It's always a pleasure and a treat to listen to Jon Krakauer. Jon seems to be a perfect blend of adventurer, writer and narrator. Thank you for the upload.
I hate being a bummer, so if you don't want to know the truth, do not check out what others have said, like people who climbed w/ Krakauer. It appears he misleads, misrepresents, and changes his story to fit his usual pessimistic narrative. Several examples can be found on Michael Tracy's yt account as of recent.
I love Krakauer's characterization of the guide Dave as "your mom telling you to put on your raincoat". His personal impressions are such an inside peek at the climbers psyche and philosophy. His interweaving of the Scott and Andmudson expedition vignettes brings such a keen perspective to the environment and the common struggles and risks of all explorers. Really enjoyed this very much!
Antarctica is the real deal. Nobody is coming to get you there. You're really on your own. Not to mention, it's truly one of the few uncharted places we go to. Especially where they were.
Nova + Krakauer really makes for a sweet throwback documentary, great upload! Can't help also feel a little somber from their ice sheet study and seeing how much climate science has changed since 2003
This was so engaging. I'm so glad you shared it since I had never seen it. The narration and comments of the climbers were great and really conveyed the life-and-death decisions they faced and the internal tensions that resulted. Digging six-foot deep pits at those altitudes seemed crazy!!
Right at the end of the video, the comment was made, of how rare it was becoming... So true. The real estate of the Earth has been climbed by thousands... not much left but rediscovery from where others have traveled. Still what an amazing video, and truly amazing climb. Unless you have done it, no way you can understand how arduous it is
We need brave men like this to continue to explore unexplored and places that you only read about...thanks to all the have men that died and lived through these horrific times..
What courageous explorers ! I think there is still so much we have left to explore both on land and in the ocean. God gives us more to learn just in the human body alone He thrills us with His magnificent creations What a great video to showcase Gods glory on earth
Interesting video such a hostile environment. Scientist, explorers, mountaineers are so brave I admire them. I have read a little about Roald Amudsen from Norway and Robert E Scott from England: famous explorers and this video shows the difference of each character; I see Amudsen enjoyed every bit of his conquest. David Snow thank you for today's Journey into Antarctica......I still love Everest. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
I liked one of the final statements by Krakauer; "I think what we're doing here is a perverse thing..." says it all for those who "like to do this stuff."
Yeah I noticed that too, there seemed to be an outcrop of rock right in front of the the plane in a later shot, it could have been another plane because they already had a camera on ground but both landings must have been impressive and scary. It seems like more of a helicopter mission but I don’t think they fly choppers there, I assume it’s probably too windy. Maybe a chinook would be able to fly there idk I’m not an expert on anything:)
David, thanks for posting this on TH-cam. I really enjoyed it. 😁 At 60, I have never been on an overnight winter expedition and am happy w/ that. I have summited a few peaks in New England in zero degree weather. Fun! ❄ I really like the contrast between "adventure" and being properly prepared. I'm hiking the JMT early June which may be half snow covered with ice cold streams to ford. Hence, I may have to practice fording a few ice cold streams this winter in my undies to properly prepare. On the other hand, what sense of adventure would be left if I did that? Happy Holidays and New Year from Central CT! 🎇🎄
Thank you! Your videos are such a vast of experience and knowledge! I share a few of those, being that it seems to portray man's attempt to conquer the environment.
I'm looking for a video about mountain climbing where these guys from the USA climbed a hill. They were interviewed before leaving for the climb about why they climb . One of the guys was a lawyer . He talked about the short term achievable goal
Sincere question: I love this channel, it brought me to so many other awesome videos and documentaries. I'm surprised about something: has any climber made a snowman on the summit of any of these monsters? I think it would be amazing to see.
Yeah I thought about that too... problem is that they are so tired and cold and it's normally very windy all they do is try to get down as quickly and safely as possible.
NOVA PBS still making good documentaries, when the other channels (discovery, history channel etc..) are making these shows with a minimal amount of information being disseminated, but with a lot of over dramatic music and camera cuts. They dumbed down these shows and stuck them between reality shows about storage lockers and pawn shops..
