When I was a teen I found out that each climber who attempts to climb Everest multiple sherpas haul all the gear and even go ahead and lay ropes and ladders. It felt like cheating. Still does. The sherpas deserve the glory.
Japanese man once climbed Everest, with his cameracrew and Sherpas to "ski down Everest." Of course he didn't climb to the top but on the way half a dozen Sherpas died in an Avalanche. After a brief ceremony, the bodies were left where they fell and on they went. Once he deemed the time had come, he put on his skis and went down a slope. It was rather icy so after only a brief distance he fell, still in one piece, and decided to call it a day.
Agreed. I don't think the rest of the people really should get credit for "climbing" the mountain because in reality, the sherpas are doing all the real work. We all know that's the fact. These people are deluding themselves if they think otherwise.
Who says they didn’t want to die? I would never do it, but you feel the calling to do the climb - even if it’s just to lay yourself to rest at the top of the world - who are we to judge?
Just leave the bodies there. People shouldn't have to risk their lives to retrive the bodies. It's the "hill they're willing to die" on then let them stay where they died on.
There is nothing great about climbing Mt. Everest. What is great is being there for your family every day and being involved in helping people who desperately need help. That's greatness.
This video didn't address Mounds of trash left on Everett. The poop 💩💩💩 Soon Everest will be called . *_"Stink Mountain"_* 💩 Especially if the locals are already complaining. 🤢🤢🤢 😒
@@giannidcenzo This video didn't address Mounds of trash left on Everett. The poop 💩💩💩 Soon Everest will be called . *_"Stink Mountain"_* 💩 Especially if the locals are already complaining. 🤢🤢🤢 😒
Greenboots ( Tsewang Paljor ) was a family member.. we reported him missing mid day May 14, he was supposed to return on the 13th. My aunty felt something was wrong on the 12th of may, and reported him missing as soon as she was allowed.. we raised money to have Tsewang brought off the mountain and the government of Nepal took our rescue money twice without going on the mountain at all.. the third time we raised money, it was not nearly as much money as the first two times, by now it was 2014 and this time we brought the money we raised to the China Tibet Mountaineering Asc, and 3 days later a team brought my brother and uncle all the way up to 27,940 ft where Tsewang had rested for years. He now rests peacefully just below the north ridge❤ RIP Tsewang Paljor ❤
@Anti_SeptikumWhat is wrong with you? Your criticism serves no purpose besides sanctimonious arrogance, and i doubt you enjoy when someone is erroneously condescending to you because their whole personality is know it all. If you think anyone is impressed reading your “observation” then you probably have a friend problem, or the absence thereof, which is how you end up online trying to be relevant to strangers. Uncool. Unnecessary. Definitely loser vibes. Sorry for your brain cell loss, that’s gotta suck worse than trying to climb Everest in a blizzard. You won’t apologize for your obvious lack of sympathy and empathy, but you should, this person is a stranger, your delicate ego won’t suffer that much acknowledging you were an 🫏. If you can’t remember the last time you apologized for your obnoxious, irrelevant, and embarrassing tendency to stray so far out of context you’re offensive, then you are due. There is one appropriate response when commenting on the sentiment of personal loss, especially the loss of a family member. You failed that test because you believe the metric system and European date format is worth being an offensive blow hard. Why? The metric system is a superior and more intuitive measurement system, but it’s not the only one. Do you go around asking people who don’t speak your language to choose the correct language when interacting? There are several dominant languages in the world, out of curiosity, which one is superior? When the world homogenizes we all lose, cultural differences remain a powerful tool in human evolution. Of all the dumb stuff I could have woken up and read yours is Everest Peak stupid and annoying. These are acceptable formats for height reference and date descriptions, meaning the only purpose you served was being a right ole dick. Ole can be swapped for old so we don’t send you down an avoidable rabbit hole. Grow up, you’re rude, and I have feeling you’re going to be offended by my rude response back. What’s more important to society than using the metric system? Treating others how you want to be treated, the golden rule is more important to anyone with the slightest appreciation for common sense and dignity. Basically, shut up, if you don’t have anything kind to say you can always stay silent. Am I a hypocrite in this context? Absolutely, and it’s worth it, people like you slowly erode decency and mutual respect in a society, and we should all be pushing back by now.
That must have been horrible for your family and I am glad you found some peace in a proper burial. The situation on Everest is difficult, especially when your deceased family member was the most likely to be referenced in a dehumanizing way. My heart breaks for your Aunt and Uncle, and how that would have felt as a parent. I hope the resolution brought them some peace and healing. It can never be restored with the loss of a child, but it can be tempered in this situation. ❤
Yet nepal keeps allowing it while the north in Tibet/China is very clean minus yak poo, for the most part. But thats the price for tourism money that goes straight to the rich leaders of nepal.
Climbing Everest: life threatening, covered in bodies and poop, over crowded, cold af no matter what, already been done multiple times. Climbing random mountains in the Rockies: Can do it in a day or two, no bodies, waste facilities nearby, thaws in summer, beautiful views all around, part of a select few people to climb said mountain (depending on popularity). I know what I would rather do.
Yeah but on Everest, from what I've seen in pics, you get to queue up like human cattle do at an amusement park just to stand at the summit for a few minutes and try to make your photos look like you're the only one who's there.
I climbed a mountain in the Rockies a fair number of years ago. I didn't even need any climbing gear either. It was flat enough that you could simply walk up it. The trek took only a couple of hours at most.
@@JohnKoenig-db8lk hm, turns out indoor plumbing not that much of a help on a mountain that is located in a third-world country. Congrats on the DCE, by the way :)
@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect Congratulations on not getting the point. People in primitive cultures are _at least_ as prone to self-absorbtion and doing dumb things to impress others. The difference is that First World types are able to do those dumb things in a more rareified society where they're not having to heat their homes and cook their food with dried animal dung.
I had the subblime experience of meetimg Sir Edmund Hilary and his wife in the 1990's and staying for an interview with maybe 6 others in attendance. He highlighted the achievement of getting safely back down as just as important as the summit. When asked if he was afraid at any point he said that he was, but that "high on the mountain fear is your friend. When one false step could mean the end it will keep you from being careless or stupid." When asked if he was sure he could do it he replied, "why would you try something you were sure you could do?". He was deeply committed to the betterment of Nepal, and the interview was arranged after a significant donation to a not for profit fund.
@@LindaYarigeri dont ever remember hollary ever being part of a 6 man cocoon. But i did hear of a 4 (or5?)man crew taking a man that died (before they arrived back up the mountain) and the sherpa didnt drop the body bag rope and let go of his other safety rope and also fell to his death. I dont judge people for things i havent done myself. Being in the death zone its immoral to expect someone dying grom hypoxia but still alive, should kill themselves over the dead. If you cant walk out, you are dead already and 2 dead people shouldnt happen. Spending any e tra time in the death zone is a death sentence. Qnd yeah, I reallllly disrespected Hillary after his comment about the quadriplegic fellow from new zeal.. He attacked him when 30 other climbers went by the cave. He lost his legs from being caught up mt cook in NZ for a damn long time and nearly lost his life...he damn well knows what happens when hypothermia set in..he required hopitalization for his successful climb as it were..hillary expected a quadriplegic to carry him down? Why did he get all the wrath? Was that david sharpe..i think so.. I have a bad memory due to high ICP. Having the symptoms and taking the same medication they do for altitude sickness, its the foggiest feeling..if i had hypoxia in top of it in risky situations..my god. You cant do shit in your own bed forget in death zone.
