One of the greatest documentaries I have seen we should not forget this is in 1970 no gadgets or drowns or self-automated cameras, excellent camera work, and whoever prepared this expedition.
I'm an entry level fan of Himalayan mountaineering. I've seen Meru and a few other recent doc/ adventure films including Konrad Anker's discovery of George Mallory's body on Everest. This however is just mind blowing for it's cinematography!!! And way before stabilized gimbals and hi def digital cameras. And, this being an all Japanese team, the narrative is very sublime and Oh So Very Japanese. Very well done!!! This is going into my library for sure.
The camera work is phenomenal this is the first everest doco out of alot! That actually shows how scetchy and dangerous big mountain climbing actually is
Ive never really seemed to be able to grasp just how dangerous or big it is. The shots of the Sherpas fixing the ropes through the ice fall is insane. .. That's their mountain, and I'm staying well clear of it. .. Least for now anyway!
I live in the mountains in Colorado and what's crazy to me is Everest/many Himalayan peaks are twice as big as our biggest mountains. Everest rises like 15,000ft from its base. Pikes peak is like 7,000.
One of the greatest movies ever made of Everest mountain..it made 40 year before the Everest movie come out .. stop condemn this man for doing this.. it's a unfortunate circumstances that have occurred on this expedition but it come with the profession and territory..what a great determination group of people that's decide to finish the project till the end instead of giving up and go home ... Miura almost die himself that days.....he lucky that he stop 200 ft infort of the cravas..thank you for sharing the wonderful experience and thought..RIP all the sherpas who sacrifice their life for us to have a beautiful view of this great mountain..respect.
I know this is a silly thing to be impressed by, but those barefooted tribal guys are pretty amazing! They were carrying 50lbs of crap on their back, walking up Rocky Mountain terrain without shoes! I appreciate the small feats!
This man not only skied in the Everest when he was almost 40 years. He also became the oldest man to climb the Everest at 70 years and again broke his record at 80, definitely a living legend.
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Yuichiro to the remaining Sherpas. "Those six lives were lost in attempting to achieve a great thing, it was fate". I'm sorry but risking people's lives so you can ski down Everest is a stupid ego pursuit from a clearly conceited man.Those Sherpas' lives were lost for no good reason. Telling how Yuichiro is so philosophical about the deaths of 6 men who were merely only trying to feed their families. The looks on their faces said it all. None of them really believed his ego mission was worth the cost. Yuichiro is still alive. I wonder if he sleeps well.
that seems like a weird thing to say indeed after people die on your personal expedition.. though in terms of what happened its probably not much different from Sherpas losing their life on any expedition in the Himalayas. its all ego driven... climbing a mountain with not much on the top except the view to just climb down again is not really different from skiing down... you know, actually skiing down is quite a bit more purposeful cause at least you had 'a reason' to climb up there. and the sherpas are just doing their work... its implicit that lives can be lost whatever the expedition in the mountains.. whether they just wanna climb up, ski down or make a snowman on the top.
Well written, but to call this an ego mission is outlandish. He too could easily have died. I also don't think that anyone should be climbing at 8,000m when 6,000m will. We have plenty of mountains in the U.S. and Canada, and in the Andes, the Alps, and all over. But this is not the fight. This was not a vanity project.
@@markwoldin162 extreme vanity .. he is fearless not brave and he is Entitled arrogant and bragging about how little the men get paid was telling.. he doesn’t know if it was a success? 6 men died and he fell down the hill looking like beginner on a blue slope. Our military are brave .. they wouldn’t consider losing 1 man a success so yes vanity project … or reckless homicide . Wonder if he didn’t tip as much since 6 gone .. his son r u kidding
wow, just bloody wow, at times i thought i was watching the twilight zone, then it became a beautiful outer world, he was amazing and so too this documentary x
If the world you live in makes you feel small or trapped, move on. It is your human right to do so. For all that is good in this world, do not take other's on your journey. It will tarnish any good you may have gained in seeking a new path.
great docu...thanks for sharing in fullHD...found this masterpiece years ago and could not believe that there was such an spectacular adventure in the 70s before extreme mountain climbing was really entertained...it is like the high-wire artist who walked between World Trade Center (also in the 70s), Philippe Petit [docu: man on wire]....
I cud not understand the last dialogue of sherpa...did he say move now move now or..don't move don't move.. Voice and subtitles did not match at the time stamp u provided
my best friend would do something like this and not be phased by the loss of lives. some people are like this. I am not like this. for me, my life is more important than a vain experience.
