Why This 25,000 Foot Mountain Has Never Been Climbed

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КОМЕНТАРІ • 2 тис.

  • @TessaAvonlea
    @TessaAvonlea 2 роки тому +3607

    What about the smallest unclimbed mountain? That seems more impressive. It must be pretty nasty for no one to have bothered even though it's not that big.

    • @Aroshan01
      @Aroshan01 2 роки тому +250

      This might be a better idea idea than this video

    • @Nathansansfrontieres
      @Nathansansfrontieres 2 роки тому +357

      It's probably one of the smaller mountains in the Trans-Antarctic Mountain range, AKA The Mountains of Madness.

    • @thisisgettingold
      @thisisgettingold 2 роки тому +251

      I mean there's probably tons of smaller summits in Canada and Alaska that have never been climbed because they are remote and not noteworthy.

    • @coolest10293
      @coolest10293 2 роки тому +15

      I would watch that video! Quick! Someone make a bot that spams their suggestions page with this suggestion!

    • @planescaped
      @planescaped 2 роки тому +60

      See that mild hillock over there... I'd climb it, but it's too damn cold and I'm hungry.

  • @christobalcolon6601
    @christobalcolon6601 2 роки тому +1769

    Butan's most popular energy drink is Mountain Don't

  • @birb7841
    @birb7841 2 роки тому +498

    *Summary of all mountains named:*
    Gangkhar Puensum (Butan, 7570m)
    Highest unclimbed mountain
    Attempted but the top was never reached
    Butan law now prohibits any mountain climbing due to lack of infrastructure and sacred land
    Muchu Chhish (Pakistan, 7452)
    Highest unclimed mountain you could legally climb
    Too dangerousdue to ice storms, narrow ridges and cliffs
    Not officially it's own mountain
    Sauyr Zhotasy (China, 3840m)
    Karjiang (Tibet, 7221m)
    The friends we made along the way (1.70m)

    • @Clateon
      @Clateon Рік тому +3

      @Half as Interesting tacky joke--flipping someone else's lore/revered mountain into a rice krispy joke? Nah

    • @Luki-xr2ih
      @Luki-xr2ih Рік тому +4

      Sauyr Zhotasy (West Taiwan)

    • @anareaforakinglikeme3029
      @anareaforakinglikeme3029 Рік тому +8

      Kailash mountain

    • @silveriver9
      @silveriver9 5 місяців тому

      ​​​@Luki-xr2ih 🤡. Check any map and you won't find that to be true.

    • @eviljesus84
      @eviljesus84 Місяць тому

      China? Never heard of it. Sauyr Zhotasy is in Dzungaria.

  • @KING-ll2mz
    @KING-ll2mz 2 роки тому +799

    Remember, "The truest unclimbed peak is the friends we made along the way."

    • @tnk4me4
      @tnk4me4 2 роки тому +42

      That's the most pansexual sentence of 2021.

    • @monti0120
      @monti0120 2 роки тому +4

      @@tnk4me4 and it's inspired by a video on ethnostates

    • @TheWinjin
      @TheWinjin Рік тому +5

      However if you're friends with benefits, that peak becomes suddenly climbable

    • @bokuwautsu
      @bokuwautsu Рік тому

      ​@@tnk4me4 peaksexual

  • @PPUnknown
    @PPUnknown 2 роки тому +3514

    Wendover productions in a day: the logistics of climbing the worlds tallest unsummited mountain

    • @technicalamanullah7019
      @technicalamanullah7019 2 роки тому +31

      Bruh typing a satirical comment on the alternative title by the Wendower productions is my job. You came here early and took away my job 🤧😭😭

    • @svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038
      @svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038 2 роки тому +10

      Yea, Sam is always ripping off this channels content. Shameful ;p

    • @C.Dankertsen
      @C.Dankertsen 2 роки тому +19

      the logistics of making videos on the logistics of making videos on the logistics of making videos on the logistics of things

    • @TheJaguarHunter
      @TheJaguarHunter 2 роки тому

      @its fine is this the new Rick roll?

    • @svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038
      @svchineeljunk-riggedschoon4038 2 роки тому

      @its fine I hate it, thanks.

  • @Burbie
    @Burbie 2 роки тому +2232

    I love the people actually debating about Tibet...
    Wa- no don't stop
    It's boost in interaction!

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 роки тому +62

      All going according to plan.

    • @bradybaylis1803
      @bradybaylis1803 2 роки тому +98

      @@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I have no idea what you believe about Tibet, random internet person, but what ever you believe makes you a terrible person

    • @Honival
      @Honival 2 роки тому +168

      China doesn't exist, its just northern Tibet.
      There I said it.

    • @bradybaylis1803
      @bradybaylis1803 2 роки тому +146

      @@Honival China, Tibet, or “northern Tibet” don’t exist, it’s all just northern India

    • @Henry_D
      @Henry_D 2 роки тому +92

      @@Honival What you are talking about is called democratic Taiwan!

  • @westrim
    @westrim 2 роки тому +460

    Of course you can't just bring Nature Valley Bars!
    You also need Clif Bars.

    • @thePronto
      @thePronto 2 роки тому +6

      Because they stop you from falling?

    • @KJ4EZJ
      @KJ4EZJ 2 роки тому +3

      And Kind bars.

    • @AuraHero
      @AuraHero 2 роки тому +1

      No joke, when I climbed Mount Fuji a few years ago, I think I ate half a dozen of the Nut Butter Clif Bars.

    • @rajanranjitmistry
      @rajanranjitmistry 2 роки тому

      Where them Heath Bars at?