Denali has a higher vertical rise. But I suppose in alpine mountaineering terms it's essentially comparable under the "death zone." Climbing Denali is one giant, dangerous slog. The hike in from the last bus stop makes it perhaps the most dangerous expedition on the planet.
What a fascinating adventure. Only to be accomplished by super strong explorers. The only drawback to this production, I can't look beyond the obvious defects of the video resolution from the 720 interlaced era. This would have been tremendous if it was shot in 4K+!
There's a novel titled "Explorers of the New Century" by Magnus Mills. It's loosely based around the Admundsen/Scott race for the South Pole. In the novel two teams with distinctly different personalities and approaches are trying to reach "The Agreed Furthest Point", in a rocky, dusty, completely barren and eternally windswept land. It mirrors, in a darkly comic way and warped way, Krakauer's descriptions of the differences in approaches and fates of the Amdundsen and Scott teams. A surreal examination of the drive to venture into these places.
Well done guys. Now let the flearths know. That their is no actual ice wall , no guarded military base , nothing but Beaty of the great old attic tundra and great people whom have conquered it.
I enjoyed this, even though John Krakauer was a part of it. I did a lot of reading after reading Into thin Air and he made a lot of mistakes in that book that were exposed by other members of climbing teams also involved in the 1996 Everest tragedy.
I’m no climber or explorer, these guys are heroes. It’s my view that humans are observers of our beautiful planet, we don’t control it’s destiny. Yes, we can and do pollute it, and that should stop or at least be minimized. But if the planet should warm, and if sea levels rise, we humans have to move out of its way, and adapt - there’s no other way. JMHO.
Ya it does seem like a natural ebb and flo of ice or no ice. I’m sure it was hurried along by man and C02 emissions. Ocean front property in Arizona. Something tells me you and I may never see the complete melting of the ice caps. And if it is totally man made then, we still have a chance to reverse it.
This is an odd comment. Yes, humans are observers of our beautiful planet, but we are also shapers of it. And while we do not _fully_ control its destiny, we are strongly influencing it, primarily by altering the composition of its atmosphere. We are well past the point of “ifs” w.r.t. warming and sea level rise and into the realm of “how much”. At the same time, we are causing the extinction of countless species and vastly altering the face of our planet. There are plausible scenarios where we will not ultimately survive the changes we are presently causing, but until then, we will adapt. Just to be clear.
Yes...but unfortunately the team leader has to think of the 'team'...and the individual lives of all -- and ultimately the capacity to do the 'science' at the end, which requires gear and documentation. Not just the individual act of accomplishment and the forging of celebrity. Sorry.... but far-ranging and demonstrated experience means something. I know there are many who value media skills...I certainly do... but such endeavors are not the place for emphasizing them.
...manhauling was wrong...Amundson did it the right way, Scott stubbornly stuck to manhauling, he also kept the rock samples on the sled to the end...Norwegians are nearly born on skis or skates or both, Amundson also wintered with the Inuit while getting through the northwest passage over 2 seasons and he learned about dogs and dog sleds....all three men were good skiers ⛷, one a champion, and actually enjoyed the trip, while Scott was manhauling into legend, starving to death, Scott loved dogs and could not bring himself to kill and eat his dogs and feed dog meat to his surviving dogs...Scott was manhauling, Amundson also had pretty good weather, Scott got hit by a storm on the way back that finished them off, Amundson had the luckier weather, Scott had a nightmare and the rest is legendary, people forget he also navigated his way through the famed and fabled northwest passage first, after England had lost a couple hundred men trying and failing to find find, I can understand why the Brits don't care much for Amundson, they feel robbed by him of the glory they thought was rightfully their's...but Amundson was the greatest of all that last group of great explorers, Scott was just a victim of his own stubbornness,
there is great irony that each of these men lecture on saving our winters, slowing global warming, given the massive amounts of fuel, carbon and plastic it has taken them to become famous mnteers. while many of us ride our bikes and recycle, live simple lives to conserve the environment.
Yeah that's what you call cold as a frog's frozen fanny!! Yeah Im thinking even George Mallory would have said "uhhh well yeah it's there and all... but...."
