@@simunator Except for 1/3 of the people who have ever been killed on Mount Everest are the actual guides. They were highly skilled mountain climbers who knew that mountain better than anyone else doing it as their career to make their living. Yet they still lost their lives in the process of climbing so that's quite a naive statement to make.
Please return and share more of your unintelligent comments. Admittedly, it’s more likely to claim an amateur but some of the most famous and skilled climbers have died there. One little slip or anything and it’s your last. Anyone can suffer an embolism too at altitude.
Bear Gryles is great. I can never watch any of these videos on Mt Everest and not think about Sir Edmund Hilley and Tenzing Norgay. I try and imagine the courage they had to climb that mountain along that ridge to the top before anybody. No safety ropes. Just a rope between the two. Climbing the Hilleray step with an 8000' drop off! Blows my mind.
do you think the weather was as bad as it is now when they climbed it? they had no safety stuff like you said,, how did they manage? i have no clue all i can think of is that the weather was better? did you see the clothes they wore :-0 literally a raincoat,
@@GorlWorldComments I can answer that with this video. Really great. I've watched it a few times now. As far as the clothing, it's been proved that even Mallory's clothing was suffient. But I agree, certainly not great by modern standards. But that's progress too. ruclips.net/video/nDbE00gV20k/видео.html
When Britain and Nepal conquered Everest, Britain had just come out of WW2 with all the advances made in surviving at high altitude developed for aircrew. Lightweight oxygen sets, clothing, all of which made the British and Nepali team a success. The real heroes of Everest are Mallory and Irvine who almost summitted wearing wool and hob nail boots.
Met him at abersoch on a Sunday morning, he was in the water on his boat with his kids ,I shouted to him 'bear,this boy(my son harris) wants to meet you,he replied yes come over,so we swam out and I popped H into Bears boat and he had 5 mins talking to H,Bear ws soooo lovely and nice to H.wonderful.same year H had hold of the Olympic torch.sooo lucky, what a year for H,thanks Bear ,you're a gem amongst men.thankyou.xxxxxx
Lovely story, thank you for sharing. And just as the celebrities who do nice personal touches then have the moment shared- like on here- for the celebs benefit, so too for the rest of us. Do a good turn and others know about a year later. Therefore do good!! : )
I think if he was humble he wouldn't have lied about the mortality rate of when he climbed it. In 1998 when he climbed Everest the mortality rate was 1 in 76, not 1 in 6.
Essential, clear, realistic, humble, fair message. It best expresses the human condition: man, a creature of great aspirations, but limited and fragile in nature. Eternal Achilles and Odysseus, a hero so fragile that he became immortal. Good man Bear Grills, respect.
Lol telling it like it is? He claimed the mortality rate was 1 in 6 when he climbed Everest. He climbed in 1998 where the mortality rate of climbing Everest was 1.3%, or 1 in 76. Much different to the 1 in 6 he claims lol. Just like he largely fakes his show he exaggerates his stories.
Why so condescending? You're comparing them to people who have been acclimated to high altitude their whole lives, of course they aren't going to be as capable, but if anything they are more brave than the Sherpas
It seems like Bear really got scared and afraid in the dead zone on Mount Everest. I tried something similar on and normal hike in the mountains in Nepal. I got real sick in the remote mountains near the Anna Purna mountain.I made it back home, but it scared me so much for so many years.
What great honesty from such a great individual. It reinforces my own belief that 'we' do not 'conquer' mountains, rather the gods of the higher slopes tolerate us for a brief moment. And, as we all know, a mountain is not 'conquered' until all are safely back at the base.
Its amazing how, you will see on a screen a person you dont really know, probably will never meet in person, but is hard no to like him/her. This is one of those ppl, kindness shows in his face and speech. I wish him the best in this life: ☝️.
Love the human side of this interview! I just went to Everest Base Camp and that’s the most I’d do. Climbing Everest is way too dangerous; he definitely had the experience of a lifetime though
Congratulations on your trek to Basecamp. Even doing that has risk. Avalanche. You have my respect. I'm thinking about a trek to Basecamp before attempting an ascent. Maybe, maybe not. To be honest, a bigger concern for me would be flying into that small airport. Lol!
When I think of Bear I think of him hopping over the "dangerous" lava crack while there was a perfectly good way around it and a road just metres away.