    • @derekw3069
      @derekw3069 Місяць тому

      🤣

  • @deandeanmickayla5148
    @deandeanmickayla5148 2 роки тому +246

    My friend was dealing with some Chinese players on arc invading his base and what not. They were streaming so my friends solution was to put a sign by their base saying "free tibet" and they immediately logged off. I lost it when he told me about it

    • @runnersshade6612
      @runnersshade6612 2 роки тому +40

      *quietly puts this comment in my memory banks for when I'm getting tilted in a competitive match in a game*

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy 2 роки тому +12

      I'm surprised they didn't try to level it. Unless of course they were afraid of being caught by the internet police.

    • @EatRawGarlic
      @EatRawGarlic 2 роки тому +8

      I was under the impression that their strategy was to break down resistance by forcing you into mixed marriages.

    • @dansands8140
      @dansands8140 2 роки тому +1

      @@EatRawGarlic This feels like the sort of weird comment a wumao who thinks racists actually exist would leave in order to divide Americans.

    • @benghazi4216
      @benghazi4216 2 роки тому +18

      @@dansands8140 Sure he is an idiot, but racists don't exist? Wtf?

  • @AmoghA
    @AmoghA 2 роки тому +1946

    Next video on Wendover Productions:
    "Logistics Of Climbing Gangkhar Puensum" where Sam from Wendover only speaks about skydiving to that peak from an Airplane as there is no Sam without Airplanes.

    • @KnightOfEvil
      @KnightOfEvil 2 роки тому +10

      Not wendover. It's an perfect extremities episode

    • @TheArijitBanerjee
      @TheArijitBanerjee 2 роки тому +12

      Then Buddhist monks appear from nowhere and kungfu you out from the mountain

    • @najayanlama4048
      @najayanlama4048 2 роки тому +4

      Lol I can see this mountain every morning from my home town and didnt know it was unscaled.

    • @wannabewallaby1592
      @wannabewallaby1592 2 роки тому +1

      No skydiving, yes planediving. Can send more people on the peak faster than ever

    • @AmoghA
      @AmoghA 2 роки тому +2

      @@wannabewallaby1592 The comment section got dark real quick

  • @morskojvolk
    @morskojvolk 2 роки тому +3270

    Tibet, as everyone knows, has been a part of West Taiwan since ancient times...

    • @colindupuis5585
      @colindupuis5585 2 роки тому +259

      West Taiwan lol

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 2 роки тому +138

      No it's part of Nigeria everyone knows.

    • @LaGuerre19
      @LaGuerre19 2 роки тому +144

      Ah yes, the sovereign nation of Tibet. As free and independent as Taiwan and Taiwan's singular rights to the EEZ of the South China Sea, I mean, South West-Taiwan Sea.

    • @Stroporez
      @Stroporez 2 роки тому +46

      Taiwan still lays claim on Tibet.

    • @rushthezeppelin
      @rushthezeppelin 2 роки тому +206

      Remember kids, Tibet and Taiwan are countries and the Tienamin Square massacre happened...

  • @thebookwasbetter3650
    @thebookwasbetter3650 2 роки тому +315

    Mount Everest does not have an escalator but they did install ladder a few years ago at a particular choke point. It really is amazing to see the line of people that hike it each day.

    • @christianesch5938
      @christianesch5938 2 роки тому +36

      Also, I am unsure if the Rainforest Cafe is still open after the pandemic...

    • @Paakku97
      @Paakku97 2 роки тому +30

      Its not that amount that hike it each day. The picture your referring to was taken in a situation where there was just two days of good weather for summiting in many months, so tons of people went up in a short time

    • @zorilaz
      @zorilaz 2 роки тому +8

      Each day ? Lol probably a month a year is when everyone is climbing it. The rest of the time the mountain is empty

    • @danielcervini2545
      @danielcervini2545 Рік тому +5

      And is it true that there’s also now a Starbucks about 3/4 of the way up?

    • @ajc94
      @ajc94 Рік тому +1

      I very much doubt that but give it 50 or 100 years...

  • @sundhaug92
    @sundhaug92 2 роки тому +81

    Alternatively, Olympus Mons could be considered the tallest mountain never to have been climbed

    • @runnersshade6612
      @runnersshade6612 2 роки тому +15

      As far as we're aware

    • @fredupstairs8234
      @fredupstairs8234 2 роки тому +42

      Of course you pack Mars Bars, not Nature Valley Bars for that climb.

    • @differentfins
      @differentfins 8 місяців тому +10

      Only in our solar system.... there are likely mountains somewhere else in the universe that are bigger than our entire planet.

    • @chacaabbaylee768
      @chacaabbaylee768 2 місяці тому

      It was climbed in the 4th cycle.....

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 2 роки тому +2080

    "Much like frosted tips, no one has dared attempt it since the 90's"
    Wonder how many people with frosted tips are watching this right now

    • @bruhz_089
      @bruhz_089 2 роки тому +36

      Stop commenting

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 2 роки тому +99

      I can prove that all people with frosted tips since the 90s must live in Wyoming, and therefore must not exist. However, the proof is too long to type here.

    • @SmokeyChipOatley
      @SmokeyChipOatley 2 роки тому +19


      Sadly… but I was 9yrs old and it was 1997. Give me a break.

    • @JoesFlips
      @JoesFlips 2 роки тому +2

      69

    • @bruhz_089
      @bruhz_089 2 роки тому +2

      @@JoesFlips 420

  • @libberator5891
    @libberator5891 2 роки тому +262

    4:46 "But Tibentually..." I see what you did there

    • @Menon9767
      @Menon9767 2 роки тому +13

      What are you talking about? Nothing to be heard there?

