I had no idea they did this too! Amen Napalese Sherpa You bad!!!!! Amazing for them to accomplish! Thank you for helping sherpa the right way to paraglide down Everest and gave them more to their lives to share w/ sherpas in Naples!♥️🌺☮️Hawaii
Can you imagine standing at the top knowing you have 3 days of risking death walking back down and then you see these guys take off and glide down in 45 minutes?
Why did this not get the deserved Global media coverage that it truly deserved for such a gigantic feat. I am sure that if this was done by Westerners it would have gone global.
I flew Power Paragliding for 10 years. Using a camera while flying is harder than one might think. Glad his shots showed the amount of brake inputs to add stability to the glider and increase sink rate. The weight of the 2nd passenger was probably a must. The winds that could sneak up on these two shows how much courage this took. How cool to get to breathable air and hit your landing target without (walking it in). Two Brave Men with a story of a lifetime. Thanks.
An innocuous documentary that should have 5 M views. This is quiet an achievement and technically not easy. Yet they succeeded. Humble and heroes, I guess. Little known story, despite NatGeo, they should be world famous.
I don’t think so, the winds on the summit are unpredictable and can either end up being slammed into the rocks, or flying too far out that can cause losing control of the glider and falling to death.
This is one of the most positive experiences I have ever heard regarding the sherpa people. Thank you for teaching this young man how to paraglide. A little bit of help can go a long way!!! God bless.
I'm 70 years old, still skydive, fly my powered para-glider trike, and can truly say I've never seen two happier & confident fellas in my entire life. What they've achieved is nothing less than monumental. Their confidence & happy go lucky charm is actually contagious... too a certain point. The thought of climbing, then flying off the summit of Mt.Everest brings only five words to mind. No... NO... OH HELL NO!
You guys are really awesome, it happened 10 years ago and myself and my wife have only just heard about it,wow you are both rockstars, good luck in the future our thoughts and prayers are with you Ewan N' Doi (Australia)
When we summited Everest in 2018, my climbing buddy (who's a paraglider) packed his chute all the way to the top. Winds were blowing toward Tibet/China (we climbed via Nepal/South side) so he couldn't take the jump. That's the breaks 🤷♀️
@@DavidSnowClimbing i always wondered , there are so many climbers and till now i never heard about paragliding down from sumit of sotcha high mountains , why is everyone bothering to get down that looong way again ? instead of gliding down and you say that borders are one of the reasons ? damn
A terrific achievement, but I was indeed expecting a bit better video of the takeoff and flying. I guess standards were a little bit different 10 years ago.
Thank you for sharing this remarkable piece of history! What a remarkable people and a mind blowing feat! I’m in awe of the Sherpa as a culture and I appreciate any footage that documents their achievements!
This is phenomenal. Although I can't help but wonder, if hauling all the gear over the death zone worth it if the weather turns and you can't climb down. You either have to haul it all back down or dump it over the Kangshung face.
This is my favourite one yet and I have watched probably >000 hours of Everest Dokus. I remember my own childish thinking the first time that I heard of the dangers of the Descent: Why don't they just parachute down?! Hahaha!! The dream is alive !! (In my next Life I want to be a paragliding Sherpa)
The air is so thin up there that even with hitting the winds just right, I didn't know this was possible for one much less the weight of a tandem. Bravo!!
Finally Documentary is here... I heard about these guys in India from River rafting guide's that two Gorkahali guys Paraglide from Sagarmatha(Mount Everest ) ......and kayak from Nepal to the Indian Ocean .......awesome..
OMG wow !!! just a huge pitty that they didnt film it all to the end, when they saw the crabs for the first time hehehehe. these guys are amaaaaaaaaziiiiiiiiiing ! no miracle that david lama was the best climber of his time, because the nepalesi blood can do just about anything. i have to watch this again now.