I summited Everest in 2017 and I can assure you the reason so many people die, apart from the harsh toll it takes on your body is cocky novice climbers who think just cause they paid for a luxury climbing package, it would be easy. they don't respect the acclimatisation rules and often wander burning calories taking pics and making videos. there are companies who would just take anyone up there, if you have the money, that's why you see so many oxygen cylinders, cause they lack the stamina and training but since they paid a lot they get extra O2. they are also slow so there are traffic jams near khumbu glacier and the place where the Hilary step used to be (2015 earthquake took care of that) more time spent in standing around ,means burning more calories ,they are late to their base camp so they don't get enough rest and have to start climbing again the next day. also another reason of high number of deaths is the descend from Everest, its tiring ,tricky and a lot of people want to rush down the mountain to upload their pics and videos and often are in a hurry to get to EBC and often die at base camp 3 or 4 due to exhaustion. deaths during descends are 4 times the deaths during ascends
@@samir6047 I totally get the ignorant cockiness that often accompanies great wealth, people forget where they all originally came from and if you set aside that one difference (wealth) most of us are not really drastically different from one another. From my observations, money tarnishes people much greater than it actually helps humanity as a whole. In the end, Mother Nature will always be undefeated
Congrats on such a monumental accomplishment!!!! It's still absolutely insane to me that novices think that this is something they can (or even should) do! These companies that continue to parade unqualified climbers up the mountain should he held liable!
People forget that those who died at very high altitudes in the death zone become literal corpsicles within a day of their death. It isn’t like moving a flacid body down a slope. It’s like moving a boulder down a deadly slope where one wrong move can send you falling hundreds or thousands of feet to your own death. And this has happened in fact, and this is why bodies stay on Everest.
@@ciaranbyrne62 They are dead not dying, and there's nothing they could do. I mean if your feeling strong they won't mind you trying to retrieve some. But I'm damm sure a climber wouldn't want to ruin another's climb that they spent 100k on, nor want you risking yours or anyone else's life to get them.
Some futuristic civilization is going to discover all those bodies and spend decades trying to determine why ancient humans lived there. They’ll probably think it was a major climate shift that makes the mountain no longer hospitable.
Perhaps the aliens will read the bible and understand that all of these bodies accumulated there when Noah's Ark crashed into the underwater volcano top. They all drowned
If they have the critical thinking and intelligence to achieve galactic travel they will be intelligent enough to deduce from remnants of tools and other archeological and geographical factors that they were engaging in some form of pilgrimage but not permanent inhabitants of the mountain. There is no permanent living structures, no readily available food or tools for hunting, no bodies of children, etc.
We don’t have to wait for aliens given 100 years will be digging up dead bodies on Everest with the new and improved humans thinking the mountain was a holy sacrificial mountain
So I was curious as to why frozen poop would smell up the mountain since frozen poop doesn't smell. Turns out that the reason it smells is because the ice flows down the mountain (both avalanches and glacial flow) and a lot ends up near base camp where it can partially thaw. The bigger concern though is that melted snow and ice is the sole water source on the mountain so, yeah, there’s that..
@@crosslink1493 Depends on where on the mountain. The sun isn’t melting anything above a certain altitude because both the air and underlying ground prevent it
I'm also quite certain that a diet high in fat is required when climbing Everest, such as butter tea. Anyone who has gone through the very first part of keto or any low carb diet, you know just how bad you AND the things coming out of your body smell when your body starts ketosis.
Adventure Tourism is a cautionary tale: climbing to Everest, diving to the Titanic, suborbital flights and flights to the International Space Station - in the distant future, trips to the Moon and Mars will be added to the list There will always be those who will spend for an ultimate thrill, to have an experience beyond the ability of most people to afford
In the, not too distant, future there will be those foolish young men who strive to be married for three years. Finding out that no one has done it in the last century. But there will be plenty who sacrifice their finances and mental health to be "one of" those who did scores of years ago.
Adrenaline junkies have a pathological need to risk their lives in order to feel fully alive; I know b/c my dad died when I was four (and he had four kids who depended on him) doing extreme sports
Coroners have started to realize that almost all motorcycle deaths show toxoplasmosis in the brain upon autopsy. It's the same disease that makes rats stop having a fear response and makes them become attracted to dangerous things. There's no telling how many other adrenaline based activities are also caused by it. It is literally pathological. They can't help it. I'm sorry for your loss. (I don't mean to say that everyone who rides a motorcycle is diseased, just the ones who do it so irresponsibly that it ends up getting them unalived)
Somehow you forgot the greatest risk to mankind. More dangerous than war and more damaging to your finances than snapping the neck off of a Strativarius violin. Marriage
If I were to die in a place that it is dangerous to retrieve my body, I want my body to be left there. I don't want anyone risk their life to retrieve my body.
My whole family will know they bear the guilt of preventing any further additions to our mausoleum until my body has been retrieved and my remains laid to rest properly, buried with the entirety of my staff so I don't have to work in heaven.
@@gifzilla1818😂 I for one don’t care. For once I won’t climb Everest but also I don’t want to make any decision for my family. They can leave me anywhere but if it bothers them they can do what they want.
I too would want to be left there. What's more, I'd pay my guides extra to ensure that if I died they'd arrange my body so that when frozen I was on the side of the trail mooning everyone who came by.
@@draconisthewyvern3664 yeah, sounds motivating. I wish mamoths were into climbing mountains. That could have been more fun imo. Water is good, but ice is better.
I mean imagine not being able to cremate your loved ones and you know that they're frozen, decomposing but slowly. They wish they could see them one last time. A chance to say proper goodbyes.
I knew a guy whose retirement present to himself was to climb everest. He went with his best mate. Whilst on everest, his friend went blind due to altitude. He had to leave him to pass away, alone. The guy came back a shattered shadow of himself.
i saw a documentary of a family left behind by a mother climber. they were so broken that they couldn't get the mother's body back and she left a young boy behind, too. i have no respect nor sympathy for people who have to do this for their own self-fulfillment while leaving their family behind with a crippling debt for the cost and a hole in their hearts for the lost parent. it's just so selfish.
Probably done with photoshopping for these pics. Littering, you say? What about the empty oxygen bottles everyone drops once used up? The bodies and the equipment too.
I imagine you sign something acknowledging if you die up there you will not be retrieved. Glad the garbage is getting cleaned up. These people should have been cleaning up after themselves.
Lol i agree with the first part, to the last part - in a sense they kind of are. As explained the government has started cleaning bodies up now, and that comes out of the profits that the narcissists pay to climb it.
This was the most informative video I’ve come across on Everest on UA-cam. I know there are full length documentaries too. And also sherpas are wildly underpaid. And under appreciated.
So sorry to hear that. I lost my brother to a MC accident when I was 19. My husband wanted a MC for years. I kept saying no. Finally I said to my self “you love him. Let him do what makes him happy” so I said to him “ok. Get your MC. At least you will die happy”. Thinking the odds were in my favor. Most foolish thing I ever said. He died suddenly when someone pulled out in front of him. Let my sons fatherless when they were 12 and 16 in 2007. We still are not over that loss. I regret I let him do what made him happy 😢
An indirect tale of limitations and vulnerabilities. We are pretty much stuck on this planet as shallow surface dwellers. Which create problems if the surface is messed with, by anything or anyone. Will incorporate this into the already restless sleep attempts. Thank you for this worthy addition to the collection of worries.
It actually pisses me off the way this once pristine mountain is treated like a city dump, a truckstop toilet, and a mass grave. Seeing that diagram of the location of corpses floored me. I had no idea the place was so littered with bodies. You'd think that people who climb would take more care and more interest in the environment. Instead, they only care about their ego, their selfish needs, and bragging rights. I would also think that a big part of mountain climbing is the peace, and solitude but I've seen pictures of people standing in long lines waiting to summit, like they're in line for some ride at a stupid amusement park. The base of the mountain looks like a freaking KOA campground on 4th of July. It's the most asinine thing I've ever seen.
The problem is that in the death zone, there is so little oxygen that your body is literally slowly dying from hypoxia. You don't have much time to spend up there.
On Mount Everest, harsh conditions and treacherous terrain make it nearly impossible to retrieve bodies. The sadness of loss mixed with the loneliness of the souls lying forever in the cold snow. A journey of conquest, but also a sacrifice that cannot be returned.
@@FarmTastic97 They are only for those who can do them. Based on the numbers only about 5% have climbed to the summit, the rest were transported there.