I see what you’re saying but it’ll be a logistical nightmare and the costs would be huge to travel to the real location just to get the same effect a few metres off the highway
I think his demonstration of humility and his honesty about having gone through a transformation of thought is cool. Not what I expected from the vid title. I think Bear Grylls is cool . I really don't understand why ppl throw him all this shade. Lighten up?
This is a really smart, wise take. I always respect honest humility, because I had it for 34-35 years and then I kinda messed it up and it tarnished a lot in my life. Everest is a place where above a certain level, you begin to die. And you pass corpses and people with you on the expedition don't all come back as happened to Bear. Now the question is - why the hell would you willingly choose to put yourself through this in modern world? And the answer really is only vanity, which is not breaking new ground, not a challenge for the sake of pushing yourself (you can do that elsewhere) - it's just gambling with your own life for big money and ultimately you come away thinking "whew, I'm glad I even survived that". Something off about doing it in the first place.
I'm from Nepal, the whole idea of climbing a mountain and claiming that you conquered is very stupid.😂 Sorry no offense to anyone 😂, enjoy life while you have it. The mountain can never be conquered.
Taylor Adams climbed it with a severe auto immune condition, one of only a few people with that condition to achieve it. Now that's a story to be amazed at.
Wow, I just looked him up, he has diabetes. Another extraordinary man... Brian Dickinson who became blind at the top of the summit. He went down the mountain blind and alone. He wrote a book about it.
Coming from one of the lost elite specialists in the world, remember we don’t know half the stuff he’s done in service, but this shows how much of a task it really is. 👏
Back in 1998, impressive. He is there is Liz Hurleys Himalayan database. For the skpeics who thought he didn't leave the Four Seasons, he actually did summit.
Yeah......Mt. Everest is insane. I remember reading about a postman who decided to climb Mt. Everest.......somewhere he fell 5000 feet and was never found. Was it worth it? It wouldn't be to me.
I can't imagine what it would be like having to pass all the dead bodies along the way. Many have been up there for years unable to recover their bodies 😢
Iv read a lot of summit story’s on Reddit (real story’s with picture on Facebook and there whole life revolves around Reddit) and most of them say passing the body’s is not bad, gives them motivation to not be selfish to there family and make the same mistakes, the life long PTSD is watching someone you climbed all the way up with take there last breaths and there is nothing u can do, u have to watch then keep going. And they say most deaths happen after the summit on the way down because ur body has had enough.
There are criticism about leaving bodies there. Hell, bringing the frozen bodies from death zone is too risk. 2008 K2, three Korean climbers were tangled together while descending from the summit. They fell off or too exhausted etc. Korean team lead ordered the hired sherpas to rescue those from up there. In the end total five were all dead. How ridiculous that was. Bringing the dead bodies down, yet 2 live sherpas were dead.
I was waiting for Bear to say "up at 8000 meters there weren't any yaks you could cut open with your hunting knife and get a cozy night's rest in to stay warm". Really enjoyed his survival series. He seems to have retained a remarkable humbleness. Respect!
I love to hike and climb, but I have no interest in Everest. Not because it's dangerous, but because shortly after the tree line, mountain hikes aren't that pretty anymore, as it just becomes rock- unless you go up on a very nice day when the view is amazing. That being said, I guess I hike for different reasons than the people who like topping mountains. It seems they hike for the accomplishment when I just like to look at nature and could care less how high up I am.
IF you Never Climbed "Great Mother of the Sky" you'd have A Life Time of Regrets.You Made it Bear because you Respected it and took your time.🙂👍Well done Bear
Not sure why everyone in these comments have their knickers in a twist, every single person that knows about Everest knows that no one climbs that mountain without the amazing work of sherpas. Do people think he’s trying to claim otherwise?? Cause he’s not
… it is like lighting a lantern with fire in order to look for fire to cook your food…. Had you known what fire was …you would’ve been able to cook your food much sooner.
How come I never see any checkpoints in any Everest climbing videos ? What’s the point of permits if there are no checkpoints? Are they just there to scare people to spending money on permits ?
A this is why I always call BS when people post “oh they died doing what they love.” As if they were satisfied that “hey, I’m ok, this is the way I want to go out.” When in reality the last communication with almost everyone before they’re never heard from or seen again is “please send a rescue, please save me, please don’t leave me.” They’re terrified of dying, and even though they’ve possibly climbed numerous times before, like all of us, we never think it’s going to be us, it always happens to someone else. They may have died doing something they love, but they still died terrified and with regret that they put themselves in that position.