I always wondered why no one had tried this before. Bear Grills rode a powered paraglider over the summit some years ago so I knew it could work. This will change everything!
wow amazing. and it's very dangerous at that altitude. Storm can brew very quickly and take you much higher. There is an interesting read or video about "Ewa Wiśnierska" although she was at a very low altitude when storm picked her up. i always imagine this paragliding from K2's summit when looking at the statistics of people died during descent after summiting.
Only one thing it is not clear for me. Is this considered the first paragliding flight from Everest summit? I ask because may be I do not understand exactly what meant what here was said(written). I know as the first flight in paraglider from Everest summit that it was made by the french Jean Marc Boivin close to 1990(I do not remember exact date).
Truly thought this was going to be clickbait. Very surprised it wasn't. However, I don't think paragliding is exactly going to "revolutionize" the action of descending from alpine summits. The conditions have to be nearly perfect to paraglide safely. And on high mountains, we all know conditions are rarely ever perfect for anything.
Hike and fly, or climb and fly is quite popular in the Alps. There are a few people that do it in the US. People don't bring flying gear "just in case", they time their ascents with good weather windows. It sure beats the long descents and hike outs.
Probably not as it’s not possible to start where you want and when you want a lot of times due to weather, permits or other factors. I hiked back down small mountains with my glider several times, because flying would have been to dangerous.
No it is not. If you are a climber in distress then you are either injured or the weather is bad. In either of these cases you will not be able to fly. Not to mention that taking off and flying in the mountains depends on many factors. Carrying all the gear up "just in case" outweighs the potential benefit.
What is most impressive, is how they were able to haul their massive bollocks that high and how the Parachute was able to keep them aloft in such thin air!!! AMAZING!!!!!
THIS...this is absolutely a remarkable history-making moment for the Nepalese people! I had NO idea this even took place. GREAT for them!
I had no idea they did this too! Amen Napalese Sherpa You bad!!!!! Amazing for them to accomplish! Thank you for helping sherpa the right way to paraglide down Everest and gave them more to their lives to share w/ sherpas in Naples!♥️🌺☮️Hawaii
For the hole human race ,what a remarkable feat
no idea too. Astonishing :)
These two men are simply LEGENDARY!! I hope that they are able to complete the whole trek.
Can you imagine standing at the top knowing you have 3 days of risking death walking back down and then you see these guys take off and glide down in 45 minutes?
And you hear over the wind the distant shout of "see you at the bottom, chumps!"
Well you can also jump from an aircraft to land paragliding on top of mount everest and then you can go further down paragliding.
@@gkdresdentrying to jump and glide down to the summit of Everest is a great way to definitely kill yourself
@@entropybear5847😂
@@gkdresdenah yes, going to the top of the mountain and THEN going to Base camp.
Amazing, WOW ! Why is this achivement so under the radar. They deserve more fame for this expedition.
Why did this not get the deserved Global media coverage that it truly deserved for such a gigantic feat. I am sure that if this was done by Westerners it would have gone global.
100% correct!
I flew Power Paragliding for 10 years. Using a camera while flying is harder than one might think. Glad his shots showed the amount of brake inputs to add stability to the glider and increase sink rate. The weight of the 2nd passenger was probably a must. The winds that could sneak up on these two shows how much courage this took.
How cool to get to breathable air and hit your landing target without (walking it in).
Two Brave Men with a story of a lifetime.
Thanks.
Yes they were super lucky to get conditions good enough for launch. I bet the sink rate was high at times with the air so thin.
It's a tandem wing.
Sounds like they needed the ballast, since they took off vertically without needing a running start.
@@MTrekker2001 That was because there was more wind than they needed.
@@MTrekker2001 You don't need a running start if you have favorable wind on launch.
An innocuous documentary that should have 5 M views. This is quiet an achievement and technically not easy. Yet they succeeded. Humble and heroes, I guess. Little known story, despite NatGeo, they should be world famous.
Honestly this is probably safer than trying to climb back down 🤷♂️
Great observation!!
