Incredible little powerful helicopters, I have about 700 hours in them. The Pilot essentially rides the updraft of the winds to get to the top, so this is as much Pilot capability as it is aircraft.
@@cmm3338 certainly the engines should not be shut down… it’s the best weather of the year & he is wearing oxygen, so perhaps a passenger (if a 2nd passenger’s weight could be accommodated) could’ve opened the door & just put their foot down… but this Airbus is probably more akin to an airliner with a pressurized cabin making such a thing impossible.
@@captaindoeverything climb verb (RISE) to go up, or go up something or to the top of something: [ I ] We climbed to the top of the hill, where we had a great view. [ T ] She climbed the stairs to the third floor. [ I ] The plane is still climbing and will level off at 33,000 feet technically the OP is correct.
I was thinking about the great rescue pilots at Lukla, able to get to Camp 3; just being in awe of this new machine. God only knows the age of the Lukla rescue copters.
it i smount everest i see but i think weather was suitable.inal situation during avalage it is not possible i think to rescue and thats why we hear that above 6500 meter is not paossible to rescue
This pilot, and his team made this landing on Everest's peak look easy. I'm sure it wasn't . Imagine the skill involved in picking just the weather and the right time to go.......let alone the route. We can think of the technology involved, such as gps autopilot, retracing your route home, radar, altimiter etc., but imagine if the weather socked in......These guys are obviously amongst the best in the world at what they do, yet that is one hell of a chance you're taking with the weather. Everything from mechanical failure, sensor failure, pilot error, weather change, can destroy you in an instant. Kudos to this team's achievement. The bravery and skill involved here is admirable, and inspiring.
There has been quite a few evacuations by helicopters on the Everest and K2 on camp bases when possible, each time the helicopters turbine struggled with the lack of air, as well as the prop. You need to inject air into the turbine entry and under the blades, auxiliary rockets, or having newly-designed high-sustentation blades to go higher. I'm sure it will be possible one day to reach 10,000 m.
Quadcopters are unsafe. Helicopters can autorotate if the engine fails, hexacopters can just shut Another engine down to remain balanced and return to home. But what happens if only one of the 4 motors of a quadcopter fails? It looses control and crashes -.-
I once took an new AS350 B3 to 10,000 feet for some maint checks and it felt so powerful being up there and so much power left. What a machine. Great video, thanks for sharing.
You can look forward to the day when we can take a helicopter ride to the summit, dressed in all the right climbing gear (maybe sipping a coffee), take some shots. Yeah! I was on the summit of Everest!
Just take one of the guided tours. 800 trips every year. Remember to take four bottles of oxygen. Nice to have when standing in queue behind the 130 others. That's the trick nobody tells you.
@@fuglbirdI realise this comment is 3 years old but I'll reply for anybody who's reading this: even though on certain days there is a lot of traffic, and most climbers do of course have oxygen tanks, it's still a pretty amazing achievement. One must give credit to the sherpas who made it all possible, but thinking about crossing the Khumbu Icefall for instance gives me shivers.
Mike Smith One should always train for the worst. Smart pilots will learn that Mastering or at least knowing how to auto rotate their aircraft is fundamental if you want to fly at all. You never know what may happen, so it's always best to prepare for the worst.
VT ViewfromtheTurret there’s a spare in the boot it would be just ridiculous to not have & with the altitude there’s just enough time2 bolt the new one in. U cretin
Just fantastic! His impressive demonstration of "survival" here on the Everest convinced all the professionals, I guess. Didier is a great guy, we were in the same rescue squadron almost 38 years ago, few years before the fall of Berlin wall.. By pure respect, humility and dignity, Didier Delsalle apparently refused to lead his B3 higher than the Lama of Jean Boulet. 😎
To anyone wondering, this was a production version Astar minus empty seats and only an hour of fuel. It set ‘time to climb’ records all the way to 33k’ too.
dont bother, putin has allready been there with a tank, no big deal. but the latest is that kim jong un has landed a jet liner on the summit and he will now open a korean dumpling restaurant there
True story... they had to do this twice. On the first day none of the recording equipment captured any of the footage so the pilot went up again the next day to get this footage.
I have has the pleasure of flying with Didier in NYC, demo-ing the EC130B4. He's a fantastic pilot and a really nice guy. Say what you want, but if anyone could do it, he could. And he did! On my father's birthday, no less!
This was absolutely amazing. setting a worlds record, on everest, and on your fathers birthday. i can imagine climbers when they reach the summit, glancing around then noticing a helicopter skid imprint in the snow. first words, errm okaaay?
@@psychward2315 Didier D'Salle. He was one of Eurocopeter's test pilots, later, Chief Test Pilot, possibly known as Aerospatiale back then. A very personable guy and a wizard with a helicopter!
Absolutely .. we watched the rescue service documentary in Nepal and even in a highly modified chopper maximum altitude was about 6000 metres.. rescues above this height were done with Sherpas and sledges with ropes to descend to a lower altitude ... also there is a significant chance of HAPE/HACE at those altitudes
@@andrewpaulstancer5704 wouldnt it make more sense to build like an mv 22 osprey but with jet engines instead of rotors? why has nobody made a helicopter style jet powered aircraft?
Wow, that was some fancy flying! I liked how he didn't put the chopper completely down - just one bit of the landing skids was touching the snow. And then he just flew away, and did victory rolls next to the mountain because he *could*!
