Without tubes...

Without heated tents while carrying the packs of 20 tourists

​@@Subpar1224 To be fair though climbing the Everest is hella hard and even people in peak physical condition almost die. The Sherpas are borderline superhuman. That being said, I still think climbing the Everest is stupid as hell. The Sherpas do it because the're getting paid. People who pay to do it are crazy.

@@ManoredRed Absolutely agrees with you. I have seen so many people die there in the promise of big money. I am so glad I chose engineering instead of climbing.

*sherpas. *face palm* did you not watch the video?

Me too!

Me three! :D :D :D

So did the sherpas.

And it's very statistically probable that he did too, given that he was likely totally unqualified to climb Everest in the first place!

Awesome statement and so freaking true! Incredible watch, lol

If he gets fired the final show is him exposing HBO for goodness knows what

It's how it's supposed to be, and I recommend everyone to do it. There are peaks out there for all skill levels, including none. The experience is still awesome. If you want to spend 5 hours and have no skills, there is a nice mountain out there for you, same if you're incredibly experience and want to spend two months. The best part is, they are for the most part empty.

Its not 'waiting in line for a photo'... thats a nonsensical sensational media narrative. If you zoom out from the ABC photo you see 200 people as tiny speck in a vast landscape. And 8 billion people complaining about it. Its extremely difficult to get there, and very very few do.

It is, literally anywhere else. Honestly I used to look at Everest with some interest but after learning about it... it's demoralizing. It's supposed to be sacred, it's actual name is Chomolungma, but it's been turned into a production business. I don't blame the sherpas for anything, though.

NEVER climb a mountain by yourself. NEVER climb ANYTHING by yourself. I say this as one who used to free climb up hundred foot cliffs. One slip, and you could be knocked out, injured, or dead, and no one would know. Any sort of injury, or even loss of gear, and you could die. Always bring at least one other to watch and report any injuries or falls.

You don't want their money.

@@toniclark6029 Nepal is beautiful, Everest is the least interesting thing about it

There are probably easier mountains to climb

@@toniclark6029 Don’t you have crypto losses to cry about?

@@mariar6449 why do u think i have ctypto

What if the reporter was asian? Would that still be white guilt?

@@thegeqable Asian guilt

@Dragon Fox Poor oppressed white people. We are the most hated group

@@firsttimeisawjupiter1031 but Asians are the most privileged

@Dragon Fox Not as much as white people love to hate everyone else lmao

However, that year was also the same year that David Sharp died while sitting in a cave and waiting for a storm to pass, very close to where that rescue happened. Several climbers were blamed for not helping him, but the truth of the matter is that if you can't look after yourself and keep walking at that altitude, you might as well sign your own death certificate. Ultimately, you live or die at the mercy of the mountain and most rich tourists don't get that.

Jangbu was interviewed in this Oliver clip. (the one who said 0 could make it up without him) Great guy, I climbed with him in Argentina!

@@WhyFi59 That's the attitude that differenciates Everest and all the other great mountains.

@WhyFi59 great take. I still remember Anatoli Boukreev’s words from the 2015 Everest film: ‘The last word always belongs to the mountain.’

That rescued climber sort of looks like John Oliver too

D’Alembert agrees

theoriginalanimeker Everest is 29000 feet high. Commercial airplanes fly between 31,000 and 38,000 ft. So please stop spewing garbage out of ur mouth.

@@theoriginalanimeker Average cruising of a commercial airliner is anywhere from 30,000ft to 41,000ft Certainly above Everest.

theoriginalanimeker yeah 28,000 feet would be pretty low for a passenger plane. They usually stay between 31,000 and 38,000 feet.

@@filanfyretracker Everest is 29,000 feet high, average 50% of the planes fly lower and 50% of the planes fly higher. I definitely haven't been all over the world but I have A LOT of flying experience. The 30 + planes I have experience didn't fly that high. I'm not saying you're wrong, I just think I'm not either.

Mr. : EXACTLY.

💯!!!

Most climbers are already experienced enough to try everest, usually by climbing other mountains

@@M60E3MG not all require it. I read some articles about it, and there are quite a few "tourists" who never climbed high mountains or just lie.