I don’t think so, the winds on the summit are unpredictable and can either end up being slammed into the rocks, or flying too far out that can cause losing control of the glider and falling to death.
@@SilverIceDragon They are literally saying in this video that flying down is safer than climbing down.
At least it's faster. :)
@@SilverIceDragon another useless UA-cam “expert” typing some nonsense, feel important now?
This is one of the most positive experiences I have ever heard regarding the sherpa people.
Thank you for teaching this young man how to paraglide. A little bit of help can go a long way!!! God bless.
They are so loveable and infectious - totally deserved the National geographic award - probably the craziest adventurers out there . Amazing.
The coverage and publicity of these men is simply underwhelming. What a remarkable feat and men to say the least!
I had thought once, how it would be like to paraglide off the Everest summit, but now I know :) Hats off to both these wonderful chaps...
I'm 70 years old, still skydive, fly my powered para-glider trike, and can truly say I've never seen two happier & confident fellas in my entire life. What they've achieved is nothing less than monumental. Their confidence & happy go lucky charm is actually contagious... too a certain point. The thought of climbing, then flying off the summit of Mt.Everest brings only five words to mind. No... NO... OH HELL NO!
You are a badass!
This honestly made me tear. I loved these guys so much.
TWO absolute bloody LEGENDS!!!!!!! FANTASTIC and two more kindered spirits - I dont think exist. WELL DONE
I cannot think of many other feats of adventure that could ever top this.
8:56 dude crosses long ladder in ice field with no safety rope, when asks if he is not scared he just chuckles. legend!!
you didnt mention my sherpa brother was straight up running aswell, im sherpa myself and i was sweating watching that 😂
17:33 best hug I've ever seen. These dudes are happy.
Stealing a canister of oxygen on Everest is like stealing a man's horse in the desert. Sounds like a hanging offence to me.
Just give em a nudge 😂
@007vsMagua: At least a severe thrashing by everyone in camp.
where they not all sharpas as well?
They should run a zipline from the summit back to town. Imagine climbing that whole way and then coming back down in a matter of minutes?
You guys are really awesome, it happened 10 years ago and myself and my wife have only just heard about it,wow you are both rockstars, good luck in the future our thoughts and prayers are with you Ewan N' Doi (Australia)
Oh nice, this is the 2011 Everest season, I'd recognize that massive ladder bridge @10:30 in the video anywhere!
That looked cavernous. Such control in a person's emotion it must take.
@@Bear333-o9n Yoda! Disguise yourself on the internet you cannot.
@@superyamagucci 😂🐻Laugh hard I did.
That might be enough to make me turn back.
@@percyfaith11 Don’t let Yoda frighten you. He’s ok once you get to know him.
Crabs 🦀!!!! You boys just made me tear up !!!! Truly beautiful!
Wow! This was 10 years ago, hoping someone will do it again with multiple mounted HD GoPro’s.
When we summited Everest in 2018, my climbing buddy (who's a paraglider) packed his chute all the way to the top. Winds were blowing toward Tibet/China (we climbed via Nepal/South side) so he couldn't take the jump. That's the breaks 🤷♀️
@@DavidSnowClimbing i always wondered , there are so many climbers and till now i never heard about paragliding down from sumit of sotcha high mountains , why is everyone bothering to get down that looong way again ? instead of gliding down
and you say that borders are one of the reasons ? damn
@@doposud for that day, it was wind direction. Also, permits to do so are very difficult now.
@@DavidSnowClimbing screw permits then lol, say it was life or death
A terrific achievement, but I was indeed expecting a bit better video of the takeoff and flying. I guess standards were a little bit different 10 years ago.
The craziest thing I ever did see! Legends!
Thank you for sharing this remarkable piece of history! What a remarkable people and a mind blowing feat! I’m in awe of the Sherpa as a culture and I appreciate any footage that documents their achievements!
One of the best documentary on Everest surely!
