PSA - "I really wish they (the authors of SCP articles) would stop adding redacted/black bars into these articles, it's annoying and it just seems lazy to me" If you're thinking of commenting something like this. Please read. This SCP was posted 9 years ago - the authors are not doing this anymore (and if they are, it's usually done well). This was very much a series 1 and 2 trend that did get much less common in later years. I can guarantee you that most SCP authors now actually agree with you. If you're ever annoyed by this, check the article post date (if it's 8 years or older) or just look at the article number
It's true that this one in particular is a bit frustrating ^^ I have the feeling the author himself didn't knew how to give background to this scp :p But it's true that in modern scp, it's way less common.
@@ChrissieBear I'm going to make adaptations in a way that I think is right. I'm not going to change my style just because you don't like it. If you don't like it that's completely fine, everyone has a preference. You should explore other creators that cater to your preference.
L is a reference to Lincoln Hall, an Australian mountaineer who was found alive and naked after spending the night on Mount everest and later died from mesothelioma (asbestos)
The fact that the agent was miles away from the scp and it not only noticed him but actually proceeded to descend from the mountain towards him is just so unnerving 😨
Why did George Mallory climb the mountain? "Because it's there." And if you're looking for George Mallory, then climb the mountain. "Because he's there."
“Because it’s there” This line will always stick with me. Many people use this as an explanation as to why they climb Everest. I wonder if this scp says it as a way to mock them.
I also enjoy the fact they referenced real bodies that are well known on the mountain. Green Boots and Mallory specifically. It shows that the author really did do their research. Alot of people don't know how many corpses are there, and are actually used as landmarks, or even how often climbers just ignore people who are freezing to death just so they can keep climbing.
I've always preferred SCP-1529 over SCP-5140, but that's probably because I'm more accepting of one spooky cold man than more spooky cold men than all humans that ever existed. But to share my appreciation for the King of the Mountain, here's a little trivia about this SCP: 1). The "Procedure Boukreev" mentioned at 2:31 appears to be named after Anatoli Boukreev, a Russian climber known for ascending ten 8,000m+ peaks without supplemental oxygen, and for saving the lives of several climbers during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. 2). Incident 1529-1 is implied to be the said 1996 Everest Disaster, that killed expedition coordinator Rob Hall (8:33 ███ ████) and 11 others. 3). The "L" in the interview is implied to be Lincoln Hall (of no relation to Rob Hall). His encounter is implied to have occurred during his 2006 attempt at summiting Everest, when he miraculously survived the night at 8,700 m (28,543 ft) on descent, returning after his family was told he had died. He died six years later in 2012 after suffering from mesothelioma. 4). The "Green Boots" mentioned by Lincoln at 11:31 is the unidentified body of a climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest, recognizable for his bright green Koflach mountaineering boots. While not officially identified, he is believed to have been Tsewang Paljor, an Indo-Tibetan border policeman that died in 1996. 5). Before the wiki's image licensing reform, the entry also had an image of Hannelore Schmatz's body, captioned as an identified victim of SCP-1529. Schmatz was the fourth woman to summit Everest, but ended up the first woman and first German citizen to die on it as well.
@@aa12fordays87 Assuming its actually stuck sure. But it has come lower. and if it CAN, its not really contained at all. and since it seems too be immune too gravity and random chance deaths like moving snow. and given it was only hurt when someone thought hard about doing so and then was fine the next time it was seen. Id argue its supernatural in origin, and it killed the guy who got away and hurt it too begin with. Meaning if someone saw it on a drone feed or some shit, it would come all the way. we likely only see a hiker cus our minds need too create an image.
Wasn't there a previous SCP covered by this channel which was basically "Mt Everest is essentially just a pile of bodies frozen together because touching one of the bodies kills you and adds you to the pile"?
And what if this SCPs "gift" is to render the body incapable of becoming part of the mountain? That could be the "it" that it is talking about in the "Because it's there" line
@@Yy-ig6fm I halfway agree with you. It absolutely can be used as one, but good redactions add flavor and mystery. Like whatever it is that 096 does to people when it reaches them, or what happened during expedition 4 into The Staircase. But poor usage of Redacted stands out pretty clearly.
Guy sees a distant mountain dude: "... Hey! ... Hey you!" Mountain dude turns: "...What did you say?! ... Ho- hold on! I'm coming to you!" Guy: "No you don't have t- oh, here he comes... boy he's taking a while... Hey! How long are you going to be!?" Mountain dude: "Hold on just stay there!" Guy: *Freezes to death waiting*
The censoring isn't terrible on this scp but in some parts it just makes things anticlimactic. Like when they were going to describe what it does to people and they just cut it out and when they censored what L saw behind the goggles. They might've been attempts to add horror but I think it fell a little flat if that were the case
This. I feel like the best SCPs don't constantly use the censor - they only use it sparingly, and when it's use will lead to an ambiguous sense of unease. This just felt frustrating. Not the worst case of censor overuse I've seen in SCPs, but definitely hindered my enjoyment somewhat.
