Now imagine climbing without fixed ropes in place. With primitive climbing gear. Being one of the first up, so you don’t know what comes next, what’s safe and what isn’t. Huge props to the folks who climb today. But I have such awe for the early pioneers.
You don't just go up and up and up. The routes are scoped out using binoculars and then they set up a camp and take a small day pack to investigate the route to see if its doable. If it is then they climb and attach climbing ropes for later. This also helps them acclimatize. So yeah the route might be new but its not climbing into nothing, they work on a plan. Not only that but sometimes they try a route and end up having to turn back and try another one because of what they ran into. So don't think they started from base camp and went all the way to the summit in 16 hours and returned all in one day. Some of the early climbers on Everest spent years on the mountain searching for a route before they summited successfully.
As someone with a height phobia, watching the first part of this video. Literally had me collecting my fleeing soul from body! I have never felt so faint since the heat stroke I suffered years ago.
O Everest está virando um cemitério a céu aberto e um perfeito exemplo de destruição ambiental dada a grande quantidade de lixo, e dejetos humanos lá deixados. Tudo em nome da vaidade e da ambição.
Even though the sherpas take your stuff up the mountain, you still have to climb the fucking mountain dude. And in these situations, the problem is the same for the sherpa and the climber
Crazy trek and super high. Also noticed the climbers legs and boots sticking out of the snow below the trail. Left where he dropped. No saving at that altitude.
@@NotiravgsarahBy right one should have two strops for change overs. That's what tree surgeons call them anyway. We're always tied in at least once, twice when cutting, 👍💪🪓🌲🇮🇪
Holy smokes… What an awesome video. I felt like I was there with you. Thank you for sharing the reality of climbing the world’s most popular mountain. Plenty of opportunity in that tight section for catastrophic error. Subscribed.
Another epic moment that brings the viewer to the crazy heights and spectacular view, for free. For many unfortunate souls, their last. And for people wondering if that is a body at 0:36, yes it is. Man named Donald Cash died after reaching the top, made it few steps down before collapsing to either attitude sickness or heart failure (been debate about that) He was temporarily revived but due to a delay of foot traffic jam, he end succumbing and left there. This happened in 2019. He is still attached to the rope but it’s covered by snow although after four years, his body is pretty well set solid in the ice now.
Rogentx : you're correct. Those are human legs. I don't know if they belong to the person you're referring to. What I do know is that Everest and some other lesser known mountain are littered with frozen dead corpses. For eternity. Something to think about.
To see a dead body where you are standing must send shivers down your spine , suddenly you are confronted by the reality of failure on the mountain , especially with a traffic jam on its ridge .
Thank you for sharing. Climbing fascinates me. I would love to just put my eyes on Everest, K2, or any other high mountain. Never seen it by this angle! Wow, the coming and going and dying all on the same path. Truly remarkable!
It is difficult enough at extreme altitude when the terrain means that you must use great care when taking each and every step; to have that problem compounded by other people limiting your range of options is bordering on the insane.
many have stated that the forced "slowness of the pace", due to traffic jams, is extremely taxing. try it at home: walk from one side of your living room, to the other, taking 6 inch steps. As soon as your body is forced out of "autopilot" mode, it becomes very exhausting. then take away half of the oxygen content of the air you are breathing....
Completely not to mention you have people who have summited who are probably exhausted and have HAPE and very well disoriented walking a small ledge trying to unclip and pass others going up unbelievable
Donald Cash was his name. Made it to the top and shortly into the decent he either suffered from a heart attack or altitude sickness. He was revived but because of a traffic jam on the ropes he passed away right there. That was in 2019, he's pretty well frozen in there now.
Seems crazy to me. The pioneering appeal of climbing ? standing in a queue of hundreds shuffling along like in a crowded supermarket with fixed ropes to assist. Even if it is the tallest mountain there are more climbs elsewhere that retain more mystery of the unknown. What value in being the amongst six thousand others, risking death and tragedy for family?
@mjfer10 most of the "climbers" today aren't explorers or even thrill seekers, just bored rich people who want social media bragging rights IMO. Everest is BIG business with dozens of companies selling their climbing trek services. Its why the death rates per season keeps increasing
Further to my first comment I should add that I do admire the determination and bravery, and the economic benefit to Nepal is good. I just don’t understand the appeal just because it’s the highest mountain with bank holiday crowds all over it.
Are you really only hooked on with one rope? I thought you always had 2 so you were always hooked on. I'm not a climber, just a lover of watching the beauty of the mountain through real climbers. Thanks for sharing!!
The guy is either extremely confident in their own luck and/or insane. That is definitely not the standard way to do it for obvious reasons. Especially when you're passing 30 other people, that means he was completely unprotected half the time.
