Bodies Bodies Bodies | The Mt. Everest Rainbow Valley - APHOUT podcast
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- Join Kelli as she explores Rainbow Valley, a place in the death zone of Mount Everest, high up above 8,000 meters (over 26,000 feet), where your body slowly dies off, cell by cell, because of the extreme cold and lack of oxygen. The Rainbow Valley is made colorful by the jackets of the dead climbers that you'll have to climb over on your way to the peak of our world, the summit of Mount Everest.
Oh, also, many other disgusting things litter the mountain other than body parts and corpses - TONS of trash and piles of human feces. And it only has one way to go from the top - down to the people living below.
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My neighbour died on Everest in the 1990s.He died of altitude sickness at base camp .He was a professional guide on the mountain and even he succumbed to altitude sickness
What a breath of fresh air listening to a real person as opposed to the computer generated voices others use! Very entertaining….Thank you!!
That was actually quite informative and entertaining. A low-key coffee talk about DEATH with a smidge of social commentary. Nice work and thanks for posting. I enjoyed it.
“In 2021 people got bored of Covid and decided to find other ways to not being able to breathe”
Loving the dark humor. Totally appreciated this line.
Bang on, that was jokes! 🤣
Jokes are only funny only if you're too far removed from the brunt of the joke. If it was a close relative who died, you might see things a bit differently. But laugh on if it floats your boat.
@@christinegraves7487 the people who partake in hobbies that are particularly dangerous know the risks. Their family members do so as well, even though the majority do not agree with it. Neither she nor I are making fun of their deaths but of the choice to participate in this type of hobbies. Considering that mountain climbing WILL make you struggle to breathe, is not that far removed the comparison with the worldwide event that was occurring at the time. Is dark, ironic and a coping mechanism. Chill.
To me, the real tragedy of mountaneering,is all the waste,garbage,and dead bodies left behind on what should be tbe most gorgeous places on earth.
Kelly I am 72 years old , and I enjoy watching the Everest program's, but I saw your vlog on my phone , and decided to watch it. I'm so glad I did. Boy did it open my eye's,
We should be ashamed of our selfs. I know lives
Depend on the income.However!
It's sad to think that the day will come we can't go
Any longer because we did not respect the planet ,the first time around.😢😢
THANK YOU for
enlightening me.
Wholesome old person comment.
I'm a climber. Watched and read loads of stuff about Everest. Your narrative was great! Thank you.
Ok ..I got the message..I will not climb everest.
Hi Kelly! I’ve binged a lot of Everest tragedy videos but I find your content immensely entertaining and informative. Best one, thus far. Thank you! You gained a new fan here 😊
I like the way your mind works. Organized and able to make connected, consecutive, and interesting topic points. Subscribed.
I've listened to a lot of videos on Everest and this was excellent! Subscribed!
You keep saying that those who died failed to summit. Quite the contrary. Many summit and die on the descent.
Most
True. Most people who die die on the descent.
it really dont matter. They die , messing with where they dont belong.
If you don’t make it down it doesn’t count. I don’t make up the rules
@@TheStinkysteve Rules don't change physical reality. If they were on the summit, they summited. Whether or not someone else arbitrarily doesn't want to count it is irrelevant.
Awesome video! Very interesting and informative! I am amazed that someone climbed Everest 28 times!
So well researched and presented. Keep up all that good work!!
Thanks for a non-typical video on Everest. I did not know what a col is until you explained it.
I love good sound research and you have done yourself proud. This is the first I have seen of yours. Well done. I like the way you talk through obvious stuff to content that has more depth. For me, it builds a proper picture of what’s going on as I follow the thread. Thank you
Very informative video ... well done!
Imagine that feeling of pure happiness when you hit Base Camp the first time.. then the immediate horror as you notice the trash.. than bodies. You can't bullshit nature.. and for better or worse, real humanity is exposed up there. Hard to explain. I suggest staying below 6,000M.. it's a diehard climbing world out there these days. No room for rescue breaking records and avoiding bottlenecks.
If that's a surprise , the poop piles and the graveyards and the metal, then you better go home immediately. It means you didn't do the very least of research and are one of the A #1 a-holes that should have stayed in Cabo.
Great video with lots of interesting info
Great narration. Love from Canada.
This was an awesome video, very informative and great to listen to improve my English. I like stories about the dark side and I appreciate your vivid way to tell us about!
Awesome 👌.
Congratulations on your excellent presentation that is very precise and informative. It's very interesting and absolutely fascinating account.
