Expedition To Urk: Highest Point In Flevoland (7m)
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- Опубликовано: 18 дек 2019
- Flevoland is flat. Really flat. So we got a map, found its highest natural point (7m), and then organised a mountain expedition to conquer it.
DRONE FOOTAGE:
Jos Van Der Veen - / meesterjos
Matthijs - / ijszee
ADDITIONAL VIDEO AND PHOTOS:
Joseph Farthing - / josephfarthing
Andras Hann - / andrashann
Wim Kramer - / wimkramerurk
Marcel - / madjo
AND A BIG THANK YOU TO:
/ touristinfourk
Without oxygen, without sherpas.
The way climbing should be
the Urker Local at the church was the sherpa.
Not true, i was one of sherpa’s who led everyone to the pub!
In general I wouldn't recommend doing the whole 'no oxygen' thing, doesn't sound like much fun, I rather like breathing
@@Hurricane50 we mean bottled oxygen because as you climb oxygen become less available to breath.
@@hairyairey I'm more than aware, was poking fun at the suggestion of no oxygen, without mention of a tank
Now I am dutch and I have been to Flevoland many times but I never had the guts to climb that mountain so I take my hat of for all you brave people. I have been to the pub though, but I took the stairs.
I live ON urk and climb that mountain moutible times.
Also did you just bleep the swearing with the OV Chipcard sound you are an absolute juggernaut
That was wonderful
😂 That was the best thing ever!
@@walterclements7968 i like fire trucks and monster trucks
@@thymenvanderloo walter
@@Lucas-os1vr youngpeopleyoutube
Ah yes
-cheese
-cycling
-psychedelics
The three pillars of civilization
What else could one possibly need?
KAAS! lekker
@@jesusgonzalez6715 Possibly an Albert Heijn bonus card and 6 bitteballen. (with mustard).
tea and life tips with uncle iroh I wanted to give this a thumbs up, but it was at 666, which seemed funny & appropriate, so I left it alone...
@@memunist5765 What does that (presumably) Dutch word mean?
In memory of those who never returned from the mountain. ✝️🙏
The "mountain" gives and the "mountain" takes...
@@Raymondva this fearsome "mountain" only takes.
😂
@@gcbyd6636 .
F
Urk. The Alabama of the Netherlands.
I thought Volendam was dutch Alabama?
@@OnionChoppingNinja we have many alabamas
true I suppose. You can take a map of the Netherlands, Draw a line from Emmen in the north east to Middelburg in the south west and there you have it; Dutch Alabama
@@OnionChoppingNinja kattenbroek
Klopt gewoon 😂😂🇳🇱
very classy of you to donate 50% of the ad revenue, I like you even more now
He needs the other 50% for the parking ticket he (should have) got for parking in a 2 hour parking zone.
Pity there were no ads here.
Few people who climbed Everest can claim to have this mountain under their belt.
There they stood, the gatherings of souls
Their resolve firm, with lofty goals
There but for the grace of God they went
To attempt that most treacherous ascent
The planning immaculate, the journey no whim
Cheers to the Urk ascenders and their leader, Tim
Beautiful
One of the reasons I really love your channel: you've covered the Netherlands in multiple videos without only talking about Amsterdam.
Next level: Hogeberg (literally "High Mountain") in Oudemirdum with its breathtaking 12,7 meters. (And a bonus cold war watchtower on the peak)
It should be a series: "climbing mountains nobody has ever considered high" And they all have to be the highest peak of something. Like the old waste disposal mount here.
Having cycled there a lot, I do have to say that the view from the cliff is stunning there.
Honestly in The Netherlands, a greater challenge would be to find and descend the lowest valley.
@@HappyBeezerStudios he just did exactly that in Ile-de-France
G E K O L O N I S E E R D
Zeg makker...