But isn’t a marathon always just a marathon?

Motivational speakers are the worst

a motivational speaker that came to my school when I was in elementary school talked about how he was beat as a child. I have no memory of why

Except for Matt Foley. But otherwise, the LCD for motivational speakers (and "life coaches") is pretty L.

At my high school in the mid 90s, we had an Olympian, whose name I believe was Buddy Lee, come in to give us a motivational speech using jump ropes. I honestly don't remember my reaction to it but I can't imagine I felt uplifted by watching this guy in a onesie doing jump rump tricks. I probably made fun of it. I wish I had come out back then. It sure would have been a lot more fun. Edited to get the person's name correct. It was definitely not Buddy Guy, a famous guitarist, doing jump rope tricks.

Thank you sir. We need more socially responsible people like you.

Not so sure that I'll ever have the money to do so, but I love the idea of visiting Nepal and the Himalaya range, hire a few sherpas to guide me through a few nice, tourist-free (well, apart from me) ranges appropriate to my skills, and simply enjoy the quiet and the fact that I'm not endangering anybody's life.

I bet you're quite proud of yourself.

@@ThatOpalGuy deciding that you don't want to put someone else's life at risk just so you can get a selfie on a summit is actually a pretty reasonable and human behavior actually...

@@heathersmith4042 many people dont care, its all about THEM

It's literally not. Mt. Chiborazo is.

you are a bold one..

@@NoName-fc3xe You sure showed him! Obi-Wan Kenobi will think twice next time.

You'd love k1 my friend

Hello there

Someone convince Comrade Goldfish-face to climb Everest.

Sadly it is the sherpas who die more

For sure,I think it is hilarious!

@@ahnobi yes,you are probably correct,and it is for the same reasons Nepalis have to leave their country for opportunities to get ahead.Not pretty.

@@ahnobi really?

There's no prestige amongst actual mountain climbers who are out doing more difficult things (though plenty of real mountain climbers have died on Everest). But it's still an incredibly impressive feat for a normal person even with all the help.

@@Vcize But is it a feat that one can even own? And, moreover, can say was worth it? I'm certainly not assigning these devil may care thrill seekers with prestige.

@@MarcosIsABaritone I don't know. I mean it's still a far more difficult thing than the most difficult thing most of us will ever do in our lives. And to be clear the famous photo/video of the conga line to the top of the mountain that the media always uses was an outlier, in a very bad weather season where only one weather window the entire year was clear enough to climb so the entire year's worth of climbers all had to go up on the same day. You can see the guy who filmed it talking about it in the new 14 peaks documentary on Netflix.

Did you summit?

Especially when that “someone else” is usually a Nepalese sherpa who is being paid far less than a western guide purely because the average salary in Nepal is shockingly low. It’s vile and blatant exploitation.

Good job.

How the fuck did I get rickrolled in text form what the fuck I'm actually kind of fucking mad. But still very good job

GODDAMMIT

Sunuvabitch!

Well played.

And they have to think..."will I be one of them," as they step right past them. Creepy. I can't imagine stepping past a dead person in some stage of partial decomposition, or a frozen skeleton. It seems disrespectful.

That is morbid! 😱

@@cindys9491 they're almost perfectly preserved because of the sub zero climate

They'll be found by the next civilization after us at some point, meanwhile we now know that Ötzi and the other mummified Neanderthals that have been found must have been the dumbest individuals of their entire species

@@otisthegrouch9299 right, except the weather doesn't stay sub-zero throughout the year. I read this one writer who was near the base of K2 and he said the glaciers had brought not-completely frozen deceased people down to them. Sheesh. I can't remember the author's name.

No offense but you are probably just very sensitive to height then, because I don't think those symptoms are normal at 2430m. But yeah handling the altitude of Everest or similar mountains is still crazy, even more so if you don't have a babysitter

@@jkraemo every 1500m, according to Everest trek sites, you need to stop and take a night to adjust. I recently moved from basically sea level to 1100m. Had headaches and nosebleeds for a few days. You can feel the pressure change any time going up or down. And that's not high by any means lol so it definitely can affect you. Just minor.