@@daquanfromtheblock6448 It looks like it, yeah. To be fair on most peaks there would be no fixed rope to begin with, so an experienced climber should be able to walk a ridge like that. But the thought that there's so much traffic and some of them are inexperienced is scary. Even if you're a very good climber, what if one of those guys stumbles or suddenly faints and pushes you. Or they slip and grab onto you. No idea why anyone would want even more risk during what's already a very risky activity. One that has a ~2% chance of death last I checked a few years ago.
@@ramdas363 I am happy to make my own choice about whether or not I want to face that degree of risk, but putting my life in the hands of complete strangers is an absolute no-no.
The recent footage coming out of Everest over the last decade, with GoPro equipment and other high def cameras, is so much better than any documentary has ever done. You just don't see content like this, where you can actually see what it's like to be on a ledge near the highest point in the world.
Yea Go Pro literally changed the way we see things and gave us scaredy cats the ability to take us to where the adventurers are doing in the safety of my home lol.
This is spectacular and nerve-wracking footage that makes it seem more than ever like a horrendous and foolish idea to go up there. Having to pass people going the other way can be tricky on a narrow footpath. This is insanity.
The knife edge ridge here is one place where there will always be traffic on Everest, even if there weren’t more than a handful of people climbing in one day. Slow to move through, such a natural bottleneck.
That is amazing enough my friend!! I want to do this too one day but never want to climb the mountain itself of course :D even if I would have that money. No way.
@@jaggill5745 according my Infos I've searched up (without flights from your home country) 1000$ ( if you're organizing everything yourself, without guide etc) to 2000$ ( "budget" version with guide and carrier for your stuff) and up to 4000$ ( most expensive one I've found, could call it the luxury package haha) I will definitely went with the budget one and no Guide. There are so many people on that track, with a map on your phone it isn't that hard to follow. Also if you rent your equipment ( can also a Good cheaper alternative) or already bought yours, have snacks, toilet paper and wet wipes with you (can get very expensive up there, also the wet wipes for your hygiene if the showers are not available or just to dirty). Chlorine tablets for water treatment are also very good. The water doesn't tastes good but you can refill it everywhere and water in bottles also can get very expensive. And you can get many useful gadgets for that trip in Katmandu for example. From there you have to fly or drive by bus to the town Lukla, from where you can start the trip. (Round trip costs can be 250-300$) Be aware of both the flight and the drive by bus can get quiet uncomfortable 😅. I saw an Austrian couple on their UA-cam channel that told they did the trip for around 500$ each!! Can't confirm this of course. But they also did everything prepared to safe money and maybe they had big luck with the prices. I hope I could give you some of yours questions answered👍🏼
So no one's gonna talk about the dead body lying under the piled snow? Spotted between 0:24 - 0:34 and again from 0:41 -0:44 You can only see the bottom part of their feet. Grey white shoes with black sole. Looks like a woman's shoes (I could be wrong). She must have been slipped and fallen down this snow walk and frozen to death, landing on the rock less than 10 feet below the snow ledge. Her harness must have stopped her from falling all the way down. Later on, her rope must have been unclipped from the main rope by the ones who spotted her and confirmed her death. It's heartbreaking that she couldn't climb back up the snow ledge and continue on. She must have been extremely tired. Now, her body would stay frozen on this mountain forever.
Is it just me or at 0:40 we have a body inside some kind of cave? I know something like this is quite common on Everest. However, it is something a bit morbid...
This is the ridge where someone can get the "Grand Tour" if not careful. If you fall off the left side you will fall thousands of feet into Tibet & if you fall off to the right you will fall into Nepal. People getting the "Grand Tour' will be guaranteed 2 things. Falling over 20,000 feet & seeing the whole Mountain up close & 2) Death. If you fall off you better off going left into Tibet as you get a longer ride down. People actually joke about it. Some expeditions forbid all the climbers to be NOT CLIPPED IN TO THEIR SAFETY ROPE AS ONE CLIMBER FALLING COULD DRAG OTHER CLIMBERS DOWN WITH THEM. I have only seen 2 climbers get the Grand Tour & fall off the final ridge between the 2 summits & the velocity they gain so quickly is incredible & horrifying then they start bouncing off rocks & their lifelss bodies plummeting down the mountain still gives me haunted memories/nightmares from time to time. You can still hear their initial cries for help but all you can do is watch in horror.
@@puzzlite A body will become literally frozen to the mountain and must be freed by breaking the ice entombing it. It is a difficult thing to do at 8000m.
The climbing and the passing with just 1 carabiner gave me serious anxiety. If the guy in the blue would've lost his balance while you were unhooked, you would've gone down.
They use 2 carabeners at a time, one is always hooked before they unhook the second one. One in front, one in back. But yes, still scary as you can see how narrow the edge is and how far down below that ledge is. I couldn't do it even tho I follow the climbers via social media every year for a dozen years now. Whooo, We need a sweating, hand swipe across the forehead Emoji!
