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That one guy was right when he speculated that Irvine's body probably got washed all the way down to the glacier. Considering that, that camera is more than likely pulverized dust by now.
@misterlianghui Nothing is free. Google and youtube and facebook have global monopolies, and killed off a massive amount of good journalism, replacing it with clickbait, content theft, and now AI disinformation.
I totally agree with everyone who questions the summitting when they were ostensibly there to look for irvine. But finding out they deceived the sherpa was totally not cool. Killed what was a pretty good documentary. I like the comment "this documentary was like really long click bait"
Their permit was for a summit attempt, not a general search for Irvine. The Chinese would have refused the permit had they suspected; the Sherpas likely would have refused them as well. Keeping it quiet was the only way to check out Holzel's location. It's strongly suspected that the Chinese mountaineers found Irvine some years ago, hid his body from view, and possibly have the camera. Their government keeps things very close.
Yep.. and just a few days ago Irvine's fot was found down the mountain. Absolute mad lads for going up Everest on the very poor equipments they had in 1924. True explorers like the astronauts were.
Not so sure it's Irvine's foot. Check the last video about it from Everest Mystery channel, he's the bearded guy from this video who found the first Irvine stuff and he's doing a deep dive on his channel. Apparently this was not Irvine's foot
Questions??? If the search for Irvine was seemingly main focus agenda and planned A) why summit B) Why not put the drone in alot closer C) why uncoordinated search at key moment, no safety rope, even a line hitched on a rock to explore location site -seemed unnecessary risk. So the documentary was really summit Everest... have a side quest crack at Irvine if poss.
The CTMA didn't want the search to happen. They almost didn't get to do the search that they did get to make. They had to disguise it with doing the summit first. This is something not mentioned in this documentary. But if you read Mark's book "The Third Pole" it goes into detail about this. Yes, this documentary gives an inaccurate depiction of the search for Irvine and the camera as an afterthought, but nothing could be further from the truth. The book talked about all the aerial footage they got from the drone and, at one point, almost crashed the drone into the mountain from the strong winds.
This is a great documentary. A fantastic recount for those who love mountaineering, exploration and adventure! Fascinating footage, capturing the spirit of those who first lead the unrelenting quest to reach the top of the world, and paid with their lives!
I think what's sad is one of Irvin's family members said that they themselves hope they find his body before they find the camera because once they find the camera they'll have no interest in finding his body and that hit different. I will add though that no one can really bring down most of the bodies stranded up there without risking their own lives.
if i ever was a climber i would 100% be "the drone guy". So cool to see this especially after the recent discovery! Glad Tom stayed back so that we can hear him tell these stories on YT!
National Geographic (NG), thanks you. Such an awesome climbing adventure video and the spirit of the first mountaineers that may have been conquered, Mt. Everest
Very weird ending imo… The whole point was to find him, years of preparation… then it seems like all they care about is summiting … Then descending just one guys sort of walks of unprotected and looks around a little !?!? Why even go for the summit and not search properly?
Because no normal person really cares about a bunch of egotistical Bozo's summiting Everest. The summit isn't even special anymore. How many people really want to watch that? These clowns just needed a bait story for this documentary.
Seeing that view looking down from Mallory & Irvine's fall location it's easy to see how at least a part of Irvine ended up traveling all the way down to the Rongbuk Glacier below. It's basically a sheer drop with nothing to stop you. The only question now is, did he end up there in his entirety or just his foot/boot? An avalanche could easily have broken his frozen body into pieces and carried it down to the glacier below.
After going to Nepal myself since 1968 and helping local people for 34 years..not exactly sure why climbing Everest has much value ...as the mountain will still be there in 100 million years..proud..while humans just come n go in less than a century..
"The spirit that's driving those people is, I think, the same spirit that was driving Mallory and Irvine." Feels like a good time to remind everyone that, ultimately, they were motivated to death. Every body on Everest was once a highly motivated individual.