When I lived in Colorado, it was pretty common for perfectly healthy 21 year olds to fly to Denver, head up to Copper Mountain for a ski trip, and leave in an ambulance due to altitude sickness. And that was only 10k feet! Even after 15 years of living at 5k-7k feet, working out at high altitude, constant hiking, and being fully acclimated to thin air.... going up to 11k or 12k feet and just normal walking around would take the wind out of my sails everytime. 5 digit altitudes are not something you "get used to."
thats funny, two weeks ago i started to watch this everest stuff, now you come up with it. dying just to get on top of those mountains is the pinnacle of hubris. most senseless death ever
I wouldn't mind dying on top of a mountain, especially the at the highest point on earth. You're very stupid to assume everyone wants to live, I don't. Hubris has nothing to do with it.
It's not a dumb question. But the don't need oxygen. Cultures who live in high altitudes typically have bigger lungs and shorter bodies (like the people of Peru or Chile). Helps blood and air circulate faster than anyone at sea level (Like Florida or Louisiana). Being from the southern US. I would pass out from the lack of air. Since I'm used to the heat and humidity. @@cupcakebetty-w2u
Climate change and melting ice are turning Everest into a virtual graveyard, which will likely have a negative impact on tourism. It's important to note that while tourism agencies profit, the Sherpas, who do 95% of the hard work, often earn little more than a living wage.
There have been (maybe) 100 people get to the top of Mt Everest without supplemental oxygen. Not a common occurrence but it can be done by someone with the right physiology and the right training. You can find more info on the web.
Because it is the peak of the world, it's for personal achievement, bragging rights, etc. Not to say I agree with the reasoning, but that usually are the reasons.
I would totally want to see the Everest and other local mountains; and do a few treks at the base of them; but it wouldn't cross my mind to climb it. Even If I was in enough of a good shape and could pay for it that would still be a big ethical issue. also I don't want to die and it seems between the difficulty; the cold; the lack of oxygen; the crowds it's just an horrible hassle that you'd do just for the fun of it and pretty landscapes. not worth it.
Here's why I ignore failures at Everest: Climbers make the decision to climb Everest. Then they fail. Unless I know them personally, I couldn't give a sh*t. Because they put their lives at risk, when there was nothing at stake except their own ego. Like my father-in-law once said to me after I made a risky decision with a bad outcome, "You gambled. You lost." Puts it in perspective.
This seems like a crazy amount of people dying on the mountain. However in Phoenix, Arizona is a mountain called Camelback Mountain. This mountain has killed more than Everest. It happens every year and normally in the spring. People not used to the heat in Phoenix try to go up the mountain. They end up dying of heat injuries. So if you don’t have experience on the mountains in Phoenix stay off them. Just because they are in the middle of the city doesn’t mean they won’t kill you
I remeber a sherpa who risked his life rescuing someone who was about to die, and he only got shit for it. "I would have made it!" "He ruined my glorious ascent!"
@@MikeJones-rk1un Those animals crash into wind mills all the time, which is why "bird brain" is an insult. I guess they don't need as much oxygen to power what passes for their brain :)
First saw reportages of mountain climbers, possibly Everest, when I was about 7. Watching the frozen of fingers and toes, blackened faces and more, I was thinking: whoever forced these people to go through all that horror?
Nearly every time I watch a WATOP video I forget about the coffee slurp at the beginning. If I'm listening through my computer's speakers, I get chills followed by nausea. However, if I'm wearing headphones and hear the slurp full volume I instinctively jump out of my chair and rip them off my head while yelling full volume at a wall for two minutes! WHY MAN!? I enjoy the content so much, WHY THE SLURP ma dude?!? WHHYYYYY!?!?!?!?
Suppose you are a guy, a breadwinner, with a wife and kids, and it occurs to you to climb Everest, with a death risk of between 1 in 4 and 1 in 7, which makes it uninsurable. How do you justify to your family that they have a high risk of living in poverty for the rest of their lives, sad at your loss, but angry at your selfishness in pursuing a fruitless goal, a vanity project? Is your ego worth more than the future of your entire family? Contrast that with the honourable Ukrainian men, who have gone to war, against Russia's attempt to subjugate and enslave Ukraine, eradicate its culture, and steal its resources.
Wars are often fought for a predetermined outcome, which usually is political and financial change in the affected nations that could not happen by other means.
War in Ukraine is just as senseless as the deaths on Everest. False vanity, lack of common sense and accepting your limitations, bravado and adrenaline junkies are the commonality of the 2 situations.
@@Curlyblonde Ukraine is not fighting Russian because of a fashion fad, they are fighting to avoid being enslaved by Russia AGAIN, remember Russia has killed MILLIONS of Ukrainians in the past century, particularly under Stalin, so their fight is for their EXISTENCE. If they fail, their menfolk will be conscripted as cannon fodder to fight against NATO in Poland and the Baltics. Russia is a mafia state that considers all surrounding territories as slave states for its imperial ambitions. Putin is a psychopath, same as Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Franco, Pol Pot, the Kims, Maduro, Bolsonaro, Milosevic, Trump, and many others. There's a hell of a difference between dealing with them, and climbing a mountain. Unless you regard the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini in WW2 as 'optional'. You'd see how 'optional' it was if they won and you were now speaking German in a forced labour camp.
@dakrontu I was with you until you said Ukraine. Your ignorance is spectacular. The conflict in Ukraine is the exact opposite of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy didn't like it - why should Russia tolerate their neighbour harbouring a hostile military installed by Uncle Sam?
You answered your own question… when it takes 15 to 20 times the world’s average household income, it is obvious that in order to make an attempt to climb Everest you must be extremely wealthy. So who would want to stop the income equalization that is taking place … if they have the money to toss around there will always be those that run to pick it up.
So you reason that bc they have more money, its okay to let them go to their deathe when they dont understand what theyre doing? Bc you think its unfair about resources? Pretty evil.
@@firefeethok_tui2355 Maybe, but then tobacco, alcohol, guns and fast cars are inherently evil as well. I don’t believe anyone after months, sometimes years of planning and organizing a trip to the summit arrives into Basecamp without the knowledge of what happens to a human body above 8000 m. No one arrives in Basecamp and wonders what the oxygen bottles are for.
@@firefeethok_tui2355 they do understand what they're doing. The risks are blatantly obvious, you have to go through lots of training, and it's completely unavoidable. They made that decision themselves and accepted the consequences.
@@firefeethok_tui2355they have been warned about the risks. They don’t always listen since they seem to think that their money will conquer all. The foolish parts of this is a family who seems to think their relative needs to be recovered after they are already dead. An example of this kind of hubris was a Canadian woman who spent a ton of money to climb Everest yet she wasn’t a mountain climber. This would have been her first major climb. Most people don’t take Everest, or other peaks like it, as a first time deal, they have some experience under their belts. The only experience she seemed to have was a few minor practices and lessons. She had hired a not very reputable company to do this. When she finally went to Everest a guide tried to convince her to retreat when she started getting altitude sickness. She refused and ended up dying. Part of the problem is the commercialization of this particular mountain. Too many people don’t seem to be real mountaineers just tourists.
The answer is, if you choose to take your life into your hands in such a dangerous place, you should not ask for or expect to be rescued; particularly in the death zone. This has become even more significant since the mountain has been turned into a tourist trap and people pop out $60-70K to hire sherpas and guides to get them up and down the mountain with the false belief that this guarantees their safety. They’re ill prepared physically and are doing the climb for all of the wrong reasons. When you see how long the lines get during summiting you would be crazy to even try without being extremely well trained and capable.
When I climbed Annapurna & Everest south in 2005 there was a massive avalanche on Everest & 7 people went missing. 3 tourists, 4 Sherpas. They even sent the helo up, but after 3 days they stopped searching & we were told they MIGHT try again 6 months later after some thaw. I have been very specific with what I want to happen with my body after death. Make sure you inform everyone you know IN WRITING before going on any excursion that could result in your death and/or repatriation.
There's so many beautiful places to hike that won't kill you. Honestly I learned early that you never leave anything you bring to a hike or camping trip so as not to pollute nature. I will never understand why anyone would want to climb somewhere that would mean leaving behind so much garbage.