Yes !! It's a grand record ❤ Till now, no one other than him (Didier delsale) reached the summit by means other than foot.... That is something to be boasted about 🤩
Unfortunately no, the helico which succeed to reach the top was empty. Helicopters limit is the Camp 2 for safety reason. Flying at such altitude is tricky because helicopters don’t operate as safely as fixed-wing airplanes in the lower-density air found higher up in the atmosphere. Pilots who fly helicopters at mountain elevations have to learn to constantly calculate the difference between how much power they need for maneuvers such as taking off, hovering, and landing, and how much power they actually have, with air pressure and temperature critical factors. Moreover there is always the risk of avalanche or/and landslide.
That's a ridiculous comment. The reason bodies remain up there is because it is so difficult to bring down bodies from the Death Zone. At that altitude, people need all their energy just to get themselves down safely. Trying to bring down dead bodies adds a lot of difficulty and risk.
@@tylermorris9196 imo quite possible with some diet (same as for sports cars - composites, titanium parts etc.) you could probably shave it so you could carry a passanger
@@RandomTheories yeah, but You'll need at least two people in the heli - pilot, and some dude who would go out to pick up somebody. Second dude would need some equipment to go outside of the heli and the weight goes up and up... AAAND prob most important - maybe it would be possible on the summit, with help of some fellow climbers, yeah, but 99% of fatal accidents on everest happens in way more difficult locations on the mountain.
@@dirtyharry5320 The point is that this is a step in the right direction for the future of high altitude helicopter flights. Of course these were good weather conditions and that helicopter was only able to carry one person, but who knows in the future, rescues in blizzard conditions involving multiple people could be a realistic scenario with technological advancement. It's either that or more sophisticated drones that can carry supplies to people.
I’ve always wondered why people can’t just take a chopper to the summit. And this proves they can. I know it’s not the same as climbing the mountain but I would have thought this would be a tourism draw card. You can say, “ I’ve been to the Everest summit” without putting in the climb.
The helicopter was gutted to make it as light as possible. As far as I'm aware, there is no current helicopter that could carry passengers and their oxygen tanks at that altitude and land. You would also need exceptionally good weather, and you don't have much space for people to get in and out of the aircraft, there is no helipad.
Have you ever watched movies (or any space documentary) about space aircraft or astronauts just 'flying' around in the empty space? The air is literally very very thin you barely can't generate power to fly any direction you want (if you're say, a bird). That's why we use rockets there. The same goes for high altitude: AIR DENSITY. If the air is too thin, the heli machines can't get enough air to generate power from the engine's combustion. You do realize aircraft engines use fuel and AIR to lift them up, right? Do your basic physics, bruh. This heli is heavily modified to be as light as possible, while at the same time requires exceptionally skilled pilot as well.
i would love to see uncut version from any of on-board camera. but, of course, it would be like, 'hei, do you still have this footage from 15y ago?' nice vid anyways, thank you for sharing
This is amazing! Perhaps now so many climbers need not die up there or if they die, at least there is the hope their bodies can be retrieved. There are over 200 bodies on the mountain, some in full view of climbers, frozen and mummified like the body of George Mallory who attempted to summit in 1924. His body was found 75 years later in 1999, or Tsewang Palijor who died in 1996 and who's body became a landmark for 20 years before it was moved.
You do realize the physics of that flight. You can bet that helicopter was gutted to a minimum weight and with minimum fuel to get there and back. Those blades have less and less dense air to bite into as it rises in altitude, so any additional weight would make impossible for rescue at the top of Everest.
Of course climbers don't NEED to go there. But most of us don't NEED to do many things. No one needs to SURF or go SCUBA DIVING but people are adventurous and like to take on a certain amount of risk so that they are able to do AMAZING things. You're far more likely to die in your car within 3 miles of your home. That's what the cold hard numbers tell us. So some people are willing to take on some limited extra risk to do some incredible things in life that greatly add to the life experience. Now ... when it comes to Everest ... I will criticize many who go there to climb it because most of these people are not so much into climbing. They want to the bragging rights to say they climbed Everest ... even though there are more dangerous, difficult mountains to climb. People who love to climb love the outdoors. But they generally do not love to be in long lines. And if you decide to go climb Everest, that is likely going to be your experience .... standing in line behind dozens if not hundreds of other climbers. I'm a climber and see ZERO fun in that experience ... and I started climbing because I too had the Everest bug and wanted to climb this great mountain. But once I started climbing I realized there are so many other great climbing experiences to be had. Everest is an incredible mountain with great routes and rich history. But knowing the crowding and the trash and the local economy being completely centered around this high-altitude tourism, and the endless lines ... I've long given up my dream to climb this peak. I've had such a great experience rock climbing in the Gunks and in England and California and doing some mountaineering in the Tetons ... I don't have that burning need to do Everest just because it's the tallest by a few dozen feet. If I still wanted to climb in the Himalayas there are other fantastic peaks to ascend.
its the journey they want to do, the risk of it. And if nobody ever died on the way, nobody'd think it was worth doing. Apparently its quite expensive money-wise too, and yet there is no shortage of people. Some years I've read its like they need an escalator up there. Whenever I hear of some climber who dies, I look for my little violin...they knew the risks. You pays your money and yous takes your chances.
@@vishumagar6848 For telling someone I admire them for being a skilled pilot and he would have got permission to do this. Here's what's offensive to Nepali People. Shut the fuck up Vishu!
This would have been in the peak of the summer. Impossible for explorations to climb in the summer but that has to be when this is… still it’s really impressive the helicopter could do that. The engine must have been reengineered. Really really cool stuff. NO OTHER PILOT has ever did this.
It's an odd feeling seeing this when it's just a short flight and the fact that there are climbers who died and are still on the mountain. I think it's great though. Just feels odd.
The bible said all is vanity and thats what climbing everest is. The chopper is a complete humiliation for those who ignored the bible and sought glory in this world. At the top of that mountain is just some rocks and snow.