@@leslieroma-smith1311 even if thats the case if one falls he can bring down entire group of climbers as they are clipped in the same rope.who knows i maybe wrong here
Mountain is getting way too congested, mostly from wealthy people with deep pockets who are completely dependent on the Sherpas to get them up and down the mountain. They should limit what the Sherpas are allowed to do for people, so that the only climbers up there are the ones who are actually capable of climbing at that level
Ive climbed in the region but when i look at Everest and the amount of people going up its too risky in my book its ridiculous as the log jams of climbers are insane...good luck with that !!
I can't think of a better visual for the metaphor of a human assembly of meat on a mass production line. It's obscene what we are doing to this mountain range by ridiculous tourism; many tourists with lots of money and no climbing skills and having absolutely no reason to be climbing this mountain. But it's a business that also has been institutionalized into the local economy. Sherpas make better money than they used to, but it is still brutal, risky, life-threatening work. One day we will see a disaster far worse than the one in 1996. Maybe that will finally stop this madness.
Imagine? I don't have to! Though I'll admit that a certain amount of it can wane through exposure. I had to operate a one-person 'cherry picker' forklift in a warehouse for well over a year and after some time I just became mostly desensitized to it. I'd go all the way up and lug stuff around while the whole machine swayed. Some days I'd still have a sudden spike of fear as I went up for the first time but by the end of the shift I really just didn't care. Admittedly I hated that job to the bone. So maybe a small part of me was hoping I'd fall just to get the day over quicker...
I believe some things are meant to be conquered and some things are meant to be observed from a distance for the beauty, Everest is to be observed for the beauty, just my personal opinion judging by the way most people die on the mountain (like that poor deceased person whose legs are hanging out just below the snow ridge) 10 feet away and yet he couldn’t be saved😢
you don't conquer everest, you are helped up everest by sherpas i think people shouldnt even be allowed to go in the death zone, anywhere, especially if they have kids. So stupid
Kind of like a death wish? Okay, we conquered this one now let’s go one higher and so on and so on and so on…..Let’s see how much our body can take before it actually does kill us, to die a slow and agonizing death as people pass you by plus pay $40 grand in the process, YEP STUPID, again my opinion.
I can not imagine what it is to be there, I tried to climb up the roof of my house to remove a palm branch and couldn’t do I tried again and on my second attempt I fell I broke my heel and my ankle I have several screws and plates. 😅
Seeing the cwm from the Hillary step. Wow, that's first time somebody has shown that in a video. What a camera. As for the Don Cash's body, it will keep coming in the video for the years to come until it disappears due to natural calamities such as the frequent earthquakes of Nepal or somebody crazy enough to reach out to the body to slide it down the slope out of respect.
I won't even put the Christmas lights on the top pitch of my house, probably about 12 feet up. I'm too afraid. To each their own and mad respect but I have zero understanding how these brave and crazy people can do this. I'm glad they do though, I get to attempt to enjoy it from my computer desk. (and my stomach still turns).
So if one person slips and falls and winds up taking yanking the fixed rope down as their full weight is supported by it, how many other people wind up getting yanked off the step, and can that rope hold all of them??!! Also, I think I would be using two clip on ropes and having one attached to the fixed rope at any given point in time. When passing someone and unclipping as you pass behind them is a bit too risky IMHO.
What madness this mountain! There should be a maximum number of experienced climbers per year, with high level requirements. I understand why many lose their lives there every year. It's totally crazy! Going around another climber like this is unimaginable. Temerity, as I have just seen, should not even have its place. I don't understand how people can want to go up there, with the current conditions. I don't even have a word for that! You have to be a little suicidal I think..., or crazy...
@@yuckfoutube2259bro..what if the all the charges is increased by doubled and permit limit cut by half ?? No one loses.. people will still go there..but nah..they won't do that..
I'm a bit skeptical. The body does not seem to be dead from a fall, because it would not have ended up just a few meters below the route, but probably all the way down. How did it end up here ? Also the trousers and the shoes seem to have lost some of their color. This is probably not a body from this year. Is there any more information about this ?
I could be wrong of course. This is allegedly the body of a man left behind during 2019’s season. He lost consciousness, sherpas revived him, but ultimately could not continue further down. A huge line had formed. Truly sad
of course he's not dead from a fall, he either died of hypothermia or more likely he died from edema or lack of oxygen in the body, the latter of which most people either die from or it leads to their death
I climbed up on my roof the other day, so I know what these guys are going through . Pretty nerve racking.
😂
That’s freakin hilarious 😂 I’m right there with ya. I watch people on TV walking along these high ridges and my palms get sweaty.😉
Solo ?
Have you gone completely mad ?
@@cheylingarber5886same lol, the most nerve racking one for me was the Magnus and Alex Holland free climb
Best comment ever!🎉
Now imagine climbing without fixed ropes in place. With primitive climbing gear. Being one of the first up, so you don’t know what comes next, what’s safe and what isn’t. Huge props to the folks who climb today. But I have such awe for the early pioneers.
Didn't think of this. Can't imagine how many people died as a result of being the ones to put the ropes up there.