Just because the sherpas will work for $1 /day doesn't mean that's the rate you should pay. Pay them what you feel they're worth... $10/day, for example. Don't overpay. That can bring problems too. And I'm guessing the whole way down will be one HUGE double/triple black diamond...yikes.
The heck? If tourists are spending more than enough money to be able to buy a nice car just to climb a mountain they could at least pay the Sherpas a decent daily rate. Average income in Nepal is about $22 a day. The least you should give them is that.
21:15 Wow.... a meetup with Sir Edmund Hillary at the hospital? That's kind of amazing! 26:20 8.4 mi/day in 22 days; 132 yards/day for the last 40 days. Wow. 27:15 $27,000 (3,000,000 yen) in 1970 for instant food for the Japanese skiers? Wow... back in 1970, at age 21, 2 months of food for me was $24.
The 4 human stories! 1) of Human bravery: overcome the limits of what's been achieved in the past 2) of human endurance and grit: accomplish a task of what is considered impossible by most people! 3) of great cinematography: at immense heights without the high-tech gadgets of today 4) of human Apathy: So much money spent... On a team of 800 porters to carry 700 tons of equipment. Yet made the porters walk bare foot on snow while carrying over 30kgs of luggage on their backs! 11:20
I've had a crazy dream of riding down Everest on a sled. I've loved sledding in the wintertime since I was a kid. Of course, this will most likely never happen since I don't have the money or the mountain climbing skills like this Miura guy. But it's sure nice to dream.
SORRY FOR THE CAPS I AM HALF BLIND... WOW, AS I WATCHED YOU SKI DOWN I GOT VERY SCARED FOR YOU, THEN YOU STARTED TO FALL I CRIED, THEN YOU WAVED I WAS VERY HAPPY ,,, YOU ARE ALIVE... GOD BLESS US EACH AND EVERYONE...AWESOME VIDEO...
Wasn't going to watch it until, "27 tons of equipment and 800 porters to carry it." That was not expected. Now, i want to see how." He brought an exercise bike to train aerobically. 26:36 "It took us 22 days to go the 185 mikes from Katmandu. It will take us 40 days to go the next 3 mikes."
It does. You have to do these heights in steps, for elevation acclimation and it still takes weeks to get to the top (there are some exceptions, obviously, for sherpas who are used to the elevation and other extremely fit individuals)
The khumbu ice fall section seems like the worst part. Surely there is a way to bypass this? With. Science and technology one should be able to scan the whole area and find the safest route.
My understanding is that it's a shifting wall of ice, changing day by day. I've been reading Into Thin Air about the 1996 Everest disaster. Krakauer describes the sound of the icefall as this cracking and groaning of shifting ice. Definitely the most dangerous part of the ascent. Many Sherpas have died there.
If that’s true that means about one year after you lost your legs you hiked from Kathmandu to the base camp of Everest about a 12 day hike and that route wasn’t established until 1952 or 53 by the Swiss. Then you climbed Everest and skied back down it with no legs in 1946 a time when prosthetic limbs were very primitive. If you actually accomplished this your name would be known by everyone! And the first double amputee to climb Everest wasn’t until May 2006. Now that all being said I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure you are just telling a fairytale about Everest!
This film documents that when you have 400 others doing the heavy lifting, nearly anyone can make it up and down Everest. I'm impressed by those that do it without the resorting to "Siege-Climbing" tactics, like say, the Sherpa's.
The point is to challenge yourself and set goals to yourself which seam to be impossible first but then with hard work and determination achieve them. These are challenges that test both mental and the physical abilities.
@Bubbles DeVille Were the Sherpas held at gunpoint to do this job? No they were not. They were offered a job knowing the risks and accepted the risks. Stop being so dull
He wanted the parachute to look like an airy lotus on the slope but in the end he didn’t feel anything! Probably just sheer concentration! No romantic, poetic imagery this time, just horror at the ice and rocks!
@@superrrnova1986 The only work they cab find where they live! That is actually like a gun held to their heads. Why don't you educate yourself about the lives of the Sherpas first before expressing stupid opinions!
@@GoodieWhiteHat 1st day ski school pizza frenchfries most he progressed .. I’m sure the boy shows to all his friends what his dad died for …, a coward
I was dying laughing by the end of this. Listening to the biggest blowhard skiing down the biggest mountain. The laser sounds when was falling and him narrating afterward....I couldn't help laughing!! I was pretty miraculous when he was falling down the mountain he didn't lose consciousness, but lost consciousness mid jump on one of his practice runs and still managed to land it. HAHA!! His Lotus flower didn't add the expected beauty and grace I think he was aiming for. The irony here is that what the Sherpas did was far more fascinating and jaw-dropping than his Lotus flower laser show. I'm totally watching this documentary again and recommending it to EVERYONE I know. The cinematography is stunning. This documentary is why I love You Tube!