So earlier in the video when they were discussing their plan, they said they were going to the summit and then they were going to look for Sandy on the descent. But from everything I have learned about climbers climbing, Mount Everest, the descent is more difficult because you're more exhausted by that point. So why did they summit? I thought this was an expedition to go find Sandy? Why not use all of their energy to go to the spot to search for Sandy, and ignore the summit on this trip? Reading the comments, is this really the most selfish sport in the world? It seems like maybe this group of climbers used the story of finding Sandy as the means to gain investment money for the trip. Summiting was really the primary goal and they might look for Sandy for a little bit, if they can. I mean, especially if you're going to be searching off the ropes, and it's more dangerous off the ropes, don't you need/want more energy to do that? But hey, it's TV and it's big business. Congrats gentlemen!
When i first saw this video I wondered the smae thing. I also wondered why they were so unprepared to go off-route when the time actually came. Like, if they had planned this the whole time, why not bring rope and gear and rappel more safely down? But, from watching other content, such as that from Michael Tracy, who describes what has been said in recent years by the peiple.on this expidition, it is a bit clearer. It turns out that the sherpas were really against this "search" idea because it was not allowed by the chinese mountaineering association and would result in the sherpas being blacklisted and losing their livelihoods. Because of this, the team pretended that they were only innocently planning to summit, while in reality they decieved the sherpas and carried out the search on the descent. So, lets hope the sherpas can still feed their kids after this teams actions. I dont understand why they didnt carry out the search without the deception and without sherpa assistance
Thanks for mentioning this. What they did by deceiving the Sherpas and thus threatening their livelihood is as bad as it gets. I hope the Sherpas involved did not suffer repercussions. Shame.
I totally agree. Having a guy go down with no rope feels like the whole "Irving search" was in reality a very secondary goal. It felt like long form click baiting.
Okay I get it. They conned the sherpas into thinking this was the usual Everest summiting expedition in order to get them to haul all their gear up the mountain, before going off the ropes to look for Mallory and Irvine against the advice of the sherpas. Had anything gone wrong, the sherpas would have had to risk their own lives to pull them out of trouble. Probably duped the Nepalese authorities too as to what their exact intentions were. That's unethical and disrespectful.
I seem to recall another documentary a few years back looking for Irvine (some involvement of Sony?) and they too deceived the Sherpas to go off the path and look.
No, like not at all. They planned a trek to look for a body with help from a scientist that was all well known, to every party involved. They literally brought gear to film themselves doing it and publicized that they were doing it. They paid the Sherpas more money than you have ever given to any charity to help them up the mountain, and the Sherpas accepted. Everyone in this video is a well known experienced climber not some rich guy. Meanwhile you sit on your phone judging people who did things you can only dream of, because you have nothing better to do with yourself.
They were on the Chinese side of the mountain. The Chinese would never have issued a climbing permit for this expedition had they suspected it had any purpose other than a summit attempt. It's strongly suspected that Irvine's body was hidden by the Chinese authorities years ago; if not, they certainly don't want him found by anyone other than their own people. There are plenty of other videos to watch that explain the situation more completely.
@@emilianorodriguez8961think l agree with you. Shameful sherpas so enticed by western dollars, as so poor. Commercialisation has changed the villages. They now have schools etc, due to western money, sherpas earn. Also trash left by all camps and climbers, Everest has lost its magic, thanks to. People needing to fulfil dreams, at a rather massive cost. Bless the Sherpas,
The gear they lost, and the abandoned gear they found is a sad reminder how much litter climbers have left on such a beautiful natural landscape :( Feels like the crew really disregarded that pollution, and didn't respect the people that live in this area at all. Especially with that "stepping on the heads of their gods" comment in the beginning. Absolutely disgusting.
Even though I knew Mark got back down, seeing him unroped at Holzel’s spot is both inspirational and terrifying. The Sherpa saying ‘Very dangerous’ and Mark acknowledging that he felt bad going against their judgment. Remarkable people.
@Ann-vi5ns Had the Sherpas known it was anything other than a summit attempt, they would have refused to go. It was the only way, since that side of the mountain is under Chinese control.
allegedly the whole point of this was to look for irvine so why did they waste so much time and energy going to the summit? if they truly only had that aim, they wouldve focused on the search and only the search. they clearly only wanted someone to pay for them to climb everest and then did a half hearted search to fulfil the contract.