You don't just go up and up and up. The routes are scoped out using binoculars and then they set up a camp and take a small day pack to investigate the route to see if its doable. If it is then they climb and attach climbing ropes for later. This also helps them acclimatize. So yeah the route might be new but its not climbing into nothing, they work on a plan. Not only that but sometimes they try a route and end up having to turn back and try another one because of what they ran into. So don't think they started from base camp and went all the way to the summit in 16 hours and returned all in one day. Some of the early climbers on Everest spent years on the mountain searching for a route before they summited successfully.
@@faraaqquite possibly nobody died
Think about the ones that got to K2's top for the first time, way way more dangerous
@@aighti K2 was later and they did have a bit better clothing and equipment though by then.
As someone with a height phobia, watching the first part of this video. Literally had me collecting my fleeing soul from body! I have never felt so faint since the heat stroke I suffered years ago.
THE HEROS ARE THE SHERPAS !!!
O Everest está virando um cemitério a céu aberto e um perfeito exemplo de destruição ambiental dada a grande quantidade de lixo, e dejetos humanos lá deixados. Tudo em nome da vaidade e da ambição.
EXACTLY
Even though the sherpas take your stuff up the mountain, you still have to climb the fucking mountain dude. And in these situations, the problem is the same for the sherpa and the climber
@@matuulak you missed the point DUDE !
Ich bin ganz deiner Meinung 😊😊
Unclipping & going around another climber near that ledge is terrifying.
It's already terrifying without having to do that.
It's revolting
It’s a silly thing to do.
You've been there?
Its the ABC of what you must NOT do in those conditions!!
Crazy trek and super high. Also noticed the climbers legs and boots sticking out of the snow below the trail. Left where he dropped. No saving at that altitude.
So …..people going up AND coming down ….at the exact same time on the same narrow ledge and route ??? This is insane!!!!!😮😮
It's stupid
Yeah I didn't realize this
No other option.
Terrifying unclipping to go around someone. Damn
@@NotiravgsarahBy right one should have two strops for change overs. That's what tree surgeons call them anyway. We're always tied in at least once, twice when cutting, 👍💪🪓🌲🇮🇪
Holy smokes… What an awesome video. I felt like I was there with you. Thank you for sharing the reality of climbing the world’s most popular mountain. Plenty of opportunity in that tight section for catastrophic error. Subscribed.
Does anyone know who Silver Boots is?
@@DeeDee-ot2ly ua-cam.com/users/shorts3jX9pQrownM?si=QzK5rxaSThbizt0p
Another epic moment that brings the viewer to the crazy heights and spectacular view, for free. For many unfortunate souls, their last. And for people wondering if that is a body at 0:36, yes it is. Man named Donald Cash died after reaching the top, made it few steps down before collapsing to either attitude sickness or heart failure (been debate about that) He was temporarily revived but due to a delay of foot traffic jam, he end succumbing and left there. This happened in 2019. He is still attached to the rope but it’s covered by snow although after four years, his body is pretty well set solid in the ice now.
I watched many times but unfortunately I wasn't able to spot anything resembling a frosted human body.
Rogentx : you're correct. Those are human legs.
I don't know if they belong to the person you're referring to.
What I do know is that Everest and some other lesser known mountain are littered with frozen dead corpses.
For eternity.
Something to think about.
@@kextrz oh yes, now I spotted them, thank you
How do you know that is Donald Cash?
@@monikel Better to see at around 40-42 seconds. You see the feet sticking out a bit below.
No room for error whatsoever, my heart is in my mouth
To see a dead body where you are standing must send shivers down your spine , suddenly you are confronted by the reality of failure on the mountain , especially with a traffic jam on its ridge .
If something looks steep on a gopro that means it's really really steep.
The stigma is completely backwards.
Mt. Everest should be renamed Mt. Darwin, with awards given to the climbers.
You get an award for becoming a popsicle.
actually, there are other mountains that are MUCH more dangerous.......
@@mondoseguendo6113It's not that people become popsicles, it's because of lack of oxygen that people die on Everest.
@@quietreader4190lack of intelligence seems more likely the cause of death
K2 you’re thinking of there mate. There’s a one in seven chance you never leave.
Out of allllllll the Everest videos I’ve seen, this is it….this is the one 🫢😵💫😵💫😵💫
Thank you for sharing. Climbing fascinates me. I would love to just put my eyes on Everest, K2, or any other high mountain. Never seen it by this angle! Wow, the coming and going and dying all on the same path. Truly remarkable!
Shocking to see how steep the mountain is below them.
Shocking perhaps, but certainly unsurprising.
Nothing technical here...most turist there do not practice wveryday
Hmm. .it's not a small hillock mate
If they're so smart, why don't they have red light/green light guys in hard hats and vests to manage two way traffic?
