Mount Everest Then and Now · 60 Years Climbing Everest
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- A Comprehensive Climbing History of Mt Everest from the Earliest Expeditions to Today.
-Mount Everest Then and Now-
Each year, climbers from across the globe trek to the Himalayan monarch to test their mettle against more than five and a half vertical miles of mountain. While alpinism is better understood and relatively safer than half a century ago, its coldest realities remain.
On May 1st, 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest. With the help of his Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu- who, two years later, would go on to be the first man to summit Everest twice- Whittaker made history. His achievement came a decade after New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay claimed first summit. Back then the Nepalese government allowed only one expedition a year. Just three weeks after Whittaker stood atop Everest, four other Americans from his team followed suit. Barry Bishop and Lute Jerstad took the summit from the South Col, the last camp on the Southeastern ridge of Everest, as Whittaker had. Tom Horbein and Willi Unsoeld met Bishop and Jerstad at the top after breaking the first, treacherous ascent of the Western ridge. In less than a month, the American expedition, led by Swiss transplant Norman Dyhrenfurth, put five men on the summit-as many as during the entire decade before them.
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I love the fascinating stories of everest. Beautifully summerzied 100 years of Everest.
*summarized
Thanks for these documentation and can I say you do it well
David Snow Thank you for the videos, can you please let me know if you are a climber??
@@siobhanmurphy3106 Take a calculated guess .
I really enjoyed watching this video
FASCINATING!
Everyone can argue about who is the best or who did it the most but the real badasses will forever be the ppl who fixed all the anchors and lines and ladder etc etc.
"Nail scissors and a bill from his tailor" found on a body on Everest. This might be the most British thing I have ever heard.
So funny
It was actually a bill from someone who had supplied climbing equipment.
We know he clipped his nails (so Brit😉) and he didn't want to forget re his bills or dry cleaning. I wonder if it ever got picked up? That's the most important stuff to carry on a hike like this.😂
@@cnlights2r u joking😂 or just ignorant…people bring all kinds of WTF were u thinking items.
Always have, always will…do u bring it, just in case u need it?
Or need it, but didn’t bother to bring it…
Condoms, smokes, guns, etc…r sold in droves in such ways…pretty huge selllers😂
duh..old as ancient human ideas 💡 bring shite u won’t need, but, just in case “in your imagination” 💭 u do
Excellent video, thank you. I've trekked from Lukla up to Base Camp and Kala Patthar to see Everest. The sheer grandeur and scale of the Himalayas is unbelievable and never done justice on screen. Everest was 5 miles away from KP and over 2 miles higher and looked immense. Whoever goes up the Khumbu Icefall and on to the South Col and higher - chapeau! The number of cairns and memorials (at Chukpi Lhara, between Lobuche and Dughla) brings home how many lose their lives up there.
Sherpa’s are the real king of Mt.Everest
super controversial opinion, very brave of you
I agree with you
@@poutinedream5066 What exactly is offensive about stating the location of the mountain?
Then why didn’t the Sherpas climb Everest before the British came in 1921? Apparently they weren’t …
@@markschnell8216 because they have never seen a ladder and climbing shoes before due to the poverty of the regions under the mountains ...
I am obsessed with the mountaineering history of the Himalayas. There are so many unbelievable stories of survival and the tenacity and perseverance of these climbers.
My husband and I are obsessed with it too. We go through stages where we watch video after video.
@@KDSima I see a lot of reprehensible behavior.
Only exceeded by the stupidity to risk dying for something no longer novel or brave...
I don't know why I became so fascinated with My Everest, but I did. This was a great video - thank you.
I was super happy to see the correct route displayed for Mallory's attempt.
He didn't use the ridge like modern climbers. The 2nd step was too much, he even said as much himself in writing.
He went the same way Norton did when he set the altitude record days before. imho.
Not actually insurmountable without a ladder. Conrad Anker proved that when he had it removed and went up easily enough, reckoning Mallory could have made it. Had he not, it was likely the weather that beat him back. He was a genius-level climber.
