Wow this is amazing, i have the large hardback book on this expedition. I would look at the pictures and want to do this. I've never seen a video about it before. I got the book for Christmas in 1985. I've still got it in my everest collection. Rip Blair Griffith. Thank you Pat Morrow! I'd never thought I'd be putting a message on your you tube channel!.... legend.
Superb documentary - articulate, intelligent and moving. Also interesting to hear so many British accents in the group. Kudos to those who attempt to summit this mountain. Brave souls.
I love watching mountaineers I’m older Iwas an athlete all my life. I never understood mountaineering, I’ve competed in many sports and when I lost I trained harder and did better; I would never give my life for a loss. This is why I watch mountain climbing; I don’t understand their what drives them.
every athlete, mountaineers included, has personal motivations...thus, it's impossible to generalize what drives us. for me, it's curiosity - i want to see what's beyond the horizon
yes, due to the time lost recovering from the accidents, we were delayed on the upper mountain - and miraculously, got a weather window long enough to allow for 2 summit attempts...
I love documentaries that show everything - the conversations as well as the entire climb. Ascend & descent. 🇨🇦 Pat ... do you think that the reason the icefall is climbed in April/May and at night is because it is much more stable due to colder conditions? Also, Adrian Ballinger (during an interview on either Alan Arnett or Tom Pollard) stated that until the Nepal government approves him bringing his team & supplies via helicopter from BC to ABC, he will have to stick to climbing the north side.
the mountain is climbed in pre monsoon because of the warmer temperatures up high and wider window of good weather. and theoretically night time temperatures are colder which lessens the chance of avalanche, but in our case, and notably in 2014 when 16 Sherpas were killed in the same avalanche path, it didn't work that way. re: use of helicopter, why stop at ABC when you can ride a Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel all the way to the top? 😉
That was a good documentary about mount everest from 1982 it's sad that some of the climbers had died well summit to everest I wonder how there doing today in 2022 hopefully there doing OK that was a good documentary about everest
As a Canadian, I remember this story when it happened. The whole country was following the progress of our team. Very sad loss of life. Good documentary except for that really cheesy, annoying, Toronto studio background music. It needs to be re-edited and the music taken out. It really detracts from the story and makes it falsely melodramatic. The story and the narrative is tragic and dramatic enough without the need for that soap opera crap music. Maybe they should do another one talking to the guys who are still alive today.
At 50 min approx. it is said that the ice fall isn't a proper climbing route and it should be avoided. It is interesting that a better route still hasn't been found on the southside and it is still a horrible and deadly route.
Well this is a great find amongst all the Everest material that's out there. I never knew a thing about everest until 1996, and at that time i don't recall anyone talking about the canadian expedition, so i'd literally never heard about it until today. One thing though... half of them sound like Brits. Is that just coincidence, or was there really such a lot of british climbers that moved to canada in those days?
you're right about the Brits - check out my presentation for some background on how mountaineering evolved in the Canadian Rockies, driven by an influx of Brits in the early 70s ua-cam.com/video/N7GxBjkRvlc/v-deo.html
So sadly uninformed about the country they were visiting and the meaning of the puja. “I guess we purchased our way to heaven.” That’s not how this works. Still not as annoying as some of the climbers from the 90’s on. I remember one chick insisting to have her espresso machine brought up. Sigh.
we were indeed uninformed about the Himalayan culture, but we didn't write the script for the CBC-produced film. since this expedition i've spent over 1000 more days on expeditions and treks spanning the length of the Himalaya, and have developed an appreciation for many different cultures and norms.
i totally agree - in a perfect world there would have been video all the way to the top...but this was 1982, and i was using a prototype video camera whose batteries couldn't handle the cold - the unit died at the South Col (-25 mas o menos), and i shot stills from there on up....these days, a higher quality video can be shot all the way to the top using a smart phone...if you're fit enough, can withstand the cold and rarefied atmosphere, and motivated enough to dig the recording device out when you're freezing your ass waiting for a conga line of affluent tourists jumaring up a rope that was fixed by Sherpas....
@@PatMorrow haha, no man… I’m over here judging from the comfort of my couch while eating junk food. Don’t mind me, I recently have been hooked on climbing videos and especially Everest documentaries living vicariously through brave people such as yourself’s adventures. Thank you for sharing this with the world and I am grateful for the content and glad you followed your dreams while staying safe as well.
Its alittle fed up Hillary and tensing were the first but we dont hear about the other climbers who had just a big of a hand something bigger. Plus without them and the sherpas wont have gotten there..i guess that life. Nothings fair
@@petergianakopoulos4926 It seems the area has more space than what it appears? .....this seems to be the standard route...... "Worst Disaster in Everest History | 18 Confirmed Killed at Mt. Everest Base Camp | April 27, 2015 Just last year in April we morned the loss of 16 Sherpa on Everest after a large avalanche swept them away in the Khumbu Icefall. It was the worst disaster in Everest history. This past Saturday, a 7.8 earthquake caused rock, ice, and debris to come crashing down on Mt. Everest base camp killing 18 Sherpa and climbers and injuring 61. This is now by far Everest’s worst disaster in history."
i think you missed out on the fact that our Canadian team carried loads alongside our Sherpa porters, and fixed all the ropes on the mountain - this was prior to the commercialization of guided climbs on Everest and all the other 8000 m peaks, including this past summer when 200 "tourists" jugged their way to the top of k2....