Well, we have that to look forward to when the ice melts. Yuck. They really should put a stop to people climbing the mountain. No one should be allowed to descend without their refuse!
all that rubbish left behind by richy, rich climbers.. wt heck? I thought the rich climbers had to pay for their rubbish to be cleared up? Good report.
That a friend topped Mount Everest (in the 1980s) gives me a special interest in its issues. The issue of human waste infuriates me; perhaps drones can bring it as well as deceased bodies.
Is it just me or am I missing something here.With all this frightening information about the mountains.Why would someone or group of people still risk their lives to accomplish ah near impossible feat.This is very hard to comprehend can someone please help me understand this💁🏼♂️
"The greatest thing about mountain climbing, is you don't have to."
Thats great! Im gonna use that. Lol
Amen to that 😂
My favorite part
Said no actual mountaineer, ever.
Lol. Lol.
When I was a teen I found out that each climber who attempts to climb Everest multiple sherpas haul all the gear and even go ahead and lay ropes and ladders. It felt like cheating. Still does. The sherpas deserve the glory.
Yeah not dying is cheating.....U schmuck
Japanese man once climbed Everest, with his cameracrew and Sherpas to "ski down Everest."
Of course he didn't climb to the top but on the way half a dozen Sherpas died in an Avalanche.
After a brief ceremony, the bodies were left where they fell and on they went.
Once he deemed the time had come, he put on his skis and went down a slope. It was rather icy so after only a brief distance he fell, still in one piece, and decided to call it a day.
There have been at least three solo ascents of Everest.
I always felt that way as well
Agreed. I don't think the rest of the people really should get credit for "climbing" the mountain because in reality, the sherpas are doing all the real work. We all know that's the fact. These people are deluding themselves if they think otherwise.
The ego is a strange beast and the bodies of many prove how it overwelms the spirit of common sense.
Who says they didn’t want to die? I would never do it, but you feel the calling to do the climb - even if it’s just to lay yourself to rest at the top of the world - who are we to judge?
@@Krmpfpks We are the sane ones, the safe ones, the intelligent ones who love living; the ones who judge those who don't.
Well said
It's less about the ego and more about the lack of self love and care.
had to screenshot this for a rainy day 👍🏾👍🏾
If I ever find myself freezing to death on Mt Everest, I will strike a heroic pose, so people can marvel at me as they climb past my frozen ass.
I will strike a hilarious pose so people can say, hee hee, funny guy.
😂😂😂
I would not go, just have a nice chat with people i know and watch your bodies on youtube i guess...🤪😉
I'll make sure that my final repose is face-down....so the whole world can KISS MY ASS!
You'll be covered in graffiti in a week.
Everest: One of the most pristine, untouched, beautiful parts of the world.
Human Beings: Hold my beer.
Pristine, you idiots have turned it into a garbage dump!
It’s what we do
@@opinionhaver574, pristine? It is a grave yard.
It’s cluttered. How on Earth can you use the words untouched and pristine? The only reason it looks clean is fresh snowfall.
You're missing the point... It was pristine and untouched, before all the people arrived and started messing it up @@LewieLeway
Just leave the bodies there. People shouldn't have to risk their lives to retrive the bodies. It's the "hill they're willing to die" on then let them stay where they died on.
Agreed, completely.
Well said. If I died there I would have no problem with people seeing me as they climb.
@@montyjohnstone9640 Its also an important reminder to the next climbers of just how dangerous it is.
I’m fine with this, but leaving tons of trash is terrible
They've always left them. Your comment is pointless
There is nothing great about climbing Mt. Everest. What is great is being there for your family every day and being involved in helping people who desperately need help. That's greatness.
What a polluted place. Dead bodies, garbage and frozen poop everywhere. What a shame.
This video didn't address Mounds of trash left on Everett.
The poop 💩💩💩
Soon Everest will be called
. *_"Stink Mountain"_* 💩
Especially if the locals are already complaining. 🤢🤢🤢 😒
Lol frozen poop
@@iamgem😂
It’s like everywhere, people are loving the outdoors to death. I live in Alaska and trash can be found everywhere.
@@giannidcenzo This video didn't address Mounds of trash left on Everett.
The poop 💩💩💩
Soon Everest will be called
. *_"Stink Mountain"_* 💩
Especially if the locals are already complaining. 🤢🤢🤢 😒
Greenboots ( Tsewang Paljor ) was a family member.. we reported him missing mid day May 14, he was supposed to return on the 13th. My aunty felt something was wrong on the 12th of may, and reported him missing as soon as she was allowed.. we raised money to have Tsewang brought off the mountain and the government of Nepal took our rescue money twice without going on the mountain at all.. the third time we raised money, it was not nearly as much money as the first two times, by now it was 2014 and this time we brought the money we raised to the China Tibet Mountaineering Asc, and 3 days later a team brought my brother and uncle all the way up to 27,940 ft where Tsewang had rested for years. He now rests peacefully just below the north ridge❤ RIP Tsewang Paljor ❤
I’m very sorry for your loss
Use the metric system and logical date system damnit, I'm sorry for your loss.
@Anti_Septikum come out of your metric bubble and educate yourself.
@Anti_SeptikumWhat is wrong with you? Your criticism serves no purpose besides sanctimonious arrogance, and i doubt you enjoy when someone is erroneously condescending to you because their whole personality is know it all. If you think anyone is impressed reading your “observation” then you probably have a friend problem, or the absence thereof, which is how you end up online trying to be relevant to strangers.
Uncool. Unnecessary. Definitely loser vibes. Sorry for your brain cell loss, that’s gotta suck worse than trying to climb Everest in a blizzard. You won’t apologize for your obvious lack of sympathy and empathy, but you should, this person is a stranger, your delicate ego won’t suffer that much acknowledging you were an 🫏.
If you can’t remember the last time you apologized for your obnoxious, irrelevant, and embarrassing tendency to stray so far out of context you’re offensive, then you are due.
There is one appropriate response when commenting on the sentiment of personal loss, especially the loss of a family member. You failed that test because you believe the metric system and European date format is worth being an offensive blow hard. Why?
The metric system is a superior and more intuitive measurement system, but it’s not the only one. Do you go around asking people who don’t speak your language to choose the correct language when interacting?
There are several dominant languages in the world, out of curiosity, which one is superior? When the world homogenizes we all lose, cultural differences remain a powerful tool in human evolution.
Of all the dumb stuff I could have woken up and read yours is Everest Peak stupid and annoying. These are acceptable formats for height reference and date descriptions, meaning the only purpose you served was being a right ole dick. Ole can be swapped for old so we don’t send you down an avoidable rabbit hole.
Grow up, you’re rude, and I have feeling you’re going to be offended by my rude response back. What’s more important to society than using the metric system? Treating others how you want to be treated, the golden rule is more important to anyone with the slightest appreciation for common sense and dignity.
Basically, shut up, if you don’t have anything kind to say you can always stay silent. Am I a hypocrite in this context? Absolutely, and it’s worth it, people like you slowly erode decency and mutual respect in a society, and we should all be pushing back by now.
That must have been horrible for your family and I am glad you found some peace in a proper burial. The situation on Everest is difficult, especially when your deceased family member was the most likely to be referenced in a dehumanizing way. My heart breaks for your Aunt and Uncle, and how that would have felt as a parent.
I hope the resolution brought them some peace and healing. It can never be restored with the loss of a child, but it can be tempered in this situation. ❤
It’s extremely disgusting how much trash has been left on the mountain.
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There should be laws abt bringing down everything you take up. The trash left is awful
Yet nepal keeps allowing it while the north in Tibet/China is very clean minus yak poo, for the most part.
But thats the price for tourism money that goes straight to the rich leaders of nepal.
@ I assume leaders are making lots of money from it
Plus the bodies.
Climbing Everest: life threatening, covered in bodies and poop, over crowded, cold af no matter what, already been done multiple times.
Climbing random mountains in the Rockies: Can do it in a day or two, no bodies, waste facilities nearby, thaws in summer, beautiful views all around, part of a select few people to climb said mountain (depending on popularity).
I know what I would rather do.
But... grizzlies
@evocati6523 the threat a bear presents is nothing compared to what everest can offer.