@@AnyoneCanSee Clarkson doesn't do manual labor and is nowhere near fit enough so no chance of seeing him ever near a mountain like Everest. Do you remember how winded he was just going up a mountain in the Bolivia Special?
Funny how the camera on top that could unequivocally show the landmarks you'd see was out of focus. The camera underneath has a perfect pic but that could've been anywhere.
I'm glad this comments section is not swamped with comments like "meh, that has no merit, if you want to reach the top just climb it" and things like that. You can't say doing this was easy.
Congratulations to the pilot for his great maneuver, bringing the helicopter to that height is a very difficult risk. My question is this, what did they throw at the top? would it be oxygen?
Eurocopter is now the HS125, Amazing Chopper, and to think this was done in 2005!! Helicopters normally can only hover to around 10-12k feet, so this is trully remarkable. They're using them on Everest for rescue now, best Helicopters around
Perhaps it would help if the owner of this channel explained in the title comments how incredibly hard it is for helicopters to fly at those altitudes?
Matteo Dallacosta there's a caldera profile on one side of the Peak, and a North Face next to it going down the backside, along with a face facing a different direction that's easier to climb. That means at the very top there's a kind of a triangle Ridge, with one side containing the mountain of rocks with the plaque, of highest mountain in the world, and a flag, along with some other flags near it from other climbers, and then a bit further away there's a Ridge where the helicopter landed, and if you look carefully on the video you can see across the top of the curved peak ridge.
@@RB747domme Good answer, however the face that its on the other direction(EAST FACE aka KANGSHUNG aka DON'T GO THERE UNLESS YOU ARE CHINESE AND WANT TO DIE) ITS NOT FuCKING EASIER TO CLIMB. Its actually the most difficult less climbed full of avalanches and crevasses no one climbs there unless they are super heros that want to commit suicide and sometimes get away with it face.
Wow he made that look easy! I was thinking he must have crept up there in ground effect, did he sue the updrafts off the mountain? Really impressive from both pilot and aircraft!
French aviator Jean Boulet, piloting an Aérospatiale SA 315 Lama, set the world record for the highest altitude flight in a helicopter at 12,442 m (40,820 ft) (1972)
I know they waited for this perfect weather and a time when no one was at the summit, but how could no one be at the summit when the weather is so perfect?
I wondered exactly the same thing. Where is the traffic jam of people? Everest was very popular in 2005. Hard to imagine no one there or on way unless he came at it from an angle no one uses and he made sure no one way there. Not much air up there but wouldn't there have been rotor wash. Why have I never heard of this? Could it be an elaborate hoax?
@@jobethk588 some have flown at even higher altitudes (can't recall the record), but getting close to a mountain is trickier because of wind causing updrafts and downdrafts. I think the highest Everest rescue was from around 23,000ft - the highest helicopter rescue anywhere - and that's still 6,000ft from the summit
I just tried this In Microsoft Flight Simulator in the very same helicopter. Using the Southern wind jet to shoot me up the face. Resulting in my untimely death on the Northern pass..😢
+Bob A Booey The longest autorotation in history was performed by Jean Boulet in 1972 when he reached a record altitude of 12,440 m (40,814 ft) in an Aérospatiale Lama. Because of a −63 °C temperature at that altitude, as soon as he reduced power the engine flamed out and could not be restarted. By using autorotation he was able to land the aircraft safely.
Not to mention the fastest vertical decent rate - he must have dropped out of the sky like a rock when the engine quit. 40,000 feet in a helicopter is really "off the dial!" Not a surprise no one has been back to beat it.
Fred North broke that record in a AS350 B2 over South Africa in 2002 - 42,500 ft (12,954m) I read that Boulet autorotated and put his skids into the same ruts in the grass he took off from.
That was because his fuel froze up. The old Lama does not have a fuel heat exchanger and I am not sure if he was using an antifreeze additive. The B3 is designed diifferently and the engine is not exposed to the elements like the Lama. Besides, it is enclosed and so it retains heat.
0:23 Just wanted to let you know one thing about your grammar; you only use an 'an', before words that start with a vowel sound, or is a vowel itself. An helicopter is incorrect, however, an hour would be...
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All those people spend weeks climbing mount Everest and this guy is just like, what's up
Simply Tuned try months😂
ho chi with no preparation at all? So yes, monds or years
Simply Tuned haha, true dat. I'd be like "yoo, I'll give you 5 grand for a ride back down"
They need weeks to acclimatize.
You show up to Everest base camp with 4 days to make it to the top, let us know how that goes.
The Sherpa industry hate this one trick.
@@pankourlaut what to click
@@UsamaKhan-cj7kg it's a joke making fun about clickbait news articles and links
@@UsamaKhan-cj7kg and you fell for it apparently lol
The Sherpa bought 20 and charge USA$20,000 for the ride.
@@blindandwatching Smart sherpa.
these speedrunners are getting out of control
Lmao This Was any % Exploits run.
Lmao😂😂
but he clearly missed the "nearly frozen do death" achievement
Hard to believe that a helicopter can get to the top of the highest mountain - but it can. Congrats to the engineers who built that machine.
Why is it hard to believe, not very difficult to do.
@@chippyjohn1 Yeah, it only took 66 years to achieve since the invention of the helicopter, easy peasy.
@@JohnSmith-hn6kv 😂
Moreover he did it twice in a row, on May 14 and May 15, 2005 !!!!
@@JohnSmith-hn6kv The record was set well before this. Do some research.
Incredible little powerful helicopters, I have about 700 hours in them. The Pilot essentially rides the updraft of the winds to get to the top, so this is as much Pilot capability as it is aircraft.