0:36 The percentage of deaths relative to successful summit attempts to Everest is around 4%. So it was NOT killing 1 in 6 people!... K2 mountain is the hardest climb in the world with 38% death rate.
The biggest mountain in the world is not Everest. Mt. Everest is the tallest above sea level, but again, not biggest. Denali is much more massive. The base of Denali is at an elevation of 2,000 feet, and the summit is about 9,000 feet below Everest's. This makes Denali about 3,000 feet taller than Everest when measured from base to peak. The tallest mountain in the world from base to peak is mostly underwater: Mauna Kea. By rising to 13,800 feet above the Pacific and extending down 19,700 feet to the ocean floor, Mauna Kea is higher than Mount Everest by a mile.
If the climber makes it top summit without any assistance like the sherpas, I can get that. Most expedition is guided by the locals. They do most hard work, carrying the ladder, ropes, food, the oxygens, routes with ropes, etc. I dont see much point of going there other than semi-tourism.
Very honest. Many people who have never been near the place hold a wrong/false idea of what it takes to climb Everest. They see photos of lines of people at the summit and get a completely skewed perspective of what it takes and think that it's a walk in the park when it's anything but. Just getting to Base Camp alone is no walk in the park. A few hundred people a year succeed. Far, far fewer than the number of people who play professional football if you think of it that way. Moreover, life experience tells that those who decry the achievements of others are always of the same type. I'll give you a clue.... It is a word that rhymes with 'banker'. But good for Bear. He seems and sounds like a really good, solid guy of the type I'd love to know.
It literally is a walk in a park. You have no idea. Ryan Mitchell posted some videos that show what it is really like for an incompetent tourist to climb everest.
@@deltalima6703 Considering I was there the first three weeks of this May, I'd say I have every idea pal. Every idea. Quite literally. Then again, you've 'seen some videos' eh? So you'd certainly be the man to know....
Go watch the videos. The secrets out, so stop trying to bullshit people. You were another incompetent tourist? Big deal, doesnt make you an expert on anything.
@@denis888redit depends what you consider to be 'walk in the park', but compared to some other mountains it may be. Fixed ropes are literally almost everywhere. The only difficult thing is hypoxia, which also isn't that much of an issue. Ofc it's not that easy, but when compared to for example south face of Dhaulagiri. Despite not climbing it in person I would say, that it's probably at most somewhere around El Capitan level (which sadly also became a tourist atraction after the 'Free Solo' movie).
@@kacperrutkowski6350 At least you have something considered and measured to say...unlike some of the tripe I see posted on these clips. As to hypoxia being that much of an issue... Well. If it's not, it's not. If on the other hand it is....
Everest is just a shitty tourist attraction now. Sherpas basically carry people up and down. It's kind of a shame that the legacy of that place has faded so low. The prestige is gone.
Wasn't one of his programmes called out over being fake, how him and his camera crew spent the night in hotels instead of the wild. I'd take this bloke with a pinch of salt.
Living life to the fullest is a rugged journey; though you prepare your body, mind, and heart, and despite your determination, shadows will still cross your path. Keep your eyes wide and wear a smile like your favorite shirt. Let life guide you, shedding the weight of old, unnecessary baggage, and you'll find yourself lighter, more open, and at peace
@@Bamboule05 Someone like you will never, in a month of Sundays, ever begin to approach getting it. Better that you neither try nor to stand in judgement of those who do. Stick to youtube and the local park at weekends...
My dad had a friend in college who went to Nepal to climb Everest and died in the Khumbu ice fall while traversing over a crevasse.. lost his footing apparently but the details are blurry.. they never found the guys body and why would they if he fell 80+ feet down into a bottomless glacial pit.. his body still remains there until this day 😮🏔️
He climbed it in 1998, there were a total of 1237 successful summits of Everest in the 20th century and 168 fatalities making it 1 in 7.3 but obviously there would have been many who never got to the top yet got back down safely so yes it wasn't 1/6 people who attempt to climb Everest that died but it was roughly for every 7 successful summits on Everest 1 person died.
And annapurna and k2 being way more dangerous 8000ers they have way steeper climb and are in places with way worse weather conditions annapurna the most dangerous mountain in the world has a fatality rate of roughly 32 percent and k2 has a death rate of around 20 to 25 percent
A lot of alcoholics climb Mount Everest… and they are very hard drinkers drinking alcohol while climbing! Nobody mentions anything about alcohol though, but they find more alcohol bottles, empty bottles of alcohol on Mount Everest more than the water bottles !