$30,000 to $60,000 to go to Everest to see poo and bodies? Sign me up.
Yeah but on Everest, from what I've seen in pics, you get to queue up like human cattle do at an amusement park just to stand at the summit for a few minutes and try to make your photos look like you're the only one who's there.
I climbed a mountain in the Rockies a fair number of years ago. I didn't even need any climbing gear either. It was flat enough that you could simply walk up it. The trek took only a couple of hours at most.
Everest is the epitome of the 1st world self-absorption.
As opposed to Third World penis-envy.
Exactly. I won't risk my life trying to prove something to no one.
@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect Meanwhile, the Third World is still trying to figure out indoor plumbing.
@@JohnKoenig-db8lk hm, turns out indoor plumbing not that much of a help on a mountain that is located in a third-world country. Congrats on the DCE, by the way :)
@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect Congratulations on not getting the point. People in primitive cultures are _at least_ as prone to self-absorbtion and doing dumb things to impress others. The difference is that First World types are able to do those dumb things in a more rareified society where they're not having to heat their homes and cook their food with dried animal dung.
"Every frozen corpse on Mt. Everest was once a highly motivated person."
The mmountain killed that person.
a narzisstic person you mean by that
For every body on everest is a filthy stinking pollutant in someone's water supply. It's disgusting
Harsh my friend but spot on.
I think anyone wanting to climb that mountain is nuts!!!
The worlds highest rubbish dump. Its a disgrace what humans have done to that sacred mountain.
Given enough time humans can f#&\ up just about anything. Especially the rich and privileged.
Sacred Mountain😂?
I had the subblime experience of meetimg Sir Edmund Hilary and his wife in the 1990's and staying for an interview with maybe 6 others in attendance. He highlighted the achievement of getting safely back down as just as important as the summit. When asked if he was afraid at any point he said that he was, but that "high on the mountain fear is your friend. When one false step could mean the end it will keep you from being careless or stupid." When asked if he was sure he could do it he replied, "why would you try something you were sure you could do?". He was deeply committed to the betterment of Nepal, and the interview was arranged after a significant donation to a not for profit fund.
I read a quote from Sir Edmund Hillary saying 6 climbers could cocoon a victim and haul them down. He said it was awful not to try.
It’s vanity
@@LindaYarigeri dont ever remember hollary ever being part of a 6 man cocoon. But i did hear of a 4 (or5?)man crew taking a man that died (before they arrived back up the mountain) and the sherpa didnt drop the body bag rope and let go of his other safety rope and also fell to his death.
I dont judge people for things i havent done myself. Being in the death zone its immoral to expect someone dying grom hypoxia but still alive, should kill themselves over the dead. If you cant walk out, you are dead already and 2 dead people shouldnt happen. Spending any e tra time in the death zone is a death sentence.
Qnd yeah, I reallllly disrespected Hillary after his comment about the quadriplegic fellow from new zeal.. He attacked him when 30 other climbers went by the cave. He lost his legs from being caught up mt cook in NZ for a damn long time and nearly lost his life...he damn well knows what happens when hypothermia set in..he required hopitalization for his successful climb as it were..hillary expected a quadriplegic to carry him down? Why did he get all the wrath? Was that david sharpe..i think so.. I have a bad memory due to high ICP. Having the symptoms and taking the same medication they do for altitude sickness, its the foggiest feeling..if i had hypoxia in top of it in risky situations..my god. You cant do shit in your own bed forget in death zone.
I met him to but I was a kid and didn't talk to him just got his autograph. XD
I'll bet Hillary didn't mention that he couldn't have done it without the help of Tenzing Norgay. Porters and sherpas carried ALL his gear.
I summited Everest in 2017 and I can assure you the reason so many people die, apart from the harsh toll it takes on your body is cocky novice climbers who think just cause they paid for a luxury climbing package, it would be easy. they don't respect the acclimatisation rules and often wander burning calories taking pics and making videos. there are companies who would just take anyone up there, if you have the money, that's why you see so many oxygen cylinders, cause they lack the stamina and training but since they paid a lot they get extra O2. they are also slow so there are traffic jams near khumbu glacier and the place where the Hilary step used to be (2015 earthquake took care of that) more time spent in standing around ,means burning more calories ,they are late to their base camp so they don't get enough rest and have to start climbing again the next day.
also another reason of high number of deaths is the descend from Everest, its tiring ,tricky and a lot of people want to rush down the mountain to upload their pics and videos and often are in a hurry to get to EBC and often die at base camp 3 or 4 due to exhaustion. deaths during descends are 4 times the deaths during ascends
@@samir6047 a fool and his money shall soon depart this life.. or something to that effect
@@samir6047 I totally get the ignorant cockiness that often accompanies great wealth, people forget where they all originally came from and if you set aside that one difference (wealth) most of us are not really drastically different from one another. From my observations, money tarnishes people much greater than it actually helps humanity as a whole. In the end, Mother Nature will always be undefeated
You’re the Real Deal. Congrats on the accomplishment. I hope people heed your warnings and hear your message
Congrats on such a monumental accomplishment!!!!
It's still absolutely insane to me that novices think that this is something they can (or even should) do!
These companies that continue to parade unqualified climbers up the mountain should he held liable!
Show us your Everest medal or belt...l
People forget that those who died at very high altitudes in the death zone become literal corpsicles within a day of their death. It isn’t like moving a flacid body down a slope. It’s like moving a boulder down a deadly slope where one wrong move can send you falling hundreds or thousands of feet to your own death.
And this has happened in fact, and this is why bodies stay on Everest.
Yeah, we ALL understand THAT.
SO?! - it is still human trash with all other plastic tents , oxygene tanks and shit rich narcistic aholes leave there
Inhumane all people passing a dying person is evil. Walking past a corpse is sick as f
@@ciaranbyrne62 They are dead not dying, and there's nothing they could do. I mean if your feeling strong they won't mind you trying to retrieve some. But I'm damm sure a climber wouldn't want to ruin another's climb that they spent 100k on, nor want you risking yours or anyone else's life to get them.
Anyone who tries the mountain needs to understand nobody is going to rescue them much less carry their corpse down and risk becoming one.
Some futuristic civilization is going to discover all those bodies and spend decades trying to determine why ancient humans lived there. They’ll probably think it was a major climate shift that makes the mountain no longer hospitable.
Perhaps the aliens will read the bible and understand that all of these bodies accumulated there when Noah's Ark crashed into the underwater volcano top. They all drowned
They won't wonder. They'll just look it up on a computer or some such thing and learn more than they wanted to know in 30 seconds.
If they have the critical thinking and intelligence to achieve galactic travel they will be intelligent enough to deduce from remnants of tools and other archeological and geographical factors that they were engaging in some form of pilgrimage but not permanent inhabitants of the mountain. There is no permanent living structures, no readily available food or tools for hunting, no bodies of children, etc.
@@Nononame24You seem fun
I bet they’ll wonder what evil king made them climb this fucking mountain
I’ve seen the top of Mt. Everest many times from the comfort of my living room on a high def TV
and thats the only way anyone should ever be able to see it.
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Whose quote is that?
Some alien is gonna be like, "why are there so many human bodies on this uninhabitable moutain?"
They would possibly think it is a religious shrine or something and start searching for idols or other religious artifacts.
We don’t have to wait for aliens given 100 years will be digging up dead bodies on Everest with the new and improved humans thinking the mountain was a holy sacrificial mountain
@@TheQUBANQT yeah. We do have a history of not preserving our history.
@@TheQUBANQT This is what I came here to say, lol.
So I was curious as to why frozen poop would smell up the mountain since frozen poop doesn't smell. Turns out that the reason it smells is because the ice flows down the mountain (both avalanches and glacial flow) and a lot ends up near base camp where it can partially thaw. The bigger concern though is that melted snow and ice is the sole water source on the mountain so, yeah, there’s that..
If its on top of the snow and the sun is out it thaws, thus its not frozen, and you get to enjoy the 'bouquet' aroma.
People are so gross. They should just stop these adventure groups.