It’s crazy that all my years on the planet I had no idea that ppl made attempts to climb it as far back as the 1950”s!!??? Great information !! For the last 3 months I have been in awesomeness of Mt Everest & mountaineering!!
They made attemps as far back as in the 1920s. Heard of Mallory ?
First time I’ve seen this channel. You have a new subscriber.
Everest is a cemetery and a garbage dump. That’s very sad.
Thank you for bringing attention to the very negative effects on the mountain itself.
It’s less crowded on a Viking cruise. I’m more impressed with people who climb K2.
Thank you I hope you continue to do these podcasts as you are a great teacher easy to follow along with and your one of those people that makes learning fun please make a class for seniors on how to use their Android cell phones and or tablets as all the directions are so small we give up
Irvines body was found by the Chinese. Pan Dou and Fuzhou said that on the 1975 Chinese expedition to the North Face of Everest, the team had found the body of Sandy Irvine and the Kodak VPK, which they brought home. Later, Chinese technicians attempted to develop the film but were unable to recover any images. It is also possible, if not likely, that the film revealed Mallory and Irvine high on the mountain, perhaps even on top. This, of course, would rob the Chinese of the first ascent of Everest's North Face, an accomplishment that occupies sacred space in the hearts and minds of the Chinese people. Of course, given the present trajectory of geopolitics, the VPK might as well have fallen into one of the gaping crevasses at the bottom of the North Face, so slim is the likelihood that the Chinese government would reveal to the world what's on that film.
I wouldn't belive the Chinese anyway. 😂
That’s all not proven bud. There’s a lot of wishy washy “stories” that make up those claims. It is definitely a possibility but none of it is proven
Thanks again friend.
THANK YOU so much for pointing out its not the tallest, Denali is taller base to peak but everest is higher in altitude
THIS is the Everest video that I've been wanting to see! 😮
This video popped up in my feed because I watch lot's of stuff about mountaineering and especially Mt Everest. I was especially intrigued by the title and the fact that a channel with only 941 subscribers has a video with 38K views. After watching, I now understand why. Great video presentation. I have subscribed and will check out more of your content. Hopefully, your channel grows so you can do some editing and improve a few things that will make it even better. All of which cost money (monetization), of course. Good luck and rock on!!!
Kelli,as an Everest fan, but disabled, so not able to participate, I highly commend your comments and recommend a petition to the Nepalese Government to restrict permits and ask the U.N. for compensation. I must also underline that Sagarmatha National Park has strong spiritual associations with the Sherpas and Buddhists in Nepal
Greenboots apparently was moved by Nepalese to a place more hidden from hikers.
This was good/stimulating/interesting/explanatory
The 3 bodies you mentioned are not landmarks anymore. The first was blown off the mountain by the wind, and the other two were moved out of view of the route.
This is the first video I've seen of you. I enjoy the same history of disease, strange happenings, all the things that leave you with the knowledge that sometimes stupid does hurt. You're great Kelli! Enjoyable to listen to, articulate, intelligent with just enough dark humor.
This is one of the most thorough presentations regarding the overall Everest experience I have ever seen. Outstanding job!
You forgot to mention the acclimatization climbs how they go up to a higher camp then back down to base to rest them back up again to another camp then BSc down a camp or two and over and over again until they are properly acclimatized enough to make a consecutive push for the summit(:
I'm really enjoying your content so far, this is the first video I've seen of yours & i watch ALOT of mountaineering content so I'm very familiar with everything mentioned in this video but you covered it quite well and included beautiful accurate visuals(: I'm happy to subscribe and watch your channel grow❤❤❤
100 percent Agree!
Would love to see you post on K2 the savage mountain. They have now got permanent fixed ropes going up K2 so they could commercialize it. What happens at Everest is starting to happen at K2, however K2 is a true killer, for every 6 successful summits on K2, 1 dies attempting it. You dont find bodies on K2 as much as you find body parts.
OMG! Your brilliant. Thank you for not being afraid to show how we as humans are unkind to the world we live in.
THE MOW IN 😂
After 3 days at base camp, I started bleeding from my ears. My Everest excursion was over before it really began.
How do you have so few subscribers??? I'm loving your thorough and intelligent presentation of facts... At first I was just happy to have found a video on this topic that didn't have a fake robot voice that mispronounced everything... but after about 15 seconds I was hooked! Looking forward to more awesome content from you! Thank you for this! I'm a happy new subscriber! :)
By the way... please tell me, what's the documentary you were talking about at about 30:40? I believe I've seen that one, and was talking to a friend about it, but couldn't remember the name of it. :/
I think the one I was referencing there was "Death Zone: Cleaning Mount Everest" narrated by Sir PatStew - available on Amazon Prime! Thank you
I like her too. She doesn't fudge her numbers, is what it is lol
My. Everest is the HIGHEST CEMETARY and TOILET IN THE WORLD….. nice huh…..