@@Tomos_J-J Leaving 6 people dead to feed your ego is an accomplishment. Yup, he really needed to ski down that mountain to make name for himself. Monumental for sure.
46:45 So 6 Sherpas died so a motley group of rich arrogant Japanese skiers could get their little thrills on. Where are all the other Japanese skiers? The whole film features one guy professing to eat potatoes and some grains and the rest of the crew eating $26,000 of junk food but they're not skiing. I remember that day so well. I was in Chicago. My 21st birthday was May 8, 1970, 2 days after Yuichiro skied down that mountain and I was walking to a lonely phone booth to call up my mom back in Whittier, CA. A lifetime ago!
a single skier and a scientific expedition as you can see from the experiment. every expedition from that era has had sherpa deaths, it was nothing to them
Wow. The heartlessness of the head of this expedition, showed no regard for those 6 men lost. It's like thet just shrugged their shoulders and said, "oh well". That made me angry. I hope that the widows received money for the children those widows will have to raise, alone.
@@1SALADLOVER Wonder how butt hurt you would feel if one of the dead would have been a loved one or the bread winner of yours. Right, butt hurt Susan, hahahahaha!
Old school Japanese live for the achievement of their people, not for having a nice and easy and comfortable life as an individual human. Which is why they just see death as a sometimes inevitable and necessary sacrifice, that just makes them shrug their shoulders and say "oh well".
Ngl I’m glad I fast forwarded to the end. Would’ve been pissed to watch 1.5 hours only to see a dude fall down Everest lmao. Respect for trying though.
I was looking for the names of the Sherpa guides in the intro credits but was shocked to see a complete omission, which turned me off watching anymore.
6 people perished for a man to have 12 sec adrenaline rush, if money doesn't buy happiness you wouldn't see these Sherpas risking their lives for those pretentious foreigners, if money doesn't buy you happiness at least money will let you grow old and live a long life with your family if you were a Sherpa.
Skier: "What's your guide fee?". Sherpas: " It's $1 per day" Skier: "That's it? You know it's dangerous, right?". Sherpas: "Dude! We know. We've live here! That's our rate". An ice fall kills 6 them. TH-cam viewers: "Those skiers were selfish murderers! They got those poor men killed for nothing". Narrator: "They say, I skied 6,600 feet in 2 minutes and 20 seconds. I fell 1,320 feet". TH-cam viewers: "All he did was fall down Everest".
You're right. I've known a lot of selfish people in my life. I'm a giver myself. If it were me, I would've told them that tipping was customary in my country and I'd have insisted on giving them more money. Poor people dont trek around the world and spend weeks or months climbing mountains. I can't believe how often wealthy people take advantage of poor people during their adventures. Just because they have dirt cheap prices for their services, that doesn't mean you can't give them more money as a tip.
@@Tomos_J-J I'm bashing TH-cam viewers, who claim that the Sherpas were basically murdered by the skiers. I'm saying that the Sherpas know what they are doing is dangerous and they hopefully know that poor people can't travel around the world to go on skiing and climbing adventures, therefore, they can afford to pay the Sherpas more if the Sherpas would only ask for more. Therefore, nobody other than the participants are to blame when people die doing things that everyone on Earth knows is extremely dangerous. I'm also bashing TH-cam viewers for saying that the skier only fell and he did not ski at all, even though he clearly skied before he fell. I then added my own thoughts on tipping the Sherpas in general. The Japanese are not the only people who don't tip the Sherpas. So, I agree with you. Maybe the Japanese should receive a pass, because tipping is not part of their culture, but what about all on the Americans and Europeans who take advantage of the Sherpas customs? It's possible for two seemingly opposite things to both be true. Adventurers don't kill Sherpas, but they do take advantage of them financially.
The Sherpas should be paid a US$1 for every kg carried, per day. Sherpas not only need to feed their families but educate their children. The kg packed in would cut out non essential, non nutritious stuff like noodles etc. His wish that the valleys and mountain would be unaffected did not come true. It’s now the Worlds highest trash dump, littered also with around 200 frozen bodies. I see many women as low lying porters. They should be paid the same rate. I doubt if they were on this expedition.
One of the greatest documentaries I have seen we should not forget this is in 1970 no gadgets or drowns or self-automated cameras, excellent camera work, and whoever prepared this expedition.