Because the Sherpa would never agree to do that if that was the plan from the start. When he went off rope, they never told the Sherpa ahead of time they were gonna do that and go explore the yellow band.
Uh, well, it does not appear that you looked that hard. Kind of like, "Well, I'm here now, might as well take a quick boo." Reaching the summit should have been the secondary goal. But, hey, you travel all the way around the world to Anaheim, you're probably going to go to Disneyland.
Great video and wonderful footage. Although, all of the lines of people and pics of the summit ridge congestion was from the south side of the mountain, not the north side which is where this expedition took place.
Geçen kış da buralarda kar yağmadı ve ben çok özledim kar yağışını.Kar yağarken bir rüzgar var o uğultuyu bile öyle özledim ki.İklim değişikliğinin olumsuz etkilerine karşı artık bir şey yapılmalı
Look, I'm not a climber, I'm not physically fit enough, and I don't have the drive to climb. But it is unbelievably intriguing to me. When I see vertical ladders that people are climbing up over the "really tough parts" of the mountain (and I know there's not too too many vertical ladders, more horizontal ladders over the bigger crevasses), but just seeing people use those vertical ladders takes away the mystique and awe that I used to hold for climbers climbing this mountain. I know there needs to be a lot of safety involved. But under the umbrella of safety, it seems like the Sherpas and expert climbers (or someone, I'm not sure who) are trying to make this mountain as easily accessible as possible, I guess so more money will be coming into the area. Anyway, I wish I could go back to when I was younger and didn't know all the details.
I only made it 4 minutes in before finding this absolutely disgusting. I understand wanting to recover the body of a lost climber, wanting to figure out what happened to him, etc, but the callousness of filming, touching and posing next to a dead body just seems so wrong to me. The more I learn about Everest and the climbing expeditions there, the more I side with the Sherpas and the Nepalese people - their respect for the mountain, not messing with dead bodies, and their deep understanding that you don't conquer the mountain, you survive it.
You should tell your guide before the expedition that you're going off rope to look for something & give them hefty compensation for tolerating your exploratory search mission, as opposed to _surprise_ we're going off rope, later dudes. This expedition would have made more sense if they tossed the summit attempt & spent more time safely anchoring a rope near the search area. I'm no 8000 meter mountaineer, but it looks like etiquette went out the window. The Sherpas are the heros of this film & they get very little screen time.
Watch "The Ghosts Above" before you watch this- This is kind of like the director's commentary and behind the scenes of that film, and you'll probably have a lot of questions if you don't watch that one first.
Not sure why they didn't send the drone in closer to where they think Sandy would be. Drones could be used as eyes in hard to get to or life threatening areas of the mountain.
It was announced that Nat Geo had found Andrew's foot/boot. Nothing about this in this video. I am guessing they must have found it back in May though since that is the preferred climbing window.
They found it in the main Rongbuk glacier, which is not anywhere close to the route people follow (ie, the east Rongbuk glacier and north col) that is followed to join the northeast ridge. September and October are likely the best times to search those glaciers because melting has uncovered some of the stuff hidden in them. Little melting has happened by May.
Some people believe it's in a mountaineering museum in China. They were unable to develop the film and have kept it very quiet. The museum isn't open to foreigners generally.
sure, you wont find that camera in one piece anymore. The body of Irvine probably got smashed to bits and pieces when he rolled of Everest in a high speed, as we see as his torn off foot was found, so probably his clothes were torn open, look at how the body of Mallory was found, and his camera got catapulted out, tumbled down bumping up and down the rocks, and got smashed on the hard rocks of Everest.
There was only one camera between the two of them, and no camera remnants have ever been found. Also, the foot was way down the mountain mostly likely not as a result of him falling in the 1920’s but as a result of his body being thrown down the mountain in the 90’s by the Chinese
@@mikekraut7643 yes speculating/theoresing but not speaking as a fact, i use the word "could", there isnt evidence of anything about the camera, everything about this climb is speculating and theory
Im confused as to why this team would waste the energy to go to the summit when the area to search was below the summit? Also, is this route (north col) more arduous than the more used route that the throngs of climbers go up?
.......or the third step. There are three steps. Its likely Odell viewed Mallory and Irvine at the third step, putting them much closer to the summit at 12.50.