“Green Boots” is gone now I believe. He was either blown over the edge or moved by other climbers but I’m sure it was noted he’s no longer visible.
His family paid a large sum to have him brought down and flown home.
"Sleeping Beauty" was removed too.
Green Boots is actually still up on Everest. They moved his body from the cave and covered him. His family is too poor to bring him down.
He is still there!! Someone appears to have turned his body the other way - which would have taken several men hours to do - but he is still in Green Boots Cave! It's just that he's been there since 1996, and sometime the snow and ice will cover him completely, hiding his body from view.
I especially like when an uneducated goose explains to me what the highest mountain means
Who’s the uneducated goose ???😮
Stfu , don’t watch it Karen
Why don't they put a zip line in to get down from the top?
It takes a special kind of stupid to attempt to climb Everest without oxygen. And imagine climbing with all that filth on the mountain UGG.
Some people are just stuck on stupid. 😂
Climbing Everst isn't the hardest mountain on the planet to summit, it's getting the weather figured out that has a tendency to change by the minute not by the day. What appears to catch most climbers off guard is how fast the weather changes, and when it changes the decision to return back to which ever camp offers the best option of safety as your life depends on making that correct decision is a toughy because above the death zone while ascending the oxygen is thin enough making it dangerously hard to make decisions that's required for your life, and add to the "I'm so close and I've waited so long for this attempt nobody's telling me to turn around now when I'm so close" and some have saved they're money just for this one attempt and are hard headed enough and they're no oxygen situation makes pulling the right decision out of that hard head to save that life of they'res. Most climbers of everst haven't experienced the severe some times 100 to 140 mph wind if caught above the death zone as what the climbers experienced in the 1996 summit attempt which killed countless climbers.
The Beck Weathers video brings in to view just what happens to climbers when the climb turns into that weather stricken situation that not even the best of the best made it off the mountain that treacherous couple of days because the weather was so relentless which can happen in minutes up there at 25,000ft and above. The rule of the older climbers was "summiting is optional, getting off the mountain is mandatory. I realize mountain climbing is a sport, what I'm not understanding is why with all the deaths that's taken place in this sport of mountain climbing why some group hasn't figured out how to change the weather before it gets to these killer mountains. Yes the weather can be changed by airplanes seeding the clouds with dry ice and a tower called the Haarp towers like the one up in Alaska that blows high energy electric current high up in the atmosphere which changes the weather down range from which ever way the weather is moving on that given day or days. If these people can spend the money that these countries are charging they can afford to build something to make it feasible to climb these mountains without the worry of death defying weather that's obviously been 75% of the problem killing these climbers the other 25% would be the avalanches which can also be curbed with explosives before the climbing season begins.
This raw let's go climb a killer mountain day's are numbered in a smart sportsman's eyes 👀 . . . This ain't the early 1900's it's the early 2025 years and up and being said that theirs to many things available to make this mountaineering sport safer . . . The oxygen is good down here at sea level for proper decision making so let's pound out a solution for making this wonderful mountaineering sport safe or safer than its been for a hundred years or better. Gosh you'd think somebody would be getting tired of all these dead bodies laying all over the upper part of these mountains.
I like your coffee cup!
I had no idea that 'Base Camp' was so far from the summit! I
I may be wrong but I think that is round trip, plus add in ascending and descending many times for altitude acclimation. It's said it is about a 12.7 miles up from base camp taking the routes. Was never there though so what do I know? Very good video with great information!
Ah, ok, now THAT makes much more sense! 12.7 miles sounds much close to what I'd expect! @@mcvidzone5670
Enjoyed the video. Anti reflective lenses would be better for filming. I look forward to seeing more videos
The distance from Everest Base Camp to the summit is about 13 miles not 46 miles!!!
Everest base camp is higher than any place in North America.
A lot of vacations cost more than $50,000 for two months!
I appreciate the theme of this channel and the topic of this video, and the delivery is great. There are just a few inaccuracies that aren't that important for the overall story, but are still inaccurate. For instance, the rainbow valley is not in the direct route up the mountain, it's purposely off to the side to keep the bodies out of the way. You don't have to "climb over"all of their bodies. Are there bodies on or near the path? yes, spread out individually, but rainbow valley is not something you hike through.