Indeed ...love the ol framed packs...and the lack of crappy musik..
53:06 The downhill of the spirit is more painful than the uphill of the body
This is one of the best documentaries I spent my time on.
The cinematography in this is insane
Up Up
The 70s was the peak of film making (in my opinion). My favourite decade for all things cinematic.
It's amazing when compared to the footage of the Bonington expedition that was also on the mountain at the time.
sadly, he pizza'd when he should have french fry'd.
I'm an entry level fan of Himalayan mountaineering. I've seen Meru and a few other recent doc/ adventure films including Konrad Anker's discovery of George Mallory's body on Everest. This however is just mind blowing for it's cinematography!!! And way before stabilized gimbals and hi def digital cameras. And, this being an all Japanese team, the narrative is very sublime and Oh So Very Japanese. Very well done!!! This is going into my library for sure.
Watch 14 peaks by Nims on Netflix. Nothing beats the GOAT.
@@nikthinks me-too
See...wonder documentry Matterhorn( deadliest race)
@@nikthinks Reinhold Messner IS the GOAT. I seriously hope this is what you mean
@@jaymesh161 Nirmal Purja is the GOAT.
The camera work is phenomenal this is the first everest doco out of alot! That actually shows how scetchy and dangerous big mountain climbing actually is
Maybe that's why the cameraman is on the front page rather than the guy that skied down the largest mountain in the world
@@diesto-vg5jz good point
The camera crew deserves fame in their own right.
Yes even the Brave cameraman DONT get A Mention. But a dollar a day ,Risking THEIR lives to feed their families. ABSOLUTELY disgraceful.
“The downhill of the spirit is more painful than the uphill of the body”....wow....
53:13
Ive never really seemed to be able to grasp just how dangerous or big it is. The shots of the Sherpas fixing the ropes through the ice fall is insane. .. That's their mountain, and I'm staying well clear of it. .. Least for now anyway!
I live in the mountains in Colorado and what's crazy to me is Everest/many Himalayan peaks are twice as big as our biggest mountains. Everest rises like 15,000ft from its base. Pikes peak is like 7,000.
Unbelievable cinematography! Absolutely incredible for the decade it was first created,
Rest in peace to the deceased men❤hope their families were well compensated for this exhibition.
Just proves there's no time like the 70S in my opinion, incredible thanks
One of the greatest movies ever made of Everest mountain..it made 40 year before the Everest movie come out .. stop condemn this man for doing this.. it's a unfortunate circumstances that have occurred on this expedition but it come with the profession and territory..what a great determination group of people that's decide to finish the project till the end instead of giving up and go home ... Miura almost die himself that days.....he lucky that he stop 200 ft infort of the cravas..thank you for sharing the wonderful experience and thought..RIP all the sherpas who sacrifice their life for us to have a beautiful view of this great mountain..respect.
I know this is a silly thing to be impressed by, but those barefooted tribal guys are pretty amazing! They were carrying 50lbs of crap on their back, walking up Rocky Mountain terrain without shoes! I appreciate the small feats!
I said the same thing!!
Absolutely speechless and humbled . Thank you for sharing 🙏🙏🙏❤️
This man not only skied in the Everest when he was almost 40 years. He also became the oldest man to climb the Everest at 70 years and again broke his record at 80, definitely a living legend.
Yup, and people died because of his ego. Great accomplishment.
6 people died.
Just thought I’d mention it.
The legend of the callous egotist who skiis like he just learned how to do pizza at ski school… coward
@@haydn9600 would they not have been working on everest anyway?
@@Think-dont-believe you call him a coward but you would never even dare to do what he did
This footage is unreal for being from the 1970s
Awesome quality for a doc from the 70's
Watching this in 2010 gave me inspiration to leave an incredibly borked relationship.
That's awesome!!! Live for YOU
romance is bad choices, avoid
@@BotanyDegreePilkerton lol
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@@PacificNorthwest360 👍🤙💪🇺🇸
Yuichiro to the remaining Sherpas. "Those six lives were lost in attempting to achieve a great thing, it was fate". I'm sorry but risking people's lives so you can ski down Everest is a stupid ego pursuit from a clearly conceited man.Those Sherpas' lives were lost for no good reason. Telling how Yuichiro is so philosophical about the deaths of 6 men who were merely only trying to feed their families. The looks on their faces said it all. None of them really believed his ego mission was worth the cost. Yuichiro is still alive. I wonder if he sleeps well.
that seems like a weird thing to say indeed after people die on your personal expedition.. though in terms of what happened its probably not much different from Sherpas losing their life on any expedition in the Himalayas. its all ego driven... climbing a mountain with not much on the top except the view to just climb down again is not really different from skiing down... you know, actually skiing down is quite a bit more purposeful cause at least you had 'a reason' to climb up there.
and the sherpas are just doing their work... its implicit that lives can be lost whatever the expedition in the mountains.. whether they just wanna climb up, ski down or make a snowman on the top.