F R I K A N D E L B R O O D J E
Zo'n typisch ding wij nederlanders verplicht zijn te zeggen in videos die over nederland gaan
I love the censoring with the ticket beep
Now, this is the kind of ridiculous nonsense I come to RUclips for. Thanks, Tim.
Nonsense? This is quality content!
@@addiosnia The OP meant Tim calling a hill a mountain, and pretending to climb a mountain.
I live in the Netherlands and i have a mountain of 50 centimeters in my backyard. I have to climb it every day.
You should consider installing a cable car. 50 centimeters ascents can be tricky... especially after the pub.
Just imagine those absolute madman munks that have to climb the mountain every day to get to church!
Don't worry, Dutch people hardly visit Church anymore
Donder on urk they do, they are a few hundred years behind
That maarten guy is a teacher at my school xd
Haha cringy maarten
Echt alles is bij jou cringe
Hahahaha!
Welke school?
@@ctepaske6384 Berechja college
"I reckon we should go to the pub" That's the way to end such task. Congrats.
Absolute mad man and girls!!!11 And my condolences to the People of Urk for the loss of the two Seaman. May they rest in peace.
Tim and the 60 apostles risked there entire life's climbing up that mountain .What an achievement
9:14 no cyclists were harmed during the making of this video....
This comment is underappreciated.
Dutch cyclists are not easily deterred. Did you hear about the old lady and the supermarket robber, by the way?
Nicely done! You turned a one minute hike into a 11- minute video! I loved it!
This is the sort of daring expedition that highlights just how great humanity is. Tim, you are an absolute legend. Thank you.
You are one silly Brit with a strange obsession of Dutch hills.
*I like it*
Favorite RUclips video of 2020. Brilliant, fun, witty. Love, love, love your channel.
Thank you!
I grew up near Hoek van Holland. Your channel is very wholesome. I highly suggest everyone to just block out negative content and brainwash yourself with these videos.
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen...
Perfectly fit for this channel 🤪😁
Urk technically is part of Flevoland but it feels more like a whole different country. I was born just a few km from Urk, cool to see this video pop up!
Wait, are you from Emmeloord? The popish island?
So early
I was there
Was awesome meeting
0/ tot de volgende keer
MakerTim ik was er ook graag bij geweest, jammer
It was a blast! Thanks for organizing this amazing event, I'm glad to have been a part of it!
Ah I'm so glad we made it to the top! Thanks again for organizing this, Tim
I wish I had known about this channel's existence a year ago. That would've been a saturday well spent.
Blurring out swear words with Ov Chipkaart. You're even more Dutch than I am!
Digging the witty background music again. Asks friend Dave what he likes about Holland who responds with amongst other things “psychedelics”. Cue ‘The drugs don’t work’ by the verve 😂
Nah mate
As a British citizen in the Netherlands and as a person who loves going to weird places like that (I've been practically everywhere in the Netherlands), I very much enjoy your videos on the Netherlands and I truly think that you channel has a lot of potential
Don't believe it.
Rip the guy who died on the bench, he will be missed for his bravery on this dangerous hike
Would be really interested to know how many people attended and how far some of these crazy climbers traveled for the meet. Can we get a follow up video?
Also, massive respect to you for your donation to the lifeboat fund. I already thought you were a top bloke; now you are even topper! And props to Dave, too.
"...both amazing and ridiculous." Kind of sums up what it is to be human. I love that you did this and that so many people came along. Thank you for this exquisite silliness, Tim!
Next time you gather such an enormous crowd you should start a protest for something hilarous similtaneously
a moment history will remember for centuries to come
Since youtube data will never disappear that will be my bet too. If I were a betting man...
I don't travel, so I like to live my life vicariously through youtubers called Tim. There is another chap that does railway journeys. Weirdly you both make exactly the kind of videos I enjoy. Intimidating? No, not really. :)
As someone who is from Flevoland, I can confirm Getting to the highest point is an extremely daunting task
This is never to be topped in it's ridiculousness. I like it.
after climbing that immense mountain you made Urk very PUBlic
you: the afsluitdijk is a very long dijk.