@@nuntana2 Thing was he had Irvine with him, who little more than a noice. As climbing partnership's strength isn't judged by the strongest member but its weakest it doesn't matter how effective Mallory was. As they were roped together, when added to the position of the bodies and sever bruising round Mallory waist it seems like Irvine fell, pulled Mallory till the rope snapped with Irvine falling to his death. Mallory now injured seems likely to have attempted to descend and find Irvine, then fell a second time, this time fatality. We never know exactly but it seems from injury and body position they died while climbing up, not descending.
I’m not sure but I feel this good doco undermines Hillary’s nationality.
Love the language of the older narration... the drama of it!
99% or more leave trash on the mountain. A true outdoors men leaves no trace. These guys disguard oxygen bottles, tents food containers etc, not to mention the dead.
Well said. These facts need to be the main part of the documentary. Humans have trashed this beautiful mountain 🏔️ for what???? Oh I did it first. No I did. Actually 30 of us did it before you. So petty and pathetic
Thank you for bringing new-to-me Everest content to CZcams 😎
This is one of the best Everest docs I’ve ever seen and I feel like I watched most of them.
How can you call it climbing when many sherpas go out days in advance putting ropes and ladders over the most dangerous parts? The sherpas are the climbers. One Sherpa reached the summit 10 times before his death. Mallory was a climber!
I could never say I'd climbed a mountain if someone else carried all my stuff up for me
@@thelonelyphish go try it hero'
@@kristalmacleod3215 mate Im not climbing everest, I'm sitting in my room watching a documentary, but come on, someone carrying your pack for you? If that's what it takes I don't think you should be on the mountain either.
Let's think of it like this. The Sherpas are paid. The person paying is actually taking care of the Sherpas family. The Sherpa is taking care of the climber. Nothing is forced. If it were the Romans doing the climbing they would have their slaves packing all the gear. The Sherpas have a choice at least. No matter what, getting to the summit is a feat unto itself. The first 2 men to set foot on the moon had thousands of (sherpas) people behind them. Apollo 13 had all of NASA helping them to get back alive.
@@misein1 The sherpas are paid around $5,000 per season and another $1,000 bonus if they get the clients up to the summit. This is while the expedition organizers are getting $65k per client. The sherpas are doing all the hard work and taking all the risk.
This is the exactly what I have been looking for the past two weeks. I have been reading Jon Krakauer's Into the Thin Air and having difficulty grasping the geography around Mt. Everest.
That old footage is so awesome!
It certainly lacks mentioning Reinhold Messner climbing this summit without oxygen and solo ... in this 60 years.
what about habeler? u forgot to mention him
That was the best documentary of Everest l've heard yet. Thank you
Thank god Indian Army was there at the Everest base camp when avalanche hit it during the earthquake!
Half of the troops were at the icefall, they all were safe and survived it and then helped people at base camp and saved many lives!
When did that happen, why there was Indian army in Nepal ?
Indian army was in moon also to help Armstrong to touch moon for the first time..stop watching fake Indian news bro
@@brdski_2238 they were there to climb as a team building exercise.
great historical footage, thanks for the history, really enjoy your channel
Not to lay a wet blanket on anyone or anything, but there was an oversight just after 3 minutes' running time, when the narrator speaks about Howard Somervell joining the 1924 Everest expedition. The way it sounded, one might be led to believe that that was the initial reconnaisance but it wasn't. The Reconnaisance took place in 1921, which didn't include Somervell. He joined in 1922, and again in 1924 when the second summit attempt (made by Mallory & Irvine; Somervell & Norton made the first) met with a fatal outcome. Hats off and deepest respect to these men made of iron, but with hearts and souls of pure gold.
Love all your videos man can't get enough I've been watching them flat out on repat lol RIP to all those who lost their lives during some of the footage ❤
Mallory and Irvin's achievement far exceeds today's successful climbers of Everest. It's practically an assembly line going up. It's still very dangerous but it's more a dice roll now compared to the early days where along with the dice you had to bring the table to roll the dice, the building to house the table and ten thousand dice rolls with each one carrying a chance at death.
Tell that to Reinhold Messner, Peter Habeler, Killian Jornet, Hristo Prodanov...
@@alanbrooke144 The Messner way should be the only way allowed.
@@krollpeter Why?
Mallory was 1st.
@@coryCuc Edmund Hillary was carried to the top by a staff of 360 people. Now almost every climber is carried to the top by companies who install the ladders for them, carve out the holes in the ice, and if they can't anymore 6 sherpas will push them up.