Pilot is ballsy n lucky Tha day,the storms on Everest are unlike anything you can comprehend..Everest is its own storm..
no updraft when he took off sheer power
That is not landing. The front right side of his Landing gear touched the snow gently
@@LeonSKennedy7777 you would be insane to shut her down there, or have a pilot exit for any reason.
@@cmm3338 certainly the engines should not be shut down… it’s the best weather of the year & he is wearing oxygen, so perhaps a passenger (if a 2nd passenger’s weight could be accommodated) could’ve opened the door & just put their foot down… but this Airbus is probably more akin to an airliner with a pressurized cabin making such a thing impossible.
I expected an A350 airliner landing on the top od MT Everest
🤣🤣🤣 me too
Mee too😂😂😂
That's what I freaking thought...too🛩
Мужик Казбунда well, the Airbus AS350 was originally the Eurocopter Écureuil (French for squirrel).
Just ask virgin air they will make your dream come true
People who have climbed Mt . Everest: 5800
People who have landed a helicopter on Mt. Everest: 1
But no real landing at all...sorry, just a fly by, but no Landing!
@@andregattodrummer you cant actually land there
The Tesla version of this will come with a rope ; it will set to autopilot when you climb out of it.
Its an upcoming glorious entry indeed.
@@andregattodrummer you can literally SEE the skids touch down on the summit.
@@DonMrLenny Right. Its impossible. The summit is mostly snow and no flat surface. The heli would fall down
This man has the record of fastest climbing of mount everest
climbing? Flying yes, climbing no
@@captaindoeverything climb verb (RISE)
to go up, or go up something or to the top of something: [ I ] We climbed to the top of the hill, where we had a great view. [ T ] She climbed the stairs to the third floor. [ I ] The plane is still climbing and will level off at 33,000 feet
technically the OP is correct.
summit*
@@TwoFingeredMammanot as impressive by hand and foot tho! Do the hard yards, get the title
We have most advanced ships and still people take great pride in winning swimming competition. People even cross english channel by swim.
Me n the boys in GTA 5 going to Mt.Chiliad
The music seems very similar
With all the people climbing Everest now , this is actually a traffic report
Fredo Bull no man that was pretty clever
@@ForgotFuckIt Space Pirate! My man! Fredo can't help sound angry. His anger makes up for his lack of intelligence and his micro-sized manhood.
Elaine Arruda - Great comment and true.
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I was thinking about the great rescue pilots at Lukla, able to get to Camp 3; just being in awe of this new machine.
God only knows the age of the Lukla rescue copters.
imagine someone just approaching summit and didnt know about this stunt.
"this isnt Everest , is it?"
Hahahhahahhahahaha :'D
awwww fuck I climbed the wrong mountain LMAO
it i smount everest i see but i think weather was suitable.inal situation during avalage it is not possible i think to rescue and thats why we hear that above 6500 meter is not paossible to rescue
holy crap!! almost died laughing here! bwahahahaha!!
@@GZA036 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This pilot, and his team made this landing on Everest's peak look easy. I'm sure it wasn't . Imagine the skill involved in picking just the weather and the right time to go.......let alone the route. We can think of the technology involved, such as gps autopilot, retracing your route home, radar, altimiter etc., but imagine if the weather socked in......These guys are obviously amongst the best in the world at what they do, yet that is one hell of a chance you're taking with the weather. Everything from mechanical failure, sensor failure, pilot error, weather change, can destroy you in an instant. Kudos to this team's achievement. The bravery and skill involved here is admirable, and inspiring.
Randy Brady really? Are you really sure?
@@babineaux. After 30 years in search and rescue I am not sure about anything.
All that can destroy you in an instant hauling tourists around Hawaii, so what?
There has been quite a few evacuations by helicopters on the Everest and K2 on camp bases when possible, each time the helicopters turbine struggled with the lack of air, as well as the prop. You need to inject air into the turbine entry and under the blades, auxiliary rockets, or having newly-designed high-sustentation blades to go higher. I'm sure it will be possible one day to reach 10,000 m.
I was thinking that, any malfunctions and it's a one way trip, it's not like anyone's going to come and get ya.
I once flew an AS350 B3, and with two people at over 10,000 feet, the power available was incredible. Great video.
Must have been a Very Calm and Cold day too : )
I can only imagine the relief the pilot felt when he turned for home!! Great Job!
Helicopter blades would find it bloody hard to get lift with air so thin at that altitude,balls of steel ❤that pilot
The next thing you know there will be a MacDonalds on the top of Mount Everest
or maybe next rescue beyond border you mor....
Why not ? 🐣
Japanese vending machine.
Trick Shots Swag there already is, I had a happy meal there last week.
Trick Shots Swag 🤣🤣
4:08 Wow, look at that dive!
Helicopters really are amazing machines, I love them...
Bassem Boustany quadcopters are better
Yeah I love my little quadcopter :D but they don't scale up well. You can't easily have a helicopter-size quadcopter.
Me too...
Quadcopters are unsafe. Helicopters can autorotate if the engine fails, hexacopters can just shut Another engine down to remain balanced and return to home.
But what happens if only one of the 4 motors of a quadcopter fails? It looses control and crashes -.-
if you love it, why dont you marry it.
Precision photography with a wide view of the entire expanse from take off to the entire flight and back ! Awesome! Superb !👍
Incredible feat of engineering; how it stays up with such thin air
I once took an new AS350 B3 to 10,000 feet for some maint checks and it felt so powerful being up there and so much power left. What a machine. Great video, thanks for sharing.
Imagine being on an airliner at commercial jet height and seeing one of these breaking this record! 🤘
You can look forward to the day when we can take a helicopter ride to the summit, dressed in all the right climbing gear (maybe sipping a coffee), take some shots. Yeah! I was on the summit of Everest!