8600 metres.... Lol
It is difficult enough at extreme altitude when the terrain means that you must use great care when taking each and every step; to have that problem compounded by other people limiting your range of options is bordering on the insane.
many have stated that the forced "slowness of the pace", due to traffic jams, is extremely taxing. try it at home: walk from one side of your living room, to the other, taking 6 inch steps. As soon as your body is forced out of "autopilot" mode, it becomes very exhausting. then take away half of the oxygen content of the air you are breathing....
Completely not to mention you have people who have summited who are probably exhausted and have HAPE and very well disoriented walking a small ledge trying to unclip and pass others going up unbelievable
At 24 seconds below the ridge, I believe see feet from someone who perished. R.I.P.
I didn't know what I was looking for until I saw that too. 00:24
@@moeluv Hands off they're mine
he is just resting and enjoying the view.
Donald Cash was his name. Made it to the top and shortly into the decent he either suffered from a heart attack or altitude sickness. He was revived but because of a traffic jam on the ropes he passed away right there. That was in 2019, he's pretty well frozen in there now.
At least they landed on a ledge but no way to get out of that.
Seems crazy to me. The pioneering appeal of climbing ? standing in a queue of hundreds shuffling along like in a crowded supermarket with fixed ropes to assist. Even if it is the tallest mountain there are more climbs elsewhere that retain more mystery of the unknown. What value in being the amongst six thousand others, risking death and tragedy for family?
Foe these climbers the thrill is different from the rest of us
each goes crazy in his own way☺
@mjfer10 most of the "climbers" today aren't explorers or even thrill seekers, just bored rich people who want social media bragging rights IMO. Everest is BIG business with dozens of companies selling their climbing trek services. Its why the death rates per season keeps increasing
Further to my first comment I should add that I do admire the determination and bravery, and the economic benefit to Nepal is good. I just don’t understand the appeal just because it’s the highest mountain with bank holiday crowds all over it.
Are you really only hooked on with one rope? I thought you always had 2 so you were always hooked on. I'm not a climber, just a lover of watching the beauty of the mountain through real climbers. Thanks for sharing!!
The guy is either extremely confident in their own luck and/or insane. That is definitely not the standard way to do it for obvious reasons. Especially when you're passing 30 other people, that means he was completely unprotected half the time.
@@ramdas363 the way he passed the guy was insane. he was completely untethered during that lackadaisical handoff??!
@@daquanfromtheblock6448 It looks like it, yeah.
To be fair on most peaks there would be no fixed rope to begin with, so an experienced climber should be able to walk a ridge like that. But the thought that there's so much traffic and some of them are inexperienced is scary. Even if you're a very good climber, what if one of those guys stumbles or suddenly faints and pushes you. Or they slip and grab onto you.
No idea why anyone would want even more risk during what's already a very risky activity. One that has a ~2% chance of death last I checked a few years ago.
One rope. Yeah climbing is a risk. It's not for everyone.
@@ramdas363 I am happy to make my own choice about whether or not I want to face that degree of risk, but putting my life in the hands of complete strangers is an absolute no-no.
The recent footage coming out of Everest over the last decade, with GoPro equipment and other high def cameras, is so much better than any documentary has ever done. You just don't see content like this, where you can actually see what it's like to be on a ledge near the highest point in the world.
duh
Yea Go Pro literally changed the way we see things and gave us scaredy cats the ability to take us to where the adventurers are doing in the safety of my home lol.
How about not using the fish eye lense or similar. What is the point? To make things look even more dangerous?
check out the video from natioal geographic from some weeks ago about the expedition to find the camera of George Mallory, its crazy footage too
That traffic jam is insane. No margin for error at all. Wild to see the boots of a poor soul who didn't make it.
That's Donald Lynn Cash summitted and died on the descent in May 2019. The traffic jam that day was far worse and contributed to his death.
Oh wow I didn’t even see that man
, Rest In Peace Donald
Sad to see how crowded it is ... too many rich unexperienced climbers ...
Unexperienced? 😂😂😂 They may have money but they’re still extremely fit and can certainly climb
This is spectacular and nerve-wracking footage that makes it seem more than ever like a horrendous and foolish idea to go up there. Having to pass people going the other way can be tricky on a narrow footpath. This is insanity.
indeed. especially wearing boots w/ crampons.
The knife edge ridge here is one place where there will always be traffic on Everest, even if there weren’t more than a handful of people climbing in one day. Slow to move through, such a natural bottleneck.
Maybe I'm dumb, but why not have two connecting ropes? Connect the spare past the guy you're going around, then disconnect the first one.
Even union scaffold workers do this...... not even rocket science lol
my guess is time? i dunno exactly how high up they are but it seems quite treacherous already
@@diegoaespitiai think the extra 2 - 3 seconds it takes to clip or unclip your second carabina would not be a major factor. but that's my opinion.
the dude in the video is not a union member methinks.@@jasminebebe3455
The amount of "NOPE!!" screaming through my soul right now is astounding- this is so scary.
What the actual f.
I did the trek to Base Camp. I dont have whatever it takes to ascend the mountain. Having said that, the trek is an amazing experience.
how long was the trek to base camp? how much did it cost? how long was the journey total for you?