23:16 Wouldn't the huge crowds of people be on the southeast ridge route, not the north ridge route? The north ridge (which is accessed from Tibet and was the one that Mallory/Irvine attempted) has far fewer attempts, and certainly there wouldn't be huge crowds (the footage of the crowds at 23:10 also looks like the southeast ridge)
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Just curious, why don’t you use drones to search the area?
That one guy was right when he speculated that Irvine's body probably got washed all the way down to the glacier. Considering that, that camera is more than likely pulverized dust by now.
Thank you.
@@blisterbill1708¿? They did.
Mallory and Irvine summited first.
The fact that we get free videos on RUclips by Nat Geo is truly a gift; keeping education and knowledge alive. 👍👍👍
@misterlianghui
Nothing is free. Google and youtube and facebook have global monopolies, and killed off a massive amount of good journalism, replacing it with clickbait, content theft, and now AI disinformation.
Seeing that line of people is just mind boggling. That is too many people...
That guy going off the trail is crazy! Had me feeling super nervous there
True. I don’t get why they weren’t securing him with a rope 😂
I totally agree with everyone who questions the summitting when they were ostensibly there to look for irvine. But finding out they deceived the sherpa was totally not cool. Killed what was a pretty good documentary. I like the comment "this documentary was like really long click bait"
Yet another phrase that youtube commenters have made meaningless.
Their permit was for a summit attempt, not a general search for Irvine. The Chinese would have refused the permit had they suspected; the Sherpas likely would have refused them as well. Keeping it quiet was the only way to check out Holzel's location. It's strongly suspected that the Chinese mountaineers found Irvine some years ago, hid his body from view, and possibly have the camera. Their government keeps things very close.
@@retriever19golden55 do you know why they would do that, hide the body and camera? What do they gain from that?
Yep.. and just a few days ago Irvine's fot was found down the mountain. Absolute mad lads for going up Everest on the very poor equipments they had in 1924. True explorers like the astronauts were.
Why do you think this is being aired?. of course it’s because they found Irvines remains😂
Bro that's why this episode was literally released LOL we are aware
The pinned comment says this already
their equipment was not substandard and quite adequate. That has been proved.
Not so sure it's Irvine's foot. Check the last video about it from Everest Mystery channel, he's the bearded guy from this video who found the first Irvine stuff and he's doing a deep dive on his channel. Apparently this was not Irvine's foot
Questions??? If the search for Irvine was seemingly main focus agenda and planned A) why summit B) Why not put the drone in alot closer C) why uncoordinated search at key moment, no safety rope, even a line hitched on a rock to explore location site -seemed unnecessary risk. So the documentary was really summit Everest... have a side quest crack at Irvine if poss.
I had the same questions. This is crazy
Yes that's absolutely right, why didn't they flew drones at that high altitude spot, and began to risk his life
And they apparently didn’t even let the Sherpas know what they were wanting to do??
The CTMA didn't want the search to happen. They almost didn't get to do the search that they did get to make. They had to disguise it with doing the summit first. This is something not mentioned in this documentary. But if you read Mark's book "The Third Pole" it goes into detail about this. Yes, this documentary gives an inaccurate depiction of the search for Irvine and the camera as an afterthought, but nothing could be further from the truth. The book talked about all the aerial footage they got from the drone and, at one point, almost crashed the drone into the mountain from the strong winds.
@@happysapwoods Thanks for sharing further info and background 😃 All said I did really enjoy the doco, but was a bit puzzled at the end
I don't want to climb everest, but i want to go on the journey to at least base camp and to see the mountain with my own eyes!
Same here, that's my goal, seeing that beautiful mountain (and K2) with my own eyes. That trek alone to base camp is hard enough for ordinary people.
Yea save it for tomorrow
Careful you don’t get drawn in when you do!
@@Lopezprietokamen u bubregu je jos zajebaniji😢😢😢
As soon as you will get to the base camp…you will want to go further on😂
This is a great documentary. A fantastic recount for those who love mountaineering, exploration and adventure! Fascinating footage, capturing the spirit of those who first lead the unrelenting quest to reach the top of the world, and paid with their lives!