It's fascinating to hear Jon Krakauer call his trip to Mount Everest the worst mistake he ever made. It brought him national recognition and a book, so it brings new perspective on just how traumatic the experience was for him. That level of personal trauma doesn't come through in his writing. I think he's perhaps a bit uncharitable toward himself when he talks about his experience being "perverse." To see new things expands you mentally and emotionally in ways that you can't anticipate: if you could anticipate them, well... that would mean you'd have already seen them. To me, that's what _adventure_ means: not the physical risk one takes in climbing a mountain or sailing across an ocean, but in risking changing one's knowledge of the world. Sometimes this is for the better--seeing a truly remarkable view or making a new scientific observation, but other times--as Krakauer knows well--it means finding out about one's darker and less admirable characteristics.
@Dave Paton -“We’ll never get to the moon …” I had that same first reaction when I heard those words. Then I realized that he was talking about himself and the people he was traveling with, that THEY wouldn’t get to the moon.
If there is 3000 feet of ice on the ground then that makes the mountains if you take the ice away the mountains would be the tallest in the world is that right?
Amundsen was very ambitious too. He lied to Nansen so he could nick his boat. He knew Nansen wanted the South Pole, so Amundsen borrowed his boat to go to the North Pole and then telegraphed Oslo from the South Atlantic to notify Nansen about the real destination only when it was too late. Nansen didn't have a boat anymore and was weeks behind and not ready anyway. Polar exploration was very cutthroat. Anyway, the big difference was the attitude to science. Rather than the traditional British imperial science, where we had already conquered nature and expected to parade across it as noble heroes of enlightenment, Amundsen was practical and down to earth. To figure out how to survive in the Arctic he simply asked some people who survived in the Arctic. Sounds obvious, but no imperial British explorer would have stooped so low as to ask the barbarians for advice. Amundsen lived with the Inuits for years and did what they did. Seal skins instead of wool, dogs instead of horses, no weird obsession with men pulling everything etc. He was also ruthless enough to consider the dogs part of the provisions they didn't have to carry. His assigned dog-killer never forgave him.
I've worked around a lot of people who put their ego before safety. Always standard ground when you know something of dangerous. But anyways, Great video
Highest continent? Mount Vinson's summit is 16000'. That's pretty high but around 1/2 the height of ANY of the high peaks in the Himalayas. As for 'mountaineering', it's a walk in the park compared to any challenging climb anywhere in the world. It's just a steep uphill walk in the snow lol.
It was impressive but given they didn't go all the way back down and were flown back from a plane that landed high on the mountain, it wasn't a complete climb. I'm surprised these well known climbers would have taken such a short cut.
What's unfortunate is that the individuals who insisted on roping up (for safety) while traversing across 1000 ft deep crevasses to Mount Vinson, were likely considered "difficult" to work with for speaking up.
...annual layers in the ice? (19:20) Didn't you say that nobody has been recording what has been happening in the ice layers there - until recently? How is it that a WW2 plane was buried in 250 feet of ice in greenland? th-cam.com/video/TI50j7bd3us/w-d-xo.html
Having watched a lot of these documentaries, and even read some of these guys' books, I'm continously struck by how disrespectful they can be to their guides. Why hire a guide, one who has climbed this mountain more than anyone else on earth, and not listen when he tells you that you're acting unsafe? You disrespect him and the very knowledge that you hired him for.
Always a good day when David uploads
Exactly
Uploads somebody else’s content
@@camofrog but I may have never come across it otherwise. If there is an issue beyond fair use I'm sure the TH-cam bots will see that justice is done
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It's always a pleasure and a treat to listen to Jon Krakauer. Jon seems to be a perfect blend of adventurer, writer and narrator. Thank you for the upload.
Agree 100%
I hate being a bummer, so if you don't want to know the truth, do not check out what others have said, like people who climbed w/ Krakauer. It appears he misleads, misrepresents, and changes his story to fit his usual pessimistic narrative. Several examples can be found on Michael Tracy's yt account as of recent.
@@TurdFerguson456Tracey is a nut job who is was involved in of the later stories Krakauer wrote about, so take what he says with a grain of salt
Duuuude. I thought this one was gonna be gone forever since PBS likes to make their old stuff hard to find. Thanks!