@@jaggill5745cost is minimal..17-18 days
That is amazing enough my friend!! I want to do this too one day but never want to climb the mountain itself of course :D even if I would have that money. No way.
@@jaggill5745 according my Infos I've searched up (without flights from your home country) 1000$ ( if you're organizing everything yourself, without guide etc) to 2000$ ( "budget" version with guide and carrier for your stuff) and up to 4000$ ( most expensive one I've found, could call it the luxury package haha)
I will definitely went with the budget one and no Guide. There are so many people on that track, with a map on your phone it isn't that hard to follow.
Also if you rent your equipment ( can also a Good cheaper alternative) or already bought yours, have snacks, toilet paper and wet wipes with you (can get very expensive up there, also the wet wipes for your hygiene if the showers are not available or just to dirty).
Chlorine tablets for water treatment are also very good. The water doesn't tastes good but you can refill it everywhere and water in bottles also can get very expensive.
And you can get many useful gadgets for that trip in Katmandu for example. From there you have to fly or drive by bus to the town Lukla, from where you can start the trip. (Round trip costs can be 250-300$)
Be aware of both the flight and the drive by bus can get quiet uncomfortable 😅.
I saw an Austrian couple on their UA-cam channel that told they did the trip for around 500$ each!! Can't confirm this of course. But they also did everything prepared to safe money and maybe they had big luck with the prices.
I hope I could give you some of yours questions answered👍🏼
@@jaggill5745usually It costs around 1700 usd (If you hire a local agency) and It takes around 16 days.
So no one's gonna talk about the dead body lying under the piled snow? Spotted between 0:24 - 0:34 and again from 0:41 -0:44
You can only see the bottom part of their feet. Grey white shoes with black sole. Looks like a woman's shoes (I could be wrong). She must have been slipped and fallen down this snow walk and frozen to death, landing on the rock less than 10 feet below the snow ledge. Her harness must have stopped her from falling all the way down. Later on, her rope must have been unclipped from the main rope by the ones who spotted her and confirmed her death. It's heartbreaking that she couldn't climb back up the snow ledge and continue on. She must have been extremely tired. Now, her body would stay frozen on this mountain forever.
why does the guy fully unclip and walk around the outside of the other climber? deathwish.
Is it just me or at 0:40 we have a body inside some kind of cave? I know something like this is quite common on Everest. However, it is something a bit morbid...
This is the ridge where someone can get the "Grand Tour" if not careful. If you fall off the left side you will fall thousands of feet into Tibet & if you fall off to the right you will fall into Nepal. People getting the "Grand Tour' will be guaranteed 2 things. Falling over 20,000 feet & seeing the whole Mountain up close & 2) Death. If you fall off you better off going left into Tibet as you get a longer ride down. People actually joke about it. Some expeditions forbid all the climbers to be NOT CLIPPED IN TO THEIR SAFETY ROPE AS ONE CLIMBER FALLING COULD DRAG OTHER CLIMBERS DOWN WITH THEM. I have only seen 2 climbers get the Grand Tour & fall off the final ridge between the 2 summits & the velocity they gain so quickly is incredible & horrifying then they start bouncing off rocks & their lifelss bodies plummeting down the mountain still gives me haunted memories/nightmares from time to time. You can still hear their initial cries for help but all you can do is watch in horror.
thanks.. excellent visual you created for me...
@@siggifreud812 hilarious visual indeed. a longer ride down, lol.
It's surprising that more people don't fall considering how narrow the path is and how oxygen deprived and fatigued you are at that height.
Even using O2 tanks, they are only getting 1/3 of the oxygen available at sea level.
They are clipped in to a line fixed by Sherpas every step of the way.
@@jaym8027but people still fall. This year several people fell
@@Notiravgsarah2023 is actually now everests deadliest year
@@jaym8027He un-clipped every time he passed someone.
Thanks for taking us with you …👍
0:26 if you are wondering why this was posted. Right below the person filming.
That's where the red rope is going. He's hanging from it, or he was before becoming frozen to the mountain.
Had to zoom in to see it. RIP
He takes a drink and enjoys the view!
@@chipsutcliffe7110 i'm wondering why they dont cut the rope and let him drop
@@puzzlite A body will become literally frozen to the mountain and must be freed by breaking the ice entombing it. It is a difficult thing to do at 8000m.
Descending mountaineers passing ascending mountaineers is crazy. The Everest guiding companies need to be better regulated.
How did they die? They were in reach of the rocks and probably could've gotten back up. Maybe an exhaustion related death?
I was looking at wikipedia and 17 people have died on Everest this year alone.
The climbing and the passing with just 1 carabiner gave me serious anxiety. If the guy in the blue would've lost his balance while you were unhooked, you would've gone down.
i think most of the falls related accidents happen in this situation
They use 2 carabeners at a time, one is always hooked before they unhook the second one. One in front, one in back. But yes, still scary as you can see how narrow the edge is and how far down below that ledge is. I couldn't do it even tho I follow the climbers via social media every year for a dozen years now. Whooo, We need a sweating, hand swipe across the forehead Emoji!