Did lots of gym weights and machines, until I figured that strenght does not help with crawling around on the floor (as example). Getting more into mobility, bodyweight functional stuff like animal flow or some cali excercises. Gotta get started with rings!
If I've learned anything reading all these comments is just hike your own Everest hike and be good with what your effort rewarded you with. The effort is it's own reward.
@@akivaragen it changes with time as more people climb it, when Nims dai climbed 14 peaks it was 27% then it changed with volume to 32% as much I remember from 2 months ago.
He ended it correctly. Truth is he got lucky. Great mountaineers and sherpas perish on Everest. And some poor ones summit and survive. Has less to do with skill than it does luck at that altitude.
He seems so humble and aware of his own shortcomings. Good man.
I’m sure nature humbled this guy hundreds of times. The only question I have is has he ever grilled a bear??
You are beautiful
I climb mountains because they are there. Well, no, you climb mountains because YOU are not all there…
@AS-by8ee
You're so right.
@@nampa2385 simp alert
If you ever feel lazy, just remember that Mt Everest is littered with the remains of people who were highly motivated. It’s a fine balance.
You're right.
There are some great climbers on that mountain right now.
hardly, skilled motivated climbers finished the climb. the dead ones were underskilled, high egos, or just rich with too much free time
@@simunator
Totally false statement.
There are some great men on that mountain 🏔️.
@@simunator Except for 1/3 of the people who have ever been killed on Mount Everest are the actual guides. They were highly skilled mountain climbers who knew that mountain better than anyone else doing it as their career to make their living. Yet they still lost their lives in the process of climbing so that's quite a naive statement to make.
Please return and share more of your unintelligent comments. Admittedly, it’s more likely to claim an amateur but some of the most famous and skilled climbers have died there. One little slip or anything and it’s your last. Anyone can suffer an embolism too at altitude.
Bear Gryles is great. I can never watch any of these videos on Mt Everest and not think about Sir Edmund Hilley and Tenzing Norgay. I try and imagine the courage they had to climb that mountain along that ridge to the top before anybody. No safety ropes. Just a rope between the two. Climbing the Hilleray step with an 8000' drop off! Blows my mind.
*Grylls*
do you think the weather was as bad as it is now when they climbed it? they had no safety stuff like you said,, how did they manage? i have no clue all i can think of is that the weather was better? did you see the clothes they wore :-0 literally a raincoat,
@@GorlWorldComments I can answer that with this video. Really great. I've watched it a few times now. As far as the clothing, it's been proved that even Mallory's clothing was suffient. But I agree, certainly not great by modern standards. But that's progress too.
ruclips.net/video/nDbE00gV20k/видео.html
you havent read about Mallory and Irvine, have u?
When Britain and Nepal conquered Everest, Britain had just come out of WW2 with all the advances made in surviving at high altitude developed for aircrew. Lightweight oxygen sets, clothing, all of which made the British and Nepali team a success. The real heroes of Everest are Mallory and Irvine who almost summitted wearing wool and hob nail boots.
Met him at abersoch on a Sunday morning, he was in the water on his boat with his kids ,I shouted to him 'bear,this boy(my son harris) wants to meet you,he replied yes come over,so we swam out and I popped H into Bears boat and he had 5 mins talking to H,Bear ws soooo lovely and nice to H.wonderful.same year H had hold of the Olympic torch.sooo lucky, what a year for H,thanks Bear ,you're a gem amongst men.thankyou.xxxxxx
Hes got no respect for the native welsh
@@harrywilliams576 what are you onabout,,always one muppet to comment on here.
Sooo cool ❤
Lovely story, thank you for sharing. And just as the celebrities who do nice personal touches then have the moment shared- like on here- for the celebs benefit, so too for the rest of us. Do a good turn and others know about a year later. Therefore do good!! : )
Haha despite you adding the story abt your son holding the torch, its clear to see no one gives a flying FUCK HAHAHAHA
always love Bears' humble attitude and grounded nature - thanks for showing us all your work over the years !
Bro said I’m done with Everest and started base jumping with his kid 💀 see how long that works out
I think if he was humble he wouldn't have lied about the mortality rate of when he climbed it. In 1998 when he climbed Everest the mortality rate was 1 in 76, not 1 in 6.