I think what's sad is one of Irvin's family members said that they themselves hope they find his body before they find the camera because once they find the camera they'll have no interest in finding his body and that hit different.
I will add though that no one can really bring down most of the bodies stranded up there without risking their own lives.
Well they just found his foot inside a sock and boot, that shouldn't be to hard to retrieve and carry down the mountain.
Because of frozen water weight.
@@jase4270 I know! Isn't that cool!
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@@jase4270 Just get a dog to carry it down.
if i ever was a climber i would 100% be "the drone guy". So cool to see this especially after the recent discovery! Glad Tom stayed back so that we can hear him tell these stories on YT!
This is an amazing video! National Geographic and the team are legendary!
National Geographic (NG), thanks you. Such an awesome climbing adventure video and the spirit of the first mountaineers that may have been conquered, Mt. Everest
Not Dying and Coffee are great combination
Very weird ending imo… The whole point was to find him, years of preparation… then it seems like all they care about is summiting … Then descending just one guys sort of walks of unprotected and looks around a little !?!? Why even go for the summit and not search properly?
Well, head on up there and have a look around!😅
Because no normal person really cares about a bunch of egotistical Bozo's summiting Everest. The summit isn't even special anymore. How many people really want to watch that? These clowns just needed a bait story for this documentary.
I can see them loosing interest. I have experienced altitude sickness at nowhere near these heights. I dont think they understood.
@uncletacosupreme7023 These are highly experienced climbers, they knew what to expect.
Seeing that view looking down from Mallory & Irvine's fall location it's easy to see how at least a part of Irvine ended up traveling all the way down to the Rongbuk Glacier below. It's basically a sheer drop with nothing to stop you. The only question now is, did he end up there in his entirety or just his foot/boot? An avalanche could easily have broken his frozen body into pieces and carried it down to the glacier below.
The glacier turns rock to pebbles and sand. Imagine what it can do to a frozen body.
After going to Nepal myself since 1968 and helping local people for 34 years..not exactly sure why climbing Everest has much value ...as the mountain will still be there in 100 million years..proud..while humans just come n go in less than a century..
????? Do you think people are climbing mountains in an effort to erode them faster?
I agree with you, especially today.
Very commercialized.
I do however respect those first explores, adventurers. Raw. Admire that.
Love it
Excellent documentary - you still got it Nat Geo
"The spirit that's driving those people is, I think, the same spirit that was driving Mallory and Irvine."
Feels like a good time to remind everyone that, ultimately, they were motivated to death. Every body on Everest was once a highly motivated individual.
Thank you Nat Geo for this and every other production over the years!
That flying tent was intense 😅
So earlier in the video when they were discussing their plan, they said they were going to the summit and then they were going to look for Sandy on the descent.
But from everything I have learned about climbers climbing, Mount Everest, the descent is more difficult because you're more exhausted by that point.
So why did they summit?
I thought this was an expedition to go find Sandy?
Why not use all of their energy to go to the spot to search for Sandy, and ignore the summit on this trip?
Reading the comments, is this really the most selfish sport in the world?
It seems like maybe this group of climbers used the story of finding Sandy as the means to gain investment money for the trip.
Summiting was really the primary goal and they might look for Sandy for a little bit, if they can.
I mean, especially if you're going to be searching off the ropes, and it's more dangerous off the ropes, don't you need/want more energy to do that?
But hey, it's TV and it's big business. Congrats gentlemen!
When i first saw this video I wondered the smae thing. I also wondered why they were so unprepared to go off-route when the time actually came.
Like, if they had planned this the whole time, why not bring rope and gear and rappel more safely down?
But, from watching other content, such as that from Michael Tracy, who describes what has been said in recent years by the peiple.on this expidition, it is a bit clearer.
It turns out that the sherpas were really against this "search" idea because it was not allowed by the chinese mountaineering association and would result in the sherpas being blacklisted and losing their livelihoods.
Because of this, the team pretended that they were only innocently planning to summit, while in reality they decieved the sherpas and carried out the search on the descent.
So, lets hope the sherpas can still feed their kids after this teams actions. I dont understand why they didnt carry out the search without the deception and without sherpa assistance
Thanks for mentioning this. What they did
by deceiving the Sherpas and thus threatening their livelihood is as bad as it gets. I hope the Sherpas involved did not suffer repercussions. Shame.