I agree these sherpas only do this to feed their family. A ski stunt is uncalled for.
Well written, but to call this an ego mission is outlandish. He too could easily have died. I also don't think that anyone should be climbing at 8,000m when 6,000m will. We have plenty of mountains in the U.S. and Canada, and in the Andes, the Alps, and all over.
But this is not the fight. This was not a vanity project.
@@M1cko33 nothing but arrogance here
@@markwoldin162 extreme vanity .. he is fearless not brave and he is
Entitled arrogant and bragging about how little the men get paid was telling..
he doesn’t know if it was a success? 6 men died and he fell down the hill looking like beginner on a blue slope.
Our military are brave .. they wouldn’t consider losing 1 man a success so yes vanity project … or reckless homicide . Wonder if he didn’t tip as much since 6 gone .. his son r u kidding
Thanks for posting this. It’s amazing.
I must say TH-cam is E-library. Amazing videos are here.
Watching 2023 this man man is alive till now👏👏👏👏👏
better title "the Man who slid down Everest"
"a little part of Everest"
@@petermgruhn .."after snow-plowing for a little bit with a parachute on after sacrificing 6 lives in the process"
wow, just bloody wow, at times i thought i was watching the twilight zone, then it became a beautiful outer world, he was amazing and so too this documentary x
If the world you live in makes you feel small or trapped, move on. It is your human right to do so.
For all that is good in this world, do not take other's on your journey. It will tarnish any good you may have gained in seeking a new path.
Mitsuji Kanau is my new hero. His cinematography makes this story complete.
31:54 Best avalanche footage I can ever recall seeing.
There's another video of the April 18, 2014 avalanche that killed 14 sherpas caught on film.
The dialogue in parts reminds me of Apocalypse Now.
Total Hearts of Darkness. Can even imagine the narrator talking into an old tape recorder. Pretty cool.
The horror..
57:50
great docu...thanks for sharing in fullHD...found this masterpiece years ago and could not believe that there was such an spectacular adventure in the 70s before extreme mountain climbing was really entertained...it is like the high-wire artist who walked between World Trade Center (also in the 70s), Philippe Petit [docu: man on wire]....
Wow this man knew how to make his own ski full skilled he was
The guy is still alive. What are you talking about?en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%C5%ABichir%C5%8D_Miura
Poor kid his papa passing this is so hard to watch 😭🚶♂️🙏
The images are so clear and bright it amazing. Best camera work I have seen at this time, wonder what camera they used
Huh man that was so close. Without that snow line at 1:20:30 the outcome would be catastrophic. Hats off samurai you got some guts!
I cud not understand the last dialogue of sherpa...did he say move now move now or..don't move don't move..
Voice and subtitles did not match at the time stamp u provided
The guy is still alive, 87 years old.
To bad .. life isn’t fair someone like him lives and people w integrity die 😢
@km-vm9yl people with real integrity understand this and remain humble, your obvious deep-rooted hatred will get you nowhere.
Although at 87 I hope by now he realizes how horrifically idiotic and selfish this was
The first question that was raised in my head as soon I saw the title of this video was did this person live or die? :):)
my best friend would do something like this and not be phased by the loss of lives. some people are like this. I am not like this. for me, my life is more important than a vain experience.
I agree. But it's fazed, not phased.
Agree he is a coward and to top it off does pizza then tumbles what a unskilled bad person
@@Think-dont-believe you reply on every comment almost calling him a coward and unskilled, God you seem bitter
Just because the sherpas will work for $1 /day doesn't mean that's the rate you should pay. Pay them what you feel they're worth... $10/day, for example. Don't overpay. That can bring problems too. And I'm guessing the whole way down will be one HUGE double/triple black diamond...yikes.
The heck? If tourists are spending more than enough money to be able to buy a nice car just to climb a mountain they could at least pay the Sherpas a decent daily rate. Average income in Nepal is about $22 a day. The least you should give them is that.
I have to get ready to go to the doctor. But I'm so entranced by this documentary. Thanks for the post !
Amazing documentary and the commentator is brilliant❤️🥰
Life is precious!! You only live one!! Live it as if it ends today!!!
God speed!!!