Mallory by the way never summited. Messner said it was impossible with the gear of that time, main reason being the shoes he had. I believe him. Looking at the shoes, people will know what he meant. That does not take away from his achievement reaching so far high up.
This video is excellent mate well done
Well done Channel 5 for making it and this guy for not getting caught stealing it...yet 😊
Really nice documentary. Thanks for sharing.
All these climbers would not be able to climb and summit Everest with out the Sherpa's, who provide all the necessities needed for survival. Porters who carry all the supplies including oxygen cylinders, food cooking utentials etc. The Sherpa's prepare the mountain ahead of the climbers and map out the best route. The "Ice Doctors" who find the best route across the shifting Ice of the Kummba ice fall. The Sherpa's who line the route with ropes all the way to the Summit, without which hardly anyone could climb the mountain. Each climber has a Sherpa guide to help the person reach the Summit. The Sherpa's help those having difficulties with altitude sickness or who run out of oxygen risking their own lives to help to the best of their abilities. They too are in the death zone. I believe that 1/3 of those who die on the mountain are Sherpa's and is a great loss to their anxious waiting families.
The pioneers like Malory, Irvine, Hillary and Tensing had Sherpa's to help but they did not have the warm clothing that we have today. They did not have ropes to help them climb nor did they have the best route mapped out for them, they had to find it as they progressed up the Mountain. The true heroes and experts of Mount Everest are the Sherpa's.
Goran Kropp
Agree. What a difference with nowdays people in líne to almost be Carried by Sherpas yo the top. What sense and glory aré found??
How much money due you have to save up to make a trip to the Summit?
Sherpas* is plural of Sherpa.
thjis is flat out false if the sherpas can climb it with everyones extra shit surely atleast one of the climbers can do it without a sherpa. dumb internet comment stating bullshit that cant possible be true.
Moral of the story is to live your life like a Sherpa would be respectful of your surroundings and put your heart into everything
I have camped out for days for concert tickets in the 80s and the lines were not this long.....
ok
I think it’s obscene how the mountain has been abused like this. Selfish and ego is what it is NOW. I should tack greed onto this list.
Fabulous documentary however and Sagarmartha … wowed always ❤️
Thank you again for another great documentary
Great documentary, so much wonderful historic footage, thank you!
I could not agree more. One of the best documentaries on this matter.
@@hensolo3262 good work Channel 5 for not making him take it down 😊
Fortunately I never had my crampons attached to the wrong foot.
Thanks David Snow
The interesting thing with Hilary and Norgay was they probably made because two British climbers had got most of the way the day before and I think put ropes in. The success of 1953 expedition was a team effort
Mallory was 1st then NORGAY.
@@kristalmacleod3215 As a NZer and very proud of Sir Edmund there is no proof that Mallory made it to the summit. There is hopeful conjecture but not proof. Norgay has also openly said that Edmund went to the summit first.
Sherpa Tenzing may have said Hillary was first, but if he was, Tenzing would have only been just behind. I don’t believe Hillary ever said who was first.
Mallory actually took a photo if his wife with him that he promised her to place on the summit if he makes it. As his body was found years later he hadn’t had the photograph on him anymore.
My conclusion would be that Irving and Mallory summited and tripped on the way down (where, by the way, most accidents on bigger mountains happen, on the way down, not up) but who knows for sure what might’ve happened?
Sometime in the Future im sure wei’ll find out :D
If one finds their photo somewhere at the summit.
The missing photo isn't the "key peice" as people make out. We know from Mallory found body he fell twice, once when Irvine (the correct spelling, not the one you used) fell (to his death) roped to Mallory as he had sever bruising around his waist showing Mallory was dragged down till the rope snapped. The bruising indicates he still alive after this but likely very bad injuries ,then when he tried to descend to find Irvine, fell a second time, this time fatality. The photo could have been lost during either of the 2 falls or removed from it storage place after the first fall and then lost or buried as Mallory likely knew he would be unlikely to live, and even if he lived would never again make an attempt again (he was 37 when he died and had complained about ageing and various physical complaint from climbing). The idea the photo would only be missing after being placed on the summit isn't the only explanation for its absence.
