Everest South and North & Burke-Khang
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- This video documents my climbs of Mt. Everest from the South (Nepal) side in 2009 and the North (Tibet) side in 2014. The video also includes footage of Burke-Khang and the High Himalaya shot from a helicopter.
For more information on the South Approach and the North Approach, and my view as to which approach is the most difficult, visit my website: eightsummits.com/mt-everest/.
The puppy you see in this video is a feral dog, of which there are many in Nepal. They follow climbers in order to scavenge food and stay alive.
Awwwww...a DOG going across a crevase on the aluminum ladder just completely blows my mind. How trusting was this pupper??!!! I held my breath for him!!!! Awwwamazingawww.....
I know ! Bless him 💕💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏🙏
ur photos shows me how big this area is. WOW
Thankyou for making such beautiful videos of Mount Everest. 8848 meters height. Top of the world. 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵
Every part looks scary but specially the beggining in the Ice Fall
best documentary about everest have ever seen
Amazingly documented, this video is a real treasure.
What an awesome film! Totally brilliant..... really gives you an amazing sense of what it’s like. Thanks for posting! 👏
Absolutely love watching these videos! If I was back in my twenties I'd try it myself I think. 58 this year, so I'll just enjoy watching it on TH-cam.. thank you for the video!
I’ve seen a lot of videos on Everest and surrounding mountains. Your photography and videos are top notch! The views you got were unlike any others I’ve seen. And the helicopter over basecamp really helps to grasp the scale of the whole thing. There’s people everywhere! Great job! I wish I had the courage to do something like that. Cheers, Safe Travels
THE SCALE OF LIL HUMANS
I.WATCH INDIAN.CREW.ON.ICEFALL DURING EARTHQUAKE.YOU WANNA SEE THAT ICE FALL
YOU WATCHING FILM CREW RUNNING FOR LIFE
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The best photos I've ever seen of Everest!! Spectacularly clear. Just truly beautiful and I'm addicted to watching every video I come across. This documentation of two different routes with the clarity of very good cameras. Completely different than any other photos I've seen. More base camps, open space, Chinese camp which I'd never come across before. So many new views of all the peaks, almost feels like you can reach out and touch everything. I love, love, love this video. I'm gonna watch it again right away so I can peer at those sights again. Great Nepalese music (Nepalese?) It's great. Such an awesomely beautifullllll video. Definitely my new and lasting favorite. Great editing. Great shots. Very, very different views. The stars at low light. Great camera work. Congratulations 🎉👏👏 🇺🇸 to all the Sherpa and other climbers guides and porters. Bravo!!!🍾🍻🥂👣🌌😪🙏😂🤗💯
1000% Agree!
Shadow of Everest looks like a perfect pyramid ! Crazy !
Probably the best footage Everest video I've ever seen
... Sincerest Thanks, eightsummits, for another Everest docu to feed my strange fascination.
I've read some of the Comments below, and they reinforce my own concerns about "Everest Tourism", and the sheer volume of trash and Human body evacuations left on the mountain. Considering Everest's pre-eminent circumstance as a watershed, thoughts of a massive coliform infection pandemic haunt me.
This is incredible. I’m so obsessed with Everest this is as close as I’m likely to get x stunning x ❤️
It's not as expensive as you might think
Ynse Schaap my aim is to trek to base camp in the future when I’m actually fit ! I would love to actually lay my eyes on the magnificence that is Everest x ⛰
If you go just buy a ticket to Kathmandu/Lukla and from there go on the fly, people are doing it for less then five dollars a day ;-) and make sure you have some leeway with the return ticket even in the right season the weather can pin you down for days after all you are in the mountains. Happy Trekking
Ynse Schaap thank you ! 😀🙋👍
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Outstanding videography. I'm more than impressed. Braver souls I've never seen.
Really stunning images! Great job and ty for the vid!! Amazing work!
Amazing! It is a video of dangerous heights and brave people.
One of the best videos I have seen yet, and I have watched a bunch!
RICK MANY MANY.WHY THIS PUT ME THERE
I HAD NO IDEA OF LAY OUT WATCHING A FEW
EVEN NATIONAL GEO
Looked like perfect weather (but I'm sure it was extremely cold) on Summit day. The sky was clear with great visibility. Beautiful pictures.
that's awesome video, the helicopter ride around everest and other peaks is really mesmerizing.