@@nicholamc2629 i had addressed another viewer's observation about the script that accompanied the film, produced by the CBC (all non-climbers of course)... "here's the thing: cheesy or not, the music, the narration, the design of the film...it's all the 80s...when the climb took place."
This was a well put together video! I like the personal interviews and the tenacity of the Sherpa, the REAL HEROES of Everest!
Wow this is amazing, i have the large hardback book on this expedition. I would look at the pictures and want to do this. I've never seen a video about it before. I got the book for Christmas in 1985. I've still got it in my everest collection. Rip Blair Griffith.
Thank you Pat Morrow! I'd never thought I'd be putting a message on your you tube channel!.... legend.
Yes you would think he could find the time to at least acknowledge your comment at the very least ❤
Superb documentary - articulate, intelligent and moving. Also interesting to hear so many British accents in the group. Kudos to those who attempt to summit this mountain. Brave souls.
One of the best docs on mountaineering!
Great documentary!
🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 ❤❤❤
Thanks for all the content pat.really enjoyed this kudos buddy
I've been watching a lot of these videos, but things is like THE OG's. Today, it's nothing like it was back in the day. They trailed the way.
Thanks for putting this on here.
Fantastic documentary
Love this documentary. Thank you Pat for sharing it, and thumbs up on an awesome achievement.
Thank you for sharing this, it was fascinating to see.
Prayers to the people that were lost along the way.
Great documentary,so much admiration for mountaineers
Just discovered your channel 👍💯💙
Fantastic. Thank you
That funeral verse at the end was beautiful.
I love watching mountaineers I’m older Iwas an athlete all my life. I never understood mountaineering, I’ve competed in many sports and when I lost I trained harder and did better; I would never give my life for a loss. This is why I watch mountain climbing; I don’t understand their what drives them.
every athlete, mountaineers included, has personal motivations...thus, it's impossible to generalize what drives us. for me, it's curiosity - i want to see what's beyond the horizon
@@PatMorrowCan’t you see that from a plane?
What a difference between then and now.
Americans monetized it. We're good at figuring out where money can be made and setting up the management chain to do it.
Incredible achievement by extraordinary human beings it's humans like this that make me believe anything is possible regardless of gender.
Did not know Canadians had climbed Pumori prior to this expedition. Difficult & technical climb.
Sweet video!!
Amazing.
Very of its time. Fast forward to Everest 2019, a not so subtle echo of a supermarket queue, waiting to hoard loo roll in the pandemic in early 2020.
Imagine. Anyone following the American way and just making money.
@@Loralanthalas 😂
Great uploading.was it not very late in climbing season to summit
yes, due to the time lost recovering from the accidents, we were delayed on the upper mountain - and miraculously, got a weather window long enough to allow for 2 summit attempts...
@@PatMorrow thanks for the update pat👍
I love documentaries that show everything - the conversations as well as the entire climb. Ascend & descent. 🇨🇦
Pat ... do you think that the reason the icefall is climbed in April/May and at night is because it is much more stable due to colder conditions?
Also, Adrian Ballinger (during an interview on either Alan Arnett or Tom Pollard) stated that until the Nepal government approves him bringing his team & supplies via helicopter from BC to ABC, he will have to stick to climbing the north side.
the mountain is climbed in pre monsoon because of the warmer temperatures up high and wider window of good weather. and theoretically night time temperatures are colder which lessens the chance of avalanche, but in our case, and notably in 2014 when 16 Sherpas were killed in the same avalanche path, it didn't work that way. re: use of helicopter, why stop at ABC when you can ride a Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel all the way to the top? 😉
Glad you posted this vid. We can all see what Everest looked liked before people started leaving their crap on the mountain. 💩
27:05 That was a strange cut. The girl looks head over heels in love. I wonder whether they are still together.
noper
That was a good documentary about mount everest from 1982 it's sad that some of the climbers had died well summit to everest I wonder how there doing today in 2022 hopefully there doing OK that was a good documentary about everest
It be so odd to be like "yeah. Conquered that mountain 41 years ago, kid. What ya got?"
As a Canadian, I remember this story when it happened. The whole country was following the progress of our team. Very sad loss of life. Good documentary except for that really cheesy, annoying, Toronto studio background music. It needs to be re-edited and the music taken out. It really detracts from the story and makes it falsely melodramatic. The story and the narrative is tragic and dramatic enough without the need for that soap opera crap music. Maybe they should do another one talking to the guys who are still alive today.
here's the thing: cheesy or not, the music, the narration, the design of the film...it's all the 80s...when the climb took place.
Haha cheese Toronto studio.. it's funny bc it's true
At 50 min approx. it is said that the ice fall isn't a proper climbing route and it should be avoided. It is interesting that a better route still hasn't been found on the southside and it is still a horrible and deadly route.
your observation is timely: explorersweb.com/batards-team-completes-new-everest-approach-update-on-sajid-sadpara/
@@PatMorrow That is awesome! Think of all the lives it could save. It would be such a gift for the Sherpas who have to carry gear up the mountain.