I'm gonna guess the other mountain mentioned at the end is Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan. They prohibited climbing mountains higher than 6,000m in 1994 and then all mountaineering in 2003, due both to a lack of rescue operations and a local belief that the mountains are the sacred homes of protective gods and spirits. This guy doesn't seem so protective to me, but maybe from his perspective he is? xD
Yeah, i was wondering why they chose to redact the country of Bhutan when it’s common knowledge they banned hiking (or it can be found easily at least)
If you factor in SCP-5140, which implies Everest is a mound of zombified corpses, and the fact SCP-1529 induces a rapid decay on his victims and calls his effects a “gift,” it is likely he can be a protective spirit only the sense he offers you an arguably less horrible fate than the one you’ll get from SCP-5140. It’s essentially a gift in the vein of being killed instantly over being made to suffer till death. Still not all that better but preferable to the latter.
I met the king of the mountain once. There I was face to face with him. He looked at me with his big red glowing eyes and he said to me "I need about tree fiddy".
It was about then that I realized that this parka and goggles wearin’ fella wasn’t no mountain climber at all, but a 12 ft tall crustacean from the Proterozoic Era
Fun fact: This SCP is just the final evolution of that kid who refuses to wear a coat in the winter because "it's just not that cold, you guys!" Edit: Holy crap I leave for a bit and I’ve got a heart from Volgun himself and 300 like from y’all, thanks so much everyone!
I'll always remember that guy who would wait for the bus wearing nothing but a hoodie and running shoes under -30°C temperatures in Janurary or February.
My best friend is like that. He wears shorts year round. I havent seen him wear pants in a decade at least. I swear. Winter, he wears shorts with tall boots and thick sweatshirt/ coat. No real long sleeve either lol! He's 6'2 and 320 pounds.
I still like to theorize that SCP-1529 has some kind of connection with SCP-5140. It could possibly be responsible for the creation of SCP-5140 instances.
Considering all the corpses on (and in!) Everest in SCP-5140's document, and the remains left by 1529, I'd say this is pretty plausible. It also explains the Foundation's protocol for dissecting and disposing of his victims, they're probably making sure they don't wind up with an excess of 5140 instances.
In the overlapping dimension this guy lives in, dude is just cleaning his gutters. In his world, we are just squirrels that freeze in shock at getting spotted.
Heard this SCP created Shy Guy . Basically this SCP came across a person who was a unknown reality bender and drove him crazy. With only enough self preservation to stay alive at all costs and views being looked at as a threat to it's life.
@@deejones0071 Comes from SCP-231 with brides (and their respective scp child) up to 231-7 which coincidentally line up with actual SCP-2317 which may possibly be Scarlet King. Something like that
Yes, a fine addition to the videos that make my work shifts go faster, love the vids find myself watching again and again never stop this glorious work
Plot twist: it's activated by someone planning to climb the mountain and saying some variety of the phrase "I'm gunna be the King of the Mountain." Thing just wants to win the biggest game of King of the Mountain ever.
I’ve heard that theory before and it doesn’t really make sense and kinda ruins 096 for me, I’ve always seen 096 as just a creature that’s existed for a long time that lives remotely and the only reason we’ve had more sightings as time goes on is due to humans now being able to reach where it resides as well as cameras
Honestly, this is close to being good, but I feel there's excessive redaction here. Specifically, the part about what he saw after cracking the goggles really rubbed me the wrong way. This is definitely an older skip, and it suffers from a lot of older skip pitfalls. Decent concept, decent execution, but could definitely use a rewrite.
It's OK to leave locations and some names, occasional events out but this cut out the horror pay off. I get that it was suppose to be one of those let your imagination go rampant things but in this case it just felt kinda lazy.
@@CaspertheSarcasticGhost it’s not enough to get the ball rolling. It’s just enough to get my last brain cell going “huh?” But not enough to make the fear of the unknown kick in
@ltchugacast131 Yeah, a lot of people say it's lazy, but a lot of older SCPs wanted you to fill in the blanks because the authors assumed you'd come up with something more horrifying in the absence of answers. The problem is they over-redacted and most people came up with pretty basic answers. A great example of that is 096. We don't know what 096 does, but most people just assume it eats people or rips them apart. Kinda mundane when you could have it [Data Expunged] people.
@@Forestdude9000 The writer has to lay the groundwork for that though, like any literature; you need sufficient exposition or world building to actually have a basis for the reader to get lost inside their own interpretation or idea of events. Here we have virtually nothing, and plenty is redacted that could easily have been covered while still retaining some elements of mystery or suspense. It's the writers prerogative to guide or introduce the imaginary elements of a story, but many of these older SCPs basically just leave you hanging by effectively saying "do it yourself", which is a little lazy (though obviously it's not like professional writers were behind everything, but even as a novice you could likely think of something compelling in this context). Have been playing Control again recently, and I honestly feel that medium better used the notion of redaction (though it is obviously heavily inspired by SCP itself) as you almost always have enough to get a basic notion of what a given AI does and theories on how or why it might operate, but are not given all information pertaining to surrounding events, usually names, dates, times, and very occasionally, the outcome or process of a given AWE. Obviously the individual literature here is shorter than many SCPs, but I honestly find the redactions used there better than most SCP files I've read. If redactions are to be used at all, it should be increasingly sparingly and only at points that it would make sense given the context of the reader. Some files are effectively being accessed by a very high level Foundation member and still have so many redactions of basic information, which really doesn't make sense if, say, it's an O5 member or Site Director pulling up pertinent information (redact dates and locations by all means, but you'd expect high level clearance to at least let you see the information you need to judge a case lol).