    • @TheEDFLegacy
      @TheEDFLegacy 2 роки тому +7

      I didn't even notice it until I read this comment. Nice catch! 😂

    • @michaelxz1305
      @michaelxz1305 2 роки тому +3

      He say's "but..... eventually", he hangs onto the t - maybe that's why it sounds like that to you

  • @dionysuspicious
    @dionysuspicious 2 роки тому +21

    Mount Kailash in Tibet and Sarwali Peak in Kashmir are two unconquered Himalayan mountains, both with a great spiritual history.

    • @ss_avsmt
      @ss_avsmt Рік тому +4

      Not unconquered. Just not allowed. Get your facts correct. Kailash is a sacred place to multiple religions.

    • @dionysuspicious
      @dionysuspicious Рік тому +6

      @@ss_avsmt well, yeah…. Kailash is a holy mountain and people haven’t been allowed to summit it for the past few decades, but attempts have been made in the past.
      And Sarwali remains unconquered to this day.

  • @jimsvideos7201
    @jimsvideos7201 2 роки тому +1359

    If there was anyone in Wyoming I'm sure they'd be offended.

    • @jstan5802
      @jstan5802 2 роки тому +136

      What's Wyoming? Never heard of it, it must not have exist.

    • @mcdrums87
      @mcdrums87 2 роки тому +35

      How can anyone be in a place that doesn't exist?
      (Also I was like number 69 on your comment)

    • @Belboz99
      @Belboz99 2 роки тому +27

      "If", too right.... Good thing there's really no Wyoming then.

    • @OrangeC7
      @OrangeC7 2 роки тому +35

      There's really no reason to wonder about such crazy hypotheticals, you know

    • @Flabulo
      @Flabulo 2 роки тому +20

      Oh they're there. I know because they come up to Montana to buy things without sales tax. They drive all over my city too slow and somehow get lost even though they're here all the time. Damn cowboys should stick to eating deer on a stick cooked over a campfire and stop plugging up the Winco in Billings!

  • @andybrinegar8861
    @andybrinegar8861 2 роки тому +2071

    Here in Colorado, we have what are called 14ers. As the name suggests, these mountain peaks are at least 14,000 feet above sea level. I’ve done two, and it’s so breathtaking to be that high above treeline.
    But even at 14,000ft, you can feel the effects of thin air and altitude wearing you down. I can’t imagine doing something 24,000, that’s just insane

    • @OceanAce
      @OceanAce 2 роки тому +54

      Now you make me want to go mountain climbing in Colorado.

    • @JimboRustles
      @JimboRustles 2 роки тому +145

      Colorado being in the US, there are two of those where you can just drive your car straight up to the top.

    • @Forestdude-be6ud
      @Forestdude-be6ud 2 роки тому +29

      @@AxxLAfriku Hey look, the dumb bot liked his own comment.

    • @johnchedsey1306
      @johnchedsey1306 2 роки тому +28

      Driving to the top of Mt. Evans doesn't really count ;)

    • @Zman44444
      @Zman44444 2 роки тому +31

      I’ve done one, and grew up in Colorado. I wish my family were hikers as a kid.
      You’re right. There’s something magical about being at that height. You’re cold, water is frozen, it’s windy. But you’re smiling from ear to ear.

  • @milseq
    @milseq 2 роки тому +37

    Bhutan passed a law prohibiting mountain climbing? Well, how's little Johnny going to come home from school then?

    • @spudowmahbrethren9392
      @spudowmahbrethren9392 2 роки тому +7

      You see, the Association of Bhutan's Schools (or ABS) found a legal loophole, where it's only illegal to *climb* a mountain.
      Therefore, all Bhutanese schools are required to have a catapult with minimum dimensions of 4m by 6m, and it should be mobile, obviously, you need to be able to target every home in the village.
      Therefore, once the bell for hometime rings, little Johnny and his friends get on the catapult one-by-one, curl into a ball, and enjoy the world's worst rendition of Angry Birds (like c'mon, there's no Angry or Birds).
      And no, you cannot use it, as the catapult is forbidden for tourists.

    • @milseq
      @milseq 2 роки тому +2

      @@spudowmahbrethren9392 I see.

    • @creativedesignation7880
      @creativedesignation7880 2 роки тому +6

      No, it's fine, since they are punished by meters of elevation climbed daily. Since that way to school goes up and down the mountain the daily meters of elevation climbed up and down average out to zero.

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 2 роки тому +4

      Question, what about rolling up mountains?
      Not in a vehicle, but in a fetal ball or a cartwheel.
      -
      Or how about mountain falling, involving parachuting from a high-altitude balloon to the peak, then just kind of letting gravity do its thing.

    • @milseq
      @milseq 2 роки тому +1

      @@MonkeyJedi99 pretty sure that is the Far Cry 4 plot

  • @timgrewy4
    @timgrewy4 2 роки тому +36

    Wow, that was a great area of land you showed - maybe it should be its own country?

  • @SoldiesBC
    @SoldiesBC 2 роки тому +375

    Short Answer: It's illegal.