Great videos !! Thank you.
That helicopter trip at the end is something else!
Incredible camera work. The helicopter ride at the end was magnificent.
THANKS FOR SHARING. NICE SEEING THE SUMMIT BID FROM BOTH SIDES.
Heavenly place and heavenly background music. Great! Two suggestions though - the pics were visible for very short time, they are so beautiful that every time I had to pause the video to have a complete look. And secondly, when you write a mountains name, it's good idea to indicate which mountain you are indicating. Thanks.
Omg the dog ! 🐶🐶❤️❤️
These routes appear to be less chaotic. Very good views with great audio. Thanks, happy trails.
The video seems less chaotic, not the routes.
Awesome. That helicopter ride at end was wild.
Wow I’m surprised this video doesn’t have more views... awesome nice video 👍🏼
Photos and vids just breathtaking. Crossing those crevasses on a ladder is where I'd freeze! So many have lost their lives attempting Everest. I can't remember who said it, but when asked why he chooses to climb, his reply was... "because it's there"...
Mallory
@Jim Hunter ...... Thanks Jim! 👍
Conquest of Everest in modern times is rather a very strenuous and sometimes scary and always crowded walk with some ladder climbing, lots of waiting in line and an almost continual pulling along on Sherpa erected roped gangways, each night spent in a tent pre-erected by Sherpas. Of actual use of mountain climbing skill there is a complete absence of need. Mallory and Irvine, should they happen to witness it, would be driven helpless with scornful laughter.
Wow beautiful view👍🙏
Just amazing. I'm speechless/ How do you have the strength to take the pictures & vid and make comments?
The combination of the ringing bells on the yaks to prayer flags at base camps, that is how I see Everest. I want some postcard pics of Everest to do a montage..
thanks guys
Breath taking view pardon the pun
In my own opinion.. It's more interesting watching the stories about the life of the sherpa...every success of tourist climbers are credits to all the sherpas. They shouldn't brag to much being on the top of the summit because without the sherpas big heart and hands or strength rather they won't be able to climb that tallest mountain ⛰.!!!
Fair points. The Sherpas don't get enough credit. Several years ago, I was asked to give the Everest Day speech in Nepal. I devoted my talk to the Sherpas and others who do all the hard work on the mountain. See eightsummits.com/bills-articles/5th-annual-sagaramantha-day/
Lack of publicity for the sherpas...i do watch some of the documentary related to the sherpas and i am so happy with that... Sherpas didn't go up there to become famous around the world but the main reason is to provide food and be able to send their kids to school. There are few foundation too supporting the kids of the sherpas for their study... hats off for them. ♥
YEP WE ALL KNOW
THAT, NOTHING NEW.
LIFE OF SHERPAS.
SMALL VILLAGE
RIVER
WATER SMOKE
KIDS CHANTS
LOTS OF CULTURE
WHITES HAVE NON
FUNNY FK MARY
YOU COULD NOT FIND YOUR BIRTH MOM
WITH GUIDANCE
NOTHIN NEW
MARY BUT YOU BRAGGIN
WHO THE FUCK CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN
SHERPAS
WHO THE FUK SWEAT AND DEATH
WHY DONT YOU INSERT COLONIAL
PRIVILEGE
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT GIVE THESE VILLAGE YOU WARRIOR PRINCESS CAN VISIT GE5 SIX KIDS TAK3 PICTURE
YOU OFFICIALLY EH APATHY RICE QUEEN
AFTER YOU HEAD TO AFRICA DO THE SAME
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Every succes of TOURIST climber
Not adventurous adventurism
So why dont you go.watch sherpa home lifestyle
When you go to dark continent
You not TOURIST. N
Me not like them
I'm DIFFERENT
Poverty and NGOs social causes #PLANPARENTHOOD simplified all
Condoms not NGOs
It all looked almost like a cake walk through ice, the only thing that indicated otherwise was the heavy panting and gasping for breath and also the sound of sharp cutting wind .
OMG that airport runway doesn't leave room for much error.
I only wish they had included a small Ariel photo with each of the spots marked that they showed you.
Wonder at what point some of them,say wtf did I come on this trip.