Welp, this was an interesting flavor of audio, definitely kept me on my toes. One has to wonder about what other things might be hidden away in places that humans barely dare to tread. I am always fascinated with the ways the SCPs are described and documented. This one in particular kept the taste of cold air in my mouth for the entirety of the audio, though that taste of rotted lima beans really kicked up. Gotta say though, I really enjoyed the way the audio played out. Keep up the good work! I always love your longer videos!
Sometimes, Whenever someone becomes a self-appointed king, it becomes almost impossible to get them to let go, especially when they will do anything to keep it.
this is just a regular guy who got really fed up with everest tourism. fine, you can hire guides to make it easier, but my new job is making it harder and my payment is all the heat in your body
Imagine dying from an actual accident in the SCP universe. Not only would that be the unbelievable thing, some embedded agent somewhere gets to have an early weekend.
Oh you mean like that researcher who was convinced everybody is being stalked by a shadow monster we can't see, but then accidentally vanished after accidentally destroying his house and accidentally soaking everything in unexplained liquid? Accidentally?
Theory. Shy Guy (096) was a very different creature before he came across this SCP. An already Immortal being then is emaciated and has an irrational fear (to the point of rage) of being observed due to the encounter.
SCP-1529 is definitely euclid, 1 if you think about it this SCP only stays at the mountain which means SCP-1529 is containing himself so there's no point for the foundation to contain it, 2 it can't really cause much of a problem as long as the foundation is blocking the mountain from visitors so the euclid classification sounds fine.
i like to think this SCP is just a complete chad and is somehow immune to the cold and is just upholding his territory. his inactive state is just him falling face first into the snow falling asleep
I thought the same. An other one of those SCPs that overuse redaction. Even worse case with this one is that this could be an amazing SCP if not for the redaction.
Really enjoyed this one, thank you for voicing it! Love the kind of unexplained, unnerving ones; gives it an.. Old feel so to speak. No long dramatic backstory of who it is; vague implications and unnerving,barely-comprehensible stuff reminds me a bit of the old 049. Just a bit. Or just old SCPs in general
I really dig all of your SCP videos. You pick good stories and you narrate them so well. But I have to admit: I have accent envy. Seriously, you're fantastic with accents.
The fact it lives naturally in mountains and whatever it does to people is horrific enough to be redacted reminds me of a particularly camera-shy SCP - despite the apparent distance, I wonder if they might have some loose relation.
There's a theory that 096 is a mountaineer who somehow survived repeated encounters with 1529 and through some force of adaptive of accelerated evolution became what it is as a defensive mechanism from 1529's gaze based powers.
As people mention in other comments, the article suffers from being heavily censored. However I have a perspective that might make it a little better. There are two types of censoring in the foundation's files. The blacked out portions, and expunged portions. The blacked out portions may simply be unavailable to our security clearence, but they're still in some version of the document. Expunged portions are removed from any version of the document, safe maybe for the one O5 has. Black out is used for information regarding names, dates and locations, to not give out civilians' involvement with the SCP and make an investigation into it impossible. When data is expunged, it usually is done because the information may cause foundation personnel to commit acts against th foundation's interests, or because it's a non-anomalous memetic hazard - knowing something about the object may have undesirable psychological effects on the reader, which while harmful, aren't caused by the data itself, but rather human mind's reaction to it. I believe the specifics of what 1529 does to its victims, and what's behind the goggles, are expunged because that information might prompt you to seek out the same fate as the rest of the victims. It showed L. visions of people who died relaxing, and having a peaceful rest, its "gift" for them. Maybe the people who climb Everest and are attacked go to some sort of climber's heaven after they die this way? From what information we have it doesn't seem likely, but maybe it would make a similar conclussion possible if the expunged data was available.
Going to guess it feeds on body heat and imprisons your soul based on the hypothermia and warm paradise imagery. I wonder what made L turn into another instance when he isn't the only survivor though.
It is possible they are connected. Probably a coincidence given the fact SCP-5140 came about years after SCP-1529. Some people just have similar ideas from time to time. That said, it would be cool if someone made a connection between the two.
The frequent use of data expunged was irritating at first... Until you realize that they wouldn't expunge it if they needed it, and it mostly occurs when describing what the SCP does to its victims. Agent: "What did he do?" L: "He (SCP activity)." Researcher: "Oh, God, I did not need to hear that!" (pause) "Dammit I can't stop picturing it! Amnestics! Now!"
You know I’ve always wanted to “beat” as it were the challenge of Everest but after hearing this I cannot say that I would even attempt it without pure fear and at worst rage towards some thing that may not even be there..
i feel like this article was written by someone who dislikes people for risking their life for effectively nothing, so SCP-1529 is sort of a revenge against "stupid" people by it actively and terrifyingly going after those who do such dangerous things for no practical purpose. basically an "adventure-seeker hunter" or something.
So something I am noticing, SCP-5140 is Mount Everest itself correct, and SCP-1529 is also on the summit, so does that mean both these entities affect the mountain, or has 1529 no longer active since it’s a older article?