There endless speculation from people who haven't researched in depth the facts as currently known and lots of wishful thinking, but most educated opinion is that Irvine (remember a climbing partnership strength is judged against the weakest partner ability and Irvine had little mountaineering skill or experience) lack the ability to climb to the summit and he fell and dragged Mallory down after him till the rope snapped.
Never make assumptions.
@@user-uy6uc5ey5q stop peddling absolute nonsense. There was nowhere near such a detailed examination of Mallory's injuries and you are literally the first person I have seen who has mentioned definitively what the injuries meant. Thanks to the piss poor job they did in examining Mallory's body by the people who found him noone can conclude anything from any of them other than that he died. To jump to the conclusion that Mallory fell twice is ludicrous let alone your little scenario. It might have happened that way, but you cannot be so definite about it to state it as fact the way you do
Tim Mosedale has reached the summit 6 times!! Twice in 2013!! To him it must be like going to the shops!! I'm really impressed!!
You should take a look at Kenton Cool - he's now completed 18 successful summits. It blows my mind!
Asia is the best to have fun, enjoy and explore. Adventure never ends, so keep going lionheart. I love watching all these people accomplish something amazing, HEROIC
that’s also the reason why the british army employs from Nepal - the Ghurkas. similar to mountaineers hiring sherpas because they are fearless in combat as they are good natured in daily life. they are renowned for their loyalty, professionalism and bravery…
Watching this video it nows looks like with the advancements of technology, and cashed up individuals Everest in now a tourist attraction to the young thrill seekers not just the few hardened and experienced mountineers who spend years tailor their craft.
Advanced Technology making more acessable to reach summit.
It’s a disgrace and why people die
Great Watch Thank you.......
This was excellent 👍.
Excellent video. Ty.
Wow! Just a fantastic watch. Well done!
Superb coverage
Great video. Good job.
Thanks for acknowledging Tibet’s existence
Hearing in other docs on Everest that some of the weathy mountain tourists make Everest there first ever mountain climb ever and that they need to be shown how to put on their gear while at camp is just crazy.
They should be left at the top
This excellent video brings back the heroism and tenacity of the climbers of the first half of the 20th century. But what a sad contrast between the likes of Mallory, Irvine, Hillary and Tenzing Norway and the modern spectacle of wealthy, spoon-fed tourists being delivered as by FedEx to the summit!
How is your life better knowing that people went to the top of Mount Everest?
Yet another excellent production.
I get the whole climb the highest mountain motivation.
I hugely admire the first explorers and climbers.
Now it just seems that like so many things, people are ruining it.
Excellent Documentary Thank you 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it
enormous, gigantic, vast, monumental...that teapot at 31.28, truly captivating!
SCARY AIRPLANES fly that high'
YIKES
44 minutes of icy mountain sides and you mention a teapot?😂
Awesome doc👌☺️❤️
I so enjoy everything David does. Everest could be more of a total mad mess in the future, considering there is no longer the Hillary Step complicated ascent before summiting. It's allegedly now more of a steep, bouldery, winter 'meadow' climb? Frankly, it's the Khumbu Icefall that flat out terrifies me and yet still completely enthralls. I want to paint it so very, very badly, but I am autoimmune and a slightly older lady now. (No regrets, lol) Unfortunately, most likely no Nepal in my future. While I am fit, and have almost a superhuman hemoglobin level, my body plays vertigo tricks, etc, out of nowhere sometimes. Anybody have Khumbu vistas or scale relatable pics to share with an avid amateur? They would be most appreciated. My paintbrush now takes me places my feet will probably never get to walk. Sometimes, thankfully, the mountain comes to you.
Cheers Mum!! Morality is a tough thing to come to grips with. I too want to Summit Everest but I'm 41 and the clock is ticking. Plus I don't want to stand in a queue and wait my turn. I want to climb and fight my way to the summit.... its just the McDonald's of mountains these days because of all of the tech 🤓 nerds buying their way up! Riding the backs of under paid sherpas! What a shame 😔
The Hillary step is in the video. No one would describe it as a winter meadow climb. Nothing has changed about the step since the first ascent except now the Sherpas place fixed ropes.