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Amazing footage! How do you begin to compare and contrast the experiences of each approach I wonder
Your question is answered here: eightsummits.com/the-eight-summits/mt-everest/
Very brave guys
Watching videos like this, and the then the videos of the pioneering climbs of 70’s, just makes those earlier climbs more impressive as they had to do so much more of the expedition work, fixing ropes, hauling gear, themselves. I climbed Rainer and didn’t find it enjoyable enough to want to go any higher. So I certainly have respect for anyone who can climb to such elevations, even with support from endless fixed ropes, sherpas, guides, etc. But still, climbs like these seem more like endurance affairs, but not much else. And seeing the trails and camps packed with other climbers, hundreds of them, I just don’t see the allure or uniqueness or remarkableness of experience. Anyway; enjoyed watching the video.
Congrats to all!
The chopper ride back to Lukla looks very turbulent .. and like the skids are practically touching the mountain ridges! I really enjoyed the second half, as I've been to Tibet but I've never seen The Mountain from the Tibet side .. it's a completely different climb, and the views are completely different - it's so beautiful to glimpse the glacier curling around the valleys at the base with the ice peaks eventally receding and disappearing to rock .. I fear I'm too old to see it now! So I thank you for showing me through the eyes of your camera. Which climb do you prefer? North or South?
Hi Elizabeth:
Thanks for your comment.
The skids were well above the mountain tops. But the video does present a fairly harrowing trip back to Lukla. The video sequence showing the trip from Burke Khang back to Lukla is one of my favorites in the Himalaya. This is why I am so in love with this fabulous, world-famous mountain range.
This South approach to Mt. Everest is very different from the North approach. The North approach has much better views of the mountain during the entire expedition. It is also less crowded and more difficult. I compare the two approaches in a short article I posted on my website. See eightsummits.com/the-eight-summits/mt-everest/
As far as which approach is my favorite, it is a little like asking which child I love the most. They are so different and unique in many ways. I love them both and cannot pick a favorite.
Bill
@@eightsummits
Thank you so much for your reply! I can't wait to read your Eight Summits article. I thought your video was the best of all those about personal climbs, and I particularly like that you included your descents which are, imo, more difficult than the upward climb. The footage from the chopper left my own heart in my mouth .. How talented your pilot is! And I thought that the views from the North Side that I could see in your video weren't closed in by other peaks and are much more open to the landscapes, and are therefore more spectacular. I'm 78 next birthday and I sincerely regret having never tried it. It looks like a much more difficult climb, but being far less crowded must have a lot of appeal for those planning an expedition. Also there's less bodies and spent O2 canisters and candy wrappers and sunblock tubes to step over .. My niece is joining a 2019 Everest expedition from the South (I showed her this!), where bottleneck jams of climbers waiting to summit are becoming a serious concern for the Southern approach. The longer the lines of climbers waiting to summit the more dangerous the hours spent at altitude become, where humans cannot survive. But she's a level headed girl - I trekked the Kokoda trail in New Guinea with her 9 years ago where the only real requirements are commitment and fitness, but she'll be fine if she trusts her same gut instincts. LOL - Yes, I understood exactly what you meant about trying to compare favorite children ... they're two completely different beasts. But I have to say that I'm very fond of the Nepalese people, with their genuinely gentle and kind natures, yet fierce strength and pride. I'm still in regular contact with several families, some of whom lost their people in the EBC avalanche following the earthquake .. That was so terrible and I was incredibly sad that the only help I could offer from half a globe away was financial assistance, but I felt so compelled. I can see that you have the Himalayas in your blood .. it never comes out, you know : ) I look for to reading your article, and thank you for kindly sharing your excellent video.
Brilliant vid, thank you. Up up up, blimey On top of the world! :) x
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climbers from south and north of everest all meet at same summit?
Loved it!!! What way is easier?
see eightsummits.com/the-eight-summits/mt-everest/
Who's the body at 28:46 ?
Great video. Just curious: can you climb from North to Summit and then descend down the South side, and vice versa (in theory)?
Traverses of Mt. Everest are not possible because the Chinese will not permit entry or exit from their country at non-recognized border points.
Everest was traversed by the Americans in 1963, (Hornbien, Unsoeld).
Which route is more challenging/ technical, north or south? South looks much more challenging from each video I've seen.