I think they both exist at the same time in a superposition, like SCP-031 in the Ryugyong hotel and another anomaly which I forgot the number of. Both anomalies exist and when someone encounters one of them, then that's the only one they can perceive.
PSA - "I really wish they (the authors of SCP articles) would stop adding redacted/black bars into these articles, it's annoying and it just seems lazy to me" If you're thinking of commenting something like this. Please read. This SCP was posted 9 years ago - the authors are not doing this anymore (and if they are, it's usually done well). This was very much a series 1 and 2 trend that did get much less common in later years. I can guarantee you that most SCP authors now actually agree with you. If you're ever annoyed by this, check the article post date (if it's 8 years or older) or just look at the article number
It's true that this one in particular is a bit frustrating ^^ I have the feeling the author himself didn't knew how to give background to this scp :p But it's true that in modern scp, it's way less common.
I like the redactions and censorship. Allows your imagination to conjure up the most horrifying scenarios
I think its fine. Adds to the lovecraftian horror.
I don't mind that. What I do mind is the voice filters in the interviews. They make things hard to understand. Please stop it with the voice filters.
@@ChrissieBear I'm going to make adaptations in a way that I think is right. I'm not going to change my style just because you don't like it. If you don't like it that's completely fine, everyone has a preference. You should explore other creators that cater to your preference.
L is a reference to Lincoln Hall, an Australian mountaineer who was found alive and naked after spending the night on Mount everest and later died from mesothelioma (asbestos)
and Incident 1529-1 is a reference to the 1996 Everest incident, where ...9 i think? climbers died in a sudden storm
The fact that the agent was miles away from the scp and it not only noticed him but actually proceeded to descend from the mountain towards him is just so unnerving 😨
Reminds me a bit of SCP-096, like when you see its face, and it comes for you, but this one is more survivable to a degree.
@@Mathadar And the Shy Guy was also first found high on the mountains iirc, maybe there was some inspiration there
@@bartoszfrejlich654 no, he got loose because of a picture of mountains with 4 pixels of his face, but i get what ur coming from
Shy guy - spotted in a single pixel!
What’s cool about 096 is that another scp is involved in his creation
Why did George Mallory climb the mountain?
"Because it's there."
And if you're looking for George Mallory, then climb the mountain.
"Because he's there."
Beautiful.
“Because it’s there”
This line will always stick with me. Many people use this as an explanation as to why they climb Everest. I wonder if this scp says it as a way to mock them.
I dont understamd that phrase, is it something climbers say to motivate them to finish the remainder of the climb?
@@TheDeadMeme27 no its more like "why climb a big dangerous mountain for no reason?" "Because it's there! Because I can!"
@@TheDeadMeme27 - It's more usually by way of a reply to the question "Why would you climb Everest? Since it's so dangerous?"
Yeah that's my favorite detail as well. It seemed like a deliberately cruel thing to say
I also enjoy the fact they referenced real bodies that are well known on the mountain. Green Boots and Mallory specifically. It shows that the author really did do their research. Alot of people don't know how many corpses are there, and are actually used as landmarks, or even how often climbers just ignore people who are freezing to death just so they can keep climbing.
Is nobody gonna talk about L being a badass and straight up punching an SCP in the face? Dude is awesome
@Muggy well he didnt die immediately after
And I think that defiance led to a new instance of this SCP being created on another mountain…
I've always preferred SCP-1529 over SCP-5140, but that's probably because I'm more accepting of one spooky cold man than more spooky cold men than all humans that ever existed. But to share my appreciation for the King of the Mountain, here's a little trivia about this SCP:
1). The "Procedure Boukreev" mentioned at 2:31 appears to be named after Anatoli Boukreev, a Russian climber known for ascending ten 8,000m+ peaks without supplemental oxygen, and for saving the lives of several climbers during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
2). Incident 1529-1 is implied to be the said 1996 Everest Disaster, that killed expedition coordinator Rob Hall (8:33 ███ ████) and 11 others.
3). The "L" in the interview is implied to be Lincoln Hall (of no relation to Rob Hall). His encounter is implied to have occurred during his 2006 attempt at summiting Everest, when he miraculously survived the night at 8,700 m (28,543 ft) on descent, returning after his family was told he had died. He died six years later in 2012 after suffering from mesothelioma.
4). The "Green Boots" mentioned by Lincoln at 11:31 is the unidentified body of a climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest, recognizable for his bright green Koflach mountaineering boots. While not officially identified, he is believed to have been Tsewang Paljor, an Indo-Tibetan border policeman that died in 1996.
5). Before the wiki's image licensing reform, the entry also had an image of Hannelore Schmatz's body, captioned as an identified victim of SCP-1529. Schmatz was the fourth woman to summit Everest, but ended up the first woman and first German citizen to die on it as well.
I actually figured the scp may actually have been Rob Hall as I recalled one of his nicknames being "the king of everest"
But SCP-1529 Is Connection With SCP-5140 Because They Both On Mountain Everest And SCP-1529 He Is The King Of The Mountain I Know Not The Best Answer
>Uncontained SCP
>Euclid
Seems about right.