@@Kailaa3 this article says differently... www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/climbing/hillary-step/
Older ladies unite! The most dangerous things I do anymore are skiing a blue run and car camping at a KOA. So I will enjoy others' expeditions, vicariously.😄 Thanks, David!
Thank the stars for mr snow
The yaks and in the earlier days, those horses plodded up too. Those poor animals.
Great information about Everest
Great video. I remember that show "Everest: Beyond the Limit" which was a great BTW, and the first season was 2006 I believe. I just rewatched it the other day, and the traffic on the mountain was almost nothing compared to now. Crazy. Your videos are really awesome, so thank you!
Fantastic documentary! Praise to all the climbers!
If you're watching this in the 1950's, the old clip would sound very scary. Mt Everest is still frightening today but it's not as bad as it was in the 1950's when it was still considered an uncharted territory.
Learn how to communicate using the correct tense of what you're talking about, grammar/ syntax, kids these days, practically illiterate, vapid, we are so doomed
Amazing documentary....thank you so much for sharing
incredibly well done
Great Documentary.
42:50 Mountaineers learned how to breath and how to stay warm.
42:53 Guy is wearing short sleeves
Bless the Sherpas they are wonderful human beings
nice sharing
Your channel is fantastic as evident by this excellent and engrossing video.
Fuck up patty
There is no any proof that graham climbed it out at first. Sherpa's were the one who did it in astonishing way.
Great doc. I would also recommend reading Jiro Taniguchi's The Summit of the Gods.
hello great vid
When I see those queues I would gladly be fine by just climbing the 6th highest mountain Cho Oyo as my father did.
I think "now" really needs to include winter attempts on Everest. There are no crowds or "conga lines" in winter (yet), and it seems a little more like the early days of climbing during spring.
Fantastic
And only two people out of the many who've summited Everest, have been able to say those immortal words..."Well , we knocked the old bastard off." As a fellow NZr I am justifiably proud of the fact that a little country of just over 2m population in 1953 was able to have an individual who on limited quality equipment, was not only able to summit Everest, but return to base. (Conquer). Sadly we'll never know if George Mallory and Sandy Irvin did summit Everest. The proof will be the camera. Thank you for a great coverage.
Brilliant thankyou
@30:04. That picture taken by Nirmal Purja on his way down from the summit is just crazy.
Very interesting, making some important points.
Thanks
Hi David, It's that time of year again~~What's the word this year? Record permits as always, is there weather, drama? Prayers and a watchful eye for those in the region as always.
I get that between the south summit and the real summit is a small pathway to traverse, but these folks queued-up going up to Camp 4 is so strange to me. Not an ice axe to be seen when these guys could strike their own path away from the rope. I know it’s less safe, but there must be some recognition that many before them haven’t had fixed-ropes and made it. I dunno - I couldn’t face the people I love knowing I’d been in a place called the “death zone” and wasted a bunch of time standing around.
Climbers, who I beleive love nature should really care to preserve the cleaness of these sanctuaries. They are turining these sancturies in disneland
How crazy, watching this on June 2nd 2021.
It’s a beautiful mountain. Such exquisite terrain. And indeed indifferent.
Indifferent? That makes no sense
Mallorys body is not spread eagle.he fell and slid down the mountain face quite a ways. He had his hands outstretched and his fingers were all torn up from using the shale to break his fall. He also used his legs but one of them, the left one is fractured just above the ankle and his foot is bowed in at an impossible angle. His right foot and leg is laying over the top of the broken leg. Since he never moved his hands or legs except perhaps his right leg to cover his broken left leg, it seems he was unconscious from shock or pain almost immediately. Thank God for that.
Didn't his ice axe go in to his brain? That gets you unconscious pretty sharpish
I’d love to know where you found this detailed information. I’m fascinated by Mallory’s story but have been unable to find much more than an overview of the facts and of the discovery of his body.
@The fastest milkman in the West When they searched his body there was a hole in his forehead, no axe has been found yet though. Could of been the ice axe or a sharp rock during his fall
@@Gazmus His axe was found by a Chinese expedition up where they most likely fell
@@michaelgallagher3640 no, it wasn't. Irvine's axe was found close to the north ridge by the British exped in 1933. You are getting confused
Absolutely mesmerizing and wonderful to know so many have achieved this feat. To risk everything; I personally know I will never explore that option.