@@marissanorth85 But that again is because you are sensitive to altitude, I've done more than 1.5km in a day without any effects beyond physical exhaustion due to hiking for 8 hours. The altitude itself starts to become a problem at 3k+ but before that it's usually not that big of a problem

​@@jkraemo I did Machu Picchu as well. 5 day hike thru the Andes. People experience altitude sickness dude. It's a thing lol

@@jkraemodude shut your gatekeeping mouth 😂

I still laugh at people who swim with dolphins in tanks.

I honestly hope they roast them like a marshmallow.

I hope they do that these rich bastards deserve it

If they even make it home

Maybe, well hopefully. I'm just saying it might be hard to keep it light when your life is on the line so often for those people. Damn that'd suck, especially if you lost a friend on that.

Truth

Only a douche does something like that on top of fucking EVEREST.

@AstronomyToday good point, that guy that claims to have placed the highest call is just a douche nozzle then.

I am pretty sure Willie Nelson has him beat.

definately!

Absolutely correct and in that cave what about the sound and lighting technicians and theit heavy equipment?

Some Nerd on the Internet i know right? What a time to be living in

Well he rickrolled us twice

That's why I love the show.

Twice

I never thought I would be rickrolled in 2019.

Dragon Fox you seem upset.

Has nothing to do with your vulgar filth .

@Dragon Fox Wow...just wow. The administrator at the mental hospital must have left his office unlocked again. Why don't you go back to urinating in the hallway drinking fountains and leave the normal people to their conversations.

@Dragon Fox Cry baby cry. So let me guess? You love looking at right-wing news instead of finding unbiased/neutral sources, right?

Dragon Fox get a life pathetic troll.

I guess you could say that’s the Everest of uncomfortable hosting?

@@darkness336 Lol, excellent

I can hardly wait for the new season of John Oliver.

Aaaaaand the live audiences are BACK!

It's not like they are doing that for free or forced to do that by anybody?

@@zariumsheridan3488 it's pretty hard to say "I'm amazing, I climber Mt. Everest" when there's a Sherpa lugging all your belongings back and forth for you and making sure you don't die.

Yeah, the climbers are basically people who have bought everything fancy they can think of and *still* have too much money. Maybe they'd be better off starting a charity or something? I figure that a charity for 'Help the Nepalese' were you can get a picture of yourself standing next to a kid in Nepal might help the society more than leaving so much trash on a beautiful mountain.

@@zariumsheridan3488 No, you're right- and it is a pretty big boon to their economy. That said, while they do have economic gains from that industry, it's extraordinarily unethical by the standards of most western countries to participate in that industry, and every thoughtless like and subscribe we give to a yuppie taking a selfie on Mt. Everest is promoting an industry with very low worker's rights standards, inexcusable mortality rates and a simply insane raison d'etre since the explosion of the selfie culture. If it were done differently, with higher standards expected of the mountaineers, higher pay rates for the sherpas, better risk assessment and an industry accepted lower danger threshold for determining that the climb is too dangerous... then sure, knock yourselves out, instagrammers. Oh, and a better understanding that the vast majority of those taking the selfies would've never made it up there without the trusty sherpa that did not get included in the selfie.

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True. Love the name.

I'm now going to ask them "Nepal or Tibet?" When they reply with "Nepal" I will snicker and walk away.

@@mattk6101 I already snicker when people say Nepal

You can still go to Everest and brag about it because 1) it is expensive 2) it is rare to do (for regular people) 3) it is the highest point on earth 4) people die doing it and the person bragging survived 5) it must be amazing to experience (even if it is made easier) 6) other reasons I cannot think of right now

Red H bragging at climbing mount everest is like bragging about you in a line in wallmart

I would love to have him on my D&D party. What class would he be though?

I'd put him as a cleric/bard

@@gw4792 at first I thought the same, but he's not exactly seductive, which is an essential part of being a bard. As for cleric, he doesn't really heal us, just points out that "that's a pretty gnarly wound right there" and points to it.

@James Slick II I'm gonna agree with you on the bard, but remember clerics can fill a lot of roles not just healer there main feature is they are casters with a good deity most of the time and I would put John's deity as "truth" ok a little corny but if you were to put him into a setting I'd have his deity as some sort of truth god, hell even a warlock might work if you want to go that way honestly I'm definitely not an expert in the subject it's just my two cents.