North is more technically demanding due to the Three Steps. South is more dangerous though, because of the Khumbu Icefall
See eightsummits.com/the-eight-summits/mt-everest/
Easy to get obsessed with the commitment courage and determination that is involved. I would have to overcome one too many things to even go part way up. However if somebody planted me there and helped me i would try. I would turn around when i felt my weaknesses were gonna get me killed. Weaknesses a kin to say….not having crampons for a strong climber or no oxygen for an asthmatic ( there was that one guy…you know? Third try he conceded and used oxygen to get to top.) those guys that have to even wear glasses are more compromised! Its amazing how people will challenge themselves. Ive got a challenge im in the start of. Im recommiting the 7th of September. ( yeah im weird) now that its not a heat wave anymore. Next it’ll be too cold! Ha ha….thinking of Everest. I was very sick a couple years ago and i felt so horrible in the 20 degree above weather feeding critters i cranked the heat up to 90 in the house and stood over the vent blowing hot air. Just being too cold makes me want to throw up. Base camp maybe? Foot warmers hand warmers head warmer down and more down?
Question,when you go up the north side do you literally bump into folk on top from the south side,the summit being a literal point.
yes
Happens on every mountain, even the little ones ;-)
Yes. Same summit for climbers coming up from both sides.
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I’m not really a Mountaineer in any capacity I’m more of a sea level guy! But it’s definitely on my bucket list
amazing, dont know how you do it
With fixed lines, porters, sherpas and supplementary oxygen. You can see all of these in his videos. That's how most of them 'do it'.
Thank you for sharing, im almost there myself
sorrt, i mean to say that it feels like I am there too(writing from Holland)
Anjadv 😂 from Holland everything must look high
Would it be possible to somehow slide down or ski from camp 3?
No to glissading, but yes to skiing. See the movie "The Man Who Skied Down Everest."
Watch the movie "The Man Who Skied Down Everest"
@@eightsummits thank you for your answer
Which way is easier to summit, the north or the south......The peak is the same place right no matter how u get there?
The North approach is more difficult. See eightsummits.com/the-eight-summits/mt-everest/
Is there any way around the ice falls to get to the top?
Not in a South side climb. The North side approach in Tibet does not have an icefall
30:38 is that a bird's nest of old unsafe abandoned fixed lines surrounding the one good current line? If so, good grief, I'd hate to have to pick the right string in a blizzard in a hypoxic daze!
Hi there! Amazing video. I climbed Everest North in 2019 and am making a film about our trip for charity. I wanted to get in touch and see if you would be willing to allow me permission to use a short clip from your video around camp 3? I approached camp 3 at night and all my footage is very dark! Let me know how best to reach you if this would be possible? Stuart
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4:00 Those ice blocks are immense and can topple at any time, which is why so many die there.
18:00 I never saw an animal carry so much.
Why don't they have those metal ladders fitted with a metal board ,something more sturdy to walk over on ice falls ,ladder by itself must be super sketchy
Eccezionale
How far did the dog go up?
Above Camp 2 to the Lhotse Face. That's when one of my teammates put the dog on a leash and took him/her back to Camp 2 on the West shoulder of Everest. I don't know what became of this puppy. These are stray dogs that follow the teams up to Base Camp seeking food handouts. When they see climbers moving up the mountain, they follow in the hopes of being fed.
I used to be a flight engineer and spent 12 hours a day flying. Cheaper and more rewarding to hire a charter aircraft and fly over the high peaks, or even better a glider flight. This is as the number one summiting Sherpa said, "seeing how close you can get to death" and not really about the beauty of the mountains.
From camp 2 to 3 looks like 30min walk but its not.
what if u have a panic attack on that ladder
31:43 Bird flying by!
Corey West
Most likely an Alpine Chough.
Did they find out who the climber was who sadly lost their life near that second step? Rip.
Sadly, I don't know if this climber has been identified. There are so many. The area above the Second Step was once called "The Rainbow Ridge" because of all the bodies clad in their colorful down suits. In the last few years, the bodies on both the South Approach and the North Approach have been committed to the mountain out of respect for the deceased. They can no longer be seen.
Has anyone ever attempted to climb via the north and descend via the south or vice versa.
Yes, one person climbed up the North approach and descended the South approach South. His plan was reascend the South approach and then descend the North approach--a "double summit." Such attempts are no longer permitted because the Chinese will not permit entries or departures from China via the summit of Mt. Everest. I once attempted my own form of double summit--up and down the South approach and then up and down the North approach. See "Eight Summits: The Bill Burke Story." eightsummits.com/the-documentary/
the dog! what the! haha.
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28:46 is that a frozen climber
yea, there are dozens up there. Impossible to recover.