God bless the Sherpas for helping these folks achieve their dreams.
i will just wait another 5 years until they install a lift from base camp to summit.
gonna bring own lunch if the McDonalds at camp 2 is too crowded, damn tourists.
Any efforts by anybody who care for the sherpas, the true heroes of everest and all 8000 metres in himalayas. Nobody could have even reached even the base camps without their help for the first time atleast.
The community is in the same poor state as it was 60 years hence.
Following his ascent of Everest, Hillary devoted himself to assisting the Sherpa people of Nepal through the Himalayan Trust, which he established. His efforts are credited with the construction of many schools and hospitals in Nepal.
The achievements of the Sherpa people are amazing. I think once anyone learns about climbing in the Himalayas they realise who is making it all possible.
@@fostercathead His first wife died in an aircrash there.
At this point they just need to fully commercialize it.
If that many people are reaching the summit, it's not special anymore, and they may as well just make it fully accessible & safe. Add stairs, ladders, permanent structured rest stops, signs that say "15 min. time limit at the summit", weather shelters and a medical base. Have a dude at the top who will take your picture for 50 bucks, a burger joint call "Ever-Burger", half way up. and sell t shirts post cards, and funny mountain shaped hats at the bottom.
They cant add permanent structures because the mountain is constantly changing from month to month and even day to day. What you want there just isn’t possible.
@@matthewcollins5344 Anything is possible with extra work, just look at the people who live in Alaska
That’s hilarious. I love your idea.
I wouldn’t feel good about summiting Everest in its current state. What a joke. Ladders, ropes, guides, NOPE!
Very good
Better then the History Channel
Nepal has lots of things to offer. Top of the world, birth place of Buddha, many many historical and heritage sites, beautiful weather, many cultures, beautiful people, cheap and many more
It’s a dump
At 17:30, W. Unsoeld in his plaid Pendleton shirt. Also seen a few shots earlier, chopping a flattish tent platform, plaid shirt on ground. T. Hornbein & Unsoeld climbed the West Ridge, via the Hornbein Couloir, reaching the summit about 1730 hrs, late. Then down via the standard route, after making an unwanted bivouac at 28,000’.
Nobody mentioned how much warmer the mountain was in 1953-the Hunt Expedition had no frostbite, and the National Geographic article (1954), had pictures of climbers at 27,000' climbing in shirtsleeves.
Don't tell the climate change goons of today that!
@@johnnycash1365 What do you mean
@johnnycash1365 ??? Climate change is real though...look at how weather combined with humidity and warming works. It explains why the intensifying storms and increase in th deaths on Everest have occured.
@@johnnycash1365you know there is a difference between climate and weather…do you just not believe science? Or let me guess. You think it’s fake to push a political narrative? God you people are the worst.
@@johnnycash1365you speak like an idiot who can’t read charts and just believes whatever is said on his favorite tv channel.
Nice graphics
7:20 now that is interesting how many times you have seen the world from above.😮
The mountain is great. The history is great. The state of affairs today is ridiculous... Be safe and don't get caught up in your ego and the traffic jam now present on this mountain
Reinhold Messner and others have summited Everest and other high peaks without Oxygen, it is possible.
Blessed with Great lung capacity.
Michael Tracy has a video that shows photographs taken of Everest the afternoon that Mallory and Irvine we near the summit…no storm, the weather was beautiful.
You can get mountain sickness less than half of Everest high.
Yes. Everyone reacts differently
Nice
Plz add a documentary on K2 also!
VERRY GOOD FILM
Nice documentary! I see myself and my climbing partner in a lot of the « modern » footage on Everest from our 2010 climb.
Muito bom. Show
These days Everest is really a challenge if done without oxygen or on a non standard route or out of season or solo imo. But course it’s sill very difficult with all the modern equipment and tour companies but it’s not the same. Not saying I could do either😂
There is not one thread of evidence that Mallory made it to the summit. Mallory was last seen btw the 2nd and 3 rd step. The 3 step almost impossible to ascend even in this day and age without a ladder. Giving somebody a camera and then not finding it does not prove he summitted. Stop trying to rewrtite history.
It's a desperate claim, I agree, absolutely baseless