Listen to the mountain | Ed Viesturs | TEDxRainier
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- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. World class climber Ed Viesturs shares his extraordinary stories of climbing the tallest mountains without supplementary oxygen.
Ed Viesturs is a professional mountaineer who successfully reached the summits of all of the world’s fourteen 8000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen, an 18-year project he christened Endeavor 8000. His goal was completed with his ascent of Annapurna, one of the world’s most treacherous peaks. He is one of only a handful of climbers in history (and the only American) to accomplish this. He has also made seven successful ascents of Mt. Everest and more than two hundred ascents of Mount Rainier. He also works as a design consultant and serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Big City Mountaineers (BCM), an organization that instills critical life skills in under-resourced youth through wilderness mentoring experiences.
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Everything about Ed Viesturs is great, mountaineer, motivator, speaker and most importantly, human being. What an inspirational, humble and overall good guy he is, I could listen to him every single day!!!
This video motivated me to finally beat opiate addiction. I had been in "suboxone therapy" for 5 years. I was tired of it. One day I found this video and helped me believe I could make it and I did. I wish I could thank Ed.
@stupidasso77 Yours is the raddest comment on CZcams. Thank you for leaning out to share this.
I hope you’re doing good brother. Congrats!
stay strong!
@stupidasso77; 2023update??
Nice one mate
Mr. Viesturs says that we all have a mountain to climb. That climb will teach us everything about who we truly are.
I have so much respect for this man. Great climber & a great person as well.
"There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower that they learn up high". The mountains have taught me this also, and it is both logistical and spiritual. Live from your higher, when returning to the lower.
Extremely good talk, he spoke so confidently. Nailed it.
I really like Viesturs' approach. Definitely less conceited and self-centered and far more holistic.
Brilliant speaker this guy! Inspirational story
What a terrific climber. And yet so modest about every bit of it.
I've admired Ed Viesturs for quite some time and would be honored to meet him one day.
He doesn't make that claim. He is the first American to summit all 14 8,000 meter peaks without supplemental oxygen.
first and only american to do so.
there are probably only a handful of people per generation who can do what he did.
living to tell the tale is something not a lot of people managed.
Just wonderful and inspiring.
I've watched this speech a few times in its different forms and even though I know everything Ed's going to say, I am still captivated by every word.
Thank you
I don't have climbing experience, I wasn't born in a region with high peaks and now I live in a flat country, I don't particularly like camping but everytime I see a mountain I can feel a call to climb it.
There's no way to explain it, it's just a call, you look at that and almost get into trance for a moment.
I will probably never climb anything, I can train but I will never spend so much money that way, and it's not a good way to die. I just hope it will not haunt me for life.
Get out there!! It will change you too, for the better. 😊
@@InfamousMS I don't have the money to do it yet. There aren't mountains where I live (anywhere in the country) so it's hard to train and actually climb anything without travelling or moving to another country.
I try to spend as much time as possible in the nature, but climbing is not an option here
The first to climb Everest was not British Ed. He was Edmund Hillary who was from New Zealand.
It was a British lead expedition which is what people mean when they say that. It also wasn't *only* Edmund Hillary; it was also Tenzing Norgay.
He was in a British expedition.
Thanks
Very inspirational speaker.
He is an excellent speaker and motivator.
nice
i was studying this play in 9th class
4:19 If there was only 2 of them on the summit, who took that picture?
boss
A lot of non mountain people in the comments lol.
Messner did the 14 8000m + peaks without oxygen first
You are obsessed with Game of Thrones if you thought this was a video with Sir Gregor Clegane in it.
Why??
"If you have to ask, you never know."
Hey smacky, there's a bottle of water back there, grab a snort!!
30 minutes at the summit without oxygen? Hmmm............
Well... Rob Hall survived almost 48 hours, no oxygen, alone, without even a bivouac when he was stranded there during the 1996 disaster...
Beck Weathers survived an entire night outside by the South Col, face in the snow, left for dead... Just saying, 30 minutes isn't much if you're acclimatized...
The pic I have of Rob Halls body shows 7 bottles beside him, Viesturs asked him if he had Oxygen, he said he had and Viesturs told him to turn it up to the max and get moving but obviously he didn't
Beck Weathers lost his nose, and his hands. (I believe toes as well, but am not sure about that). Also the South Col is quite a bit down from the summit.
Before losing his hands and nose, he first lost his mind.
Ed is so hot. Even at 60 something 🔥
He says that using oxygen is a 'contrived way to climb these mountains'. Look at the summit photos of him at 10:05 and at 11:57. He is all bundled up and completely shut of from the mountain. He also fails to mention in the talk that he wasn't the first to climb without oxygen. He makes it sound as if it was his own idea. It wasn't.
you literally cant survive without being "bundled up". if you think you can, why not be the next reinhold messner - go do it in a tshirt and show everyone that its actually possible.
@@warshipsatin8764 bRo iTS poSsIblE
Some listen to the mountain, but not to common sense. A pair of gloves sliding off the mountain followed by fingers sliding off the operating table. What about attaching gloves to sleeves? What about a mandatory second pair, also attached to sleeves? I could create a whole list of what-abouts after watching these riveting expeditions and talks; and they all circle around the lack of leadership and common sense.
At that high altitude your thinking process slows right down. Everything you do takes a whole lot of thinking. You think for about 20 minutes to tie your shoelace then it takes another 20 to tie it. Like walking 80 meters takes hours and a whole lot of determination
does he seriously think he was the first person to climb Everest without oxygen? Pretty sure Reinhold Messner would have something to say about that
He doesn't make that claim. He is saying he is the first American to summit all 14 8,000 meter peaks without oxygen.
no he doesnt