This is the stuff of legends. The fact they didn't kill themselves is a miracle, even with them being Sherpas. What a freaking send.
Wonderful, wonderful you are beautiful people, thank you a thousand times for all this happiness. well done
If you say you are not scared then you are either lying or you are a Gorkha. Ayo Gorkhali..battle cry of the best soldiers in the world.🤗🙏😍
what an amazing story and footage wow!!!! this is awesome!
This is phenomenal. Although I can't help but wonder, if hauling all the gear over the death zone worth it if the weather turns and you can't climb down. You either have to haul it all back down or dump it over the Kangshung face.
This is my favourite one yet and I have watched probably >000 hours of Everest Dokus. I remember my own childish thinking the first time that I heard of the dangers of the Descent: Why don't they just parachute down?! Hahaha!! The dream is alive !! (In my next Life I want to be a paragliding Sherpa)
>000 hours????
Top3 favorite docs pls? :)
*paraglide
Where is the red bull and GoPro sponsorship for these heroes! Awesome adventure lads!
I upvoted but I’m assuming it’s even too dangerous for Redbull. There’s too much unpredictability with the weather and winds involved.
Top that , 45 minutes of outstanding pushing the limit
Absolute courage. Thanks for this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The air is so thin up there that even with hitting the winds just right, I didn't know this was possible for one much less the weight of a tandem. Bravo!!
A helicopter has actually landed on the summit of Everest.
What an adventure. Amazing. Thanx for sharing the video. Jai Shree Ram. Jai Hanuman.👍
Salute guys ur great achievement
.summit paragliding. Its amazing....
Truely inspiring! Why didnt we heard about it before!! All respect and admire!!
Finally Documentary is here...
I heard about these guys in India from River rafting guide's that two Gorkahali guys Paraglide from Sagarmatha(Mount Everest ) ......and kayak from Nepal to the Indian Ocean .......awesome..
Incredible ! absolutely incredible !! Didn't know about this , thanks for uploading .
Wow! That was exciting, and I wasn't even there. Congrats, what a fine climb and flight. What a view they had! That was fantastic.
Ok I’ve never climbed big mountains but have always thought that paragliding off the top would be the best way back down 🤷🏼♂️
This is something I always wondered. Is it possible to get to the top and just jump off and parachute back down.
I’m trying to find out if a huge rescue drone flying up empty could carry the weight of a person back down at least to a lower camp?
Gigantic balls of steel! Kudos!!
Wonderful! WONDERFUL! Our big brother Hanuman is greatly pleased!!
OMG wow !!! just a huge pitty that they didnt film it all to the end, when they saw the crabs for the first time hehehehe. these guys are amaaaaaaaaziiiiiiiiiing ! no miracle that david lama was the best climber of his time, because the nepalesi blood can do just about anything. i have to watch this again now.
They did, this is someone else's documentary footage that was narrated over.
Beautiful story. True passion
I always wondered why no one had tried this before. Bear Grills rode a powered paraglider over the summit some years ago so I knew it could work. This will change everything!
wow amazing. and it's very dangerous at that altitude. Storm can brew very quickly and take you much higher. There is an interesting read or video about "Ewa Wiśnierska" although she was at a very low altitude when storm picked her up.
i always imagine this paragliding from K2's summit when looking at the statistics of people died during descent after summiting.
What a great achievement! Also kudos to the soundtrack. Any suggestions where to find the music?
Only one thing it is not clear for me. Is this considered the first paragliding flight from Everest summit? I ask because may be I do not understand exactly what meant what here was said(written). I know as the first flight in paraglider from Everest summit that it was made by the french Jean Marc Boivin close to 1990(I do not remember exact date).
One of mans greatest achievements.
Amazing story- Thank you for sharing it.
Nepal 🇳🇵 Home Of Gurkhas 🇳🇵 Birth place of Lord Buddha and Mount Everest 8848m Sherpa is are Hero Of Mount Everest
That was Epic💯
this is amazing. mad respect to both of them.