    • @fourk_
      @fourk_ 2 роки тому +2

      lol

    • @abrarasif8215
      @abrarasif8215 2 роки тому +1

      Lol

    • @eustache_dauger
      @eustache_dauger 2 роки тому +9

      Illegal to climb, so technically you can parachute onto the summit & descent? 🤔🤔🤔

    • @syrialak101
      @syrialak101 2 роки тому +5

      @@eustache_dauger _insert picture of black guy tapping his head_

    • @briant.
      @briant. 2 роки тому +2

      @its fine shutup

  • @RobJanousek
    @RobJanousek 2 роки тому +235

    At 4:30 "If you're going by ALTITUDE..." then you are applying a misnomer that only a mountaineering pedant might notice. If you are going by ELEVATION however...

    • @timothyodonnell8591
      @timothyodonnell8591 2 роки тому +63

      Congratulations for contributing to HAI's 2022 corrections video.

    • @GiovanniRuffinengo
      @GiovanniRuffinengo 2 роки тому +6

      Wait, what's the difference?

    • @bicolnolas4780
      @bicolnolas4780 2 роки тому +35

      @@GiovanniRuffinengo Elevation is the height above sea level, Altitude is the vertical distance between an object and the ground

    • @AnsibleAdams
      @AnsibleAdams 2 роки тому +14

      @@bicolnolas4780 Considering that mountains, hills and everything else not in the water is ground, then mountains, hills, etc. don't have altitude. They are all ground. I guess only things in the air can have altitude as they are not part of the ground.

    • @apburner1
      @apburner1 2 роки тому +8

      @@bicolnolas4780 No. Aircraft have altimeters, not elevimeters.

  • @nlabonte
    @nlabonte 2 роки тому +39

    Congrats, Sam! I'm the first one to tell you that you're now wrong and that the highest unclimbed peak is [*insert name of newest, highest unclimbed peak here when it eventually happens*]

  • @ericfielding2540
    @ericfielding2540 10 місяців тому +10

    There must be a huge number of peaks in the Tibetan Plateau that have never been climbed, since the interior of the plateau is about 800 km (500 miles) from the nearest road and the valleys are about 5000 meters or 17,000 feet above sea level.

  • @bcubed72
    @bcubed72 2 роки тому +52

    _"Ain't no mountain high enough"_
    ...okay, maybe ONE.

  • @Miconazole
    @Miconazole 2 роки тому +58

    3:20 I would not be surprise if this Czech mountaineers just used slippers and a trusty rope.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 роки тому +9

      I think that should be the rule for what counts as a mountain.
      A mountain is anywhere the Czechs show up to climb.

  • @saml7610
    @saml7610 9 місяців тому +5

    I have no opinions on Tibet, since I'm a white boy with no stake in it, but I HAVE travelled there, and I'm happy to boost engagement by talking about the opinions of the people I met there.
    In Tibet, quite literally everyone I spoke to identified as Tibetan first, but they vehemently insisted that they were also Chinese, because China rescued the Tibetans from slavery, apparently. Those monks were up to some really bad stuff, putting everyone into brutal serfdom, so the Tibetan people weren't exactly upset that the Chinese rolled in and ended that. Ultimately, they were super autonomous. It didn't FEEL like I was still in China - it felt like I was in a sovereign state - despite knowing I was. China has it's problems, as all countries do, but Tibet didn't seem to be one of them, at least not when I visited.
    Also, if you wanna go the Dalai Lama route, I was told multiple times he was linked to the CIA, so when I got back to the states, I looked it up, and boy howdy... they were telling the truth. The Dalai Lama is on the CIA payroll (via a cut out agency called the National Endowment for Democracy, basically how the CIA openly funds stuff), or at least he was as recently as 2014. If the CIA is paying you, I just assume everything you say is a lie designed to make me want to blow up Muslim people. So, in short, I don't trust that bald child molester we call the Dalai Lama, and you probably shouldn't either.
    Before having opinions on Tibet, you should go there and speak to the people. Don't listen to immigrants from Tibet - there's always a reason they left, and they'll almost always lie to you about why, because they know it wouldn't make them look good (hint: their parents/grandparents owned slaves).

    • @gregxu5142
      @gregxu5142 Місяць тому +1

      I appreciate the honest and objective information. This guys basically just wants people to post comments so he can benefit from the algorithm. It's also funny how everyone's so hyped up about Tibet, rejecting to call it Xizang, while nobody is calling Okinawa as its native name, Ryukyu, or saying "Free Ryukyu" or "Free Hawaii." Welp they're justing using their so-called "justice" as disguise for their shadily prejudiced self-interest.

  • @bossdude911
    @bossdude911 2 роки тому +8

    “The Bhutanese government didn’t want the mountain littered with Nature Valley Bars…” 😂😂 too true, so great

  • @TheLiamster
    @TheLiamster 2 роки тому +395

    The highest mountain that has never been climbed is Olympus Mons.

    • @siddharthssvlogs
      @siddharthssvlogs 2 роки тому +31

      Musk is working on making it happen

    • @NoNameAtAll2
      @NoNameAtAll2 2 роки тому +45

      the highest mountain _we know so far_

    • @wyqtor
      @wyqtor 2 роки тому +8

      Musk is gonna land a rocket on top of it just to spite everyone.

    • @queeny5613
      @queeny5613 2 роки тому

      Yep

    • @Game_Hero
      @Game_Hero 2 роки тому +17

      @@wyqtor B-but that's not climbing anymore...

  • @TheVoidPhantom
    @TheVoidPhantom 2 роки тому +126

    Personally, I believe that Tibet is a place that is located on Earth.

    • @JonathanGiovannacci
      @JonathanGiovannacci 2 роки тому +18

      Nooo don't get politicaaal

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 роки тому +10

      Ha, what a moron. Everyone knows Tibet is on Saturn.