I totally agree. Having a guy go down with no rope feels like the whole "Irving search" was in reality a very secondary goal. It felt like long form click baiting.
This trip is a testament of selfishness - personal gain first (summit), then quasi search/exploration after.
You'll have to watch the other documentary - the ghosts above. That will answer a lot of your questions.
A fantastic episode for those who love exploration and adventure! 🏔❄
I truly love this channel.. Thankyou so very much for sharing this 😊
Watched this on Disney+ in 2021 but still amazing documentary!
Dude said: I have four kids & did it anyway. That’s all I need to know about the kinds of people who willingly “step on the gods.”
Oh, I know. And why do they always have more kids than the norm?
This is a good documentary, it’s also on Disney + 💜
Wow….Wow… speechless..how amazing!!!😲😲😲👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😍😍😍🙏🙏🙏🙏
That was beautiful and brilliant.
Really interesting documentary Thanks
Okay I get it. They conned the sherpas into thinking this was the usual Everest summiting expedition in order to get them to haul all their gear up the mountain, before going off the ropes to look for Mallory and Irvine against the advice of the sherpas. Had anything gone wrong, the sherpas would have had to risk their own lives to pull them out of trouble. Probably duped the Nepalese authorities too as to what their exact intentions were. That's unethical and disrespectful.
I seem to recall another documentary a few years back looking for Irvine (some involvement of Sony?) and they too deceived the Sherpas to go off the path and look.
No, like not at all. They planned a trek to look for a body with help from a scientist that was all well known, to every party involved. They literally brought gear to film themselves doing it and publicized that they were doing it. They paid the Sherpas more money than you have ever given to any charity to help them up the mountain, and the Sherpas accepted. Everyone in this video is a well known experienced climber not some rich guy. Meanwhile you sit on your phone judging people who did things you can only dream of, because you have nothing better to do with yourself.
@@emilianorodriguez8961 probly one of 'those'...tiktokers🙄
They were on the Chinese side of the mountain. The Chinese would never have issued a climbing permit for this expedition had they suspected it had any purpose other than a summit attempt. It's strongly suspected that Irvine's body was hidden by the Chinese authorities years ago; if not, they certainly don't want him found by anyone other than their own people.
There are plenty of other videos to watch that explain the situation more completely.
@@emilianorodriguez8961think l agree with you.
Shameful sherpas so enticed by western dollars, as so poor.
Commercialisation has changed the villages. They now have schools etc, due to western money, sherpas earn.
Also trash left by all camps and climbers, Everest has lost its magic, thanks to.
People needing to fulfil dreams, at a rather massive cost.
Bless the Sherpas,
Amazing! Love Nat Geo!
Was Great to see you on Everest! Was not sure...
Just. Wow. It takes a certain type of person…❤
It doesn’t get better than this, I won’t even climb the rocks at a theme park. i’ll stick to watching these guys do it right from my 55” tv.
Ah yes, I quickly get my drone out of my bag ... then a coffee ... then a computer. Imagine that 100 years ago!
Really good documentary. Thanks a lot for uploading this. Also great to see a Mavic Pro fly at 8000m. That thing is a trooper!
Such great selfless service for history and the world.
Thank you for this interview! ❤
The feeling that you are on top is amazing but the cold weather is scary
The gear they lost, and the abandoned gear they found is a sad reminder how much litter climbers have left on such a beautiful natural landscape :( Feels like the crew really disregarded that pollution, and didn't respect the people that live in this area at all. Especially with that "stepping on the heads of their gods" comment in the beginning. Absolutely disgusting.
Even though I knew Mark got back down, seeing him unroped at Holzel’s spot is both inspirational and terrifying. The Sherpa saying ‘Very dangerous’ and Mark acknowledging that he felt bad going against their judgment. Remarkable people.
Not cool to have disrespected the sherpas by deceiving them and not listening to their instructions.
@Ann-vi5ns Had the Sherpas known it was anything other than a summit attempt, they would have refused to go. It was the only way, since that side of the mountain is under Chinese control.