It's a shame how they want to erase that they were actually educational at one point
I love Krakauer's characterization of the guide Dave as "your mom telling you to put on your raincoat". His personal impressions are such an inside peek at the climbers psyche and philosophy. His interweaving of the Scott and Andmudson expedition vignettes brings such a keen perspective to the environment and the common struggles and risks of all explorers. Really enjoyed this very much!
Well said!
Antarctica is the real deal. Nobody is coming to get you there. You're really on your own. Not to mention, it's truly one of the few uncharted places we go to. Especially where they were.
Then how do they leave??! 😂🤣
This doc is a gem and really loved the ending with Krakauer talking about the meaning of adventure.
Nova + Krakauer really makes for a sweet throwback documentary, great upload! Can't help also feel a little somber from their ice sheet study and seeing how much climate science has changed since 2003
WOW!!!!! THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!
FASCINATING!!!!!
Thanks for sharing this.
This was so engaging. I'm so glad you shared it since I had never seen it. The narration and comments of the climbers were great and really conveyed the life-and-death decisions they faced and the internal tensions that resulted. Digging six-foot deep pits at those altitudes seemed crazy!!
I dont know what I would do without Mr. Snow's archive videos 💋
Krakauer is such a good narrator, I wish he did more docs and would do the readings of his audiobooks.
Yes! His narration of Into Thin Air was incredible. The newest audiobook version is someone else and it just isn't as good.
Excellent, from what I found filmed in 2001 and released in 2003.
Right at the end of the video, the comment was made, of how rare it was becoming... So true. The real estate of the Earth has been climbed by thousands... not much left but rediscovery from where others have traveled. Still what an amazing video, and truly amazing climb. Unless you have done it, no way you can understand how arduous it is
THE BEST DOCUMENTARY . THANK YOU DAVID SNOW.
Kudos to Krakauer for trying to prevent another disaster. Luckily everyone made it up without ending up in a crevasse.
Thanks again David!
We need brave men like this to continue to explore unexplored and places that you only read about...thanks to all the have men that died and lived through these horrific times..
Serious question. What is so important about it that justifies the loss of life?
What courageous explorers ! I think there is still so much we have left to explore both on land and in the ocean. God gives us more to learn just in the human body alone He thrills us with His magnificent creations What a great video to showcase Gods glory on earth
Good watch… I been binging on your videos all day. Thanks for the content man, I subbed & I make sure to like every video I watch.
Interesting video such a hostile environment. Scientist, explorers, mountaineers are so brave I admire them. I have read a little about Roald Amudsen from Norway and Robert E Scott from England: famous explorers and this video shows the difference of each character; I see Amudsen enjoyed every bit of his conquest. David Snow thank you for today's Journey into Antarctica......I still love Everest. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
I liked one of the final statements by Krakauer; "I think what we're doing here is a perverse thing..." says it all for those who "like to do this stuff."
I just watched this during a 20 below morning in N. Minnesota. Perfect - Thanks!
6 seconds is the time that plane touches down the n the ice and stops complety. That's a fast stop if IV ever seen one. Amazing
Yeah I noticed that too, there seemed to be an outcrop of rock right in front of the the plane in a later shot, it could have been another plane because they already had a camera on ground but both landings must have been impressive and scary.
It seems like more of a helicopter mission but I don’t think they fly choppers there, I assume it’s probably too windy. Maybe a chinook would be able to fly there idk I’m not an expert on anything:)
Thats why twin otters are awesome for extreme landing/starting conditions.
I went up Mr. Rainier with Dave Hahn. He's quite a character!
Thanks for the upload, been trying to get this episode for my classes since it's not available digital from PBS anymore.
Thank you
Another location for my bucket list of places not to go. Many thanks to those who dare!!
The C130 doesn’t need brakes. Reverse thrust works so much better.
Great production NOVA.
Liev Schreiber in the house. Great upload!
GRACIAS!
David, thanks for posting this on TH-cam. I really enjoyed it. 😁
At 60, I have never been on an overnight winter expedition and am happy w/ that.