    • @swumbles
      @swumbles 2 роки тому +7

      hey man, watch it

    • @teemusid
      @teemusid 2 роки тому +8

      Earth? Nobody believes that Earth exists anymore.

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 2 роки тому +2

      China wants to know if you want Ti-bet on it.
      Well, they would, but they're busy pretending they own the entire Western Pacific Ocean

  • @beast_boy97
    @beast_boy97 2 роки тому +161

    I've always wanted to know, what is the tallest-appearing mountain? Like Everest is the tallest, but the surrounding landscape isn't at sea level, so does it seem very tall when you see it in person? I expect Mt Kilimanjaro would be more impressive because of the way it suddenly lurches out of the flat savannah. I'm guessing prominence has something to do with that.

    • @johndeaton4607
      @johndeaton4607 2 роки тому +42

      denali in alaska i believe

    • @beast_boy97
      @beast_boy97 2 роки тому +36

      @@johndeaton4607 That seems like it would make sense, since it's a granitic pluton. What got me thinking about this was Mt Whitney; seeing it in person from Lone Pine, CA, you can hardly make it out compared to the neighboring peaks. But I was surprised at how striking Mt Shasta and Mt Rainier are. I think it's because they're isolated volcanoes, not just another peak in part of a mountain range.

    • @ross9581
      @ross9581 2 роки тому +4

      Maybe Aconcagua

    • @Felipe_Ribeir0
      @Felipe_Ribeir0 2 роки тому +17

      I think that nanga parbat rupal face is the most impressive. I never saw it live, but its the biggest vertical wall in the world, it has 4.5km. So it must look very tall.

    • @jorgeospina611
      @jorgeospina611 2 роки тому +9

      Cristóbal Colón peak, in Sierra Nevada Santa Marta colombia is the highest coastal mountain in the world, I mean you see this giant from sea level to the top, it's only 6000mt tall but you gotta climb all that shit

  • @salomonsandoval5919
    @salomonsandoval5919 2 роки тому +14

    “A backpack full of nature valleys “ 😂🤣

  • @QubaMichalski
    @QubaMichalski 2 роки тому +46

    FREE TIBET*
    *With a purchase of another Tibet of equal or greater value.

    • @real_dddf
      @real_dddf 2 роки тому +1

      damn US really got scammed, if they negotiated properly they would have gotten free Siberia with their purchase of Alaska.

    • @asheep7797
      @asheep7797 Місяць тому

      buy one tibet for 2, get another for free!

  • @ultra_gagayay
    @ultra_gagayay 2 роки тому +232

    "it's no longer legal" LAWS PREPARE TO BE IGNORED

    • @briant.
      @briant. 2 роки тому +1

      @its fine shutup

    • @CIARUNSITE
      @CIARUNSITE 2 роки тому +4

      Guy who never heard of Buhtan 6 minutes ago tries to make joke that only exhibits his ignorance of what the country actually is.

    • @ultra_gagayay
      @ultra_gagayay 2 роки тому +2

      @@CIARUNSITE "angry buhtan man pissed because of a joke about climbing a mountain"

    • @perkwunos2499
      @perkwunos2499 2 роки тому

      @@ultra_gagayay He is American??

  • @Mr.ChadRodriguez
    @Mr.ChadRodriguez 2 роки тому +84

    "We not only made friends along the way....We made a FAMILY!" - by Dom [maybe]

  • @mohitdhanwani6431
    @mohitdhanwani6431 2 роки тому +35

    Mt. Kailash is also an Unclimbed Peak in recent history and is also considered holy by Tibetans, Indians and Nepali

    • @Assbeaterniggachad
      @Assbeaterniggachad 2 роки тому +4

      Well The government doesn't allow anyone to climb that mountain so...

    • @mohitdhanwani6431
      @mohitdhanwani6431 2 роки тому +1

      @@Assbeaterniggachad It isn't in India but China right now and almost everyone who tried to climb it in recorded history has died so Chinese Govt has placed a temporary ban on it

  • @Journeyman.71
    @Journeyman.71 2 роки тому +13

    A video I'd like to see is one on the most out of place skyscraper. Say, if there happens to be someplace where there's maybe an 80 story building, but everything else in the area is, maybe, 15 floors or fewer! Or maybe a 30 story building where there's nothing else taller than 2 or 3 stories.

  • @Noba46688
    @Noba46688 2 роки тому +123

    25,000 feet is equal to 7.62 kilometres, by the way.

  • @LeadPen
    @LeadPen 2 роки тому +26

    you know were in the endgame where he does not start his video off with "This is a Half as Interesting Video made possible by Squarespace"

  • @Thoughtatnight
    @Thoughtatnight Рік тому +8

    I recently did a 3515 meter climb and it was not that bad if you take it slowly. Just don't rush into it and enjoy the scenery.

  • @Gormathius
    @Gormathius 2 роки тому +10

    2:53 This makes me think of the "prestige" of owning an item that's no longer obtainable in an MMO. Good job, you played during a specific time frame, I'm sure that took a lot of skill on your part.

    • @jeredhoff3
      @jeredhoff3 Рік тому

      However - the clip of the condos/beach is actually Naples FL, rather than Daytona.

  • @imathreat209
    @imathreat209 2 роки тому +46

    I climbed it, no one was there though to witness

    • @MangoMonkey
      @MangoMonkey 2 роки тому +4

      Including you

    • @RacTac
      @RacTac 2 роки тому +17

      It's true, I was the mountain

    • @imathreat209
      @imathreat209 2 роки тому +8

      @@MangoMonkey you was there with me, you don't remember?

