Bear Grylls Reveals What Climbing Mount Everest Is Really Like

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Bear Grylls is a British adventurer and television host who has been an international sensation of survival shows for twenty years. The host of Man vs. Wild, You vs. Wild, Running Wild, The Island, and the author of Mud, Sweat and Tears and over twenty other books, he’s come in to talk to us about his new book - Never Give Up.
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[@isabelstokes4042]

He seems so humble and aware of his own shortcomings. Good man.

[@phillipoliverholtz9226]

But too pussy to call out clout culture causing extreme lines and degrading the sport he loves.... cool.

[@Mark-mm1ke]

Bear Gryles is great. I can never watch any of these videos on Mt Everest and not think about Sir Edmund Hilley and Tenzing Norgay. I try and imagine the courage they had to climb that mountain along that ridge to the top before anybody. No safety ropes. Just a rope between the two. Climbing the Hilleray step with an 8000' drop off! Blows my mind.

[@user-mm5pi7kd5o]

*Grylls*

[@thegrumblesquad4949]

do you think the weather was as bad as it is now when they climbed it? they had no safety stuff like you said,, how did they manage? i have no clue all i can think of is that the weather was better? did you see the clothes they wore :-0 literally a raincoat,

[@Mark-mm1ke]

@@thegrumblesquad4949 I can answer that with this video. Really great. I've watched it a few times now. As far as the clothing, it's been proved that even Mallory's clothing was suffient. But I agree, certainly not great by modern standards. But that's progress too. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHXFdmNmnLtlZs0

[@gabriellopezperez7363]

you havent read about Mallory and Irvine, have u?

[@workdevice7808]

When Britain and Nepal conquered Everest, Britain had just come out of WW2 with all the advances made in surviving at high altitude developed for aircrew. Lightweight oxygen sets, clothing, all of which made the British and Nepali team a success. The real heroes of Everest are Mallory and Irvine who almost summitted wearing wool and hob nail boots.

[@chrissylater5863]

This man has accomplished some brave and dangerous expeditions, huge respect for Bear Grills...🌻🥇❤

[@tfp0052]

Great to see Bear again. Its been awhile!

[@James-nc2zx]

Thank you Bear for telling it like it is. Very cool that you were the youngest climber at the time. .

[@ChrisM-bn5vr]

Lol telling it like it is? He claimed the mortality rate was 1 in 6 when he climbed Everest. He climbed in 1998 where the mortality rate of climbing Everest was 1.3%, or 1 in 76. Much different to the 1 in 6 he claims lol. Just like he largely fakes his show he exaggerates his stories.

[@dajodadarodajodo4600]

always love Bears' humble attitude and grounded nature - thanks for showing us all your work over the years !

[@user-ju8lt8ip1x]

Bro said I’m done with Everest and started base jumping with his kid 💀 see how long that works out

[@ChrisM-bn5vr]

I think if he was humble he wouldn't have lied about the mortality rate of when he climbed it. In 1998 when he climbed Everest the mortality rate was 1 in 76, not 1 in 6.

[@JGH1708]

When I think of Bear I think of him hopping over the "dangerous" lava crack while there was a perfectly good way around it and a road just metres away.

[@bonganimazibuko1901]

It was for TV bro lol

[@eadc888]

I see what you’re saying but it’ll be a logistical nightmare and the costs would be huge to travel to the real location just to get the same effect a few metres off the highway

[@dumitriuradu8481]

@@bonganimazibuko1901 still embarassing

[@FastandFinance]

@@dumitriuradu8481not really, he was making a tv show

[@kevclaremcd]

What great honesty from such a great individual. It reinforces my own belief that 'we' do not 'conquer' mountains, rather the gods of the higher slopes tolerate us for a brief moment. And, as we all know, a mountain is not 'conquered' until all are safely back at the base.

[@scottgresham6759]

When I climbed Mt Ruapehu in New Zealand, 1/3 height of Mt Everest, I remember wanting to get off the peak ridgeline ASAP because I couldn't handle the thin oxygen coupled with the exhaustion. However, obviously Ruapehu doesn't compare with the challenge of Everest.