I hope you don't mind me pointing it out. I think your channel is great and i want it to grow!
paying 50k-100k usd to climb, risk your life and u find yourself stuck in a long que to summit.....moreover the risk of death, frost bite, etc...do not forget the risk of getting diseases due to polluted water and other stuff...definitely a big no, even if one have the money, stamina and knowledge to climb
Right? The whole thing is pretty insane. Still, I am so fascinated by it.
Yasssss
FREE TIBET
Mountain climbers will say getting to the summit is not the prize - it’s the descent that matters
Apparently that's when most deaths occur.....almost slightly less care is taken or fatigue sets in.
Helicoptering into base camp doesn’t work. You need to acclimatize for that too. Hence the trek.
The Sherpa are very superstitious when it comes to bodies
Green boots was on the north side not south.
Well, this is one person that def won’t be bringing trash up there!
Green Boots... North side I believe.
The Chinese found the body of Irving and the camera.
utterly indefensible human activity ..
Thus a proper rant😂😂😂
Pretty well accepted that the Chinese found and removed Irvines body
Asking rich people to remove 18lb of trash to get back 4000.00 (chump change to them). Yeah...that'll work. Sure.
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!
unpopular , indeed. Nothing to be added to what you said. 100 per cent agree with you. Everesttourism has been vilified by the likes of Messner ( an idol of mine ) and Sir Edmund would he be alive would agree as well no doubt. The latter i had the good fortune to see in person in 1991 while in the Khumbu region. Already then I myself , a mere hiker , did notice the amount of tourists and many of them "People you dont like to meet" , a number which is laughable compared to today´s numbers. Mind , the person who all started this , that is guided tours to Everest for "everybody" who thinks he can make it and pays the money was non other than Mr Rob Hall , of Adventure Consultants who now "belongs to the mountain" since the infamous 1996 incident. All on record , enough said. Its the money, stupid.
Very informative,.&.. interesting documentary kelly.
Within a very interesting Natural
Blessing..&...gift of nature to the planet.
I find such disturbing though
that indeed some of those
whom are privileged in the following
..&..
realising upon their dream of summiting,
Whichever Mountain they've choosen.
In Quandary would very much be the polluting of the very environment
Some claim to have so much respect for.🤔
My own thoughts.(mind)
If you can't leave the Mountains
within their natural state that nature Gifted them upon the planet.
You should simply have a rethink..&..consider your ethical
.&. moral compass.
They failed to come back alive.
Also green boots has been brought back he is not there anymore.
He got moved off the trail not off the mountain
"trash deposit fee." bwhahahahahahaha.. i see that money is being put to good use...what a shame.
i have been to Everest base camp south col 2002, it was disgusting! i never intended to climb it, just hike to see it. poo n rubbish everywhere. now a hike to bass camp to K2 was a lot better. over tourism and lack clean up etc i can imagine it 2024 season.
Mount Darwin
She doesn't know what she's talking about, you don't acclimate at base camp for up to 40 days, almost immediately get ready to climb to camp 1 , then yiu go down
back Down ,repeat up to camp 2 , all done over a period of time. Sonetines yiu do camp 1 to 2 then back to base camp . It's process.. not all by sitting at base camp. And it doesn't take days to climb from camp 2 to 3 . 1/2 day or less by a good climber.
We did a few accents to higher altitude while staying at base camp. We started the actual accent after 16 days.
Equating cotton prayer flags to plastic trash is armchair ignorance. Just another story teller who google all the information and injects personal virtues of rubbish. Sherpas deserve more credit and respect then that.
Lhotse = Loht-SEE
its not poor decision making its just damn selfish and lazy you should not be allowed up there without bringing all waste out too, end of
who actually declares these people dead for legal purposes? are the mountain climbers certified for that task like a coroner? just wondering.
I’m not sure but I feel it’s handled from the nearest hospital. Witness testimony, digital evidence, and the general, “they were known to have gone up on a permit and have not been seen since, they died up there.” Then a quick signature and it’s sent off to the persons embassy or what have you.
Nope. Been watching alot of these. Books in the 90s. The view from the top is not very good most of the time and the pictures I have seen are way more amazing than actually being there and I am not cold, looking, smelling trash and all the other garbage and bodies. Not even if I was carried in an oxygen infused tank at 76 degree temperature, eating my favorite foods and an adult beverage or 2. Nope.
It's pronounced KOOM-bu but nice video other than that, thank you.