    • @rm_steele
      @rm_steele 2 роки тому +1

      your father wasn't there to see your best accomplishment, but you know who is here for you? dashlabe

    • @MangoMonkey
      @MangoMonkey 2 роки тому

      @@imathreat209 xD

  • @lolake7594
    @lolake7594 2 роки тому +93

    I never knew that the activity was called “mountaineering”. You learn something new every day.

    • @columbus8myhw
      @columbus8myhw 2 роки тому +3

      About as silly as "engine-eering"

    • @PFBM86
      @PFBM86 2 роки тому +16

      I thought it was called "finding creative new places to leave my Nature Valley Bar wrappers"

  • @danieldeng6439
    @danieldeng6439 2 роки тому +103

    It would be interesting to know the shortest unclimbed mountain!

    • @jameslarkin4567
      @jameslarkin4567 2 роки тому +11

      You’d have to argue on the exact elevation a mountain starts being a mountain also that wouldn’t be interesting at all

    • @saitamabeach2200
      @saitamabeach2200 2 роки тому +30

      I once walked up the world's tallest hill. I took me 8 minutes and I munched on a Mars Bar about half way to keep up my energy.

    • @clomino3
      @clomino3 2 роки тому +5

      Different organizations consider different heigts for things to be called mountains. Sam actually alludes to that in this video when he mentions the 300-meter rule. So it would be whatever mountain is closest to that height without being below it

    • @erikharaldsson2416
      @erikharaldsson2416 2 роки тому +1

      I was also wondering about that question.

    • @MonkeyJedi99
      @MonkeyJedi99 2 роки тому +4

      That brings to mind the question I heard in a Moxie Fruvous song, "Which (US) state has the lowest highest point?"
      (Meaning the highest point is that state is lower than the highest point in the other 49 states)
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      It's Delaware, if you want to know.

  • @cameron.t
    @cameron.t 2 роки тому +7

    In times of “the world is ending” media being everywhere, this channel needs to be renamed twice an interesting. Such a breath of fresh air (haha), this video is

    • @jtcyr1439
      @jtcyr1439 2 роки тому +1

      No

    • @careygrant8697
      @careygrant8697 2 роки тому

      Six months later the world probably really is about to end

  • @adisario
    @adisario 2 роки тому +160

    How did you determine the number of mountains on Earth? I want a video on that!

    • @MetallicMutalisk
      @MetallicMutalisk 2 роки тому +51

      you go to a mountain and mark it down. then you count the marks after you've seen them all

    • @DJFPhantomPhan
      @DJFPhantomPhan 2 роки тому +9

      @@MetallicMutalisk If there was an agreed-upon definition of what a mountain is.

    • @MetallicMutalisk
      @MetallicMutalisk 2 роки тому +48

      @@DJFPhantomPhan i know one when I see one

    • @CTSFanSam
      @CTSFanSam 2 роки тому +2

      I have to assume each one has a name as well. That is a lot of names. I hope they are no duplicates.

    • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
      @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 2 роки тому +41

      There was a census. Every mountain in the world had to fill out a form saying they're a mountain.

  • @xXbarnProductionXx
    @xXbarnProductionXx 2 роки тому +7

    Who's Tibet?

  • @MrDlt123
    @MrDlt123 2 роки тому +7

    What most non-climbers dont know is that for most climb-able mountains in the U.S., climbers generally pack their poop in a bag and carry it back down the mountain to be properly disposed of. We do that so that the mountains dont become a toxic waste dump. Also, we melt ice up on the mountain to drink, and no one wants to drink ice that may be laced with some previous climber's sh**. As long as you also stay away from the yellow ice, youre golden...or er...youre not.

    • @s1lv3rfir3
      @s1lv3rfir3 10 місяців тому +1

      that little joke at the end cracked me up

  • @treeman5263
    @treeman5263 Рік тому +5

    “Places people have never been: the vast expanse of space, the majority of the ocean floor, Wyoming” 😂 that was a good one.

  • @matthewdrummond1340
    @matthewdrummond1340 2 роки тому +11

    3:03 Make baby yeeting an Olympic event. ~ Matty 2021

    • @SeanRPS
      @SeanRPS 2 роки тому

      I vote in favour. Do we want to use beanie babies? And can we throw it like a Frisbee?

  • @evanbrowne4029
    @evanbrowne4029 2 роки тому +40

    Tibet is rightful Mongolian territory!
    There that should solve the discussion.

  • @AVRiegel
    @AVRiegel 2 роки тому +11

    I believe Reinhold Messner still has a valid permit by the Bhutan government to climb Gangkar Puensum, but he said that he will not use the permit in the future. Still - technically he could summit it legally, though he is pretty much the only one and declined to do so.

    • @bburkie55
      @bburkie55 Рік тому +1

      I wouldn't expect him to attempt a climb anytime soon. He's 77 years old.

    • @jjhrkel
      @jjhrkel Рік тому

      Hes old

  • @themostfearedbagelman6709
    @themostfearedbagelman6709 2 роки тому +37

    God, I love Tibet. Such a pretty place. I sure hope they have personal rights there.

    • @alphaforest
      @alphaforest Рік тому

      What? What are you talking about? Is it somewhere in South America?

  • @SoggyCoffeeAddict
    @SoggyCoffeeAddict 2 роки тому +16

    I've climbed on my friends, and now I don't have any. So I don't think it's that 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @Eeveeguru
    @Eeveeguru 2 роки тому +22

    "A two state solution would work for the China situation"
    I don't know about that, 2 Taiwan's seems like a lot of Taiwan's but ok

    • @leofisher407
      @leofisher407 2 роки тому

      hear me out, neither side wins and we restore the qing dynasty

    • @klebdapleb3928
      @klebdapleb3928 2 роки тому

      @@leofisher407 no wait...
      He's got a point

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 2 роки тому +8

    The truest unclimbed peak is the top of your own head.