Omg man 😂😂 you're good!

Willie Nelson

Niiice.

Lol

Business baby outta control over here! LOL

What would be cool is requiring all climbers to make wills making the sherpas’ families their heirs.

Literally describes life

@@RebeccaOre this should be a law. and maybe add that should there be a s/Sherpa that dies while climbing with them, half of their assets will go to the sherpa's family.

aaaron152 That was my thought exactly.

aaaron152 sounds very accurate to me 🎯

I want to be apart of history, so I'm going to try to become one of the first, if not the first blind judge.

That's orange socks, by the way. Sorry about your search history.

@president camacho Well aside from the sherpas who are all Asian

Just Some Guy with a Mustache I love that you always show up in the top of the comments of like half the videos I watch

@@couragekarnga8735 Actually, Michigan has a blind justice on their Supreme Court.

The most truthful statement ever said about Everest along with the famous we climb it because its there.

Idk about that

I've climbed a handful of mountains in the American Rockies, and they sell embroidered patches for those you can sew onto your pack. Not a lot of cachet in climbing Goat Mountain, or Pike's Peak anymore, though.

Goes as well for being vegan.

@@randomlineofletters Or going to a Big Name university. Or being from any number of places. People like to brag.

No love for sherpas though?

John Oliver recognized "sherpas", not "Sherpas".

I send love for both Sherpas and sherpas. :D

I've got an idea bro. Just tell them a black family moved near the top of the mountain and trust me your problem will be solved.

@Desperadox23. That's if they even live to spend it at all. A lot of them die thanks to those stupid tourists' ineptitude.

So you're saying I can either A) climb Everest and possibly die or B) sit on my couch eating tacos and playing video games?

@@ssfbob456 My choice is "B" definitely.

😂😂😂😂

To be fair, a huge amount of the corpses on mount Everest are from people who have no other way to make a somewhat acceptable living except to haul rich foreigners up the mountain. I guess you could say they're extremely motivated, but certainly not in the way most people would think (probably even after watching this video).

Is Mr deeds up there still?

Holy shit. To be honest that only makes it sound more tempting.

Yeah, i was waiting for Green Boots to be mentioned

@@shawnmiranda yeah i know, but he was the most definitive "landmark" of the mountain for agood while.

saw the pictures.. that was fkin mortifying

Benutzername Cool

Highest cellphone call with feet on the ground

@@peacechan4500 - Those get made by British tourists in Amsterdam.

You can also call from ISS

@@TheMrVengeance thanks for the chuckle. So true

@@TheMrVengeance i see what you did there

Tom George That’s an interesting proposal.

It won't happen because the countries rely to heavily on tourism. That would kill their revenue. Sucks that money just runs the world and we put money higher over human life

I honestly thought you had to. Can't believe you don't that's crazy

No they wouldnt, people want the accolyte of climbing everest not the hills around it

I've been to Nepal but not Bhutan (which has very very high Visa entry costs/requirements), but know people who have, and really feel that Bhutan has it right.

Messina and Oates also had some redeeming qualities

Yes! ❤

Me: Yes... You and everybody else

Person: my ancestors grew cotton. Me: well.....

Pfft, why photoshop yourself onto everest when you can photoshop yourself onto K2, at least you can brag about your mad skillz~

More like climb on some Sherper’s back to Everest.

@@applemauzel Cuz only a handful of people would even understand that K2 is harder to climb than Everest.

amrita kamalini bhattacharyya that was not the line

amrita kamalini bhattacharyya i hope it is not as it is quite racist... just guilt would have sufficed

@@BlutmagierAMVs36 White guilt works better. I understand the race-tag on it is racist by definition but white guilt can generally be extended to examples like that pretty accurately with little offense intended.

@@BlutmagierAMVs36 It's not racist, it's a fact.

P3C that is the thing isn’t it... hypocritically he was doing himself what he was claiming to expose... if john had just disregarded that person’s race, which played no part in his acting the way he did, the point would have come across beautifully...

Which is untrue since they would go through it at least 40 times week.