The dutch: are you challenging me?
I’m me and i’m Dutch
That chimney is so cool, I lived there my whole life, and didn't even know what the meaning of it was
As usual amazing content. I thoroughly enjoyed the climb and the afterparty. I hope you will continue to make amazing content such as this for years to come. On to the silver play button!
This was hilarious and I didn't know I needed it until now. Thank you for this WILD video!
This is just an awesome video. Thanks a lot for letting us follow you on this awesome trip. This remembers me when I climbed the highest (not man made) mountain in Leipzig, Germany, which is about 10 metres high. This is called "Warze" (which literrally means wart), and we scoot down with our toboggan.
The sculpture you drove past is called Exposure. It's by Antony Gormley!
Looks like it was a great time, I'd would have loved to have been there!
"the shitting man" :P
@@Raymondva The locals call it the shitting man (De Poepende Man) too from day one. It's official Dutch name is "De Hurkende Man".
It's also being used as a mascotte by the squatting slav community
You, sir, are a class act. I salute you and the rag-tag band who followed.
I would like to invite you for an expedition to the 'Bosberg', in Appelscha, the highest mountain of Friesland (+27 meters above sea level). It comes with a really cool legendary story as well!! And it has a nice watchtower as well, where you can see the Martini tower in Groningen when the weather is clear. It definitely is worth the trip!
The best channel after All the Stations
It isn't just the wonderful comedic stupidity of the challenge, you have the feel of these videos just right.
On that very historic day, 42 people lost their lives climbing that mountain and at some point in the future it will have a 100% mortality rate
So cool this went ahead and good on everyone who turned up and braved the hard terrain, cheers ken
Congrats that went amazingly well! RUclips recommended me your channel around a year ago and it's great. Keep it up!
Good video, and Merry Christmas, Tim!
Hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a New Year.
What an incredible account of your epic climb! So in honour of your expedition, I will give you a hard earned sub.
Was amazing seeing everyone there, I think we were all happy we ourselves werent the only one there. ;)
Thanks for this amazing idea!
Well this went off just as well as that one mountaineering sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus.
You're Video's are heartwarming Tim. I love your energy and excitement about lesser known facts and places.
Also... I've been driving over the houtribdike at least ten times but never managed to enjoy it as you guys did :)
The title of the video suggests that it was possible to fail. I'm glad no one fell and became paralyzed from the waist down on that harrowing journey
I'm glad you took off, and I can't wait until you reveal a 100k plaque somewhere epic :)
My grandparents were born on Urk. I visited the island many times but never knew I would be able to call myself a mountaineer =D Thanks! Great to see so many people show up, and thanks for the video!
You must just love the British humour ... thanks Tim, for making us dutchies laugh... and exploring the Dutch mountains...
Your videos are very informative and ENTERTAINING. I love it.
Wonderful video, and congratulations again on 50, no 60, no 70 thousand subscribers. You deserve it
That was probably the very worst and best day ever for Urk.
No, that must have been when they shot the movie Dunkirk in Urk.
Not sure where to put this, but for a long time I've been putting off watching your video's thinking it will only be really interesting and be added to the already long list of things I feel the urge to keep up to date with. And it has. Nice work!
Must have been a tough climb!
This could be the start of the strangest travel vlog in the world. Climbing the mountains of the Netherlands. You could do a spin-off where you explore the rain-forests of the Arctic and maybe go cave hunting in the Bahamas.
Not sure if you were joking about that last bit, but there are some large caves in the Bahamas. Or rather, underwater
I grew up in the vicinity and the family of my mother lived on Urk. We went there regularly to visit and climb the mountain. Actually the people from Urk call the old part of their village "de bult", which litterally translates to "the hump".
What a great video to have my morning coffee to!
I think I started watching your vids when you had like... 5000 subscribers, and now you're up to 70K! Its awesome! Congratulations on the growth of your channel!