Maybe it's Euclid because it's easy to monitor and predict what it will do?
it's more self containing than anything, and as far as the foundation is concerned they can really only observe it.
all they gotta do is make sure people dont go above 8k meters when its active that day and its pretty much self contained
@@aa12fordays87 Assuming its actually stuck sure. But it has come lower. and if it CAN, its not really contained at all. and since it seems too be immune too gravity and random chance deaths like moving snow. and given it was only hurt when someone thought hard about doing so and then was fine the next time it was seen. Id argue its supernatural in origin, and it killed the guy who got away and hurt it too begin with. Meaning if someone saw it on a drone feed or some shit, it would come all the way. we likely only see a hiker cus our minds need too create an image.
>Attempts to contain
>Can't Contain easily
> "Then its a Kete-" EUCLID
Wasn't there a previous SCP covered by this channel which was basically "Mt Everest is essentially just a pile of bodies frozen together because touching one of the bodies kills you and adds you to the pile"?
Yes, SCP 5140
And what if this SCPs "gift" is to render the body incapable of becoming part of the mountain? That could be the "it" that it is talking about in the "Because it's there" line
@@thearchangel5791 I had this exact same thought
Yes. 5140. This is a Series 2 SCP so it was written years ago.
Every SCP article exists in its own universe.
He’s perfecting King of the Hill, just wait until he starts learning regular slayer
If that happens the Foundation will find him on Kilaminjaro.
"That Foundation ain't right, I tell you hwat."
He is the god of propane and propane accessories
Welcome to the SCP FPS game
Based
Usually data redaction is no problem but this one managed to annoy me somewhat.
Yeah, it went to the point of just.. not telling you anything at all
Hard agree
Not as bad as that "The Parents" one, but I kinda agree.
@@Yy-ig6fm I halfway agree with you. It absolutely can be used as one, but good redactions add flavor and mystery. Like whatever it is that 096 does to people when it reaches them, or what happened during expedition 4 into The Staircase. But poor usage of Redacted stands out pretty clearly.
Guy sees a distant mountain dude: "... Hey! ... Hey you!"
Mountain dude turns: "...What did you say?! ... Ho- hold on! I'm coming to you!"
Guy: "No you don't have t- oh, here he comes... boy he's taking a while... Hey! How long are you going to be!?"
Mountain dude: "Hold on just stay there!"
Guy: *Freezes to death waiting*
The censoring isn't terrible on this scp but in some parts it just makes things anticlimactic. Like when they were going to describe what it does to people and they just cut it out and when they censored what L saw behind the goggles. They might've been attempts to add horror but I think it fell a little flat if that were the case
Definitely. This is just not a very well written SCP unfortunately.
This. I feel like the best SCPs don't constantly use the censor - they only use it sparingly, and when it's use will lead to an ambiguous sense of unease. This just felt frustrating. Not the worst case of censor overuse I've seen in SCPs, but definitely hindered my enjoyment somewhat.
I think the censoring was ▇▇▇▇. That is why i think SCP-1529 is one of the ▇▇▇▇▇, in my opinion.
Could have been a shorter skip.
Definitely not as exciting as others
@@Mavrick775 what?
I'm gonna guess the other mountain mentioned at the end is Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan. They prohibited climbing mountains higher than 6,000m in 1994 and then all mountaineering in 2003, due both to a lack of rescue operations and a local belief that the mountains are the sacred homes of protective gods and spirits. This guy doesn't seem so protective to me, but maybe from his perspective he is? xD
Yeah, i was wondering why they chose to redact the country of Bhutan when it’s common knowledge they banned hiking (or it can be found easily at least)
I’m assuming he’s protecting the mountain.
Well, nice of him to move somewhere less populated.
If you factor in SCP-5140, which implies Everest is a mound of zombified corpses, and the fact SCP-1529 induces a rapid decay on his victims and calls his effects a “gift,” it is likely he can be a protective spirit only the sense he offers you an arguably less horrible fate than the one you’ll get from SCP-5140.
It’s essentially a gift in the vein of being killed instantly over being made to suffer till death. Still not all that better but preferable to the latter.
*When Some Dude Is So Obsessed With Being King Of The Hill.*
King of the biggest hill
The hill aint enough scp 049
It needs to be bigger
Got dangit Bobby
@CT o
"I take your life, your warmth."
"Why?"
"Because it's there."
I met the king of the mountain once. There I was face to face with him. He looked at me with his big red glowing eyes and he said to me "I need about tree fiddy".
cot dam ol lochness monsta
It was about then that I realized that this parka and goggles wearin’ fella wasn’t no mountain climber at all, but a 12 ft tall crustacean from the Proterozoic Era
i bet it also asked "Do you know how to get to bells canyon?"
That ain't no king of the mountain, that's the god damn loch Ness monster!
Legendary South park reference!
"Because it's there" a haunting but clever use of Mallory's own words, his response when asked why he was attempting to climb Everest.
Man was so OP they had to call in L to help solve the case
You could also say it took an L.
First a shinigami now scps, L can’t catch a break
@@Newt2799 What is a shinigami, but an SCP that the foundation hasn't SCPed yet
Fun fact: This SCP is just the final evolution of that kid who refuses to wear a coat in the winter because "it's just not that cold, you guys!"
Edit: Holy crap I leave for a bit and I’ve got a heart from Volgun himself and 300 like from y’all, thanks so much everyone!