Everest doesn’t get climbed alone. Fascinating trek.
allegedly the whole point of this was to look for irvine so why did they waste so much time and energy going to the summit? if they truly only had that aim, they wouldve focused on the search and only the search. they clearly only wanted someone to pay for them to climb everest and then did a half hearted search to fulfil the contract.
Because the Sherpa would never agree to do that if that was the plan from the start.
When he went off rope, they never told the Sherpa ahead of time they were gonna do that and go explore the yellow band.
Well then they should have been upfront with the Sherpas when hiring them as to what exactly their intentions were.
Watching this documentary again.
I get chills every time.
Fantastic upload ❤
Gran documental,me fascino desde el principio al fin , fueron valientes todos
wow this is fresh content. loved it!
This is an excellent video. Thankyou so much nat Geo
Uh, well, it does not appear that you looked that hard. Kind of like, "Well, I'm here now, might as well take a quick boo." Reaching the summit should have been the secondary goal. But, hey, you travel all the way around the world to Anaheim, you're probably going to go to Disneyland.
doesn't matter doesn't count if you don't come back. summiting only counts when you come back, you're only 50% done after you summit.
I really think Mallory and Irvine are the spirit of that mountain.
crazy dudes, back then an now!
Great video and wonderful footage. Although, all of the lines of people and pics of the summit ridge congestion was from the south side of the mountain, not the north side which is where this expedition took place.
Incredible
Almost 100 years of lost Mallory and Irvine was a legend.... i hope see the true ihope the camera found..
Great advert for North Face!
These guys are not young! I couldn't believe they did this.
Incredibly selfish father of four. amazing video
Geçen kış da buralarda kar yağmadı ve ben çok özledim kar yağışını.Kar yağarken bir rüzgar var o uğultuyu bile öyle özledim ki.İklim değişikliğinin olumsuz etkilerine karşı artık bir şey yapılmalı
Everest is no longer exploration. It has become exploitation and it’s being destroyed. 😢😢😢
Look, I'm not a climber, I'm not physically fit enough, and I don't have the drive to climb. But it is unbelievably intriguing to me.
When I see vertical ladders that people are climbing up over the "really tough parts" of the mountain (and I know there's not too too many vertical ladders, more horizontal ladders over the bigger crevasses), but just seeing people use those vertical ladders takes away the mystique and awe that I used to hold for climbers climbing this mountain.
I know there needs to be a lot of safety involved. But under the umbrella of safety, it seems like the Sherpas and expert climbers (or someone, I'm not sure who) are trying to make this mountain as easily accessible as possible, I guess so more money will be coming into the area.
Anyway, I wish I could go back to when I was younger and didn't know all the details.
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I thought the expedition was to find the body and camera.. not to summit.
Summiting was more for the Sherpas' benefit. More summits on their resumes look better and equal more employment and money.
@@TallulahB58that's bs lol
@ i read that in "Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest" by Wade Davis. Take it up with him.
This was cool
I only made it 4 minutes in before finding this absolutely disgusting. I understand wanting to recover the body of a lost climber, wanting to figure out what happened to him, etc, but the callousness of filming, touching and posing next to a dead body just seems so wrong to me. The more I learn about Everest and the climbing expeditions there, the more I side with the Sherpas and the Nepalese people - their respect for the mountain, not messing with dead bodies, and their deep understanding that you don't conquer the mountain, you survive it.
I just watched Everest the movie, what a coinsidence!
It looked like over a ton of gravel on and around Mallory's body. The camera or something else could be under him or at the bottom of the gravel
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Imagine trying to sleep in those crazy tents being beat by the wind. Insanity
You should tell your guide before the expedition that you're going off rope to look for something & give them hefty compensation for tolerating your exploratory search mission, as opposed to _surprise_ we're going off rope, later dudes. This expedition would have made more sense if they tossed the summit attempt & spent more time safely anchoring a rope near the search area. I'm no 8000 meter mountaineer, but it looks like etiquette went out the window. The Sherpas are the heros of this film & they get very little screen time.
Did you file your flight path for the drone at that altitude
Just casually walking around dead bodies on the mountain. That had to be insane 🥴
Watch "The Ghosts Above" before you watch this- This is kind of like the director's commentary and behind the scenes of that film, and you'll probably have a lot of questions if you don't watch that one first.