I'm afraid they may flatten mt everest summit to make a big helipad a few years from now.
That will not happen because alpinists are in it for the natural drug called adrenaline and would want to get their fix the hard way :)
Just take one of the guided tours. 800 trips every year. Remember to take four bottles of oxygen. Nice to have when standing in queue behind the 130 others. That's the trick nobody tells you.
@@tarikay93 the people on the queue are not alpinists
@@fuglbirdI realise this comment is 3 years old but I'll reply for anybody who's reading this: even though on certain days there is a lot of traffic, and most climbers do of course have oxygen tanks, it's still a pretty amazing achievement. One must give credit to the sherpas who made it all possible, but thinking about crossing the Khumbu Icefall for instance gives me shivers.
The air density at the summit is approx 30% of sea level, it’s truly amazing.
That's why they have massive rotars
@@dylanklebald8123and face mosk
Not a place for an engine failure!
If your over 20ft altitude, your in trouble with an engine failure.
Randy Torgerson Not really. Every Helicopter pilot learns to master the skill of auto rotation.
Mike Smith One should always train for the worst. Smart pilots will learn that Mastering or at least knowing how to auto rotate their aircraft is fundamental if you want to fly at all. You never know what may happen, so it's always best to prepare for the worst.
VT ViewfromtheTurret there’s a spare in the boot it would be just ridiculous to not have & with the altitude there’s just enough time2 bolt the new one in. U cretin
Autorotation is a wonderful thing but you still need a safe place to land. I don't think there is plenty flat areas around Mount Everst
Build a cable car and a revolving restaurant. And a hotel
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Frank M goes without saying :-)
hotel better have a descent pool...or im not going.
Yes and iris pub too
an oxygen bar would do quite nicely 👌
I was expecting that Bear Grylls would jump out of the helicopter on to the summit to start another episode of Man vs Wild..Lol!!!
It doesn’t count unless he got out and took a selfie.
in a Ronald Mcdonald suit sipping a cappucino decaf
going from low altitude to that high, he gets out of heli for 10 mins he would die
This is the FIRST time a helicopter made it that high. Literally, one step at a time…
He should have got out and done the tiktok dance 🤣
Then who'll bring back the chopper.... LOL
I was lucky enough to fly ems as a flight nurse in an astar and can say it was my favorite. Out of 407 ec145 ec135 and bc. Love that little bird
Just fantastic! His impressive demonstration of "survival" here on the Everest convinced all the professionals, I guess.
Didier is a great guy, we were in the same rescue squadron almost 38 years ago, few years before the fall of Berlin wall..
By pure respect, humility and dignity, Didier Delsalle apparently refused to lead his B3 higher than the Lama of Jean Boulet. 😎
Wow 😳
To anyone wondering, this was a production version Astar minus empty seats and only an hour of fuel. It set ‘time to climb’ records all the way to 33k’ too.
Yes. I've been in a AS350 squirrel in Nepal but we could only get to around 12k feet....
Next UP its a TANK!
dont bother, putin has allready been there with a tank, no big deal. but the latest is that kim jong un has landed a jet liner on the summit and he will now open a korean dumpling restaurant there
this mountain is very tall but in my country we have much taller mountain
Next up would be a subway getting there!!
No I heard it was dirt bike
Sounds like a tall tale to me!
The air is very thin here so it is very difficult to fly helicopter here. But you proved that man can do anything. Great job.
Man cannot do anything. They can try but they can’t.
I like how at 4:08 the pilot went "Fk it. I`m too high right now, I can totally do this" .
Nipun Kothare
True story... they had to do this twice.
On the first day none of the recording equipment captured any of the footage so the pilot went up again the next day to get this footage.
I have read they flew up there twice just to prove that the first time hadn't been just luck.
Maull Sin Contac like Messner did with the first no oxygen climb?
@@cormac8276 I didn't know about that
@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor messner did repeat his climb. Although it was more because people didn’t believe him.
And all this published? Authenticated?
If I ever get chance to fly in a helicopter I want that guy to be the pilot. Truly someone at the top of his game. Great to watch, well done :-)
A record that can literally NEVER be broken.
+Mickey Bitsko why not
+aflaks Are you serious?
+Mickey Bitsko Actually, what I've read is that Everest grows around 2.5 inches higher each year, so every landing would be a new record.
makes sense in that context
+Mickey Bitsko Land a helicopter on Olympus Mons ;-)
I have has the pleasure of flying with Didier in NYC, demo-ing the EC130B4. He's a fantastic pilot and a really nice guy. Say what you want, but if anyone could do it, he could. And he did! On my father's birthday, no less!
This was absolutely amazing. setting a worlds record, on everest, and on your fathers birthday. i can imagine climbers when they reach the summit, glancing around then noticing a helicopter skid imprint in the snow. first words, errm okaaay?
Didier be like who dis?
@@psychward2315 Didier D'Salle. He was one of Eurocopeter's test pilots, later, Chief Test Pilot, possibly known as Aerospatiale back then. A very personable guy and a wizard with a helicopter!
Nepalis be like: There goes 1/3rd of our GDP😭😭😭
Why so salty nigga
Fucking dhoti
@@basantapandeyy he is just joking chill
@@basantapandeyy stfu bahadur
@@indranildutta2961 He is too joking,just chill,cant take a joke on self? Or don't have a single 8000er? Oops Pakistan took 'em all,so unlucky!! 😂😂😂
Didn't think it was possible but you proved me wrong! Bravo!
I would have loved to see the T4 gauge and the torque readings. I am sure this is a specially modified ship.
kumar gulavita It was a production version with the empty seats removed and 1 hour of fuel. They also set time to climb records all the way to 33k’.