  • @22espec
    @22espec 2 роки тому +2

    The Andes also had a lot of unclimbed mountains, they are not hard to climb just hard to get there.

  • @Alexmarr14Blogspot
    @Alexmarr14Blogspot 2 роки тому +32

    I love how the Title Changes in different countries between metres and feet

    • @Ethan5I5
      @Ethan5I5 2 роки тому +3

      How does he do that?

    • @zawarudo8877
      @zawarudo8877 2 роки тому +1

      It doesn’t work for me though, it’s still in feet even though I use the metric system

    • @LaGuerre19
      @LaGuerre19 2 роки тому

      I wonder what unit of measure they use in the country of Tibet?

    • @zawarudo8877
      @zawarudo8877 2 роки тому

      @@LaGuerre19 pretty sure they use metric, only a few countries use the imperial system

    • @TheKazragore
      @TheKazragore 2 роки тому

      My tab header says 25,000ft while the video title says 7,500.

  • @GeneraI_Motors
    @GeneraI_Motors 2 роки тому +34

    As someone who lives in Daytona Beach, Im pretty sure nobody wants to move here

    • @gabrieledri5710
      @gabrieledri5710 2 роки тому +3

      Unless they're NASCAR fans

    • @GeneraI_Motors
      @GeneraI_Motors 2 роки тому +5

      @@gabrieledri5710 I literally live less than a mile from the speedway, I used to love NASCAR. Used to...

    • @PFBM86
      @PFBM86 2 роки тому +3

      At least housing prices should drop soon due to the governor genociding the entire state through lack of covid safety measures

  • @CG-zi5ku
    @CG-zi5ku 2 роки тому +2

    That diagram @1:13 is very misleading. Although mountain heights are measured from sea level to their peaks, by the time you get to the base camp of any mountain to start your climb you are already at least 5000m up from sea level, so for example for Everest you only actually climb from 5,400m to 8850m (i.e. 3450m) - so that diagram actually shows height from base camp to the top.

  • @angelcavegti4131
    @angelcavegti4131 2 роки тому +4

    Bhutan: you cant climb this mountain. its really sacred and something else you will die and we cant save you because its going to be expensive etc etc etc
    Mountaineer finding this mountain: *going around tibet*

  • @JGamingTV
    @JGamingTV 2 роки тому +7

    LETS RAID THE 25000 FT MOUNTAIN | 7/25/22 | THEY CANT STOP ALL OF US

  • @nachopascual96
    @nachopascual96 2 роки тому +25

    PLUTO IS A PLANET... wait, that wasn't the question

  • @jutabant
    @jutabant Рік тому +5

    So in your opinion how hard of a climb would mt doom or lonely mountain be?

  • @yousefal-nassar7279
    @yousefal-nassar7279 2 роки тому +1

    The fact that you included Karjiang in your video shows that you did your homework, Kudos!

  • @shreerajvasistha419
    @shreerajvasistha419 2 роки тому +8

    The footage of happy Tibetans frolicking around in a marketplace(4:20. No joke)? Pretty sure that is somewhere in Nepal.

    • @aa6eheia156
      @aa6eheia156 2 роки тому

      Yes, that's in Taumadhi square, Bhaktapur where Nyatapol temple is located

  • @veganmonter
    @veganmonter 2 роки тому +29

    Getting the 50-cent Army to comment is a great way to boost engagement!

    • @ndysabbathjnr1309
      @ndysabbathjnr1309 2 роки тому +2

      You have been watching China uncensored 🤣

    • @dsnodgrass4843
      @dsnodgrass4843 2 роки тому +1

      Wumaos and crypto shill bots are a curse everywhere but here, it seems.

    • @hououinkyouma77
      @hououinkyouma77 2 роки тому

      what's 50-cent Army ?

  • @striveknight4782
    @striveknight4782 2 роки тому +5

    That's probably where the Yeti be hiding his gaming den.

  • @superz2698
    @superz2698 2 роки тому +6

    Why does every informational channel I watch post on about the same week every couple of weeks, it's like a cult

    • @ernstschmidt4725
      @ernstschmidt4725 2 роки тому +1

      i guess is people having schedules. or it's really a clique of channels or something cultey like that.

  • @njdevilku1340
    @njdevilku1340 2 роки тому +11

    I've been to Wyoming!!! It DOES exist.

    • @mofumyon
      @mofumyon 2 роки тому +7

      You're in on the conspiracy!

    • @njdevilku1340
      @njdevilku1340 2 роки тому

      @Martin Shaw 46 down 3 to go.

    • @TwoToedSloth
      @TwoToedSloth 2 роки тому

      Yeah, ok, I believe you, just like I believe that Bhutan is a country /s

    • @Bacopa68
      @Bacopa68 2 роки тому

      I bet you are gonna say you went to Bielefeld next.

  • @adamdapatsfan
    @adamdapatsfan 2 роки тому +13

    I'm so glad that people are taking his advice and choosing not to start arguments in the comments! So nice of him to selflessly sacrifice his engagement metrics for the sake of our mental wellbeing

  • @SirGnomes
    @SirGnomes 2 роки тому +2

    i cant belive how they climbed way back in the old days. its so dangerous

  • @literatemax
    @literatemax 2 роки тому +1

    0:40 to 0:51 is so amazing the wording and visuals, well done!