Excellent camera quality for 1970
Yuichiro Miura...the original "X-games" athlete...back in 1970!
Ski mountaineering has been a thing well before X games ;)
21:15 Wow.... a meetup with Sir Edmund Hillary at the hospital? That's kind of amazing! 26:20 8.4 mi/day in 22 days; 132 yards/day for the last 40 days. Wow. 27:15 $27,000 (3,000,000 yen) in 1970 for instant food for the Japanese skiers? Wow... back in 1970, at age 21, 2 months of food for me was $24.
Great story! Thank you !
Everest region looks so neat clean uninhabited
The 4 human stories!
1) of Human bravery:
overcome the limits of what's been achieved in the past
2) of human endurance and grit:
accomplish a task of what is considered impossible by most people!
3) of great cinematography:
at immense heights without the high-tech gadgets of today
4) of human Apathy:
So much money spent... On a team of 800 porters to carry 700 tons of equipment.
Yet made the porters walk bare foot on snow while carrying over 30kgs of luggage on their backs! 11:20
Which poor bugger carried the telly?
Appreciate the flanger effect on the audio.
Fantastic Academy Award documentary. I think this was Japan's Moonshot.
A great story. I've been to Everest Base Camp and my stories pale in comparison to this movie.
Things like this are why I love japanese, y'all CRAZY!
Somebody in 1970 also pulled a wire as tight as they could and played like a guitar for sound effects.
I've had a crazy dream of riding down Everest on a sled. I've loved sledding in the wintertime since I was a kid. Of course, this will most likely never happen since I don't have the money or the mountain climbing skills like this Miura guy. But it's sure nice to dream.
We all have tp dream
a sled won't stop that's the issue
@@leolego2 oh yes, it will stop: the issue is where and how...
it will stop, just not where you would want it to@@leolego2
everyone who loved this documentary, ill recommend they watch the documentary "Zabardast" which is based on skieing .....wonders of Himalayas !!!
Excellent. Watched it a couple months back. A+
Horror pure, when I think to my back pain since 4 years!!
I am Nepali & I've seen Mt.Everest only in pictures & Videos.
He should've paid families of the deceased Sherpa restitution large. Large enough so their families were supported for many years.
True indeed!
How do you know that wasn’t the case?
So many sherpa SIMPs on TH-cam
You think this dude cares about other people ??
He thought cool less tip .. saved $6
SORRY FOR THE CAPS I AM HALF BLIND...
WOW, AS I WATCHED YOU SKI DOWN I GOT VERY SCARED FOR YOU, THEN YOU STARTED TO FALL I CRIED, THEN YOU WAVED I WAS VERY HAPPY ,,, YOU ARE ALIVE... GOD BLESS US EACH AND EVERYONE...AWESOME VIDEO...
This narrator is "HAL" right? The voice of HAL in 2001 A Space Odyssey.
LOL, it does sound like him
That is correct. His name is Douglas Rain. He recently died.
They should try fly in a wingsuit from the summit peak all the way down gotta have a parachute though. You'd be flying at speeds over 200 easy.
I'm surprised the expedition did not provide shoes for everyone.
guy deserves a medal for going up Everest in that cheap, very uncomfortable aluminium rucksack. Ah, those were the days.
Rename it: "The man who skied for a very short time on Everest and cost lots of underpaid men their lives."
No one ever cares about the others involved... Specially the ppl that do these stunts with the cancer camera men right next to them lol
Yes, we should ban all dangerous hobbies and jobs.👍🏻
I guess you didn’t notice that he wasn’t the only person climbing Everest.
@@emmas1082 is that sarcasm or stupidity?
Watched by the people who don't understand that Sherpas are being paid to do this dangerous job and they accepted the job knowing the risks
Everything is breathtaking
6 people died helping him, yet it won an Oscar? Wow
Wasn't going to watch it until, "27 tons of equipment and 800 porters to carry it."
That was not expected. Now, i want to see how." He brought an exercise bike to train aerobically.
26:36 "It took us 22 days to go the 185 mikes from Katmandu. It will take us 40 days to go the next 3 mikes."
It does. You have to do these heights in steps, for elevation acclimation and it still takes weeks to get to the top (there are some exceptions, obviously, for sherpas who are used to the elevation and other extremely fit individuals)
The khumbu ice fall section seems like the worst part. Surely there is a way to bypass this? With. Science and technology one should be able to scan the whole area and find the safest route.
My understanding is that it's a shifting wall of ice, changing day by day. I've been reading Into Thin Air about the 1996 Everest disaster. Krakauer describes the sound of the icefall as this cracking and groaning of shifting ice. Definitely the most dangerous part of the ascent. Many Sherpas have died there.