@@crosslink1493 Depends on where on the mountain. The sun isn’t melting anything above a certain altitude because both the air and underlying ground prevent it
Ugh. No thanks!
I'm also quite certain that a diet high in fat is required when climbing Everest, such as butter tea. Anyone who has gone through the very first part of keto or any low carb diet, you know just how bad you AND the things coming out of your body smell when your body starts ketosis.
Adventure Tourism is a cautionary tale: climbing to Everest, diving to the Titanic, suborbital flights and flights to the International Space Station - in the distant future, trips to the Moon and Mars will be added to the list
There will always be those who will spend for an ultimate thrill, to have an experience beyond the ability of most people to afford
In the, not too distant, future there will be those foolish young men who strive to be married for three years. Finding out that no one has done it in the last century. But there will be plenty who sacrifice their finances and mental health to be "one of" those who did scores of years ago.
Thrill? Thrills are but a wisp of mist, I have faced death and victory, but now at 79 years old they mean near nothing.
Everest tourism has become so disneyfied that if somebody listed that on his resume I'd automatically check him off as a douchebag.
ROTFLMFAO.
😅🤣😂
Exactly. I’m impressed by anyone who can summit K2 or any peak that hasn’t been commodified to death but Everest is unfortunately not a feat anymore.
I'm ok with my daily hiking, I have nothing to prove to anyone.
Then why are you telling us? Sounds like you have something to prove
Adrenaline junkies have a pathological need to risk their lives in order to feel fully alive; I know b/c my dad died when I was four (and he had four kids who depended on him) doing extreme sports
I'm sorry to hear that.
Coroners have started to realize that almost all motorcycle deaths show toxoplasmosis in the brain upon autopsy. It's the same disease that makes rats stop having a fear response and makes them become attracted to dangerous things. There's no telling how many other adrenaline based activities are also caused by it. It is literally pathological. They can't help it. I'm sorry for your loss.
(I don't mean to say that everyone who rides a motorcycle is diseased, just the ones who do it so irresponsibly that it ends up getting them unalived)
I wish things had been different. My condolences 💐
@ THANKS! I do love my life but I still wonder 50 years later what it would have been like to grow up with my dad in my life
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Its hard for me to think of a more ridiculous waste of life and money other than war. I'll never understand. I wish them luck.
Somehow you forgot the greatest risk to mankind. More dangerous than war and more damaging to your finances than snapping the neck off of a Strativarius violin. Marriage
personally id prefer money be wasted on climbing a mountain. than war. the mountain has at least a visible end point / focused goal. lol
For the accomplishment. Just because you don't have ambition doesn't mean other people don't.
Don’t wish them luck. Wish them the wisdom to not attempt meaningless things
"Money is not attracted to brains"
imagine spending $60k minimum to go die on a mountain where you can't even be retrieved.
If I were to die in a place that it is dangerous to retrieve my body, I want my body to be left there. I don't want anyone risk their life to retrieve my body.
My whole family will know they bear the guilt of preventing any further additions to our mausoleum until my body has been retrieved and my remains laid to rest properly, buried with the entirety of my staff so I don't have to work in heaven.
@@gifzilla1818😂 I for one don’t care. For once I won’t climb Everest but also I don’t want to make any decision for my family. They can leave me anywhere but if it bothers them they can do what they want.
I too would want to be left there. What's more, I'd pay my guides extra to ensure that if I died they'd arrange my body so that when frozen I was on the side of the trail mooning everyone who came by.
@@gifzilla1818 maybe even the family of the staff as well. Can never have too much help in heaven
Okay thanks. Hopefully everyone will remember that and hopefully write it down somewhere.
I could never imagine being so excited over something that I'd risk my life to indulge in it.
That’s why I never had children!
War?
drugs
I lost a friend on Shisha Pangma 8,027 metres (26,335 ft) Tibet mountain. He still “lives” there.
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The Everest is a mountain of Ego
Amen
It's not the big deal it was when sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did it.
Exactly. A pursuit for personal glory and achievement. It serves NO other purpose.
well you know what they say about smoke and fools, they both love high places
To you… an anonymous person on YT.
You run similar chances of dying if you commute more than 20 minutes to work in a vehicle
Thanks. Now I want to climb it even less than I already did.
Am happy to summit on goggle Earth me thinks.
At this point, the dead Bodies themselves are a travel destination.
Well, you know where you are at least
and you get to become part of that destination if you’re “lucky”!
@@draconisthewyvern3664 yeah, sounds motivating. I wish mamoths were into climbing mountains. That could have been more fun imo. Water is good, but ice is better.
I mean imagine not being able to cremate your loved ones and you know that they're frozen, decomposing but slowly. They wish they could see them one last time. A chance to say proper goodbyes.
Its the beauty of nature
I knew a guy whose retirement present to himself was to climb everest. He went with his best mate. Whilst on everest, his friend went blind due to altitude. He had to leave him to pass away, alone. The guy came back a shattered shadow of himself.
i saw a documentary of a family left behind by a mother climber. they were so broken that they couldn't get the mother's body back and she left a young boy behind, too. i have no respect nor sympathy for people who have to do this for their own self-fulfillment while leaving their family behind with a crippling debt for the cost and a hole in their hearts for the lost parent. it's just so selfish.
Never underestimate mankind's obsession with pointless endeavors
Like your comment. PRICELESS!
Me with skateboarding tricks
True. Underwater cave diving. Like just do drugs instead lol.
We all do those things, some stupider than others. Some harmless
@ wow the dear leader is here.
Going to Mt Everest to cover the deceased with plastic bags for the video is quite the dedication.
Lol
THAT impressed me as well.
I call it littering.
Why plastic? 😑
Probably done with photoshopping for these pics. Littering, you say? What about the empty oxygen bottles everyone drops once used up? The bodies and the equipment too.
1. Pay is good because it's a dangerous job.
2. Somebody has to clean up the mess those idiots left behind.
I imagine you sign something acknowledging if you die up there you will not be retrieved. Glad the garbage is getting cleaned up. These people should have been cleaning up after themselves.
THey literally don't even clean up after their own corpse. Of course they don't clean up after their own trash. LOL
Lol i agree with the first part, to the last part - in a sense they kind of are. As explained the government has started cleaning bodies up now, and that comes out of the profits that the narcissists pay to climb it.
those dead people are really slacking in cleaning up their garbage.
Human hubris at its finest.
Human debris
This was the most informative video I’ve come across on Everest on UA-cam.
I know there are full length documentaries too.
And also sherpas are wildly underpaid. And under appreciated.
Don’t forget about the amount of rubbish that get left on the mountains, Honestly it’s a joke.
This! There is so much trash that they have been serious talks of shutting it all down.
Imagine if all of us who use the mountains and forests around us left all of our garbage. Leave it cleaner than you find it!
Not to mention the bodies 😢
@@associatedblacksheepandmisfits honestly the garbage is more of an affront to nature.
they did mention it
thanks! actually my dad was a rock climber not a mt climber but died of his adrenaline addiction when I was 4 and he was 37
So sorry to hear that. I lost my brother to a MC accident when I was 19. My husband wanted a MC for years. I kept saying no. Finally I said to my self “you love him. Let him do what makes him happy” so I said to him “ok. Get your MC. At least you will die happy”. Thinking the odds were in my favor. Most foolish thing I ever said. He died suddenly when someone pulled out in front of him. Let my sons fatherless when they were 12 and 16 in 2007. We still are not over that loss. I regret I let him do what made him happy 😢
@ oh my gosh, I am so sorry for your loss!
@@Letsbhonest0828I’m sorry
@@Letsbhonest0828how selfish, he prioritise his fun over kids
@@Letsbhonest0828I’m sorry to hear about your loss 😢
It's called Mount Everest for a reason---it's the one place you can go to Rest Forever. Mount Rest Forever🚩🏳🏴🥶
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Ever Rest
True 😂
An indirect tale of limitations and vulnerabilities. We are pretty much stuck on this planet as shallow surface dwellers. Which create problems if the surface is messed with, by anything or anyone. Will incorporate this into the already restless sleep attempts. Thank you for this worthy addition to the collection of worries.