    • @literatemax
      @literatemax 2 роки тому

      Smooth segway to the ad too lmao

  • @dristor2
    @dristor2 2 роки тому +41

    Free Tibet!*
    .
    .
    * - with purchase of another Tibet of equal or greater value

    • @benghazi4216
      @benghazi4216 2 роки тому

      "Purchase" ... How cute. Theft is the name of the game.

  • @eikejung572
    @eikejung572 2 роки тому +8

    4:57 sounds about right xD

  • @adamandracheloconnor2920
    @adamandracheloconnor2920 2 роки тому +3

    The truest unclimbed peak is the friends we made along the way.🤣

  • @nicholasthompson2308
    @nicholasthompson2308 2 роки тому

    this is one of your funniest in recent memory! good job sam from Wendover - i mean - sam from HAI!

    • @0037kevin
      @0037kevin 2 роки тому +1

      I hope you are kidding. These are the dumbest "jokes" my 12 year old nephew would'nt laugh at.

  • @Tuxedoed
    @Tuxedoed 2 роки тому +38

    Well, I didn't make any friends along the way... what's the tallest unclimbed peak now?!

  • @winspaarkiebarkiebarker
    @winspaarkiebarkiebarker 2 роки тому +9

    Free Tibet (you’re welcome Sam)

  • @josephbisulca7957
    @josephbisulca7957 2 роки тому

    Man I knew most of this and I STILL watched the video. You got me hai

  • @d.aarrrreenn2127
    @d.aarrrreenn2127 2 роки тому +3

    you thought no planes were involved until 1:44 (look at bottom right)

  • @TheGeographyBible
    @TheGeographyBible 2 роки тому +43

    I've actually climbed this mountain a few times, it's easy.

    • @Dan86130
      @Dan86130 2 роки тому +3

      Who doesn't? Every day a walk is healthy

    • @ogedeh
      @ogedeh 2 роки тому +12

      Must be where that school was my grandparents talked about

    • @PPUnknown
      @PPUnknown 2 роки тому +7

      @@ogedeh yeah but they walked uphill both ways

    • @m00rem0ney24
      @m00rem0ney24 2 роки тому

      barely an inconvenience

  • @ethohalfslab
    @ethohalfslab 2 роки тому +26

    Tibet is a country :)

  • @martineldritch
    @martineldritch 10 місяців тому +1

    Mons Huygens is the Moon's tallest mountain at 18,046 ft. Unlike Mars humans have been to the Moon but have never bothered to climb Mons Huygens yet.

  • @walkerharnden17
    @walkerharnden17 2 роки тому

    one of the best HAI's yet !

  • @ViliamDohnal
    @ViliamDohnal 2 роки тому +8

    To answer your question about Tibet, it has always been and continues to be an autonomous region of Bhutan

    • @talkingtree8166
      @talkingtree8166 2 роки тому +2

      Wait, I thought it belong to Nepal?

    • @anupamtiwari5587
      @anupamtiwari5587 2 роки тому +1

      @@talkingtree8166 Tibet has been separate from all 4, Nepal, Bhutan, India and China, although the Kingdom of Tibet once had control over a few territories of all 4. But as Buddhism spread from India to Bhutan and Nepal and then to Tibet, the cultures became fairly similar. On top of that, they all have quite similar climate and terrain so it may seem they were a part of each other.

  • @queeny5613
    @queeny5613 2 роки тому +5

    This is amazing

  • @ashutoshmourya4748
    @ashutoshmourya4748 2 роки тому +2

    It's Tibet which is supposed to be an independent country, which was occupied by China

  • @Kaitou-ug5yi
    @Kaitou-ug5yi 2 роки тому +2

    I'm pretty sure they're less concerned about Nature Valley bars and more concerned with human litter-- and by that I mean corpses littering the mountain past the point where it's reasonable to attempt to retrieve them. Literally there are corpses that have been considered trail landmarks on Everest.

  • @maclain728
    @maclain728 2 роки тому +5

    What’s China? Do you mean West-Taiwan?

  • @larmax5882
    @larmax5882 2 роки тому +4

    Czech mountain climbers? no wonder they didn't make it

  • @Kjca_1998
    @Kjca_1998 2 роки тому +1

    I got all the way to Tibet and realised I'd forgotten my jar of climbing cream.

  • @chrisc6857
    @chrisc6857 7 місяців тому

    Eagerly awaiting the day when they get a hold of industrial drilling equipment and burrow horizontally under Everest to the point directly beneath the peak, then straight up, and do in fact install an elevator...

  • @shivalingarajklingaiah705
    @shivalingarajklingaiah705 2 роки тому +6

    they shd try using skillshare

  • @anurag_anant
    @anurag_anant 2 роки тому +13

    That land is Tibet. Illegally occupied by China.

  • @lorenzo1843
    @lorenzo1843 2 роки тому +2

    0:48 damn I felt that 😅😭 but fair point

  • @charlesaugis7784
    @charlesaugis7784 Рік тому

    "Sending French guys in places where those guys are not supposed to be"
    Beautiful! :)

  • @mjtt12
    @mjtt12 2 роки тому +4

    How to make “Chinese people” mad. Correction, mainland Taiwan :)

  • @OrangeC7
    @OrangeC7 2 роки тому +4

  • @sakar9688
    @sakar9688 2 роки тому +2

    4:28 says Tibet and shows Nepal

  • @dexterx55
    @dexterx55 2 роки тому

    Im dead, i laughed so hard the whole time. Great Video, instant sub