Absolutely .. we watched the rescue service documentary in Nepal and even in a highly modified chopper maximum altitude was about 6000 metres.. rescues above this height were done with Sherpas and sledges with ropes to descend to a lower altitude ... also there is a significant chance of HAPE/HACE at those altitudes
For those wondering, the T4 gauge is the combustion section of a turbine engine, where the real work is happening.
T4 readings was . 0488 and torque readings was.. .091 psi ,
@@andrewpaulstancer5704 wouldnt it make more sense to build like an mv 22 osprey but with jet engines instead of rotors? why has nobody made a helicopter style jet powered aircraft?
Truly amazing... Adaptation at its best and I can only imagine the lives that need not be lost. Just amazing.
This sure beats the walk up this hill!
Hill?
Wow, that was some fancy flying! I liked how he didn't put the chopper completely down - just one bit of the landing skids was touching the snow. And then he just flew away, and did victory rolls next to the mountain because he *could*!
I think the camera did rolls
Incredible.
All of us who revere the mountain are both fascinated and hopeful that it will always be respected as the power of an awesome nature.
Unless you’re a pilot, people don’t know how hard that landing was to do. Salute to that pilot... well done.
Yes !! It's a grand record ❤
Till now, no one other than him (Didier delsale) reached the summit by means other than foot.... That is something to be boasted about 🤩
wait until boston dynamic came up with a sherpabot
LOL :)
That's a great idea! If the future will be robots may as well create one which is designed to help tourists up the super high mountains.
Touching down on the summit to find out you cant takeoff due to a mechanical issue would be inconvenient.
Some climbers nearing the summit and this chopper wheezing by them:
*"Excuse me, sir, could point me to the direction of Mt. Everest?"*
Great helicopter + fantastic pilot = awe inspiring accomplishment...
Should have stepped out and made footprints on Everest! Awesome feat!
I agree. Its like pee on top of a tree and tell me its raining.
and land where? it was visible there was not enough space for stable landing, only for touching the peak. if he got out the heli would slide off
So does this mean they can start to clean up the mountain and the bodies high atop it?
+Two Thumbs? This Guy. no... but for this task exoskeletons can be used...
Unfortunately no, the helico which succeed to reach the top was empty. Helicopters limit is the Camp 2 for safety reason.
Flying at such altitude is tricky because helicopters don’t operate as safely as fixed-wing airplanes in the lower-density air found higher up in the atmosphere. Pilots who fly helicopters at mountain elevations have to learn to constantly calculate the difference between how much power they need for maneuvers such as taking off, hovering, and landing, and how much power they actually have, with air pressure and temperature critical factors. Moreover there is always the risk of avalanche or/and landslide.
The only reason they haven't cleaned the mountain up is due to laziness. They'd rather make money off glory seekers than do what is proper.
Airbus Helicopters nothing but modified gazella!
That's a ridiculous comment. The reason bodies remain up there is because it is so difficult to bring down bodies from the Death Zone. At that altitude, people need all their energy just to get themselves down safely. Trying to bring down dead bodies adds a lot of difficulty and risk.
“Uber for Bill?”
So what you're saying is, yes we can do a helicopter rescue on Mt Everest.
anymore weight in his helicopter and its a no go
@@tylermorris9196 imo quite possible with some diet (same as for sports cars - composites, titanium parts etc.)
you could probably shave it so you could carry a passanger
@@RandomTheories yeah, but You'll need at least two people in the heli - pilot, and some dude who would go out to pick up somebody. Second dude would need some equipment to go outside of the heli and the weight goes up and up... AAAND prob most important - maybe it would be possible on the summit, with help of some fellow climbers, yeah, but 99% of fatal accidents on everest happens in way more difficult locations on the mountain.
This was only possible because the weather conditions were optimal. Try it in the middle of a blizzard.
@@dirtyharry5320 The point is that this is a step in the right direction for the future of high altitude helicopter flights. Of course these were good weather conditions and that helicopter was only able to carry one person, but who knows in the future, rescues in blizzard conditions involving multiple people could be a realistic scenario with technological advancement. It's either that or more sophisticated drones that can carry supplies to people.
My journey to Base Camp was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. Thanks for sharing.
top of the everest looks like a big vanilla icecream xD
shhhh ...otherwise ben and jerry will get ideas
I’ve always wondered why people can’t just take a chopper to the summit. And this proves they can. I know it’s not the same as climbing the mountain but I would have thought this would be a tourism draw card. You can say, “ I’ve been to the Everest summit” without putting in the climb.
The helicopter was gutted to make it as light as possible. As far as I'm aware, there is no current helicopter that could carry passengers and their oxygen tanks at that altitude and land. You would also need exceptionally good weather, and you don't have much space for people to get in and out of the aircraft, there is no helipad.
Have you ever watched movies (or any space documentary) about space aircraft or astronauts just 'flying' around in the empty space? The air is literally very very thin you barely can't generate power to fly any direction you want (if you're say, a bird). That's why we use rockets there.
The same goes for high altitude: AIR DENSITY. If the air is too thin, the heli machines can't get enough air to generate power from the engine's combustion. You do realize aircraft engines use fuel and AIR to lift them up, right?
Do your basic physics, bruh.
This heli is heavily modified to be as light as possible, while at the same time requires exceptionally skilled pilot as well.
@@thepainphantom[Were] you mad [when you wrote this], bruh?
@@avgeekviolinist It's just basic physics. Ofc I'm mad and you're not.
Should be able to rescue people from C4 at least though, right? Why aren't there frequent helicopter rescues?