@@lytuy7952 I did say "at least".

And I did it 4 times yesterday alone

*Sherpas 😭 He spent precious time explaining this.

@@mohonamukherjee2511 it's the first word of a sentence though.

His balls must have been sweaty by the end of that.

The crazy thing is ... he wasn't. He likely placed them on during the last clip while the audience wasn't paying attention to him.

@@crocketmeow The Shin Lim of Late Night Show hosts.

You could say that was... John's Everest.

Right? 😂😂

😂😂😂

lamo!

TheGschultz Okay. Just plz don't tell my mom.

isn't it rick astley? did he change his name?

Rick Rolling is never beautifully executed. It was not funny 20 years ago and hasn't aged well since then.

Ah, I remember the first time I was Rickrolled... it's more fun when John Oliver does it, certainly.^^

I never got why people get mad at it. I saw Rick Astley and he said he was amused by it. He knew it had nothing to do with him.

As soon as he mentioned Rick Rolling, I knew he was going to do it later in the skit. I didn't anticipate it being that immediate however, lol

Don't be scared.

Wait, wait! Don't get scared? T'fuck you talking about?!

That ladder against the ice wall was literally so unstable 💔

that is exactly what I was thinking! you would think for that risk and cost, emotionally, safely and $ they would have a better ladder setup. seriously. (P.S. the movie Free Solo is marvelous).

I don't care how horrifying it is!! I NEED MY DINING TABLE!!!!

Sherpas do the job voluntarily as there is little other opportunity in that region (Tibet/Nepal) and make roughly 10x the average wage. It can be looked at as an evil, but these folks depend on this income for their family so that is something to consider.

@@dr.lyleevans6915 Having to constantly put your life on the line in service to something as frivolous as a complete stranger's bragging rights seems like an awful way to make a living. The notion that they rely on this doesn't do much to distract from that, it just shines a light on different issues.

It's the age old debate... These people don't have much opportunity and might have a hard time just paying for food without this job. Without these tourists they would starve. But does that make it morally right to use their service when they're pushed into that work because of poverty? And just to make it clear... I don't know aaanyyyything about the conditions there. No idea how their situation is. When I see something like this, it just makes me think of sex workers in like Taiwan and the Philippines.

There are plenty of folks working regular, if low paying jobs down at the bottom. These guys want big bucks, it really is a choice. Just like the guys that harvest swallow nest. High risk, high reward. At the very least, be consoled that they are very very good at this, and are more likely to survive than the people that hire them.

It's even worse. He couldn't say the anything not absolutely reassuring because it could frighten the people around them and pose a threat to the expedition. Those people entrust their lifes to the sherpas. It's like a patient asking a heart surgeon how he feels when cutting him open - to him it is a technical procedure, like repairing a very complicated car. But he sure as hell won't say that.

That costs extra

accurate!

Someone, who does something professionally, is better than a hobbyist. So what? It's still very impressive. Instead of trying to drag others down, why don't you pull yourself up?

@@MrCmon113 the tourists are not professionals, what's your point?

@@MrCmon113 'Why don't you pull yourself up?' Sounds like boomer and American bs. Ah yes why didn't we chose to born rich? And those suffering under student loans or can't afford uni? Obviously lazy. Such naive thinking exposes you to be someone oblivious to underclass hardships and don't bother to actually look it up beside typing smug comments.

Yeah! That worcaholic menagers were just lucky!

Natural selection at it's finest.

They're doing the mountain a service...by becoming another trail marker for other upcoming award winners to follow.

Ada Frost - Probably?

Narges A o

Darwin award😂😂😂😂😂

Schrodinger's mountain. Simultaneously so easy to climb with help that's it not even an accomplishment worth bragging about, but so dangerous to climb even with help that only the best of the best should be allowed to attempt it because too many regular people are dying.

shut up

@Wilson LOL

Like a virus.

@MidnightMayhem91 that's not what gentrified means

good picture u got👌

😂

It was a fantasy of mine as a teen after reading "Into thin Air"...and that's the way it will stay. Lol

@Lauren Being lazy is a flawless excuse for anything. Only other one being "I really don't want to."

Floating Sunfish 100th.