I have summited a few peaks in New England in zero degree weather. Fun! ❄
I really like the contrast between "adventure" and being properly prepared.
I'm hiking the JMT early June which may be half snow covered with ice cold streams to ford.
Hence, I may have to practice fording a few ice cold streams this winter in my undies to properly prepare.
On the other hand, what sense of adventure would be left if I did that?
Happy Holidays and New Year from Central CT! 🎇🎄
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The correct spelling is "summeted".
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Wim Hof method is magical
27:20, I loved how they described the food haha!
Thank you! Your videos are such a vast of experience and knowledge! I share a few of those, being that it seems to portray man's attempt to conquer the environment.
Incredible story . . . Great documentary.
There are adventures and there are misadventures, sometimes differing only in the luck of the draw.
Very interesting people on the team.
I'm looking for a video about mountain climbing where these guys from the USA climbed a hill. They were interviewed before leaving for the climb about why they climb . One of the guys was a lawyer . He talked about the short term achievable goal
prep and planning check. thanks for post
Sincere question: I love this channel, it brought me to so many other awesome videos and documentaries. I'm surprised about something: has any climber made a snowman on the summit of any of these monsters? I think it would be amazing to see.
Yeah I thought about that too... problem is that they are so tired and cold and it's normally very windy all they do is try to get down as quickly and safely as possible.
@Dee Rawler Hm, I dunno, my snowman craftsmanship is pretty good. Goin' to Annapurna, brb.
Annapurna....? Please don't spend time with building a snowman and just get down safely! Anna don't play nice.
Seriously? They barely have enough energy to breath! What a silly question!
@@truthbetold3550 Lame. Build a snowman, it's easy. You spend thousands of dollars, make the Sherpas do it for you, like how they got you up there!
NOVA PBS still making good documentaries, when the other channels (discovery, history channel etc..) are making these shows with a minimal amount of information being disseminated, but with a lot of over dramatic music and camera cuts. They dumbed down these shows and stuck them between reality shows about storage lockers and pawn shops..
This is 23 years old.. there hasn't been a good company making decent documentaries in decades
Amazing video
Denali has a higher vertical rise. But I suppose in alpine mountaineering terms it's essentially comparable under the "death zone."
Climbing Denali is one giant, dangerous slog. The hike in from the last bus stop makes it perhaps the most dangerous expedition on the planet.
awesome narration by liev😁
David, it's nominative determinism illustrated.
Bit tougher without the sherpa carrying all your kit
What a fascinating adventure. Only to be accomplished by super strong explorers. The only drawback to this production, I can't look beyond the obvious defects of the video resolution from the 720 interlaced era. This would have been tremendous if it was shot in 4K+!
Great documentary
There's a novel titled "Explorers of the New Century" by Magnus Mills. It's loosely based around the Admundsen/Scott race for the South Pole. In the novel two teams with distinctly different personalities and approaches are trying to reach "The Agreed Furthest Point", in a rocky, dusty, completely barren and eternally windswept land. It mirrors, in a darkly comic way and warped way, Krakauer's descriptions of the differences in approaches and fates of the Amdundsen and Scott teams. A surreal examination of the drive to venture into these places.
You cannot really know life,. Until you know death.. well done... dude's...
Well done guys. Now let the flearths know. That their is no actual ice wall , no guarded military base , nothing but Beaty of the great old attic tundra and great people whom have conquered it.
Scary stuff I like to just stay home on the couch 🛋 and relax🙏😻😻🍕
Still no one to equal the feats of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew. No lives lost!
I enjoyed this, even though John Krakauer was a part of it. I did a lot of reading after reading Into thin Air and he made a lot of mistakes in that book that were exposed by other members of climbing teams also involved in the 1996 Everest tragedy.
I’m no climber or explorer, these guys are heroes.
It’s my view that humans are observers of our beautiful planet, we don’t control it’s destiny. Yes, we can and do pollute it, and that should stop or at least be minimized. But if the planet should warm, and if sea levels rise, we humans have to move out of its way, and adapt - there’s no other way. JMHO.