Not sure why they didn't send the drone in closer to where they think Sandy would be.
Drones could be used as eyes in hard to get to or life threatening areas of the mountain.
thank you
Four kids…and the guy goes off rope? And you can see him lose his balance several times.
"We gave it everything we had" -- didn't even rope up 🥴Literally took a 30 second detour and shrugged
Amazing
Why not use the drone when you are actually close to the site..... like where he walked around.....
great video
Part of climbing mountain so heigh is making deal with in your heart, that if you die up there you belongs to the mountain and the time.
Where was photograph that Mallory was carrying. To be put on the summit. I think he summited chinese removed picture
It was announced that Nat Geo had found Andrew's foot/boot. Nothing about this in this video. I am guessing they must have found it back in May though since that is the preferred climbing window.
They found it about 3 weeks ago at end of September
They found it in the main Rongbuk glacier, which is not anywhere close to the route people follow (ie, the east Rongbuk glacier and north col) that is followed to join the northeast ridge. September and October are likely the best times to search those glaciers because melting has uncovered some of the stuff hidden in them. Little melting has happened by May.
This video is about the 2019 expedition, so it’s an older one they re-uploaded because of the recent find.
Does anybody really believe that this legendary camera is still in one piece with the film inside?
Maybe it will be found compacted in bottom of glacier moraine in 2 thousand years
Some people believe it's in a mountaineering museum in China. They were unable to develop the film and have kept it very quiet. The museum isn't open to foreigners generally.
Why did the crew push for summit to then start to search at the decent. Why did they not just start the search?
Will we ever find the body and camera? After solid evidence on the Rongbuk glacier but just a boot, I think it'll just be pure luck now.
Will we ever know for sure if they made it to the top?
Is it harder to climb with the glaciers or without???😮
sure, you wont find that camera in one piece anymore. The body of Irvine probably got smashed to bits and pieces when he rolled of Everest in a high speed, as we see as his torn off foot was found, so probably his clothes were torn open, look at how the body of Mallory was found, and his camera got catapulted out, tumbled down bumping up and down the rocks, and got smashed on the hard rocks of Everest.
There was only one camera between the two of them, and no camera remnants have ever been found.
Also, the foot was way down the mountain mostly likely not as a result of him falling in the 1920’s but as a result of his body being thrown down the mountain in the 90’s by the Chinese
@@mikekraut7643 smashed up pieces of the camera could have blown away, hidden between the rocks and slates
@@tubedujacques there is no evidence of that, you are just speculating but speaking as if it’s a fact
@@mikekraut7643 yes speculating/theoresing but not speaking as a fact, i use the word "could", there isnt evidence of anything about the camera, everything about this climb is speculating and theory
@@mikekraut7643 dudes saying "there is no evidence of that" while in the prior comment claiming Irvine's body was thrown down the mountain in the 90's
Ahem … re the title, a point of order. Mount Everest is the world’s highest mountain. Mauna Kea is the world’s tallest mountain
34.37 when the near by mountains looks smaller😮42.22 guy just casually walks near the tallest mount cliff in the world
Im confused as to why this team would waste the energy to go to the summit when the area to search was below the summit? Also, is this route (north col) more arduous than the more used route that the throngs of climbers go up?
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Was that a Ufo going straight up next to the flying tent way high up in the sky
.......or the third step. There are three steps. Its likely Odell viewed Mallory and Irvine at the third step, putting them much closer to the summit at 12.50.
Exactly, third step fits the best Odell´s description of what he saw.
I’m pretty sure Sandy’s parents are long gone, and thus cannot lock their door.
Music - Loud. You have to turn it up to hear speech
I say just give the two adventurers the joint honour of being the first in Everest summit
A line on Everest!!! Crazy…sad.
All of the questions he says is completely......"majestically obscure"!
23:16 Wouldn't the huge crowds of people be on the southeast ridge route, not the north ridge route? The north ridge (which is accessed from Tibet and was the one that Mallory/Irvine attempted) has far fewer attempts, and certainly there wouldn't be huge crowds (the footage of the crowds at 23:10 also looks like the southeast ridge)