This mountain should change its name to "Death Mountain" or something 🤷🏾♀️
What documentary was it that you referred to that showed the bodies in the avalche?
Also, no one has a last name of "Sherpa." Sherpa is an ethnic group. It's like saying an American's name is "Fred Caucasian." Sherpa is NEVER a last name!!!!!!!
Edit: One last nitpick: the word 'mountain" has a T in it, and it isn't silent. Every time, you say "moun'ain", not "mountain." There's no glottql stop. It's weird that you leave the T out. Other than those minor nitpicks, great job!
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Great vid, interesting fact re the Sherpa surname! But please don’t slurp your tea down the mic😬🤣
Among other errors in your video you're wrong about there not being any kind of wildlife on Everest that will eat remains.
There's a breed of ravens that the locals call Goracks and they gutted the body of Mallory, the people who found him don't talk about it because of how they pulled his internal organs out, they did it by "entering through the rear" which is pretty undignified and is obviously why they don't bring it up, the information was brought to light in an interview with a climber who was not with them but is friends with the climbers that set out to find Mallory, he was one of the people they consoled with because he's one of the researchers with the most time researching the Mallory and Irvine mystery, matter of fact they were all but lost to history when in 1969 he'd become interested in their story and wrote an article about them in The New York Times, ever since then interest in their story has continued to grow over the year's to where it's practically formed a cult following these past 10 years or so, the guy's who found Mallory's body obviously didn't want to say anything about that fact because his family is still around and considering how cruel people can be on the internet obviously didn't want to be the source for information that could be the basis of cruel and undignified jokes.
The Gorack's are extremely hardy birds that can be found at all attitudes on Everest scrounging around for any kind of food around camp sites and have even been seen flying over the peak, they're one of only two birds known to fly over Everest's peak with the other being the Bar Headed Goose, they travel over it twice a year when migrating from the north frim the Tibetan Plateau to the south in India then returning north after the winter.
Gorack's are definitely birds you don't want finding you if you're laying there injured, even in the death zone they'd have no problem landing and starting to tear you apart in a helpless condition.
2023 was a very deadly year on Everest.
I wish people making these videos stop saying that there’s less oxygen at high altitude. The concentration of oxygen is the same at 8000 meter as at sea level. It is the lower pressure that makes it difficult to breathe at high altitude.
The concentration of oxygen is the same, but the density is lower. So, technically there are fewer oxygen molecules available at altitude.
I think the numbers she’s talking about could be the amount of oxygen a body can take because of the air pressure, like an airplane
Yes.
Because of lower atmospheric pressure at altitude the oxygen molecules are further apart.
As the altitude increases the 18 per cent quantity of oxygen absorbs more and more space in order to remain as what we call the atmosphere.
Eventually, as the altitude increases even further the atmosphere absorbs so much space that it becomes what we conceive of as a vaccum.
So the stats at 17:17 are plain wrong? /gen
Edit: I was able to read the small print and figure it's just presented in a misleading way, since it says "available oxygen" in the bottom text.
What can be confusing is exactly what the “oxygen level” in the air means. The percentage of oxygen in the air does not change, no matter how high one goes: it stays at 21 percent at all altitudes. But as you gain elevation, barometric pressure drops, and there are fewer molecules of everything in the air, including those of oxygen, so that 21 percent becomes 21 percent of a smaller number since the oxygen molecules spread further apart. At sea level, the barometric pressure is 760 mmHG (millimeters of mercury). At 8,000 feet, it drops to 564 mmHG. The result is that there’s about 25 percent less oxygen at 8,000 feet than at sea level.
the dead ones are the quitters lol jk
Good work. Sit the fucking cup down though
In the documentary, Dying for Everest it was said that Mallory’s dead body was “there”, because it was “there.”😬
All fine and well but we all know that the body pic of George Mallory is a fake. Question is, why did the 1999 venture fake the Mallory photos?
I did not know that. How was it proven to be a fake ?
If Nepal cared they’d stop giving permits. Quit whining
Gaping at the bodies of the dead and faux 'The Man is ruining Everest' outrage whilst sitting on a sofa with a bunny pillow in a closet. It's almost too much to process (FYI--green boots is on the N summit push route....)
It's 12.5 MI from base camp to the summit on the south side, not 42 miles, and people who climb Everest are climbers, not hikers. You talk about this like you're an expert, but have you even been to Mount Everest?
They are not even hikers but rather more beach goers.
Only 300 people have died on Everest? That’s a pretty low body count still with all things considered