It actually pisses me off the way this once pristine mountain is treated like a city dump, a truckstop toilet, and a mass grave. Seeing that diagram of the location of corpses floored me. I had no idea the place was so littered with bodies. You'd think that people who climb would take more care and more interest in the environment. Instead, they only care about their ego, their selfish needs, and bragging rights. I would also think that a big part of mountain climbing is the peace, and solitude but I've seen pictures of people standing in long lines waiting to summit, like they're in line for some ride at a stupid amusement park. The base of the mountain looks like a freaking KOA campground on 4th of July. It's the most asinine thing I've ever seen.
Rainbow Valley is known for the many colourful outfits on the dead. It is a cheery name for a dire place.
What!! I always thought it was a LGBT meet up place...
@@CouncilBoulware they're more interested in spelunking
@@zimriel That can also be a euphemism.
@CouncilBoulware Who to know if someone is obsessed with gays. Just come out already
The problem is that in the death zone, there is so little oxygen that your body is literally slowly dying from hypoxia. You don't have much time to spend up there.
The audacity of man never ceases to amaze.
I'm guessing at some point we will have some robot that can work under that extreme environment and retrieve bodies.
I read somewhere that the biggest achievement isn't climbing Everest. It's climbing Everest without telling anyone.
They should leave the bodies up there forever to preserve the memory of the people who died and to deter other people from going up there to die.
thats the mind numbing problem, the dead bodies dont deter them! i know some people are really stupid but wow!
Clean up your mess, entitled people!
Entitled white people from the west. The native peoples from those places never left trash on the mountains over thousands of years.
On Mount Everest, harsh conditions and treacherous terrain make it nearly impossible to retrieve bodies. The sadness of loss mixed with the loneliness of the souls lying forever in the cold snow. A journey of conquest, but also a sacrifice that cannot be returned.
Mountaineering in a nutshell: the more deaths, then the more popular. And if the bodies are never recovered, then it is even more popular.
@@eng3d That's right, those challenges are only for those who like adventure
@@FarmTastic97 They are only for those who can do them. Based on the numbers only about 5% have climbed to the summit, the rest were transported there.
@@HondoTrailside IT'S TRUE THAT THE PERCENTAGE OF CLIMBERS WHO GET TO THE TOP IS VERY FEW
I don't mind the bodies so much. The trash and poop are just disrespectful though.
When I lived in Colorado, it was pretty common for perfectly healthy 21 year olds to fly to Denver, head up to Copper Mountain for a ski trip, and leave in an ambulance due to altitude sickness. And that was only 10k feet! Even after 15 years of living at 5k-7k feet, working out at high altitude, constant hiking, and being fully acclimated to thin air.... going up to 11k or 12k feet and just normal walking around would take the wind out of my sails everytime. 5 digit altitudes are not something you "get used to."
Myfavoritecolor, copy that......from 7000 feet in Flagstaff 👍😁
Nepal ought to charge a $1 million for a permit to climb Everest. I think there will still be plenty of climbers.💖✨💫
Maybe when the climbers pay that, they will have a return guarantee, dead or alive.
thats funny, two weeks ago i started to watch this everest stuff, now you come up with it.
dying just to get on top of those mountains is the pinnacle of hubris. most senseless death ever
I wouldn't mind dying on top of a mountain, especially the at the highest point on earth.
You're very stupid to assume everyone wants to live, I don't.
Hubris has nothing to do with it.
Hubris is a very good word for it. Also from the Greek, Nemesis wins.
That, or scuba diving in underwater caves with narrow one way paths, where it's easy to get spatially lost.
Most are dead rich ppl who paid a local guide. The guides are mostly the only reason ppl get to the top. They never receive any recognition.
Most are not rich. They all have sponsors, so you don't know what you're talking about.
Dumb question. Do the locals use oxygen tanks?
It's not a dumb question. But the don't need oxygen. Cultures who live in high altitudes typically have bigger lungs and shorter bodies (like the people of Peru or Chile). Helps blood and air circulate faster than anyone at sea level (Like Florida or Louisiana). Being from the southern US. I would pass out from the lack of air. Since I'm used to the heat and humidity. @@cupcakebetty-w2u
@90ejb thanks for answering! What you say makes alot of sense. After initially writing this comment i researched it a bit too. Have a happy new year
I will never die on Everest! I hate the cold, can’t make me go
So Sherpa support is making it accessible to people that shouldn't be there.
Climate change and melting ice are turning Everest into a virtual graveyard, which will likely have a negative impact on tourism. It's important to note that while tourism agencies profit, the Sherpas, who do 95% of the hard work, often earn little more than a living wage.
Mount Everest is more than 29,000 ft. high. A commercial jet cruises at 30,000 ft. No wonder you need tanks of oxygen.
It is 29,031 ft or 8,849 m, and I cruise at 6 ft.
There have been (maybe) 100 people get to the top of Mt Everest without supplemental oxygen. Not a common occurrence but it can be done by someone with the right physiology and the right training. You can find more info on the web.
Worked for D.B Copper
what is up there , why would anyone in their right mind risk their lives to go up there , humans are very strange sheep
Because it is the peak of the world, it's for personal achievement, bragging rights, etc.
Not to say I agree with the reasoning, but that usually are the reasons.
I would totally want to see the Everest and other local mountains; and do a few treks at the base of them; but it wouldn't cross my mind to climb it. Even If I was in enough of a good shape and could pay for it that would still be a big ethical issue. also I don't want to die and it seems between the difficulty; the cold; the lack of oxygen; the crowds it's just an horrible hassle that you'd do just for the fun of it and pretty landscapes. not worth it.
If you take away the ego and the ability to take pictures, there will be only a handful climbers per year 🤣
Here's why I ignore failures at Everest: Climbers make the decision to climb Everest. Then they fail. Unless I know them personally, I couldn't give a sh*t. Because they put their lives at risk, when there was nothing at stake except their own ego.
Like my father-in-law once said to me after I made a risky decision with a bad outcome, "You gambled. You lost." Puts it in perspective.
Every corpse on Everest was once a highly motivated person.
This seems like a crazy amount of people dying on the mountain.
However in Phoenix, Arizona is a mountain called Camelback Mountain. This mountain has killed more than Everest. It happens every year and normally in the spring. People not used to the heat in Phoenix try to go up the mountain. They end up dying of heat injuries.
So if you don’t have experience on the mountains in Phoenix stay off them. Just because they are in the middle of the city doesn’t mean they won’t kill you
People also die on the water because they think the ocean is like a swimming pool. Respect Nature because she will cut you no slack.
I live in AZ, where did you get the statistic that more people have died on Camelback than Everest?
I used to live right beside it. Constant heard about rescues. Can’t believe how ill prepared some people will set out doing things.
@@Dymondslayr from phoenix TRT.
Being in the middle of the city also probably makes it a lot easier to get to for most people.
I think I’ll stay down here at 115 feet above sea level, thank you very much! 👍😉
I remeber a sherpa who risked his life rescuing someone who was about to die, and he only got shit for it. "I would have made it!" "He ruined my glorious ascent!"
Love how the counter goes to 2 million and they quote 200 thousand. lol 13:20.
Two thousand hundred
Atmospheric pressure at sea level: 14.7lbs. Atmospheric pressure atop Everest: 4.5lbs. You will die there.
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Yep. Not exactly "lung friendly".
Hence it is called the "death zone".
@@richardthomas5362 Yet some birds can fly that high an higher.
@@MikeJones-rk1un Those animals crash into wind mills all the time, which is why "bird brain" is an insult. I guess they don't need as much oxygen to power what passes for their brain :)
First saw reportages of mountain climbers, possibly Everest, when I was about 7.
Watching the frozen of fingers and toes, blackened faces and more, I was thinking:
whoever forced these people to go through all that horror?
there own stupidity forced them. mother nature showed them just how stupid they were.
imagine scaling mt everest to fetch a dead body
especially during the off hours so as not do disturb the current living climbers
It's good money for the Nepalis if they can get one of those jobs.