@@leslieroma-smith1311 even if thats the case if one falls he can bring down entire group of climbers as they are clipped in the same rope.who knows i maybe wrong here
@@leslieroma-smith1311 Normally yes. But this guy in the video seems to use only 1 carabiner.
One carbiner is always hooked in. They never have both undone
Hvala za ovaj snimak ! Mimoilazenje jos vise otezava prolaz !
Sheesh what a traffic jam…Everest’s Hillary Step is as crowded as the security lines at the Atlanta airport….
Absolutely INSANE!💀
The body is Don Cash from 2019 I believe.
How lucky is that kid
Mountain is getting way too congested, mostly from wealthy people with deep pockets who are completely dependent on the Sherpas to get them up and down the mountain. They should limit what the Sherpas are allowed to do for people, so that the only climbers up there are the ones who are actually capable of climbing at that level
Ive climbed in the region but when i look at Everest and the amount of people going up its too risky in my book its ridiculous as the log jams of climbers are insane...good luck with that !!
Amazing footage, thank you for sharing!
However what is now happening at the peak of Everest is absolutely insane!
Hillarious (sic)! I'd lose my breath even w/o the queues - really crazy.
I see what you did there.
I still can't believe anyone would put themselves through this torture. Especially since many have already done it
insane passing on the outside not tied onto a rope
If you’re smart enough you have two carabiners and it’s good practice to never unclip both togheter 😂
This is as close to climbing as I want to get. Same goes for ship wrecks; videos are ok by me.
my God...my palms are sweating.. and I m sad about the strong comercialisation of climbing that summit..
DOES ANYONE SEE THE LIFELESS LEGS & BOOTS ON THE LEDGE BELOW @ 0:23 & AT 0:40???????????? Is that a previous death? they leave them on the mountain!
The way this guy steps on the rope with his crampons. So brave.
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Wow... What is the vertical drop from there?? You really get a great view from this video and how far down the drop is..
Notice the Labored Breathing, every task is extremely difficult up there.
In decades of videos on Everest, this is the only one that I have seen that really puts the climb in perspective.
very true indeed. It gives u the feeling as if u r actually there on the mountain. Its crazy steep
I can't think of a better visual for the metaphor of a human assembly of meat on a mass production line. It's obscene what we are doing to this mountain range by ridiculous tourism; many tourists with lots of money and no climbing skills and having absolutely no reason to be climbing this mountain. But it's a business that also has been institutionalized into the local economy. Sherpas make better money than they used to, but it is still brutal, risky, life-threatening work. One day we will see a disaster far worse than the one in 1996. Maybe that will finally stop this madness.
God made the mountains to be climbed by man. If there is a mountain, it MUST be climbed. It is part of the human spirit. ⛰
I don't see any "death below the Hillary Face in this video. Am I missing something here?
Imagine what this looks like to someone who has a terrible fear of heights??? (Me)
I don't do even a ladder.! 😂
Imagine? I don't have to! Though I'll admit that a certain amount of it can wane through exposure. I had to operate a one-person 'cherry picker' forklift in a warehouse for well over a year and after some time I just became mostly desensitized to it. I'd go all the way up and lug stuff around while the whole machine swayed. Some days I'd still have a sudden spike of fear as I went up for the first time but by the end of the shift I really just didn't care. Admittedly I hated that job to the bone. So maybe a small part of me was hoping I'd fall just to get the day over quicker...
Um, no thanks. I'll just admire the beauty of Everest from my computer screen with the heating on!
I believe some things are meant to be conquered and some things are meant to be observed from a distance for the beauty, Everest is to be observed for the beauty, just my personal opinion judging by the way most people die on the mountain (like that poor deceased person whose legs are hanging out just below the snow ridge) 10 feet away and yet he couldn’t be saved😢
You "conquer" nothing but your fear. Chomolungma doesn't feel conquered.
you don't conquer everest, you are helped up everest by sherpas
i think people shouldnt even be allowed to go in the death zone, anywhere, especially if they have kids. So stupid
@@Longtack55 "It's not the mountain we conquer but ourselves"
Those people don't care about that or care about anyone or anything else but themselves...nothing but a bunch of vultures
Kind of like a death wish? Okay, we conquered this one now let’s go one higher and so on and so on and so on…..Let’s see how much our body can take before it actually does kill us, to die a slow and agonizing death as people pass you by plus pay $40 grand in the process, YEP STUPID, again my opinion.
I can not imagine what it is to be there, I tried to climb up the roof of my house to remove a palm branch and couldn’t do I tried again and on my second attempt I fell I broke my heel and my ankle I have several screws and plates. 😅
Stay off Everest!
Can't escape traffic even on Everest.