This is no big deal... I skied Everest in the May of 1946, and that was after I had my legs blowed off at Iwo!
I believe you
@@roberttucker1527 That’s because you’re a true American hero, Robert!
Thank you sir
If that’s true that means about one year after you lost your legs you hiked from Kathmandu to the base camp of Everest about a 12 day hike and that route wasn’t established until 1952 or 53 by the Swiss. Then you climbed Everest and skied back down it with no legs in 1946 a time when prosthetic limbs were very primitive. If you actually accomplished this your name would be known by everyone! And the first double amputee to climb Everest wasn’t until May 2006.
Now that all being said I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure you are just telling a fairytale about Everest!
@@frankm6873 Nobody cares about your obvious attempt to engage in pedantry.
I cannot believe that some of the porters were hauling in bare feet...
This film documents that when you have 400 others doing the heavy lifting, nearly anyone can make it up and down Everest. I'm impressed by those that do it without the resorting to "Siege-Climbing" tactics, like say, the Sherpa's.
a great great documentary!
Watching from my bed wondering why do people do this kind of stuff. Life is so sweet without all this.
@619 OG I couldn't agree more
Stupidity, ignorance, he think they can fight nature
@619 OG Leaving orphans behind must be entertaining and I can't tell who's more stupid, you or
@Fumanchu15150
The point is to challenge yourself and set goals to yourself which seam to be impossible first but then with hard work and determination achieve them. These are challenges that test both mental and the physical abilities.
You speak for yourself, different people enjoy different things some people like living life on the edge so keep your opinions to yourself.
Wow! That was just insane! He’s lucky to be alive after that. 😳😱👍
@Bubbles DeVille You can say that again. 👍
@Bubbles DeVille
Were the Sherpas held at gunpoint to do this job? No they were not. They were offered a job knowing the risks and accepted the risks. Stop being so dull
He wanted the parachute to look like an airy lotus on the slope but in the end he didn’t feel anything! Probably just sheer concentration! No romantic, poetic imagery this time, just horror at the ice and rocks!
@@superrrnova1986 The only work they cab find where they live! That is actually like a gun held to their heads.
Why don't you educate yourself about the lives of the Sherpas first before expressing stupid opinions!
@@GoodieWhiteHat 1st day ski school pizza frenchfries most he progressed .. I’m sure the boy shows to all his friends what his dad died for …, a coward
"A Sherpa is not a Sherpa if they are scared of the mountains" :(
I was dying laughing by the end of this. Listening to the biggest blowhard skiing down the biggest mountain. The laser sounds when was falling and him narrating afterward....I couldn't help laughing!! I was pretty miraculous when he was falling down the mountain he didn't lose consciousness, but lost consciousness mid jump on one of his practice runs and still managed to land it. HAHA!! His Lotus flower didn't add the expected beauty and grace I think he was aiming for. The irony here is that what the Sherpas did was far more fascinating and jaw-dropping than his Lotus flower laser show.
I'm totally watching this documentary again and recommending it to EVERYONE I know. The cinematography is stunning. This documentary is why I love You Tube!
Just posted for my FB friends. I feel sorry for those who don't watch these amazing videos.
You should watch the one of the Polish guy skiing down K2.
Anything is skiable as long as there’s snow on it. :)
Ego: I think I’ll ski down Everest.
Reality: putting lives in danger to satisfy someone else’s ego trip.
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@@Tomos_J-J Leaving 6 people dead to feed your ego is an accomplishment. Yup, he really needed to ski down that mountain to make name for himself. Monumental for sure.
The man who tried to ski down Mount everest and failed spectacularly. Pretty cool though
What struck me most was the difference in the ice fall. How can anyone say there is no global warming?
The man who fell down everest
46:45 So 6 Sherpas died so a motley group of rich arrogant Japanese skiers could get their little thrills on. Where are all the other Japanese skiers? The whole film features one guy professing to eat potatoes and some grains and the rest of the crew eating $26,000 of junk food but they're not skiing. I remember that day so well. I was in Chicago. My 21st birthday was May 8, 1970, 2 days after Yuichiro skied down that mountain and I was walking to a lonely phone booth to call up my mom back in Whittier, CA. A lifetime ago!
a single skier and a scientific expedition as you can see from the experiment. every expedition from that era has had sherpa deaths, it was nothing to them
The old man didnt even carry his own ski. What an achievement
Wow. The heartlessness of the head of this expedition, showed no regard for those 6 men lost. It's like thet just shrugged their shoulders and said, "oh well".
