This is the video which gave me this dream and obsession of climbing Everest from North. It took 9 years after seeing this video but on 23rd May 2019 I finally made it happen. I always come back to this video to relive a lot memories

Imagine Mallory and Irvine climbing this route with no ropes or ladder they were heroic mountaineers!

Great shot of the fabled second step. Well done guys !

Quite simply, one of the Very Best Everest Videos on KZfaq. Legitimately Amazing. I would LOVE to watch every step from Camp 4 to the Rooftop of the Planet! CONGRATS ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENT SIR!! GODSPEED!!

Great brief shots of the incredible Vista. Especially on the descent. The shot after the summit as you're going down into the top of the clouds is surreal.

From camp 4 we climbed the exit chimney along the fix rope to mushrom rock after that you are on the ridge so there is no other way. we reached the second step at day break. got the sun at the top of the second step

This bopping song would get anyone to the summit.

Bravo mr pavillard pour cette remarquable ascension from the north east ridge le second step et un passage unique

Just beatiful!!!!... Congratulations... One day i, ll be there!!!

Beautiful presentation Loved it Thanks for sharing

Absolutely stunning

great accompanying music .

Now we just need someone to make a ladder that reaches the summit. Seriously though, what a great accomplishment. Greetings from USA

@Peyresourde . we climbed during the night following the only obvious route, up the chimney to the north -noth east ridge then onto mushroom rock , continuing to the first and second step. fix ropes help finding your way along the technical, complex section. it was great climbing in the dark with no one around us.

Ladders? Guess it wasn't quite the same experience as those who climbed to put the ladder there. I imagine that would be the Sherpas, who received last billing.

Best Everest Video hier on youtube! ☝️

Thank you Jean

It would have been an absolute miracle if Mallory and Irvine had got to the top. We'll never know, but I doubt it, given how tough it is even with modern equipment and support. Brave of them to even have attempted it, although of course both lost their lives in the attempt, and are still on the mountain. RIP❤

Always a great job to climb the north route. Question: Would it be easier to climb the second step without a ladder being there or to go below it and around it--which Mallory may have attempted, if he got that far.

Love that tune. Wish there was more footage.

Brilliant video . Agreed. All i can say

Brilliant video, how unusual it is to see chomolungma bare from her thick coat of snow an ice :) Well done guys, your an inspiration.

Finally they made it on top😦😬😧😟 I hope they come back save 😄😂😅😄

Truly a phenomenal feat, many respects to you and your team. I am very curious as to how it felt taking on the first steps that so many have come up revere.

Outstanding video!

Yes, a good old,sturdy,best pack. i still have it.

I made the 1000th like 😊

Song: Sacral Nirvana / Oliver Shanti 🤗

Fabulous film!

Thanks for posting this. I keep looking for good footage of the first, second and third step. Is there a ladder on the first step as well?. Also is the third step very steep and exposed as the first two?. I imagine it's hard to show a lot of footage due to the bodies that may be captured on film. Also never seen any footage of rainbow valley. Glad you had a safe climb. I wish I could go up.

Very good back music

Thanks for that breathtaking piece of film work. You must have felt fortunate that the wind wasn't too bad at the summit. Can you see the pinnacles there at 0:53 ?

Good job! Thanks!

is that small ladder under the main ladder new installed ? or is it just installed by your team ? greetings from germany maxi

Wow!!!!

is that a berghaus expedition rucksack?

Thanks for sharing. No way I'm doing that so this is what I get

I'd laugh really hard if we found a fossil of a dead alien on the summit of Olympus Mons

Thank you

Beautiful piece of work; thanks. Whatever next I advise NOT K2!!!!!

How can they maintain their presence of mind, starved as they are of oxygen, at such an extreme height? Astounding.

cool vid well done

interestingly not much people on the route. how did you manage to beat the crowd? went later into the season?

the ladder that was put up by the Chinese in the 70s, is it bolted to the rockface or tied every year? and what is the condition of the ladder after 40 years? cheers

I am Cuban I am 57, I can hold my breath under water for 2 minutes 6 seconds as for right now this very day, that shit up there is another different thing.

i want to climb a ladder at 28 thousand ft..

Why so late in the year? Was this planned? And almost 12 hours from 8300m to summit?

Fantastic job!!! How i'd like to be there!

At 2:45, is there where George and Sandy were last spotted at 12:30?

I don’t think it is right to have ladders left everywhere. What next? Elevators?

Jean, is that the same ladder the Chinese put up at the second step 40 years ago?? Cant be. Great climb by the way! Cheers.

@jean very beautiful vid. You started at 10.30 PM - how do you find the way from base 4 to first and second step in the darkness. When do you reach second step? Thanks

Who plays the music or song? Please 🤔

Is it hard to get past the "citadel" after the 3rd step?

I want to know about the ladders in step 1, 2 and 3. Each expeditions carry his own ladders? or they are fixed for ever and every expedition can use it?

Comment se fait-il qu'il y avait si peu de neige au sommet du mont?