Can confirm. Achieved this form years ago.
the other fact is scp 1529 is the reason scp 096 exists
I'll always remember that guy who would wait for the bus wearing nothing but a hoodie and running shoes under -30°C temperatures in Janurary or February.
I feel called out...
My best friend is like that. He wears shorts year round. I havent seen him wear pants in a decade at least. I swear. Winter, he wears shorts with tall boots and thick sweatshirt/ coat. No real long sleeve either lol! He's 6'2 and 320 pounds.
I still like to theorize that SCP-1529 has some kind of connection with SCP-5140.
It could possibly be responsible for the creation of SCP-5140 instances.
I was thinking along these lines
Considering all the corpses on (and in!) Everest in SCP-5140's document, and the remains left by 1529, I'd say this is pretty plausible. It also explains the Foundation's protocol for dissecting and disposing of his victims, they're probably making sure they don't wind up with an excess of 5140 instances.
He's the king of the mountain right?
A kind does need subjects to be a king...
The whole time, he's trying to wave them off like "no, don't sit down! Why do they always sit down!?"
In the overlapping dimension this guy lives in, dude is just cleaning his gutters. In his world, we are just squirrels that freeze in shock at getting spotted.
Heard this SCP created Shy Guy . Basically this SCP came across a person who was a unknown reality bender and drove him crazy. With only enough self preservation to stay alive at all costs and views being looked at as a threat to it's life.
Wasn't Shy Guy one of the Scarlet King's children born of his seven brides on par with 999 and the hard-to-destroy reptile?
@@SeventyCoins Do you know which SCP or tale you got this from?
@@deejones0071 Comes from SCP-231 with brides (and their respective scp child) up to 231-7 which coincidentally line up with actual SCP-2317 which may possibly be Scarlet King.
Something like that
@@SeventyCoins there is no cannon.
@@alexbradshaw5466 there is no *unified* canon, there are many different canons
So we've got heat absorbing dead bodies and sketchy hypnotic cold murderer both on everest?
I guess that it is a good rule never to go to Everest
Don't forget Shy Guy was spotted there once.
Probably a different continuity than the other Everest one.
Don't forget about the [deta expunged] the foundation didn't find that yet.
I hope "My Archive Curator Nick" is ok. Haven't heard him mentioned in a while now.
He's with SCP - 055
Yes, a fine addition to the videos that make my work shifts go faster, love the vids find myself watching again and again never stop this glorious work
I can't stop listening to the scarlet king episode! This guy's great!
A fine addition to your collection?
Plot twist: it's activated by someone planning to climb the mountain and saying some variety of the phrase "I'm gunna be the King of the Mountain."
Thing just wants to win the biggest game of King of the Mountain ever.
I was watching videos about how to reseason a carbon steel pan and this popped up and suddenly my next 20 minutes changed.
Saw a theory that he may be responsible for SCP-096 shy guy
That's an interesting theory. how exactly does the theory go?
I’ve heard that theory before and it doesn’t really make sense and kinda ruins 096 for me, I’ve always seen 096 as just a creature that’s existed for a long time that lives remotely and the only reason we’ve had more sightings as time goes on is due to humans now being able to reach where it resides as well as cameras
@@romeodavis1052 something like [REDACTED]
@@_its_lunar_Don't have to believe it. There is no canon. Interesting we have the same headcanon for 096 though.
Honestly, this is close to being good, but I feel there's excessive redaction here. Specifically, the part about what he saw after cracking the goggles really rubbed me the wrong way. This is definitely an older skip, and it suffers from a lot of older skip pitfalls. Decent concept, decent execution, but could definitely use a rewrite.
Agreed the left out here is too much
It's OK to leave locations and some names, occasional events out but this cut out the horror pay off. I get that it was suppose to be one of those let your imagination go rampant things but in this case it just felt kinda lazy.
@@CaspertheSarcasticGhost it’s not enough to get the ball rolling. It’s just enough to get my last brain cell going “huh?” But not enough to make the fear of the unknown kick in
@ltchugacast131 Yeah, a lot of people say it's lazy, but a lot of older SCPs wanted you to fill in the blanks because the authors assumed you'd come up with something more horrifying in the absence of answers. The problem is they over-redacted and most people came up with pretty basic answers. A great example of that is 096. We don't know what 096 does, but most people just assume it eats people or rips them apart. Kinda mundane when you could have it [Data Expunged] people.
@@Forestdude9000
The writer has to lay the groundwork for that though, like any literature; you need sufficient exposition or world building to actually have a basis for the reader to get lost inside their own interpretation or idea of events.
Here we have virtually nothing, and plenty is redacted that could easily have been covered while still retaining some elements of mystery or suspense. It's the writers prerogative to guide or introduce the imaginary elements of a story, but many of these older SCPs basically just leave you hanging by effectively saying "do it yourself", which is a little lazy (though obviously it's not like professional writers were behind everything, but even as a novice you could likely think of something compelling in this context).
Have been playing Control again recently, and I honestly feel that medium better used the notion of redaction (though it is obviously heavily inspired by SCP itself) as you almost always have enough to get a basic notion of what a given AI does and theories on how or why it might operate, but are not given all information pertaining to surrounding events, usually names, dates, times, and very occasionally, the outcome or process of a given AWE. Obviously the individual literature here is shorter than many SCPs, but I honestly find the redactions used there better than most SCP files I've read.