Has that plane ever missed the runway?
Yes. They have crashes and deaths almost every year. The crashes are usually weather related.
@@eightsummits Wow, I figured they did, it looks so sketchy.
@@KaceyIlliot Lukla is considered the most dangerous airport in the world.
at 28:45 what is that??
Thats a body
Мертвец
Whos body in red suit was there ?
Min 28:44
From the suit it looks like it could be namgyal sherpa who died at 8300m on the north face, could also be Ralf D. Arnold who broke his leg on the second step or Juan José Polo Carbayo who died on the same day but i'm not an expert.
Serb, or Russian, there is a doc' on youtube about him being covered by climbers from his country. In other pictures he is seen lying on his back, turned over by wind, or someone trying to offer some dignity.
interesting that we still just tie up ladders with a rope to cross over the ice fall lol....rofl
Make no sense
Why not one size bigger solid clamp on
Once across take off
NOW I KNOW WHY KNIFE NEEDED HE DANGLING YOU CUT ROPE
LADDER
YOU TAKE OUT SOLID
CLICK TOGETHER WOOD PANELS
OR SOLID TONKA TRUCK PLASTIC LAY IT DOWN ON LADDER SOLID WALK WAY
WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY SINCE STEVE AUSTIN
How did a dog get there? There’s no way I could leave a dog there. No way 😢
I wondered that myself. I hope it made it out.
they can support the cold more than you!!! and they can adapt to different climates compared to the humans they don't need oxygen masks and people to carry 5 bottles of oxygen for them.. you pity a dog more than 35 sherpas that lost their lives due to stupid humans like you!!!
I very much want to see a dog summit. That would be great to see, but I can’t see a dog going up the ladder at the second step.
These are stray dogs that follow the teams up to Base Camp seeking food handouts. When they see climbers moving up the mountain, they follow in the hopes of being fed.
@@eightsummits I once saw a documentary about Everest dogs and I was flabbergasted! Please, don't let them fall! 🙏🐕💖
Btw, your video is awesome! Thank you so much!
The name is SAGARMATHA !
Follie
The sherpas taking all the heavy staff cooking and then helping this rich people not to died once they get to the top they get all the credit not fair.
Fair point. The Sherpas don't get enough credit. Several years ago, I was asked to give the Everest Day speech in Nepal. I devoted my talk to the Sherpas and others who do all the hard work on the mountain. See eightsummits.com/bills-articles/5th-annual-sagaramantha-day/
Maaan how you shit up there..
This old men shud be spending time with his grandkids. Not gallavanting in dangerous mountains
It sure would be helpful if you could Also annotate your video with heights in metres. The whole world uses that unit of measure except for the USA!
And proud of it
Well, Britain is still using the wrong side of the road ;-)
Frack usa.
Stewart Midwinter and some of us diehard Luddites in the UK! Just divide the height in feet by 13 and then multiply by 4 to give you the equivalent metre figure, assuming the Imperial (the system that uses feet, inches, yards and chains, to name a few} is correct in the first place! I learnt both as there was a transition phase when it first came into use and although the metric system is obviously easier, being based on 10, the Imperial also has some remarkable synchronicity between weights and measures that make it easier to work with and understand. It even seems logical when you know the connections between all the various units and the derivation of them.
Meters suck for hight measurement there to long of increment and never give any sense of depth or hight . Feet have been used since ...well forever by all civilizations probably because it's practical. So your going to go around with a meter long ruler to measure stuff in an office. .or wherever . Kilometers and Celsius no one cares so people use metrics but for depths of oceans and hight it's stupid.
Thats a drama. A lots with oxygen. Many few the mountain takes away.
Could it be that the Tibet camps have less trash laying around then the Nepali camps?
Because they are run by the Chinese 😁
because there is a road up there.
Who brought a dog up there? That wasn't the smartest thing to do.
There are many stray "homeless"dogs on the 35-mile trek from the airport at Lukla to Base Camp. Signs are posted not to feed these dogs. I once encountered one of these dogs on my trek back from Base Camp to Lukla. He followed me for several miles, hoping for a handout. I felt sorry for the dog, but honored the warnings, which are there for reason. Finally, I stopped at a tea house, hoping that when I came out 30-minutes later, he would be gone. When I came out, he was patiently waiting for me. I suspect he sensed I love animals, especially dogs. Finally, I caved and left a stash of food for him to eat. I then picked up my pace and never saw him again.