Essential, clear, realistic, humble, fair message. It best expresses the human condition: man, a creature of great aspirations, but limited and fragile in nature. Eternal Achilles and Odysseus, a hero so fragile that he became immortal. Good man Bear Grills, respect.
Thank you Bear for telling it like it is. Very cool that you were the youngest climber at the time. .
Lol telling it like it is? He claimed the mortality rate was 1 in 6 when he climbed Everest. He climbed in 1998 where the mortality rate of climbing Everest was 1.3%, or 1 in 76. Much different to the 1 in 6 he claims lol. Just like he largely fakes his show he exaggerates his stories.
Meanwhile there's probably a Sherpa going for his 9th-10th ascent carrying the luggage for the "brave" climbers.
Exactly!
1/3rd of the bodies on everest are sherpas, its dangerous for everyone dont be a prat.
😂
The Simpsons predicted everything
Why so condescending? You're comparing them to people who have been acclimated to high altitude their whole lives, of course they aren't going to be as capable, but if anything they are more brave than the Sherpas
Great to see Bear again. Its been awhile!
It's so nice to see someone so honest about it. No ego. Just the truth. Not all dreams are worth pursuing.
Everest took Bear’s Hubris, and gave him a healthy dose of Reality. Fair trade, I think he’s a more humble, thankful man for his experience.
It seems like Bear really got scared and afraid in the dead zone on Mount Everest. I tried something similar on and normal hike in the mountains in Nepal. I got real sick in the remote mountains near the Anna Purna mountain.I made it back home, but it scared me so much for so many years.
What great honesty from such a great individual. It reinforces my own belief that 'we' do not 'conquer' mountains, rather the gods of the higher slopes tolerate us for a brief moment. And, as we all know, a mountain is not 'conquered' until all are safely back at the base.
For what purpose does one "conquer" a mountain? Get a life.
Hi Jack, if you read my comment I said that "'we' do not 'conquer' mountains,"
@@kevclaremcd Conquer evil, not mountains. Do good, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Long live brother
Its amazing how, you will see on a screen a person you dont really know, probably will never meet in person, but is hard no to like him/her. This is one of those ppl, kindness shows in his face and speech. I wish him the best in this life: ☝️.
A humble legend of the outdoors, respect to bear always, 🙏🇦🇺
Love the human side of this interview! I just went to Everest Base Camp and that’s the most I’d do. Climbing Everest is way too dangerous; he definitely had the experience of a lifetime though
Congratulations on your trek to Basecamp.
Even doing that has risk. Avalanche.
You have my respect.
I'm thinking about a trek to Basecamp before attempting an ascent.
Maybe, maybe not.
To be honest, a bigger concern for me would be flying into that small airport. Lol!
@@Downsdddghhow do u plan to ascent. Aren’t u worried? How can u afford it
When I think of Bear I think of him hopping over the "dangerous" lava crack while there was a perfectly good way around it and a road just metres away.
It was for TV bro lol
I see what you’re saying but it’ll be a logistical nightmare and the costs would be huge to travel to the real location just to get the same effect a few metres off the highway
@@bonganimazibuko1901 still embarassing
@@dumitriuradu8481not really, he was making a tv show
It's a demonstration andd it's for TV ffs, stop acting like a little kid
Sometimes there are things that dont need humans on them. Mt Everest is one of them.
I think his demonstration of humility and his honesty about having gone through a transformation of thought is cool. Not what I expected from the vid title.
I think Bear Grylls is cool . I really don't understand why ppl throw him all this shade. Lighten up?
This is a really smart, wise take. I always respect honest humility, because I had it for 34-35 years and then I kinda messed it up and it tarnished a lot in my life.
Everest is a place where above a certain level, you begin to die. And you pass corpses and people with you on the expedition don't all come back as happened to Bear. Now the question is - why the hell would you willingly choose to put yourself through this in modern world? And the answer really is only vanity, which is not breaking new ground, not a challenge for the sake of pushing yourself (you can do that elsewhere) - it's just gambling with your own life for big money and ultimately you come away thinking "whew, I'm glad I even survived that".
Something off about doing it in the first place.
Vanity? Sounds like Bear had a religious experience.
@@PatRourke137 yes vanity. Religious experiences are often humbling.
@@caryg4638 it wasn't vanity then if he got something out of it
Bear Grylls is a unbelievable human being,miss his television programs!???
2:11 ridiculous camera angle that once again puts this host in a "favourable" (imo comedic) advantage.