If redactions are to be used at all, it should be increasingly sparingly and only at points that it would make sense given the context of the reader. Some files are effectively being accessed by a very high level Foundation member and still have so many redactions of basic information, which really doesn't make sense if, say, it's an O5 member or Site Director pulling up pertinent information (redact dates and locations by all means, but you'd expect high level clearance to at least let you see the information you need to judge a case lol).
Welp, this was an interesting flavor of audio, definitely kept me on my toes. One has to wonder about what other things might be hidden away in places that humans barely dare to tread. I am always fascinated with the ways the SCPs are described and documented. This one in particular kept the taste of cold air in my mouth for the entirety of the audio, though that taste of rotted lima beans really kicked up. Gotta say though, I really enjoyed the way the audio played out.
Keep up the good work! I always love your longer videos!
Man, get off your toys, there's no reason to be on them
@@tophatchaos8142 Ahh the joys of typos, thanks for letting me know. :3
Imagine if the King of the Mountain was the antagonist of the movie Everest
I'd watch the hell out of that movie
Sometimes, Whenever someone becomes a self-appointed king, it becomes almost impossible to get them to let go, especially when they will do anything to keep it.
Not only is Mt. Everest made up mostly of frozen zombies, it also has this mountaineer monster on it? Damn, that's one messed up mountain
this is just a regular guy who got really fed up with everest tourism. fine, you can hire guides to make it easier, but my new job is making it harder and my payment is all the heat in your body
Wooo new Volgun, it’s gonna be a good day :D
Imagine dying from an actual accident in the SCP universe. Not only would that be the unbelievable thing, some embedded agent somewhere gets to have an early weekend.
Oh you mean like that researcher who was convinced everybody is being stalked by a shadow monster we can't see, but then accidentally vanished after accidentally destroying his house and accidentally soaking everything in unexplained liquid? Accidentally?
@@raycearcher5794 Precisely! What an accident!
Picture reminds me of John Carpenters The Thing.
I think it may be inspired by that specifically
Same.
So I'm not the only one who thought that, good
I love the oh so slow zoom in on his face
Theory. Shy Guy (096) was a very different creature before he came across this SCP. An already Immortal being then is emaciated and has an irrational fear (to the point of rage) of being observed due to the encounter.
The fact they mentioned green boots is a cool little reference I like
> Uncontained
> Euclid
That really sounds very Euclid. Your voicing is amazing bro! Keep up the good work 👍🏻
SCP-1529 is definitely euclid, 1 if you think about it this SCP only stays at the mountain which means SCP-1529 is containing himself so there's no point for the foundation to contain it, 2 it can't really cause much of a problem as long as the foundation is blocking the mountain from visitors so the euclid classification sounds fine.
“Just don’t go up there ok”
“I sell snowshoes and snowshoe accessories”
Literally these videos make my day
Yes you are
@@frndrmn yeah!
Thanks for making my sleep ritual whole again❤️
A classic. You hit the emotional cadence in these interviews really well, always been a strong suit of yours.
i like to think this SCP is just a complete chad and is somehow immune to the cold and is just upholding his territory.
his inactive state is just him falling face first into the snow falling asleep
Shame this SCP has do much redacted stuff, kinda ruins it.
I thought the same. An other one of those SCPs that overuse redaction. Even worse case with this one is that this could be an amazing SCP if not for the redaction.
Just change it to teabagging and everything will make sense.
"lol noob ez clap" - SCP-1529
@@mvsocial had to laugh way to hard at this. But then again, I am in love with flat and vulgar jokes. Ymmd, thanks!
Redacting the amount killed took me out of the moment completely, was pretty frustrating.
Really enjoyed this one, thank you for voicing it! Love the kind of unexplained, unnerving ones; gives it an.. Old feel so to speak. No long dramatic backstory of who it is; vague implications and unnerving,barely-comprehensible stuff reminds me a bit of the old 049. Just a bit. Or just old SCPs in general
i haven’t had wifi so i’ve been downloading and watching later and might i just add that i am not disappointed. i love these lectures.
This is probably the only dude who could survive 096
Still one of the best of the classic SCP tales.
This is a nice video on 096
I really dig all of your SCP videos. You pick good stories and you narrate them so well.
But I have to admit: I have accent envy. Seriously, you're fantastic with accents.
The fact it lives naturally in mountains and whatever it does to people is horrific enough to be redacted reminds me of a particularly camera-shy SCP - despite the apparent distance, I wonder if they might have some loose relation.
There's a theory that 096 is a mountaineer who somehow survived repeated encounters with 1529 and through some force of adaptive of accelerated evolution became what it is as a defensive mechanism from 1529's gaze based powers.
@@friday26th THAT IS SO COOL! I didn't even KNOW that was already a theory!
I love these contained entries so much more than the drawn out ones that borrow or rewrite the lore of previous entries.
Thanks for your work!
As people mention in other comments, the article suffers from being heavily censored. However I have a perspective that might make it a little better. There are two types of censoring in the foundation's files. The blacked out portions, and expunged portions. The blacked out portions may simply be unavailable to our security clearence, but they're still in some version of the document. Expunged portions are removed from any version of the document, safe maybe for the one O5 has.