The dogs make their way up to Base Camp because they know they will be fed by climbers and cooks. Leftover food at Base Camp is routinely thrown out in piles near the dining tents. The birds and dogs enjoy a King's feast. When the dogs see the climbers make their way up the Khumbu Icefall on their way to Camp 1, some of them naturally follow. Their ability to cross over and climb up the 30-40 ladders in the Icefall is an astonishing feat of bravery and skill. I was blown away when I saw that black puppy following me up the Icefall. He was not following me in particular. He arrived with the teams at Camp 1 and then, the following day, followed the teams up to Camp 2, and from Camp 2 to the foot of the Lhotse Face. If you review my footage from Base Camp to the Lhotse Face, you will understand how incredible this is for a canine. No dogs appear on the Lhotse Face because it is too steep and icy. At the foot of the Lhotse Face, my teammate put the dog on a leash and walked him back to Camp 2. We never saw him again. I doubt that any canine could move down a 50-foot vertical ladder to return to Base Camp, but I could be wrong.
I don't want you, or anyone else, to feel these dogs are pets. I don't think there is any good way to stop them from pursuing their instinct to stay alive, other than to capture and euthanize them, which no one supports.
@@eightsummits That is very interesting and thank you for explaining..it all makes sense now.
the top of everest looks like a junk yard from climbers leaving mementos, who the hell leaves a statue of a hindu under glass on mt everest ....if i got to the top i would throw everything over the cliff.
Peter Grimshaw I agree. Look at all the garbage they leave at the camps.
They are leaving gifts for the Mother Goddess of the Earth. Seems disrespectful to us but not to them.
Keep sitting on your ass driving a cab and bake another customer. @Yellow Cab
the sherpas bring one body down took 16 sherpas 4 day
is going be easy many top mountain-climber died just help other make sure come alive to tell you stories
I am Indian But I agree 💯..
No frozen corpse.... tsk tsk this boring
28:46
Nice pictures indeed. But anyway, the actual Everest-tourism really sucks. Sherpas risk their lives (and many loose their lives) to bring people up the mountain, that are not able to climb up on their own. If you wanna ba a mountaineer, bring your oxygen and tents and ropes and ledders on your own up there; take the risk op fixing ropes on your own. Don´t let others take your risk, just because you have the money to do this. This is not by fair means.
Yellow Cab If it´s your definition of being mannish to risk poor people´s life for your own joy, just because you got the money to do that.... :-(
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@Yellow Cab If you wanna help those people, do it! There´s no need to risk their lives instead. Maybe there are forms of cooperation, but what I´m talking about ist exploitation.
Treemander You are making a very common mistake, when you examine the work and the conditions that the Sherpa work under you are doing so with a Western viewpoint and the thought of how you would feel in that situation. The Sherpa don't view the world they live in that way, they are fatalistic in the way you might be if all the things in your life were already decided and nothing could be done to change them. You also seem to think that they are pushed into doing the work when in fact most expeditions are inundated with men eager to be on the payroll/Obviously there are the rogues and other exploiters as there are in almost any area involving profit but the Sherpa are learning and many get work through cooperatives to negotiate with the power of numbers. I'm sure there are Sherpa who don't like their job but it seems to me that it is a mutually beneficial arrangement and one freely entered by both parties who are aware of the pay and conditions involved. Don't apply Western morality in other cultures, it is both arrogant and liable to lead to erroneous conclusions.
Totally agreed. Not sure if Sir Hillary would agree with today‘s practice. too commercial to be a true adventure as it used to be. just made a lot of mountaineers richer.
kind of a shame they commercialized the mountain for any rich joe to climb it. takes away the integrity of climbing the mountain
This is FAKE VIDEO!!! The dog at 5:00 minutes gives it away.
You idiot
They have turned the most beautiful mountain into a junkyard
What an astoundingly original comment.
why do a video without narration,personal insights make it interesting and informative,however i agree with jon krakauer many of the folks who attempt it have no business being there,their lack of climbing experience becomes a liability for everyone,especially above 26000 ft.in the death zone.
That guy that had his dog up there is POS. He should of had to walk the ladders with no rope like he made his dog wtf.
These are stray dogs that follow the teams up to Base Camp seeking food handouts. When they see climbers moving up the mountain, they follow in the hopes of being fed.