You're the kinda man to say your missus is cheating on you because they laughed at a joke
I'm wondering if it's the camera angle that makes the interviewer look huge or he's one big dude
I'm from Nepal, the whole idea of climbing a mountain and claiming that you conquered is very stupid.😂 Sorry no offense to anyone 😂, enjoy life while you have it. The mountain can never be conquered.
Absolutely right!!! Do something useful with your life.
No BS from Bear Grylls, he tells it like it is.
Taylor Adams climbed it with a severe auto immune condition, one of only a few people with that condition to achieve it. Now that's a story to be amazed at.
Wow, I just looked him up, he has diabetes. Another extraordinary man... Brian Dickinson who became blind at the top of the summit. He went down the mountain blind and alone. He wrote a book about it.
Why?
Great bit of humility in that man considering all he's accomplished in his life. 👍
Coming from one of the lost elite specialists in the world, remember we don’t know half the stuff he’s done in service, but this shows how much of a task it really is. 👏
Bear is honest... love a guy with balls. Doing what I can't and making it real.
Honest? Like his "survival" show?
Back in 1998, impressive. He is there is Liz Hurleys Himalayan database. For the skpeics who thought he didn't leave the Four Seasons, he actually did summit.
This man has accomplished some brave and dangerous expeditions, huge respect for Bear Grills...🌻🥇❤
Wow, you need to get out more
@robjones-qj2jj you need a lesson in basic manners and respect
sir you are spot on with your words!!
no life is worth a mountains… ❤❤
Welcome to Nepal again n again
Ambition and motivation are fine, as long as they're paired with wisdom.
Yeah......Mt. Everest is insane. I remember reading about a postman who decided to climb Mt. Everest.......somewhere he fell 5000 feet and was never found. Was it worth it? It wouldn't be to me.
NO
I can't imagine what it would be like having to pass all the dead bodies along the way. Many have been up there for years unable to recover their bodies 😢
Iv read a lot of summit story’s on Reddit (real story’s with picture on Facebook and there whole life revolves around Reddit) and most of them say passing the body’s is not bad, gives them motivation to not be selfish to there family and make the same mistakes, the life long PTSD is watching someone you climbed all the way up with take there last breaths and there is nothing u can do, u have to watch then keep going. And they say most deaths happen after the summit on the way down because ur body has had enough.
There are criticism about leaving bodies there. Hell, bringing the frozen bodies from death zone is too risk. 2008 K2, three Korean climbers were tangled together while descending from the summit. They fell off or too exhausted etc. Korean team lead ordered the hired sherpas to rescue those from up there. In the end total five were all dead. How ridiculous that was. Bringing the dead bodies down, yet 2 live sherpas were dead.
He is true inspiration.
I was waiting for Bear to say "up at 8000 meters there weren't any yaks you could cut open with your hunting knife and get a cozy night's rest in to stay warm". Really enjoyed his survival series. He seems to have retained a remarkable humbleness. Respect!
I love to hike and climb, but I have no interest in Everest. Not because it's dangerous, but because shortly after the tree line, mountain hikes aren't that pretty anymore, as it just becomes rock- unless you go up on a very nice day when the view is amazing. That being said, I guess I hike for different reasons than the people who like topping mountains. It seems they hike for the accomplishment when I just like to look at nature and could care less how high up I am.
14 peaks nims just wow
Spent a good part of my childhood ascending to and descending from the top bunk of my bed so I can't see Everest being too difficult.
There was a good reason to ascend and descend from your bunk. I cannot think of a good reason to ascend and descend from Everest.
Easy to say when you have done it and accomplished it to think back on it this way.
Love you Bear your a warrior 👍🏴💜
My absolute crush!!! I love Bear so much😊😊😊
This man isn't aging...
IF you Never Climbed "Great Mother of the Sky" you'd have A Life Time of Regrets.You Made it Bear because you Respected it and took your time.🙂👍Well done Bear
He said 92 days on the mountain? Whats the breakdown on that?
Acclimate to altitude
With wisdom comes sorrow.
Such honesty
Not sure why everyone in these comments have their knickers in a twist, every single person that knows about Everest knows that no one climbs that mountain without the amazing work of sherpas. Do people think he’s trying to claim otherwise?? Cause he’s not
Yes, he is
@@robjones-qj2jj no no he’s not
… it is like lighting a lantern with fire in order to look for fire to cook your food…. Had you known what fire was …you would’ve been able to cook your food much sooner.