Death stranding
Nearly every time I watch a WATOP video I forget about the coffee slurp at the beginning. If I'm listening through my computer's speakers, I get chills followed by nausea. However, if I'm wearing headphones and hear the slurp full volume I instinctively jump out of my chair and rip them off my head while yelling full volume at a wall for two minutes! WHY MAN!? I enjoy the content so much, WHY THE SLURP ma dude?!? WHHYYYYY!?!?!?!?
Im a coffee slurper - you should try it, it adds to the enjoyment of the coffee 👍
Leave them there - it's important to remind people how dangerous it is.
Suppose you are a guy, a breadwinner, with a wife and kids, and it occurs to you to climb Everest, with a death risk of between 1 in 4 and 1 in 7, which makes it uninsurable.
How do you justify to your family that they have a high risk of living in poverty for the rest of their lives, sad at your loss, but angry at your selfishness in pursuing a fruitless goal, a vanity project? Is your ego worth more than the future of your entire family?
Contrast that with the honourable Ukrainian men, who have gone to war, against Russia's attempt to subjugate and enslave Ukraine, eradicate its culture, and steal its resources.
its 50-100 thousand dollars to climb up, nobody earning money for their family is doing this, stop being dramatic
Wars are often fought for a predetermined outcome, which usually is political and financial change in the affected nations that could not happen by other means.
War in Ukraine is just as senseless as the deaths on Everest. False vanity, lack of common sense and accepting your limitations, bravado and adrenaline junkies are the commonality of the 2 situations.
@@Curlyblonde Ukraine is not fighting Russian because of a fashion fad, they are fighting to avoid being enslaved by Russia AGAIN, remember Russia has killed MILLIONS of Ukrainians in the past century, particularly under Stalin, so their fight is for their EXISTENCE. If they fail, their menfolk will be conscripted as cannon fodder to fight against NATO in Poland and the Baltics. Russia is a mafia state that considers all surrounding territories as slave states for its imperial ambitions. Putin is a psychopath, same as Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Franco, Pol Pot, the Kims, Maduro, Bolsonaro, Milosevic, Trump, and many others. There's a hell of a difference between dealing with them, and climbing a mountain. Unless you regard the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini in WW2 as 'optional'. You'd see how 'optional' it was if they won and you were now speaking German in a forced labour camp.
@dakrontu I was with you until you said Ukraine. Your ignorance is spectacular.
The conflict in Ukraine is the exact opposite of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Kennedy didn't like it - why should Russia tolerate their neighbour harbouring a hostile military installed by Uncle Sam?
I have no sympathy for people who waste their lives like this.
I have no sympathy for people who waste other people's life like this.
I have no sympathy for people who have no sympathy for oeople like this
There is no tragedy here. All are climbing at their own volition.
the tragedy is just the loved ones they leave behind if they procreate before they die of their adrenaline addiction 😂
the tragedy is the pollution this all causes
@@slantos2668, is it still pollution if it doesn't affect anyone or anything?
Thank you for going over all this.
Natural selection in action
Mount Ever-rest
You answered your own question… when it takes 15 to 20 times the world’s average household income, it is obvious that in order to make an attempt to climb Everest you must be extremely wealthy. So who would want to stop the income equalization that is taking place … if they have the money to toss around there will always be those that run to pick it up.
So you reason that bc they have more money, its okay to let them go to their deathe when they dont understand what theyre doing? Bc you think its unfair about resources? Pretty evil.
@@firefeethok_tui2355 Maybe, but then tobacco, alcohol, guns and fast cars are inherently evil as well. I don’t believe anyone after months, sometimes years of planning and organizing a trip to the summit arrives into Basecamp without the knowledge of what happens to a human body above 8000 m. No one arrives in Basecamp and wonders what the oxygen bottles are for.
@@firefeethok_tui2355 they do understand what they're doing. The risks are blatantly obvious, you have to go through lots of training, and it's completely unavoidable. They made that decision themselves and accepted the consequences.
Unfortunately the wealth will stay with their rich families, it'll never make it to the people who need it.
@@firefeethok_tui2355they have been warned about the risks. They don’t always listen since they seem to think that their money will conquer all. The foolish parts of this is a family who seems to think their relative needs to be recovered after they are already dead.
An example of this kind of hubris was a Canadian woman who spent a ton of money to climb Everest yet she wasn’t a mountain climber. This would have been her first major climb. Most people don’t take Everest, or other peaks like it, as a first time deal, they have some experience under their belts. The only experience she seemed to have was a few minor practices and lessons. She had hired a not very reputable company to do this. When she finally went to Everest a guide tried to convince her to retreat when she started getting altitude sickness. She refused and ended up dying.
Part of the problem is the commercialization of this particular mountain. Too many people don’t seem to be real mountaineers just tourists.
The answer is, if you choose to take your life into your hands in such a dangerous place, you should not ask for or expect to be rescued; particularly in the death zone. This has become even more significant since the mountain has been turned into a tourist trap and people pop out $60-70K to hire sherpas and guides to get them up and down the mountain with the false belief that this guarantees their safety. They’re ill prepared physically and are doing the climb for all of the wrong reasons. When you see how long the lines get during summiting you would be crazy to even try without being extremely well trained and capable.
When I climbed Annapurna & Everest south in 2005 there was a massive avalanche on Everest & 7 people went missing. 3 tourists, 4 Sherpas. They even sent the helo up, but after 3 days they stopped searching & we were told they MIGHT try again 6 months later after some thaw.
I have been very specific with what I want to happen with my body after death. Make sure you inform everyone you know IN WRITING before going on any excursion that could result in your death and/or repatriation.
There's so many beautiful places to hike that won't kill you. Honestly I learned early that you never leave anything you bring to a hike or camping trip so as not to pollute nature. I will never understand why anyone would want to climb somewhere that would mean leaving behind so much garbage.
So so many corpses from decades ago still linger on Mt.Everest
Not that many. Most have been removed.
@@JohnSmith-ux3tt from the lower areas yes, but 7500 meters onwards it becomes harder to bring back bodies
Most have been removed maybe, but year after year more bodies show up, not just from people dying but because of climate change and snow melting.
Well, we have that to look forward to when the ice melts. Yuck. They really should put a stop to people climbing the mountain. No one should be allowed to descend without their refuse!
Darwin weeds out the proud and those easily manipulated by marketing
@@oGrasshoppero But still they come.
@@dakrontu and the Reaper shall reap
Very true agree with other two comments also.
I lost my original UA-cam account.... I finally found you again! I couldnt remember what the freaking channel was called.
I just love watching Everest videos from my warm bed in Miami.
all that rubbish left behind by richy, rich climbers.. wt heck? I thought the rich climbers had to pay for their rubbish to be cleared up? Good report.
I loved the idea of body bags! This should be done!
12:17 "They don't let just anyone up the mountain." Nope! Just anyone who can afford a guide.
A frozen human body with extended limbs or in a odd shape is incredibly difficult to handle. The term "dead weight" exists for a reason.
Sooo to sum up. Climbing Everest is really dumb.
That a friend topped Mount Everest (in the 1980s) gives me a special interest in its issues. The issue of human waste infuriates me; perhaps drones can bring it as well as deceased bodies.
Is it just me or am I missing something here.With all this frightening information about the mountains.Why would someone or group of people still risk their lives to accomplish ah near impossible feat.This is very hard to comprehend can someone please help me understand this💁🏼♂️
Ego.
Why climb the mountain??? Because it’s there.
The value of pushing oneself to the limit is something that can not be explained to those that lack the motivation.
We are Humans and NOTHING is impossible. We put a man on the fucking moon, not because it is easy, but BECAUSE it is hard.
@@belanon1966 True
If you die in the death zone, no one has the energy and ability to drag your corpse back down. It is a great feat just to get yourself back down.
lol “you owe me a like since you are here at the end” that desrved a comment as well. Thanks for the facts
Mt. Everest, slowly improving the gene pool.
So you need 12 year olds to go up.
Just because you think you can do something, that doesn't mean you should do it. Some things are best left alone.
imagine some guy could have invented forks said that
The lesson is, never try