Bravo!!.. That's best achievement one can get in his/her life.. I've one question.. Is that step 2 at 1:38??

many have died trying to climb that route. Did you see a corpse? If yes, how many?

@3:06 on the right, green boots cave I believe?

Very Awesome! Now can you put some of that trash in your pocket and bring it back down with you??

green boot cave is that the british man who went up alone got in trouble got shelter in the cave other people seen him he was still alive but couldnt move

Did You follow the route supposely followed by Mallory and Irvine in 1924? How difficult is Second Step? Some researchers believe that Irvine and Mallory coud have climbed Second Step in1924 and, having overtakn the most formidable obstacle, their way as far as the apex was clear

Thank you for sharing. Since you're a professional guide, I have a question if you don't mind. I'm a fit 58yr old. I have not done any ropes climbing or rock climbing. Just scrambling. I do have an extreme side, and that is trail creation and route making through pure wilderness. Been building trails and discovering places humans haven't been to for years and love all that it's very addicting. Maybe too addicting to pay attention to a goal of mine since age 11, and that is to climb Everest. Do you think it's maybe too late to start climbing beyond the scrambling level so that one day I can tackle Everest? To be completely honest, I know my abilities and I don't think I'm able to because it takes years to develop these skills and then I'd be in mid 60's probably not a good idea, right? Would love someone's advice who's actually been there and also acted as a guide supporting someone of less skills.

Very nice. Do you remember the time from Camp 4...to the second step. Then to the summit from there? How about your decent...did you go all the way down? thanks

Is the flag on the top? Is it garbage?

That second step-- Mallory never got up that thing in ‘24- never !

If you didn't set your own ropes, you didn't really climb the mountain, you were carried up by someone me else.

Great footage. I think the music is too loud though.

People should stay off that mountain, it’s just become a dump.

Land on the sky's

Your climbing Everest, following Mallory and Irvine, and I'm fighting illegal war's in Iraq go figure. Looks awesome.

very inspiring video.... What's the name of the music played in the background?

Reinhold Messner has asserted that neither Mallory nor Irvine had the ability to ascend the 2nd Step.

If you are a paid guide to assist a less experienced climber, and that climber collapses as many climbers do near the summit of Everest, would you try to drag your client down, and due to the difficulty and slow descent end up spending the night with your client near the location where they collapse, or would you leave them to get back to Camp 4 so you will survive? Do guides makes promises like that to their clients?

5:58 The Flat Earth

Amazing how a band was there on the mountain too. Great video spoiled by music. Why why why.

Did you see Peter?

13.05.1995, 20.05.2012

Why music???? Let the original audio ..!!!

i am curious, who pays to set the ladders up? i understand numerous companies offer guides etc on everest, but who is paying for this infrastructure. if one company is paying for it all to be done it doesn't seem fair that anyone can use the ladders/ropes etc.

Ladders and fixed ropes all over the place. The old pioneer climbers will be turning in their graves

Ladders courtesy Ace Hardware !

Scusate,ma chi è che fa i video ?😳

So, I’m not a mountaineer. I’ve never done the mountain climbing thing with gear and supplies. I have hiked mountain trails in the Colorado Rockies. I don’t understand the sport of claiming you have reached the summit of Mt. Everest if you used modern aluminum ladders to achieve it. It just hits me as not being much of a sport. I realize the elevation is above 28k feet and there’s very little oxygen. If you have to use bottled oxygen and aluminum ladders you’ve brought with you, is it that much of a stretch to just fly to the top in a helicopter with supplementary oxygen supplies or parachute down from above with supplementary oxygen? I just don’t see the sport in it. I think it’s just a place we shouldn’t try to go. Period. Sorry.

Unclimbable without the ladder. And at that altitude & ferociously steep drops, no thanks😂🗻☄🇬🇧🦅Conrad Anker actually climbed the second step...but put his foot on the ladder to steady himself. A brave man regardless👍🥂🐶🗻✔💯

A quand un centre commercial avec coiffeur, photos,...? Au son d'une musique "born to be free".

sorry that was david sharp

It must be wonderful but i believe the mountain should be respected. If you cant get up without fix lines, ropes and can't climb the obstacles in your path, then you shouldn't be there. Nearly 5000 people have summed Everest. Without rope lines, ladders and guides virtually carrying some people up, less than 100 people would've reached the summit.

Каменные глыбы

Lose the music. In videos like this the sound of the wind is music enough.

Seems you can't go anywhere any more without coming across someone else's rubbish. Even the North-East ridge of Everest is littered with ropes and climbing irons. And that bloody music! The whole point of going to the mountain is to get away from it all.

Really didn't need the music

I just wish they wouldn't use ladders...

in a few years there gonne put an elevator on hilary step

No music please ruined it.

I liked the song ok until the mans voice came in, then it went down hill quickly.

like the video, don't like the music.

Potato

Clean up your mess you left behind

Nice climb but who suggested you this pathetic music to embed here?