世の中にはとんでもない凄いことを成し遂げる立派な人がいるのですね。 エベレスト成功おめでとうございます！
i would love to see uncut version from any of on-board camera. but, of course, it would be like, 'hei, do you still have this footage from 15y ago?'
nice vid anyways, thank you for sharing
Summit climb on Everest via a new route, affectionately known as “The Reverse Grand Tour”
This is amazing! Perhaps now so many climbers need not die up there or if they die, at least there is the hope their bodies can be retrieved. There are over 200 bodies on the mountain, some in full view of climbers, frozen and mummified like the body of George Mallory who attempted to summit in 1924. His body was found 75 years later in 1999, or Tsewang Palijor who died in 1996 and who's body became a landmark for 20 years before it was moved.
You do realize the physics of that flight. You can bet that helicopter was gutted to a minimum weight and with minimum fuel to get there and back. Those blades have less and less dense air to bite into as it rises in altitude, so any additional weight would make impossible for rescue at the top of Everest.
Climbers don't need to die. They don't need to go there.
Don't ever say that it's impossible, Rumple Stiltskin, because you are likely to be proven wrong in that statement.
Of course climbers don't NEED to go there. But most of us don't NEED to do many things. No one needs to SURF or go SCUBA DIVING but people are adventurous and like to take on a certain amount of risk so that they are able to do AMAZING things. You're far more likely to die in your car within 3 miles of your home. That's what the cold hard numbers tell us. So some people are willing to take on some limited extra risk to do some incredible things in life that greatly add to the life experience.
Now ... when it comes to Everest ... I will criticize many who go there to climb it because most of these people are not so much into climbing. They want to the bragging rights to say they climbed Everest ... even though there are more dangerous, difficult mountains to climb. People who love to climb love the outdoors. But they generally do not love to be in long lines. And if you decide to go climb Everest, that is likely going to be your experience .... standing in line behind dozens if not hundreds of other climbers. I'm a climber and see ZERO fun in that experience ... and I started climbing because I too had the Everest bug and wanted to climb this great mountain. But once I started climbing I realized there are so many other great climbing experiences to be had. Everest is an incredible mountain with great routes and rich history. But knowing the crowding and the trash and the local economy being completely centered around this high-altitude tourism, and the endless lines ... I've long given up my dream to climb this peak. I've had such a great experience rock climbing in the Gunks and in England and California and doing some mountaineering in the Tetons ... I don't have that burning need to do Everest just because it's the tallest by a few dozen feet. If I still wanted to climb in the Himalayas there are other fantastic peaks to ascend.
its the journey they want to do, the risk of it. And if nobody ever died on the way, nobody'd think it was worth doing. Apparently its quite expensive money-wise too, and yet there is no shortage of people. Some years I've read its like they need an escalator up there. Whenever I hear of some climber who dies, I look for my little violin...they knew the risks. You pays your money and yous takes your chances.
Total Respect! A very gutsy Pilot! A doff my hat to you Sir.
This is illegal and deeply offensive to nepali peoplw
@@vishumagar6848 For telling someone I admire them for being a skilled pilot and he would have got permission to do this. Here's what's offensive to Nepali People. Shut the fuck up Vishu!
This would have been in the peak of the summer. Impossible for explorations to climb in the summer but that has to be when this is… still it’s really impressive the helicopter could do that. The engine must have been reengineered. Really really cool stuff. NO OTHER PILOT has ever did this.
Neat! I wonder if the pilot had the same video background music piped into his headset.
God let's hope not
If I had just reached the summit of Mount Everest and saw a helicopter landing there I would think I was hallucinating 😎
It's an odd feeling seeing this when it's just a short flight and the fact that there are climbers who died and are still on the mountain. I think it's great though. Just feels odd.
The bible said all is vanity and thats what climbing everest is. The chopper is a complete humiliation for those who ignored the bible and sought glory in this world. At the top of that mountain is just some rocks and snow.
Probably an initiative for heli rescues in the future
clarkson, hammond and may could probably drive a boat up there...
Clarkson would make some racist comment about a Sherpa and get pushed off the mountain.
Robert J. Williamson lol
@@AnyoneCanSee Clarkson doesn't do manual labor and is nowhere near fit enough so no chance of seeing him ever near a mountain like Everest. Do you remember how winded he was just going up a mountain in the Bolivia Special?
The main rotor must be on the hairy edge of retreating blade stall, while the advancing blade is trying to stall from supersonic air speeds.
Can you imagine how this thing will absolutely save lives . This is the wildest thing my eyes have seen in years.
Is there any footage of this without a million cuts I.e. start to finish filming 🧐
Should be a record flight for a chopper at that elevation and very thin air for its rotors. Makes helicopter rescues now possible
Amazing! I would not have thought that possible.
Maginificent excellent Job of Company and Pilot Skills..
And hope it can save as many life’s and propels emergency 🙏🏻
Cheers
Alan
Hard to believe that in 2005 cameras were so blurry, dark and grainy!
Funny how the camera on top that could unequivocally show the landmarks you'd see was out of focus. The camera underneath has a perfect pic but that could've been anywhere.
Anyone who understands how helicopters work knows how hard this is, the air is so thin it makes no lift that high up.
I didn't know that they could reach that altitude! I thought their max ceiling was approx. 21,000'.
Updrafts made a different.
Not too many days during the year that you can even attempt that!
He was above the highest point. A place nobody has ever been.
actually airplanes fly higher than that so...
Highest? If you land on the Moon you will be higher, I guarantee you … 🤡
I'm glad this comments section is not swamped with comments like "meh, that has no merit, if you want to reach the top just climb it" and things like that. You can't say doing this was easy.
Any other skeptics here?
That fuzzy circle of frosty blur in the high tail camera footage is mighty inconvenient.
Congratulations to the pilot for his great maneuver, bringing the helicopter to that height is a very difficult risk. My question is this, what did they throw at the top? would it be oxygen?
