these videos, i still wouldnt try it. fear of heights..
I used to camp in the winter at 10000 feet all the time. I know that's really no big deal with this crowd, but most people wouldn't do it.
This is a classic. Thanks for uploading. 🏔️
Maa Syaa Allaah, amazing. Thank's Mr. David
How old is this video (original programme release date?) It'd be really nice to know the year of each of these.
At a guess I will assume this video is from 1993.
it's still the old goutier hut where they spend the night
from the plodding pace and general feel I would have said 1960's...
@@SleepTightShipOfDrea you are not gifted with much intellect huh?
so BEAUTIFUL PLACE
What a fine mountain
wonderful story
18:00 I’ve been caught in lighting on Scottish hills so I know how important it was to turn back there
28:32 the guide has no helmet? Am I seeing this right?
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When they were talking about the wind speed at 22:00, he said wind speeds of 'quatre vingt', that's not 20kph, that's 80kph!
They translated to 20m/h not km/h, which is pretty accurate
@@ogee69 What ? Are you saying that 20 meter/h is close to 80 kilometer/h ?
20x 60 x 60 so 72 km/hr
The Guide's name is RaVanel not Rabanel !
The best crystals in the world. You didnt get any?
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probably an old video. by todays standards its a hike
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It's not highest mountain in Europe,mt.Elbrus is..you Walshie😉😆
Who cares. Mont Blanc is awesome.
@@HumanistGordian It's awesome but not highest in Europe..ok?
Technically correct, but most people will not think of the others as being part of Europe. They're as far east as Baghdad.
Pretty much everyone in this movie cheated by just taking a helicopter up there
It can not be under estimated.
Do you need oxygen to climb mount bloc
No!
When you get the bill…..
Yes. It's a long way to hold your breath.
cdca nepal
i aint gonna lie being 3rd of the comment is a privilege of its own
You must have a very sad life then.
I'd call that comfortable business..nothing close to mountain climb🤷♀️
Easy with the judgment there, Edmund Hillary. This mountain still kills people every year.
@@justins4814 off course it does..and it will..how many climbers die and how many insta westerner die
Very cheesy music it doesn't need this
Good film though
Such a great video. Thanks for sharing. I've climbed MontBlanc last year with 2 of my friends and that experience was ....I have no words to describe, really. I've made this video from our trip and all of the challenges that we have gone through: ruclips.net/video/TJ68vTN7Nkc/видео.html
Overdramatizing
Boring little hike in the snow, no climbing here.
If three people have died, at around the 27 min. mark, how have none of the guides not died in years? It's all, BS!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc#Fatalities
You are quite the simpleton for a truth junkie.. just sit back little bottom feeder.
It is called Monte Bianco on the other side of the border. The border pass exactly through the summit of the Monte Bianco.... Italy has got the 3 highest mountains in Europe: MONTE BIANCO, CERVINO, MONTE ROSA.
No it doesnt. Georgia and Russia do.
@@John_on_the_mountain I am speaking about Europe if not.... the MONTE BIANCO would not be the tallest but only the 4th ... Georgia actually is in Asia.... ...
Even in what you call Europe the weisshorn, the Dom and the taschorn for example are higher than the Cervin. Get your facts straight
Mount Blanc is a joke... lower than everest base camp.... hahhahaah
which mountains have you climbed and rate by order of difficulty 1 being easy. 10 the most challenging...my husband and i are trying to decide which one to attempt....
Ending altitude isn't the only factor...Would you say a hill starting at 0m and ending at 100m is a joke compared to a hill starting at 100m and ending at 110m?
21 years ago I reached the summit of mount blanc with our mountain guide Martin Moran who sadly passed away climbing an unclimbed mountain in the Himalayas. I fell through the snow on an overhang and found myself hanging on a rope with a 5000 ft drop below, luckily I was connected to three other climbers and they pulled me back up. Never attempt to climb these mountains on your own. We saw someone fall to his deaf after being hit by one of those rocks.