Seeing the cwm from the Hillary step. Wow, that's first time somebody has shown that in a video. What a camera. As for the Don Cash's body, it will keep coming in the video for the years to come until it disappears due to natural calamities such as the frequent earthquakes of Nepal or somebody crazy enough to reach out to the body to slide it down the slope out of respect.
Most of the climbers aren’t experienced enough to even do this so it’s no wonder there are deaths.
Hope they had a smile on their face.. Seeems like they just suffering trying 2 breath. Is that fun!!?🤔
The most beautiful view from atop the world's highest graveyard
I can't see how climbers think this is fun! I am terrified just watching the video!
If you don't maintain peak focus & caution it's a split
sec away, and O2 deprived that is not too hard to happen.
If you slip how many meters are you going down ?? 2000-3000 MTS ?
Looks like the video of my dad trying to get to school 50 years ago, according to him……
I have a fear of heights where I won't even drive my car on switchbacks. But I have trekked 2x in Nepal and it didn't cure me.
Way, way too many climbers. Walking along a fixer rope that someone else installed for them. All of the allure of climbing Everest is gone.
There are interesting ways to summit the mountain however most people don't attempt those routes.
Да там людей собралось,как у нас в центре города. Это общий атракцион?
I won't even put the Christmas lights on the top pitch of my house, probably about 12 feet up. I'm too afraid. To each their own and mad respect but I have zero understanding how these brave and crazy people can do this. I'm glad they do though, I get to attempt to enjoy it from my computer desk. (and my stomach still turns).
You go up there to find freedom and space, yet the feeling you get is of claustrophobia.
Hmm ... that's quite a drop on a single file path 😮. No wonder there's a body laying somewhere near there.
So if one person slips and falls and winds up taking yanking the fixed rope down as their full weight is supported by it, how many other people wind up getting yanked off the step, and can that rope hold all of them??!! Also, I think I would be using two clip on ropes and having one attached to the fixed rope at any given point in time. When passing someone and unclipping as you pass behind them is a bit too risky IMHO.
yeah I've been wondering that same thing. I am surprised it's only 2.7% death rate.
Let me get this straight: Go Pro guy is descending is passing by people who are ascending.
I've done rockclimbing and overcome vertigo, to a degree, but I don't know if I'd manage that
A line of climbers, noway I'm standing in line over 20,000 ', that's insane, a 1/2 hr delay can cost you your life.
Are you allowed yo climb it without clipping in?!
What madness this mountain! There should be a maximum number of experienced climbers per year, with high level requirements. I understand why many lose their lives there every year. It's totally crazy! Going around another climber like this is unimaginable. Temerity, as I have just seen, should not even have its place. I don't understand how people can want to go up there, with the current conditions. I don't even have a word for that! You have to be a little suicidal I think..., or crazy...
@@yuckfoutube2259bro..what if the all the charges is increased by doubled and permit limit cut by half ?? No one loses.. people will still go there..but nah..they won't do that..
The number of dead bodies that a climber would encounter on that mountain must be huge.
I wonder how there are no more accident ?!😮 Every unexperiented climber must see this vid before start his journey
There isn't many inexperienced climbers at that altitude.
My friend, OMG! So wonderful! I really love this! Thank you so much!
As a service to my fellow human beings, I won't be crowding those people up there.
I'm a bit skeptical. The body does not seem to be dead from a fall, because it would not have ended up just a few meters below the route, but probably all the way down. How did it end up here ? Also the trousers and the shoes seem to have lost some of their color. This is probably not a body from this year. Is there any more information about this ?
I could be wrong of course. This is allegedly the body of a man left behind during 2019’s season. He lost consciousness, sherpas revived him, but ultimately could not continue further down. A huge line had formed. Truly sad
of course he's not dead from a fall, he either died of hypothermia or more likely he died from edema or lack of oxygen in the body, the latter of which most people either die from or it leads to their death
@@analtubegut66 yes, exactly. He was left behind for one, if not more, of those reasons
Most climbers don't die from falls but from exhaustion so it's pretty logic to find a body right next to the path.
he might still be attached to ropes? it's the only reason i can think of why he hasnt fallen down
0:26 Whose body was it? Poor man...
some guy who didnt make it R.I.P
Nice man its crazy 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Fascinating, thrilling, exciting...Wish i was there..
GOD BLESS
This is like the Indy 500 waiting for an itsy bitsy error and a spectacular accident, here plummet they go.
Great footage, thank you for sharing!
Not enough money to get me to do this. I can’t fly.
Lol!
உண்மையா உங்கள பாக்கும் போது பெருமை கொள்கிறேன். சாதனை படைத்தவர்கள் அனைவரும் god bless u. Love u 👍
I could not walk right on by a corpse like that. Yet there y'all are. What do I know?
Urgh, the volume of people on Everest is just becoming so dangerous.
Perfect day for climbing
I wish that they could fasten a remote camera on Lhotse facing Everest so we could see storms and climbers
He's not dead; he's resting.
One step gets the summit, the other gets eternity.