Ya it does seem like a natural ebb and flo of ice or no ice. I’m sure it was hurried along by man and C02 emissions. Ocean front property in Arizona. Something tells me you and I may never see the complete melting of the ice caps. And if it is totally man made then, we still have a chance to reverse it.
This is an odd comment. Yes, humans are observers of our beautiful planet, but we are also shapers of it. And while we do not _fully_ control its destiny, we are strongly influencing it, primarily by altering the composition of its atmosphere. We are well past the point of “ifs” w.r.t. warming and sea level rise and into the realm of “how much”. At the same time, we are causing the extinction of countless species and vastly altering the face of our planet. There are plausible scenarios where we will not ultimately survive the changes we are presently causing, but until then, we will adapt. Just to be clear.
Boy the teamwork fell away pretty quickly, didn't it? I agree with Krakauer.
Yes...but unfortunately the team leader has to think of the 'team'...and the individual lives of all -- and ultimately the capacity to do the 'science' at the end, which requires gear and documentation. Not just the individual act of accomplishment and the forging of celebrity. Sorry.... but far-ranging and demonstrated experience means something. I know there are many who value media skills...I certainly do... but such endeavors are not the place for emphasizing them.
Tuned out at 18 minutes due to all the yakking about climate change and sea level rise.
lol, I know I hate them, too.
Made in 2001 and I'll bet it changed quite a bit - melting and everything. 90 years ago - those poor dogs and horses - HOW did they stay warm?
WOW, I don't know what to think!!!
This ice seems like GLACE of a cake!
Yeah...I am planning an expedition to Miami Beach
...manhauling was wrong...Amundson did it the right way, Scott stubbornly stuck to manhauling, he also kept the rock samples on the sled to the end...Norwegians are nearly born on skis or skates or both, Amundson also wintered with the Inuit while getting through the northwest passage over 2 seasons and he learned about dogs and dog sleds....all three men were good skiers ⛷, one a champion, and actually enjoyed the trip, while Scott was manhauling into legend, starving to death, Scott loved dogs and could not bring himself to kill and eat his dogs and feed dog meat to his surviving dogs...Scott was manhauling, Amundson also had pretty good weather, Scott got hit by a storm on the way back that finished them off, Amundson had the luckier weather, Scott had a nightmare and the rest is legendary, people forget he also navigated his way through the famed and fabled northwest passage first, after England had lost a couple hundred men trying and failing to find find, I can understand why the Brits don't care much for Amundson, they feel robbed by him of the glory they thought was rightfully their's...but Amundson was the greatest of all that last group of great explorers, Scott was just a victim of his own stubbornness,
Well said, and so true.
I don't mind heat , but 30 below is just not an option for me. It makes me respect these cats for the pain they went through to produce this film
there is great irony that each of these men lecture on saving our winters, slowing global warming, given the massive amounts of fuel, carbon and plastic it has taken them to become famous mnteers. while many of us ride our bikes and recycle, live simple lives to conserve the environment.
Serious question: Are we allowed to go to Antartica & explore it?
"If you have an adventure you're doing something wrong." Sounds like a real party pooper.
I like how the team divided up like how Scott and Amundsen were.
Yeah that's what you call cold as a frog's frozen fanny!! Yeah Im thinking even George Mallory would have said "uhhh well yeah it's there and all... but...."
@David_Snow Krakauer it wasn't a one of team who prepared Everest expeditions?
I wish they'd specified which degrees they were using, regular or American.
It's either , victory, or failure....
Isn’t Everest like 28-29K feet? Did I misunderstand what he said?
I'm so surprised, so Jon did this AFTER the whole Everest disaster?
RIGHT?!
Everyone knows what they are doing. Scott and Rob were good climbers but terrible guides.
It's fascinating to hear Jon Krakauer call his trip to Mount Everest the worst mistake he ever made. It brought him national recognition and a book, so it brings new perspective on just how traumatic the experience was for him. That level of personal trauma doesn't come through in his writing.