How come I never see any checkpoints in any Everest climbing videos ? What’s the point of permits if there are no checkpoints? Are they just there to scare people to spending money on permits ?
A this is why I always call BS when people post “oh they died doing what they love.” As if they were satisfied that “hey, I’m ok, this is the way I want to go out.” When in reality the last communication with almost everyone before they’re never heard from or seen again is “please send a rescue, please save me, please don’t leave me.” They’re terrified of dying, and even though they’ve possibly climbed numerous times before, like all of us, we never think it’s going to be us, it always happens to someone else. They may have died doing something they love, but they still died terrified and with regret that they put themselves in that position.
0:36 The percentage of deaths relative to successful summit attempts to Everest is around 4%. So it was NOT killing 1 in 6 people!...
K2 mountain is the hardest climb in the world with 38% death rate.
Wrong it’s 23-25% on k2.. calm down sir. It’s about 2% on Everest.
It also depends on the season. Some years are deadlier than others. Those are long term averages.
On a side note, I can't believe he was 48 when this was filmed. He looks great.
he is right, climbing Everest is very dangerous and it kills and harms many people but still thrill-seekers seem to be attracted to it.
Honestly, he's just super interesting even if he was talking about how to do laundry he'd somehow make it interesting.
He only got airlifted a bit high, got a couple photos and went for dinner in the hotel. Likely
The biggest mountain in the world is not Everest. Mt. Everest is the tallest above sea level, but again, not biggest. Denali is much more massive. The base of Denali is at an elevation of 2,000 feet, and the summit is about 9,000 feet below Everest's. This makes Denali about 3,000 feet taller than Everest when measured from base to peak. The tallest mountain in the world from base to peak is mostly underwater: Mauna Kea. By rising to 13,800 feet above the Pacific and extending down 19,700 feet to the ocean floor, Mauna Kea is higher than Mount Everest by a mile.
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@@andrewoats3620 Maybe his name checks out, but he’s right.
If the climber makes it top summit without any assistance like the sherpas, I can get that. Most expedition is guided by the locals. They do most hard work, carrying the ladder, ropes, food, the oxygens, routes with ropes, etc. I dont see much point of going there other than semi-tourism.
Did he stay at a Holiday Inn while on Everest?
When his TV show was own, my girlfriend at the time, referred to Bear as "eyecandy".
I always kind of hated him after that....
what a nice speech
Very honest. Many people who have never been near the place hold a wrong/false idea of what it takes to climb Everest. They see photos of lines of people at the summit and get a completely skewed perspective of what it takes and think that it's a walk in the park when it's anything but. Just getting to Base Camp alone is no walk in the park. A few hundred people a year succeed. Far, far fewer than the number of people who play professional football if you think of it that way. Moreover, life experience tells that those who decry the achievements of others are always of the same type. I'll give you a clue....
It is a word that rhymes with 'banker'.
But good for Bear. He seems and sounds like a really good, solid guy of the type I'd love to know.
It literally is a walk in a park. You have no idea. Ryan Mitchell posted some videos that show what it is really like for an incompetent tourist to climb everest.
@@deltalima6703 Considering I was there the first three weeks of this May, I'd say I have every idea pal. Every idea. Quite literally. Then again, you've 'seen some videos' eh? So you'd certainly be the man to know....
Go watch the videos. The secrets out, so stop trying to bullshit people. You were another incompetent tourist? Big deal, doesnt make you an expert on anything.
@@denis888redit depends what you consider to be 'walk in the park', but compared to some other mountains it may be.
Fixed ropes are literally almost everywhere. The only difficult thing is hypoxia, which also isn't that much of an issue.
Ofc it's not that easy, but when compared to for example south face of Dhaulagiri.
Despite not climbing it in person I would say, that it's probably at most somewhere around El Capitan level (which sadly also became a tourist atraction after the 'Free Solo' movie).
@@kacperrutkowski6350 At least you have something considered and measured to say...unlike some of the tripe I see posted on these clips. As to hypoxia being that much of an issue... Well. If it's not, it's not. If on the other hand it is....
Everest is just a shitty tourist attraction now. Sherpas basically carry people up and down. It's kind of a shame that the legacy of that place has faded so low. The prestige is gone.
Life can be great due to how you react and bounce back to adversity. 'Be the ball...'