I wish I could like this twice
Brilliant!!! I had no idea!
I just saw this?!?, flippen awesome! Redbull missed out!
awesome.....hearing of this 10 yrs later...better late than never
As the decent is where the most fatalities happen, paragliding seems the safest route. 🤓
Wow !!!!, this guys are heros!! Bravo ❤
This is the most badass thing ever done on Everest and so few people know about it!
yes, absolutely incredible
This is the way to descend Everest.
EPIC!!!!!! very inspiring!!! thank you!!
sympatic guys and a real bigggggg aaaadveeenture, yeahhhhhHHH:-)
Great video. Thank you...
Glad you liked it!
Insane @david ❄🏔....outstanding!!!!....sherpas...@respect...love....one day I will summit.....
The only problem would be the unpredictable winds that will affect the downgrade of the paraglider and no guarantee of landing anywhere near the LZ.
This is so amazing,
That is a Awesome Way down
What a lovely video, a big salute to all of them specially sherpa 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵
Truly thought this was going to be clickbait. Very surprised it wasn't.
However, I don't think paragliding is exactly going to "revolutionize" the action of descending from alpine summits. The conditions have to be nearly perfect to paraglide safely. And on high mountains, we all know conditions are rarely ever perfect for anything.
Agreed, when one needs to get down fast the most, is exactly because the weather is deteriorating, which eliminates gliding.
Hike and fly, or climb and fly is quite popular in the Alps. There are a few people that do it in the US. People don't bring flying gear "just in case", they time their ascents with good weather windows. It sure beats the long descents and hike outs.
Everyone should descend this way.
mind blowingly incredible astonishing film!! How fantastic!!!! : D : )
One of the best documentary i have seen.
This is the spirit of adventure.
No words to describe the respect for this exceptional achievement. How can such a genuine act be illegal? Absolute legend. Godspeed guys.
✨✨✨ Bravo! Beautiful! Homages! ✨✨ JAR
Wow, just wow!
Amazing! 🤩Anyone know what the music is also Amazing 🙏🏻🌠
Also would love to know
Excellent! Fantastic!
These two guys have more nerve than a bum tooth! More power to them...congrats!
Flying sherpa sounds incredibly cool
Amazing. Pity the subtitles are so hard to read. Didn't the person who put them in check the color to make sure they were legible?
Great feat from the summit of Everest.
No footage of the landing?
It's out there, this is someone narrating over someone else's footage.
Wow Hanuman chalisa in the background. Awesome
Absolutely Awe inspiring! When i fly high i feel close to god! But That was hanging out with angels! These men have spirit!!!!
Excellent message. Thank you!
That so cool. I wonder why they didn't capture the video as they approached the landing.
I wonder if paragliding down the mountain could be used as a life-saving measure for climbers in distress
Probably not as it’s not possible to start where you want and when you want a lot of times due to weather, permits or other factors. I hiked back down small mountains with my glider several times, because flying would have been to dangerous.
It depends upon the wind also. Can't just randomly jump down from that altitude.
No it is not. If you are a climber in distress then you are either injured or the weather is bad. In either of these cases you will not be able to fly. Not to mention that taking off and flying in the mountains depends on many factors. Carrying all the gear up "just in case" outweighs the potential benefit.
Wow!!! That was great!!!!!!
Breathtaking.. Huge respect to them!!!!
Is there an update about they were able actually complete the whole trek??
Nepalis are remarkable humans : brave yet humble❤
What is most impressive, is how they were able to haul their massive bollocks that high and how the Parachute was able to keep them aloft in such thin air!!! AMAZING!!!!!
Mad skills. Climb everest and fly down with just thin gloves on. Superhuman people.
David you are So Correct ! History is CHANGED !! FLY DOWN !! Thank's to these two young Nepalese
men they have found a MUCH Safer Way Down !!!!!
definitely not a much safer way down. The weather is extremely finicky.