At the present pace of climate change the route might shortly become a cake walk!
Well this is a great find amongst all the Everest material that's out there. I never knew a thing about everest until 1996, and at that time i don't recall anyone talking about the canadian expedition, so i'd literally never heard about it until today. One thing though... half of them sound like Brits. Is that just coincidence, or was there really such a lot of british climbers that moved to canada in those days?
you're right about the Brits - check out my presentation for some background on how mountaineering evolved in the Canadian Rockies, driven by an influx of Brits in the early 70s ua-cam.com/video/N7GxBjkRvlc/v-deo.html
@@PatMorrow Hey Pat, what do you think about the movie about your expedition? the one don on 2007?
One Brit, Alan Burgess, climbed on other mountain expeditions with his identical twin brother Adrian.
Pretty sure this is narrated by Bill Kurtis. To take a line of his from the move Anchorman, “He has a voice that could make a wolverine purr”.
It's not.
Someone tell him that it’s not him
So sadly uninformed about the country they were visiting and the meaning of the puja. “I guess we purchased our way to heaven.” That’s not how this works. Still not as annoying as some of the climbers from the 90’s on. I remember one chick insisting to have her espresso machine brought up. Sigh.
we were indeed uninformed about the Himalayan culture, but we didn't write the script for the CBC-produced film. since this expedition i've spent over 1000 more days on expeditions and treks spanning the length of the Himalaya, and have developed an appreciation for many different cultures and norms.
It was Sandy Hill Pitman, I believe, who wanted the expresso machine brought up the mountain!
Would have been better if they had more video on Everest instead of a bunch of pictures
i totally agree - in a perfect world there would have been video all the way to the top...but this was 1982, and i was using a prototype video camera whose batteries couldn't handle the cold - the unit died at the South Col (-25 mas o menos), and i shot stills from there on up....these days, a higher quality video can be shot all the way to the top using a smart phone...if you're fit enough, can withstand the cold and rarefied atmosphere, and motivated enough to dig the recording device out when you're freezing your ass waiting for a conga line of affluent tourists jumaring up a rope that was fixed by Sherpas....
@@PatMorrow haha, no man… I’m over here judging from the comfort of my couch while eating junk food. Don’t mind me, I recently have been hooked on climbing videos and especially Everest documentaries living vicariously through brave people such as yourself’s adventures. Thank you for sharing this with the world and I am grateful for the content and glad you followed your dreams while staying safe as well.
How in the hell did 1982 have better map graphics then 2023?????
October????
the permit was for post monsoon
Its alittle fed up Hillary and tensing were the first but we dont hear about the other climbers who had just a big of a hand something bigger. Plus without them and the sherpas wont have gotten there..i guess that life. Nothings fair
There's a MOVIE about this!
They summit Everest in October? Lucky the monsoon didst bury them all alive😂 Great film!
18:50
bad spot for a camp
Aren't you supposed to put camp with a low probability of an ice fall?
@@petergianakopoulos4926
It seems the area has more space than what it appears?
.....this seems to be the standard route......
"Worst Disaster in Everest History | 18 Confirmed Killed at Mt. Everest Base Camp | April 27, 2015
Just last year in April we morned the loss of 16 Sherpa on Everest after a large avalanche swept them away in the Khumbu Icefall. It was the worst disaster in Everest history.
This past Saturday, a 7.8 earthquake caused rock, ice, and debris to come crashing down on Mt. Everest base camp killing 18 Sherpa and climbers and injuring 61. This is now by far Everest’s worst disaster in history."
Hats off to all of you u. Why?
🙌💪🙏
o hi mark!
Why does everyone take this same old route??! 😂🤣
We had to do this and we had to do that in the Khumbu Ice Fall??? It was the SHERPA ffs. All you had to do was climb it. Aargh
Back in those days the guys fixed all their own ropes. Your just ignorant
Makes me want to slap them.
i think you missed out on the fact that our Canadian team carried loads alongside our Sherpa porters, and fixed all the ropes on the mountain - this was prior to the commercialization of guided climbs on Everest and all the other 8000 m peaks, including this past summer when 200 "tourists" jugged their way to the top of k2....
@@PatMorrow This was not evident here.
@@nicholamc2629 i had addressed another viewer's observation about the script that accompanied the film, produced by the CBC (all non-climbers of course)... "here's the thing: cheesy or not, the music, the narration, the design of the film...it's all the 80s...when the climb took place."
Better, more honest and hearty adventure back then. Nowadays it’s people playing keyboards on the summit for the likes 🙄
Nope. This was around the time "climbers" started at the top, drilled all their anchors, and just climbed their ropes.
Ah the blessed days before women were invented 😂
5-minutes in and just talking hope it won't be like this always through and they show people fall and blood, what otherwise what's the point
What the heck videos have you been watching? I'm not sure I want my algorithm near yours!
This guy Laurie talks like he’s playing a game of pond hockey. Some of these guys seemed like they cooked their brains in the high altitude.
Boring. Couldn’t finish watching.