Wasn't one of his programmes called out over being fake, how him and his camera crew spent the night in hotels instead of the wild. I'd take this bloke with a pinch of salt.
Well said, Mr Grylls❤
It’s 1 in 7 , not 1 in 6 that get killed on Everest. Unless I’m mistaken, but I’ve heard 1 in 7 over and over.
Living life to the fullest is a rugged journey; though you prepare your body, mind, and heart, and despite your determination, shadows will still cross your path. Keep your eyes wide and wear a smile like your favorite shirt. Let life guide you, shedding the weight of old, unnecessary baggage, and you'll find yourself lighter, more open, and at peace
There’s a hotel on Everest? How did he survive?
Only mature people come to this realization
Mature people know this without risking their life
@@Bamboule05 Someone like you will never, in a month of Sundays, ever begin to approach getting it. Better that you neither try nor to stand in judgement of those who do. Stick to youtube and the local park at weekends...
@@denis888red you have no idea...
Respect
Praise God for this man. The real deal.
If you feel lazy or out, remember there are many oeople buried ir downed in Everest
My dad had a friend in college who went to Nepal to climb Everest and died in the Khumbu ice fall while traversing over a crevasse.. lost his footing apparently but the details are blurry.. they never found the guys body and why would they if he fell 80+ feet down into a bottomless glacial pit.. his body still remains there until this day 😮🏔️
Good job,all the best in life
Where is he getting 1/6 death rate?
He climbed it in 1998, there were a total of 1237 successful summits of Everest in the 20th century and 168 fatalities making it 1 in 7.3 but obviously there would have been many who never got to the top yet got back down safely so yes it wasn't 1/6 people who attempt to climb Everest that died but it was roughly for every 7 successful summits on Everest 1 person died.
@@OffensiveFarmer Maybe it was worse in the 90s.
@@Redeemedbylove1987 every year is different due to weather conditions and wind and what not
Every dead body in everest was an highly motivated person😢
And annapurna and k2 being way more dangerous 8000ers they have way steeper climb and are in places with way worse weather conditions annapurna the most dangerous mountain in the world has a fatality rate of roughly 32 percent and k2 has a death rate of around 20 to 25 percent
No clear photos of him on Everest summit.
You never know what is going to be sent your way.
Remember. Chuck Norris doesn't climb Mount Everest. Mount Everest climbs him!
A lot of alcoholics climb Mount Everest… and they are very hard drinkers drinking alcohol while climbing!
Nobody mentions anything about alcohol though, but they find more alcohol bottles, empty bottles of alcohol on Mount Everest more than the water bottles !
Did lots of gym weights and machines, until I figured that strenght does not help with crawling around on the floor (as example). Getting more into mobility, bodyweight functional stuff like animal flow or some cali excercises. Gotta get started with rings!
Thanks for this, really helpful.
@@issimondias I realised my comment was for another video 🤣
I'm guessing it's cold ...I don't even want to walk to fridge to get another beverage, so I don't think I would try that
Just goes to show the mountain can show you how insignificant we all are when your life can be taken so easily.
Now it’s just a tourist/social media hotspot for amateurs and sherpas are dying because of it.
This is quite true.
It is a "gloves off life" as he says. Of course, knowing that and picking a fight with Mike Tyson (i.e. Everest) is a choice.
If I've learned anything reading all these comments is just hike your own Everest hike and be good with what your effort rewarded you with.
The effort is it's own reward.
The fatality rate on Mt. Everest is just 2%, while on Annapurna it is 32%.
Annapurna is not 32%.
@@akivaragen it changes with time as more people climb it, when Nims dai climbed 14 peaks it was 27% then it changed with volume to 32% as much I remember from 2 months ago.
Big waves , is it worth dying , I said yes . Still surfing at 7O fun big , not heart stopping big .
Stupid
The only thing Bear has ever climbed is the staircase of his hotel in Kathmandu
He ended it correctly. Truth is he got lucky. Great mountaineers and sherpas perish on Everest. And some poor ones summit and survive. Has less to do with skill than it does luck at that altitude.
Puts 'confidence in air quotes?
What he climbed it and DIDN’T stay in a hotel during in the overnights?!
Whoa! You got Christian Bale on your show
For Bear it wasn’t a 1 in 6 chance of not coming back, more like maybe 1 in 20. The 1 in 6 odds are for the general Everest climbing population.
Right, so let’s listen to your wisdom over Bears. Nope. Who are you anyway??
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