Congratulations on making it to the peak!
Excuse me but what you're doing is pushing beyond what a human body could handle even after years of training under the most harsh conditions
You were putting your life at risk which is something I do not commend
What I do commend is the sheer bravery you've shown and I am so impressed thank you for sharing your courage.
When I was on study abroad, I was forced to go on a field trip to Urk. It just so happens that the city of Urk is the most fundamentalist religious community in the Netherlands by far, and the people of the community don't like outsiders very much (and we were even warned of this ahead of time). We were just a group of a couple of students and a professor, and despite that he had several people from the community who came up to the professor (who they were able to figure out was not a native because he was not speaking in the traditional Urker dialect) and asking us why we were there, then telling us to go away even though we literally were doing nothing wrong, not even talking loudly! Despite that I found Urk to be a very interesting community with a very unique history, as an fishing village on an island that was once part of the North Sea, and then made part of the mainland via land reclamation and cut off from the ocean completely.
When you said "hire car", I almost thought you said "haircut" and pondered the reason why you wanted a haircut in the Netherlands.
This was so much fun! I wish I'd had time to join the ascent. Happy holidays!
Hoek van Holland was not just an ordinary train station, trains straight to Moscow departed and terminated here until 1993 :-)
Ive climbed this mountain a few years ago. It was so hard and it took 2 days. It probably took so long because we camped halfway up the mountain XD
This was a nice piece of performance art. Thanks Tim and all participants.
Rewatching the old classic Tim videos for nostalgia.
I think this might just be one of my favourite of your videos. :)
WoW! you did it!! Hooray!!! ... Happy Christmas Tim o/
As a Dutchman, I appreciate your friend's efforts to not instantly say 'drugs' when asked what he likes about my country.
Also, you missed out on skipping Rotterdam. Amsterdam is the most overrated city in the world. Those houses at 5:06 will run you about €1600 a month without services I reckon.
Excellent stuff and top guy. Soon you will be at 100k which has happened so quickly but so well deserved too
This is the mountain climbing experience of a lifetime, history will remember this day
Epic journey. I'm glad I found your channel. Cheers from Chicago and a brother of another Tim.
Tim, have you ever visited ‘schokland’? It’s close to Urk and also an old island. Nowadays you can find the old harbour in the middle of a field, it is so surreal.
It's grand, it's beautiful, what a dedication and achievement!
To embarrass myself totally….um…for the first 4 video minutes and the addition of reading the title and then the description box…I thought that URK was an acronym for something that I didn’t understand because, well, it’s Flevoland innit.
Also, I’m from the Southern Hemisphere so I have absolutely no idea why I just typed “innit”.
I’m rewatching your videos with a comment hoping that it might tickle the algorithm’s fancy - but god only knows what that is.
Thanks for sharing this awesome video, much appreciated as is/was your donation to the life boat peeps, great job 🙂🐿
There used to be a "botel" moored next to the Chinese restaurant (5:19). It was just about the most uncomfortable hotel I've ever stayed in and put me off going on a cruise for life. If the guy in the next room who spent 3 nights snoring and coughing and gagging is reading this, thanks.
This is so inspiring. It's motivating me to go out and climb such summits myself.
Tim, what about climbing the highest points of all provinces in the Netherlands? That would make you an immortal legend. I believe no one achieved that before.
Tim you are the best youtuber out there without exaggeration. I love your happiness and sense of humour. Greetings from your Cuban fan!
Great to see it again. That you and all the rest of the people (probably all Dutch) enjoyed the staying at the mountain / peak.
Wish I could have been there with you! Such a momentous task!
Thanks for bringing it to those of us who couldn’t get there 😁
epic ! thanks Tim and crew. take care
the music makes it feel very dramatic, while in reality this 'mountain' isn't even taller than most houses
I"ve watched a lot of your video's, this one made me subscribe. :)