That made me angry. I hope that the widows received money for the children those widows will have to raise, alone.
that's how all everest expedition went really.
Poor baby can file a Butthurt report. Don't forget your bandaid when you pick up the Pen!
@@1SALADLOVER Wonder how butt hurt you would feel if one of the dead would have been a loved one or the bread winner of yours. Right, butt hurt Susan, hahahahaha!
Old school Japanese live for the achievement of their people, not for having a nice and easy and comfortable life as an individual human. Which is why they just see death as a sometimes inevitable and necessary sacrifice, that just makes them shrug their shoulders and say "oh well".
This is some heat fam🔥🔥🔥
In such a rush to get there, when it's the journey that really counts! Kmc
Extreme high five this dude's out here getting air
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Ngl I’m glad I fast forwarded to the end. Would’ve been pissed to watch 1.5 hours only to see a dude fall down Everest lmao. Respect for trying though.
Just looking at that magnificent view of the mount Everest makes me realize the greatness of the Almighty God 😊❤️
Can't watch, too many pop up game ads.
Get yourself a vpn and set your location to Afghanistan, you'll never see an ad again unless it's Osama Bindaden who runs it
I was looking for the names of the Sherpa guides in the intro credits but was shocked to see a complete omission, which turned me off watching anymore.
Stop virtue signaling, you bonehead
@@divinegon4671 it's not virtue signaling - it is literally honoring the heroes. You ASSumptions say everything about YOU.
shocking, disgusting
No oxygen masks, No Ladder I am so impressed
Remarkable footages
6 people perished for a man to have 12 sec adrenaline rush, if money doesn't buy happiness you wouldn't see these Sherpas risking their lives for those pretentious foreigners, if money doesn't buy you happiness at least money will let you grow old and live a long life with your family if you were a Sherpa.
ahahah mask = clown. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👺👺👺👺👺
Jimmy Chin also skied down Everest
But did he slide?
28:50 skiing starts ⛷️🏔️
Fantastico!
Challenge is what makes man
Skier: "What's your guide fee?". Sherpas: " It's $1 per day" Skier: "That's it? You know it's dangerous, right?". Sherpas: "Dude! We know. We've live here! That's our rate". An ice fall kills 6 them.
TH-cam viewers: "Those skiers were selfish murderers! They got those poor men killed for nothing".
Narrator: "They say, I skied 6,600 feet in 2 minutes and 20 seconds. I fell 1,320 feet".
TH-cam viewers: "All he did was fall down Everest".
Sounds like 'you' are VERY famliar with the term...........................SELFISH! You murder a good time!
You're right. I've known a lot of selfish people in my life. I'm a giver myself. If it were me, I would've told them that tipping was customary in my country and I'd have insisted on giving them more money. Poor people dont trek around the world and spend weeks or months climbing mountains. I can't believe how often wealthy people take advantage of poor people during their adventures. Just because they have dirt cheap prices for their services, that doesn't mean you can't give them more money as a tip.
@@skybluemarshall "Word Salad" is what you really GIVE.
@@Tomos_J-J I'm bashing TH-cam viewers, who claim that the Sherpas were basically murdered by the skiers. I'm saying that the Sherpas know what they are doing is dangerous and they hopefully know that poor people can't travel around the world to go on skiing and climbing adventures, therefore, they can afford to pay the Sherpas more if the Sherpas would only ask for more. Therefore, nobody other than the participants are to blame when people die doing things that everyone on Earth knows is extremely dangerous.
I'm also bashing TH-cam viewers for saying that the skier only fell and he did not ski at all, even though he clearly skied before he fell.
I then added my own thoughts on tipping the Sherpas in general. The Japanese are not the only people who don't tip the Sherpas. So, I agree with you. Maybe the Japanese should receive a pass, because tipping is not part of their culture, but what about all on the Americans and Europeans who take advantage of the Sherpas customs?
It's possible for two seemingly opposite things to both be true. Adventurers don't kill Sherpas, but they do take advantage of them financially.
Nowadays this is almost a billion-dollar business for tourism in Nepal… all thanks to men like these….
The Sherpas should be paid a US$1 for every kg carried, per day. Sherpas not only need to feed their families but educate their children. The kg packed in would cut out non essential, non nutritious stuff like noodles etc. His wish that the valleys and mountain would be unaffected did not come true. It’s now the Worlds highest trash dump, littered also with around 200 frozen bodies. I see many women as low lying porters. They should be paid the same rate. I doubt if they were on this expedition.
The ego is a master at creating a fool.