Summiting the World's Highest Mountains

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2 жыл бұрын

A journey through space and time a scientific quest in the footsteps of conquerors. Until late 17th Century, mountains were merely seen as geographical obstacles, infertile land, useless and mostly scary. Scientists were the first ones bitten by the desire to explore them. One of their first objectives were preventing avalanches, and making most remote areas accessible. Since then, engineers have been working on the design of safe and most adapted equipment from textile to means of transportation. We learn from their achievements as well as the what it takes for the bravest climbers who have reached the highest peaks in the world.
🎥 2P2L Production
Emmanuelle Sudre
Jerome Caza
#Everest #MontBlanc

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@Arty11 2 жыл бұрын

The most beautiful place I’ve ever visited Chamonix ❤️👀 Thankyou for these wonderful videos.

@andersveggerby1443 2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah!!! Got to be the best channel on KZfaq. Thank you Mr. Snow 😉 I dont know where you find these shows. But its a homerun everytime. All the best, from one of the flattest places on earth. Denmark. I really enjoy all the content. Thank you 😉

@DavidSnowClimbing 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

@matthewcollins5344 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all these videos. I have some health issues that keep me from climbing but I still felt the call when I camped at the bottom of Denali🙏.

@username20131 2 жыл бұрын

My wife would walk if I told her I'd like to spend a fortune climbing a mountain but hope is what keeps you going innit

@fnuppyfnup 2 жыл бұрын

Me too simply because it is very risky. Once a person has children they should renounce such endeavours.

@fnuppyfnup 2 жыл бұрын

@My Zen isnt Ur problem well if you choose to risk your life climbing that is your decision whereas if some.lunatic stabs you in a shopping mall - thats just bad luck. Big difference there.

@vessela7484 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder how many years until we have the annual Red Bull Everest Rampage and they live stream an Everest speed run.

@jimbob10j 2 жыл бұрын

Back flip tuck no handers off hillarys

@vessela7484 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimbob10j hahahaha

@Squab83andTRULIFE316 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimbob10j lol

@allansbullet 2 жыл бұрын

Two very good friends of mine, Rob Hall and Gary Ball, from here in Christchurch New Zealand, summited the 7 highest peaks on the 7 continents in 7 months in 1990. My company sponsored them, providing the solar panels they used to charge up their electronic equipment. As far as I'm aware, their record has never been broken. Mont Blanc is not the highest mountain in Europe - the highest is Mount Elbrus in the Urals in European Russia. The last of the 7 summits that Rob and Gary climbed was the Vinson Massif in a VERY remote part of Antarctica - Rob brought me back a piece of rock that I keep on my bookshelf from the summit of the Vinson Massif. Unfortunately, these two very good friends of mine both died in the Himalayas, Gary on K2, and Rob on Mount Everest. RIP my friends.

@isabeljohnson2691 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry 😌 for your loss

@holeymoley0815 2 жыл бұрын

Kiwis are the best! No matter if you got a record or not. I wish i were one of them ;) All the Best Allan, and thanks for your support in sponsoring such great guys!

@allansbullet 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Hol Lee. Our company also provided the VHF to Inmarsat back-to-back radio link, which allowed Rob, Gary, and Peter Hillary (Sir Edmund Hillary's son) to speak to the Radio New Zealand studio back here, using the VHF link to a handheld carried with them to the summit of Everest. It was a two-way link, from the summit down to the back-to-back link at Base Camp, up to the Inmarsat satellites, and on to the phone system in New Zealand. Rob, Gary and Peter were only the 2nd, 3rd and 4th New Zealanders to summit Everest, the first of course being Sir Edmund in 1953. Sir Edmund was actually in the Radio NZ studio, and the whole conversation was on National Radio!! This was all in 1990 - New Zealand's 150th year! Having conquered Everest first, Rob and Gary went on the Seven Summits expedition to climb the highest mountain on each continent - I have a beautiful signed poster to commemorate their achievement, as well as the rock from the Vinson Massif!! They left the original solar panels with the Sherpas in Nepal, and they reckon they changed their lives!! A strange thing about the Seven Summits expedition was that the ONLY time they got snowed on was on Mount Kosciuszko in Australia, which is only 2228 metres above sea level!! You can ride a BICYCLE to about a kilometre from the summit!! So every time they had another expedition, we donated another lot of panels, in conjunction with our friends at Siemens Solar. As the local Sales Engineer/Manager here in Christchurch, it was up to me to arrange the whole deal (it was free!!), and I'm proud of the fact that it all worked perfectly, without the slightest problem!!