I think he's perhaps a bit uncharitable toward himself when he talks about his experience being "perverse." To see new things expands you mentally and emotionally in ways that you can't anticipate: if you could anticipate them, well... that would mean you'd have already seen them. To me, that's what _adventure_ means: not the physical risk one takes in climbing a mountain or sailing across an ocean, but in risking changing one's knowledge of the world. Sometimes this is for the better--seeing a truly remarkable view or making a new scientific observation, but other times--as Krakauer knows well--it means finding out about one's darker and less admirable characteristics.
2:47 We'll never get to the moon... what does he know that many of us have missed?
@Dave Paton -“We’ll never get to the moon …” I had that same first reaction when I heard those words. Then I realized that he was talking about himself and the people he was traveling with, that THEY wouldn’t get to the moon.
If there is 3000 feet of ice on the ground then that makes the mountains if you take the ice away the mountains would be the tallest in the world is that right?
Amundsen was very ambitious too. He lied to Nansen so he could nick his boat. He knew Nansen wanted the South Pole, so Amundsen borrowed his boat to go to the North Pole and then telegraphed Oslo from the South Atlantic to notify Nansen about the real destination only when it was too late. Nansen didn't have a boat anymore and was weeks behind and not ready anyway. Polar exploration was very cutthroat.
Anyway, the big difference was the attitude to science. Rather than the traditional British imperial science, where we had already conquered nature and expected to parade across it as noble heroes of enlightenment, Amundsen was practical and down to earth. To figure out how to survive in the Arctic he simply asked some people who survived in the Arctic. Sounds obvious, but no imperial British explorer would have stooped so low as to ask the barbarians for advice. Amundsen lived with the Inuits for years and did what they did. Seal skins instead of wool, dogs instead of horses, no weird obsession with men pulling everything etc. He was also ruthless enough to consider the dogs part of the provisions they didn't have to carry. His assigned dog-killer never forgave him.
I've worked around a lot of people who put their ego before safety. Always standard ground when you know something of dangerous. But anyways, Great video
silveretta 404's, havent seen those in a while. classic
soooo many CGI depictions of Antarctica, which is odd , being how they are there.
Highest continent? Mount Vinson's summit is 16000'. That's pretty high but around 1/2 the height of ANY of the high peaks in the Himalayas. As for 'mountaineering', it's a walk in the park compared to any challenging climb anywhere in the world. It's just a steep uphill walk in the snow lol.
I bet its really cold there!
Did the group of OG explorers make it?!?
I can imagine the first people on Mars going through a very similar journey.
It was impressive but given they didn't go all the way back down and were flown back from a plane that landed high on the mountain, it wasn't a complete climb. I'm surprised these well known climbers would have taken such a short cut.
Can't they air drop supplies so they don't need to haul everything?
HD ? I can't even see the color of eyes
Any time I hear word climate change, I think weather. .
Yes it's very cold there.
Don't forget the Australian people that went there and Shackleton
Conrad's recipe is ingenious. If it's going to all combine in your stomach then might as well just stew up all the ingredients.
Conrad's a hack! If it weren't for this buddy dying he'd still be living in his truck.
What's unfortunate is that the individuals who insisted on roping up (for safety) while traversing across 1000 ft deep crevasses to Mount Vinson, were likely considered "difficult" to work with for speaking up.
...annual layers in the ice? (19:20)
Didn't you say that nobody has been recording what has been happening in the ice layers there - until recently?
How is it that a WW2 plane was buried in 250 feet of ice in greenland?
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Having watched a lot of these documentaries, and even read some of these guys' books, I'm continously struck by how disrespectful they can be to their guides. Why hire a guide, one who has climbed this mountain more than anyone else on earth, and not listen when he tells you that you're acting unsafe? You disrespect him and the very knowledge that you hired him for.
Understand that most of them are used to ordering the help around.
I am currently reading “Everest, Inc.”… There’s a lot of discussion on the topic of blaming guides…. And other things.
Ice wall.
Rock, snow, and ice. Not my thing. 😂
Would be nice to provide elevations in the world, not only American system. Every time I had to go the online calculator.
I struggle climbing out of bed.
That's a lie we still haven't discovered our oceans so!
Mountain of Ice brought to you by David Snow lol
To many chiefs not enough Indians !
This is what man and women , are supposed to do? Learn ,! No matter what the danger. danger ,is not a concern...