How did that pilot reach the summit whilst hauling those 4 tonne iron balls of his?
Eurocopter is now the HS125, Amazing Chopper, and to think this was done in 2005!!
Helicopters normally can only hover to around 10-12k feet, so this is trully remarkable.
They're using them on Everest for rescue now, best Helicopters around
Perhaps it would help if the owner of this channel explained in the title comments how incredibly hard it is for helicopters to fly at those altitudes?
Excelent video. Thank you for beautiful images. 😀😍
If I were on the summit and I saw this chopper land there, I'D say, "I'm kinda tired; can you give me a lift back to Kathmandu?"
nocandu.
@@DrDeuteron LOL! 🤣
If thats the top, then where are all the flags that have accumulated from climbers thru the years?
They were shown. They're that colorful thing when he first trys to touch down
Or they're buried under this year's snowfall.
Matteo Dallacosta there's a caldera profile on one side of the Peak, and a North Face next to it going down the backside, along with a face facing a different direction that's easier to climb.
That means at the very top there's a kind of a triangle Ridge, with one side containing the mountain of rocks with the plaque, of highest mountain in the world, and a flag, along with some other flags near it from other climbers, and then a bit further away there's a Ridge where the helicopter landed, and if you look carefully on the video you can see across the top of the curved peak ridge.
Either buried under the snow or blown away by the winds...
@@RB747domme Good answer, however the face that its on the other direction(EAST FACE aka KANGSHUNG aka DON'T GO THERE UNLESS YOU ARE CHINESE AND WANT TO DIE) ITS NOT FuCKING EASIER TO CLIMB. Its actually the most difficult less climbed full of avalanches and crevasses no one climbs there unless they are super heros that want to commit suicide and sometimes get away with it face.
Could someone possibly climb out at the summit and take it all in after the helicopter ride (i know it would be expensive)?
Wow he made that look easy! I was thinking he must have crept up there in ground effect, did he sue the updrafts off the mountain? Really impressive from both pilot and aircraft!
French aviator Jean Boulet, piloting an Aérospatiale SA 315 Lama, set the world record for the highest altitude flight in a helicopter at 12,442 m (40,820 ft) (1972)
I know they waited for this perfect weather and a time when no one was at the summit, but how could no one be at the summit when the weather is so perfect?
I wondered exactly the same thing. Where is the traffic jam of people? Everest was very popular in 2005. Hard to imagine no one there or on way unless he came at it from an angle no one uses and he made sure no one way there. Not much air up there but wouldn't there have been rotor wash. Why have I never heard of this? Could it be an elaborate hoax?
Valerie Rodger Fascinating. I had no idea helicopters could fly so high.
@@jobethk588 some have flown at even higher altitudes (can't recall the record), but getting close to a mountain is trickier because of wind causing updrafts and downdrafts.
I think the highest Everest rescue was from around 23,000ft - the highest helicopter rescue anywhere - and that's still 6,000ft from the summit
icing on the cake.that nosedive at 4:12 was absolute breathtaking.
I have always read that there aren't enough air molecules for the rotors at this height?
The altitude record is well above the height of Everest. 42,500 is the record.
Thank you for clarifying. Gives me a whole new respect for helicopters!
P S ... the real achievement here was hovering out of ground effect at that altitude. Straight and level flight up there is nothing.
Yeah i am truly amazed that this can occur!
Actrually he was not truly "hovering"... he had enough headwindup there to be "lfying into the wind", even if it seemed to be hovering.
Good. Why the camera up the tail not show the film. That is the amaising picture.
I just tried this In Microsoft Flight Simulator in the very same helicopter.
Using the Southern wind jet to shoot me up the face.
Resulting in my untimely death on the Northern pass..😢
Wife: what'd you do today?
Me: went to the top of mt. Everest
Great thing, to have such a wife, who asks you what you did, rather than telling you every day what to do and what not.
Gets out to stretch.. chopper rolls down mountain…..
That could have been the longest auto rotation ever.
+Bob A Booey The longest autorotation in history was performed by Jean Boulet in 1972 when he reached a record altitude of 12,440 m (40,814 ft) in an Aérospatiale Lama. Because of a −63 °C temperature at that altitude, as soon as he reduced power the engine flamed out and could not be restarted. By using autorotation he was able to land the aircraft safely.
Not to mention the fastest vertical decent rate - he must have dropped out of the sky like a rock when the engine quit. 40,000 feet in a helicopter is really "off the dial!" Not a surprise no one has been back to beat it.
12.442 m
Fred North broke that record in a AS350 B2 over South Africa in 2002 - 42,500 ft (12,954m)
I read that Boulet autorotated and put his skids into the same ruts in the grass he took off from.
That was because his fuel froze up. The old Lama does not have a fuel heat exchanger and I am not sure if he was using an antifreeze additive. The B3 is designed diifferently and the engine is not exposed to the elements like the Lama. Besides, it is enclosed and so it retains heat.
0:23 Just wanted to let you know one thing about your grammar; you only use an 'an', before words that start with a vowel sound, or is a vowel itself. An helicopter is incorrect, however, an hour would be...
It would be great if the education system taught phonics. Nice to see another Grammar Nazi!!!!
Mcdonalds on Everest: You want a side of oxygen with your burger?
i want to take my bike up there
you were born with that right! You should be preparing the lawsuit against Nepal right now.
kar di bakchodi. paidal jaya ni janda...
@@Unfiltereddworld bhai kainth reply ditta tussi 😂😂
your pneumatic tires will greatly increase in pressure on the way up and greatly decrease on the way down, be careful LOL
don't say that brother first do the base camp by walking ...then you will understand all... .. its easy to comment on this shitty videos ....