Black out is used for information regarding names, dates and locations, to not give out civilians' involvement with the SCP and make an investigation into it impossible. When data is expunged, it usually is done because the information may cause foundation personnel to commit acts against th foundation's interests, or because it's a non-anomalous memetic hazard - knowing something about the object may have undesirable psychological effects on the reader, which while harmful, aren't caused by the data itself, but rather human mind's reaction to it.
I believe the specifics of what 1529 does to its victims, and what's behind the goggles, are expunged because that information might prompt you to seek out the same fate as the rest of the victims. It showed L. visions of people who died relaxing, and having a peaceful rest, its "gift" for them. Maybe the people who climb Everest and are attacked go to some sort of climber's heaven after they die this way? From what information we have it doesn't seem likely, but maybe it would make a similar conclussion possible if the expunged data was available.
I liked how the writer inserted Green boots in the story. He really died in that place.
LOVE the 15+ minute ones!!
The data redactions killed it. Could have been so much better.
He's finally done it. Jeff Jarrett has become an SCP
Going to guess it feeds on body heat and imprisons your soul based on the hypothermia and warm paradise imagery. I wonder what made L turn into another instance when he isn't the only survivor though.
What do you mean that L turned into another instance, maybe because he was able to survive it on his own?
Good job. Nice to listen to one of your traditional videos. Things were kinda hit and miss for a while so it's nice to see ya back in the groove.
Do you guys think that this SCP is related in some way with SCP 5140, or is it just a coincidence?
Could be that 1529 is a living manifestation of 5140? That, or a symbiotic relationship between two SCP’s
It is possible they are connected. Probably a coincidence given the fact SCP-5140 came about years after SCP-1529. Some people just have similar ideas from time to time.
That said, it would be cool if someone made a connection between the two.
"That boy ain't right."
I listen to your vids when I'm gaming or at work and you keep me sane
Listen to these every night! You’re the best! :)
It makes me happy you still do these SCP logs
Surprised that this one isn't titled
[REDACTED] of the [REDACTED]
The Thing vibes that this videos thumbnail has, gives me the... chills
heh
Great video though Volgun!
I wanted to scream when I heard the “BZZT” for what was behind the goggles.
That was a good one. Shy guy vibes
There's a Theory that king of the mountain made 096
Awesome, been waiting for this guy
First the frozen corpses and now this guy man my vacation is absolutely ruined
So we're just not gonna acknowledge that Everest itself is an anomalous pile of human corpses?
Love the theory that this thing made 096. Don't remember much of the theory, but I remember it being intriguing
King of the Mountain, with a look that'd make anyone Shy about being looked in the eyes... or face.
Checked the channel for this entry like three days ago hoping you’d made one, so happy to see this notification
omg finalllllyyyy ive been waiting for this one
*A video about the top agents/doctors of the foundation would be nice*
I'll bet the shy guy's kill-anything-that-looks-at-me response is a direct adaptation to these things...
That's the guy who's responsible for SCP 096's creation! GET EM!!!!
Nice was hoping for a video today!
One of my favorite skips, great job!
The frequent use of data expunged was irritating at first... Until you realize that they wouldn't expunge it if they needed it, and it mostly occurs when describing what the SCP does to its victims.
Agent: "What did he do?"
L: "He (SCP activity)."
Researcher: "Oh, God, I did not need to hear that!" (pause) "Dammit I can't stop picturing it! Amnestics! Now!"
You know I’ve always wanted to “beat” as it were the challenge of Everest but after hearing this I cannot say that I would even attempt it without pure fear and at worst rage towards some thing that may not even be there..
i feel like this article was written by someone who dislikes people for risking their life for effectively nothing, so SCP-1529 is sort of a revenge against "stupid" people by it actively and terrifyingly going after those who do such dangerous things for no practical purpose. basically an "adventure-seeker hunter" or something.
The Volgun aka. "he with many voices."
So something I am noticing, SCP-5140 is Mount Everest itself correct, and SCP-1529 is also on the summit, so does that mean both these entities affect the mountain, or has 1529 no longer active since it’s a older article?
I think they both exist at the same time in a superposition, like SCP-031 in the Ryugyong hotel and another anomaly which I forgot the number of. Both anomalies exist and when someone encounters one of them, then that's the only one they can perceive.
If you include both in your personal canon, then both anomalies exist on the mountain, probably by coincidence.
Thank you for the upload👍👍
scp 1529 is actually a proposal of how scp 096 was made
I like the thumbnail of this video. A clear homage to 1982's "The Thing" film. 🙂
Good afternoon Dr Miller! Ready for today's lecture!
mt. everest: if the legion of frozen zombies doesn't get you, the voodoo hobo at the top will.
I *LOVE* your videos and I sincerely appreciate your effort!
This thing is basically the main box art for the thing
Premium quality content as usual thank you
This was so good. Made me spooked
I don't understand why infrared imagine wouldn't work. They probably meant to write thermal. Also bodies don't "rot" in subzero temps.
I'm pretty sure thermal is a version of ir if I remember correctly. But yes they definitely ment thermal