@holeymoley0815 2 жыл бұрын

@@allansbullet thanks for the little insights ! I wish i could have been there too, when they talked from their expeditions. you should take the rock from Vinson Massif and show the neighbors kids ? Maybe the story behind it will make the next generation of kiwi mountaineers ;) All the best and a great 2022 for you guys

@holeymoley0815 2 жыл бұрын

I saw a video here on this channel where Peter Hillary called his Dad from the Mt Everest summit. what an epic scene!

@PavelLavrishchev 2 жыл бұрын

Mt. Elbrus (5642m) in Russia is considered to be the peak of Europe. Also it is one of the mountains included into 7 Summits program.

@Thedroneguyonparade 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic, cheers David!

@NathanDudani 2 жыл бұрын

Ain't no valley low enough, Ain't no river wide enough

@gurjot1729 2 жыл бұрын

Love all these documentaries, especially the ones in 720p or higher.

@bepowerification 2 жыл бұрын

For a long time I didnt know a lot about mountaineering and knew Messner from seeing him from time to time on TV and for some reason never liked him. But man.. after learning about what he has accomplished I think he is one of the greatest mountaineers of all times.

@ewsdneax61eaxe10 2 жыл бұрын

Cheers mate, love this channel👍👍👍

@DavidSnowClimbing 2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

@denhamjay 2 жыл бұрын

I would have thought the grail for all mountaineers is K2 and not Everest given the extreme difference in difficulty

@matthewcollins5344 2 жыл бұрын

Easy or not the top is the top🤷🏼‍♂️

@GabrielTrudeau 2 жыл бұрын

First I'd like to say a big Thank you to David for sharing all those mountaineering videos. I'm french Canadian from Montreal and it sucks to be able to speak both french and english for those videos I understand everything in double !!!

@wouterberend 2 жыл бұрын

Love all these documentaries, keep em coming!

@alexandrubrumarescu364 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent !

@jesussanz101 Жыл бұрын

Incredible aerial sights. It's very impressive seeing climbing in the same documentary to Ueli Steck, the swiss machine, and Gaston Rebufat, the guide with the beautiful jersey, as we used to call them. Two radical different ways of climbing, but just one feeling. Congratulations. Hugs from Madrid.

@DavidSnowClimbing Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@bodomeijer772 Жыл бұрын

Great Documentary

@debasishsen9397 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing. 👍

@golden1789 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful Mr Snow...is there another episode?

@codycox2465 2 жыл бұрын

New Snow yay!

@walhalladome5227 2 жыл бұрын

Hate to say it but Mt. Blanc is not the highest mountain of Europe. That honour goes to Mt. Elbrus. And all the next 9 highest mountains are also found in the Caucasus.

@colletteimoto7380 2 жыл бұрын

Oh goodie, goodie. Thanx David Snow.

@timothyharmon7124 2 жыл бұрын

I like that!

@BootsORiley 2 жыл бұрын

1:23 in, and can tell this will be magnificent!

@terrypbug 2 жыл бұрын

This is great timing as I just tour my ACL and ligaments around knee so no climbing or walking hardly

@sharnabanana2319 2 жыл бұрын

Oh ouch! Hope you get better asap

@JakeHabermansYouTube 2 жыл бұрын

Rest easy. Might check out 'Touching the Void' if you've never seen it.

@mikehunt9884 2 жыл бұрын

damn imagine trying to climb mount blanc without any synthetic materials, they didn't even use animal furs or skins, except for the boots. they probably had wool coats cotton and other natural fabrics

@ronalddancaliva883 2 жыл бұрын

What are the benefits of having been able to climb a mountain or what are the climbers getting out of it?

@ironfistarrival 2 жыл бұрын

Feeling of Pride and Feeling Powerful for conquering these difficult Mountains , but I would also say they are all Masochists and Suicidal at the same Time .