It's his British nature.

That's why Adam quit. It was killing him.

He mad cause his Brit palette can’t handle super spicy wings challenge. Join the club, John.

He did the reverse of only wearing underwear at the desk!

the snow pants AND boots

That or a sherpa helped him wear just in time.

Eh, he was probably actually talking about all of them. But still, they wouldn’t do it if the westerners didn’t make them. While they don’t make them literally, they’re so poor that they must.

haha ...lmao possible

That's the stupidest reply to that question ever then.

The surprise flash hug is a trick used by journalists to prevent people from continuing with what they were saying. It happens a lot, specially on live TV. "We are like family, you are like a spoilt cousin I hate"

​@John O Are you a journalist that it hit so close to home? See the image on the link imgtv.ecn.cl/uploads/2016/05/10/20160510030309892.jpg Won't be the first time, won't be the last time.

lol, India Nepal border is far far far away from Everest, trust me you have no idea what's up there. And what's up with Indian people, no matter what they always seem to find a connection to any of the landmarks in South Asia?

Tourism is basically when you pay to become a tepid parody of colonial explorers.

RASHMI REGMI Who are you to invalidate their experience? Also, did they ever say that they knew what was going on ON TOP OF EVEREST? She was talking about the REGION so stop

@@RASHMEYREGMI um...? Himalayas is a pretty big region not just mt Everest. And who the fuck are you to judge what she says? Go get a job...ohh I forgot there are none in your country.

@@RASHMEYREGMI trying to insinuate against humble thanking comment just goes to expose the kind of toxic hate-filled ideology and rhetoric that's preached in your pathetic bankrupt theocracy... Try to shed your Indophobic Hindu-xenophobic mindset and think in terms of whole humanity.... but alas, your belief system perhaps doesn't allow your brain to function beyond your _ummah_

I completely expected the third one that never came.

Actually he got me on the first one, I saw the second one coming

I saw neither the first nor the second one coming xD

Holy shit he killed me with that one ! XD

It sounds gay...

That guy is Ben Fogle and John Oliver got this so pathetically and amazingly wrong. This guy is a Wildlife documentary presenter. He also did this documentary just after losing a child who was stillborn. Nice way to go!!!!

@@gavinheath17 That is so very sad that he lost a son. Wait, so... he lost a son, then put many children at risk of losing their father for his show?

In my opinion portraying sherpas as poor dumb aborigenese taken advantage of by the white man is very smug and disrespectful to them. I bet that they are proud that they can make good money doing this and are able to do such challenging work and don't appreciate such patronising sympathy.

sherpas, not all Sherpas are sherpas.. :)

Geo Dez obviously didn't watch the Video... #SarcasmAlert... #NoReally...

Without the "posers" the Sherpas and their families would be living in poverty.

@@Memovox well then thank god that the posers so graciuosly give them life risking jobs

@@SilviaGlitter . I'm sure the Sherpas and their families are happy for you being their knight in shining armour from the safety behind your keyboard. PS: Make sure you donate 10% of your salary to them, before you surf on in your mission to save the world.

I'm mostly an indoor climber and when I go climbing outdoors it's only bouldering too so I can't really talk about mountain climber, but in general the climbing community is super welcoming and helpful. I feel like it's only really this Everest bs that justifiably pisses people off (or other cases, where inexperienced climbers act like idiots and endanger others)

I only respect hardcore people that get there on foot, flying for it only increases the environmental cost of the hobby. Otherwise I'm mad at them too.

Even the hardcores have absolutely no business doing it in 2023. Not with all the clownery that happens. Even if it weren’t crowded they’re still putting sherpa’s lives in extreme danger. How can any human live with the idea that their thrills could kill a man.

@@studiocelestedesignI wouldn’t be able to live with myself if I were the reason a Sherpa died. Thats just something that would be almost impossible for me to get over.

Honestly, any extreme sport is like this. I've dived with people who can not dive, and they put everyone else in harm's way, as well as, in this case, ruin the trip for everyone else because they kick up ALL THE SEDIMENT SO NOBODY ELSE CAN SEE SHIT

this comment got me

@@SOodd14 No. It was a jab at the fact that frat guys are assholes.