@matthewcollins5344 2 жыл бұрын

That’s way to broad of a question. Each climber gets something different out of a climb and those climbs can not only benefit the climbers but local cultures and global cultures as well.

@ronalddancaliva883 2 жыл бұрын

@@ironfistarrival why, what makes them being suicidal and masochist?

@ronalddancaliva883 2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewcollins5344 you must be a climber,how long?

@tristantzara9496 2 жыл бұрын

Working to complete a hard task, like writing a book or taking a test

@weijingburr2392 2 жыл бұрын

12:20 "The perfectioning of equipment", sometimes I'm awestruck at the inelegance of such a versatile language. It should be said, "Evolution of equipment", or "Perfecting of equipment" may be more appropriate substitutes. Something tells me there was more to this documentary. It ended abruptly.

@sharnabanana2319 2 жыл бұрын

Just got home from sumitting the second largest Peak in SEQLD Australia. For the second time in 4 weeks ✌🤩✌ not as big as these but the biggest I can get too atm ha ha

@allansbullet 2 жыл бұрын

I was very good friends with two New Zealanders, Rob Hall and Gary Ball, who climbed the 7 highest summits on the 7 continents in 7 months back in 1990!! They climbed the whole lot of them, and the ONLY one they climbed that they got "snowed on" was Mount Kosciusczko in Australia!! And it's only 2,228 metres high!! I have a piece of rock that Rob brought back for me from the summit of the Vinson Massif in Antarctica (the last summit they climbed) and they didn't even get snow there!

@sharnabanana2319 2 жыл бұрын

@@allansbullet thats amazing. I would love to do Kosciuszko and have some plans to get there next year hopefully . Can't cross the border atm

@sharnabanana2319 2 жыл бұрын

@@allansbullet it doesn't get snow all year long thats for sure . I don't think I want to do it when it's snowing tho. Not sure mire research needed. My friend I hike with has done it

@allansbullet 2 жыл бұрын

@@sharnabanana2319 Yeah, I don't think it would get snow in the middle of an Australian summer - 40 degrees Celsius plus would be more like it!! I live in NZ and I've been to Oz several times!

@sharnabanana2319 2 жыл бұрын

@@allansbullet that's for sure 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@mikehunt9884 2 жыл бұрын

they keep talking about how tibetains and sherpas are "genetically adapted" to high altitide, which, sure, could be true. But sherpas are born at high altitude, a lot of sherpa kids work as porters from like 13-14 years old, so of course their bodies would be used to high altitude.

@Averkijev 2 жыл бұрын

Continentally highest mountain in Europe is Elbrus I'm afraid...🤣🤣

@bloopnation Жыл бұрын

Is your last name really Snow?

@archibaldstokes 2 жыл бұрын

abrupt ending

@nwyliedavid07 2 жыл бұрын

its not mount everest its Chomolungma You'll just come to climb here but we stay here know one can come here climb and keep changing names internationally.

@waynelayton8568 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah,then why do the Sherpas say Everest! Ask Conrad Anker if you don't believe

@tristantzara9496 2 жыл бұрын

We call it Mckinnley

@africaunite3823 2 жыл бұрын

4696 meter

@PetraKann 2 жыл бұрын

The British mountaineering traditions are intimately coupled to the Imperialist expansionist and elitist policies of the British Empire. If you look at the deaths recorded on Mount Everest in the 1920s, the first 9 fatalities listed were Sherpas associated with British expeditions. It was not until the deaths of Mallory and Irving in 1924 that the first British/western fatalities occurred. For a long time The British viewed Mount Everest as British property.

@prabinkarki5521 2 жыл бұрын

Its actually 8850 meters now

@MilesBellas 2 жыл бұрын

0:43 .....and some women too.....

@codycox2465 2 жыл бұрын

😆

@Hermanos22 2 жыл бұрын

Nah… they always follow foot, in already beaten paths. And when that is not the case it’s made abundantly clear it’s a woman like Amelia Earhart. Which is perfectly fine.

@frankblangeard8865 5 ай бұрын

Don't take any of the 'Science' in this video seriously!

@nilkanthmeshram298 2 жыл бұрын

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@bloopnation Жыл бұрын

I think mountain climbing is in decline.