[@armaangill2402]

I did Taranaki this year couldn’t feel a difference

[@phillipoliverholtz9226]

Why so many rich old people make the summit ? Cause theyre extreme athletes?

[@armaangill2402]

@@phillipoliverholtz9226 prob

[@ian-atg]

That sounds concerning. It’s not even tall, maybe see a doctor

[@armaangill2402]

@@ian-atg fr

[@gurtleturtle1345]

Long live brother

[@handleunico]

Essential, clear, realistic, humble, fair message. It best expresses the human condition: man, a creature of great aspirations, but limited and fragile in nature. Eternal Achilles and Odysseus, a hero so fragile that he became immortal. Good man Bear Grills, respect.

[@polarbearsrus6980]

Bear is honest... love a guy with balls. Doing what I can't and making it real.

[@jefftickleschitz1265]

Honest? Like his "survival" show?

[@danielvazquez5624]

I think his demonstration of humility and his honesty about having gone through a transformation of thought is cool. Not what I expected from the vid title. I think Bear Grylls is cool . I really don't understand why ppl throw him all this shade. Lighten up?

[@TheDon-m3h]

Love you Bear your a warrior 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💜

[@FlyWithVeiga]

Love the human side of this interview! I just went to Everest Base Camp and that’s the most I’d do. Climbing Everest is way too dangerous; he definitely had the experience of a lifetime though

[@2am427]

14 peaks nims just wow

[@UnboxRacing]

Back in 1998, impressive. He is there is Liz Hurleys Himalayan database. For the skpeics who thought he didn't leave the Four Seasons, he actually did summit.

[@mdemranhossain9641]

legend

[@MrCoursair77]

… it is like lighting a lantern with fire in order to look for fire to cook your food…. Had you known what fire was …you would’ve been able to cook your food much sooner.

[@danparsons6566]

On to K2!

[@thomashughes_teh]

With wisdom comes sorrow.

[@ashokkaaji8915]

Welcome to Nepal again n again

[@AmandaWaseUK]

My absolute crush!!! I love Bear so much😊😊😊

[@sujangurung9994]

Welcome to Nepal

[@realisticflow9]

Only mature people come to this realization

[@Bamboule05]

Mature people know this without risking their life

[@denis888red]

@@Bamboule05 Someone like you will never, in a month of Sundays, ever begin to approach getting it. Better that you neither try nor to stand in judgement of those who do. Stick to youtube and the local park at weekends...

[@Bamboule05]

@@denis888red you have no idea...

[@sundancer7381]

Yeah......Mt. Everest is insane. I remember reading about a postman who decided to climb Mt. Everest.......somewhere he fell 5000 feet and was never found. Was it worth it? It wouldn't be to me.

[@davehughesfarm7983]

NO

[@E39M5SPEED]

How come I never see any checkpoints in any Everest climbing videos ? What’s the point of permits if there are no checkpoints? Are they just there to scare people to spending money on permits ?

[@nakaimhlanga]

We surely live a gloves off life.

[@karesage2889]

I can't imagine what it would be like having to pass all the dead bodies along the way. Many have been up there for years unable to recover their bodies 😢

[@user-ju8lt8ip1x]

Iv read a lot of summit story’s on Reddit (real story’s with picture on Facebook and there whole life revolves around Reddit) and most of them say passing the body’s is not bad, gives them motivation to not be selfish to there family and make the same mistakes, the life long PTSD is watching someone you climbed all the way up with take there last breaths and there is nothing u can do, u have to watch then keep going. And they say most deaths happen after the summit on the way down because ur body has had enough.

[@acaro2911]

Taylor Adams climbed it with a severe auto immune condition, one of only a few people with that condition to achieve it. Now that's a story to be amazed at.

[@qmzp1978]

On a side note, I can't believe he was 48 when this was filmed. He looks great.

[@jonathanshih7233]

Whoa! You got Christian Bale on your show

[@rp44vlog03]

❤️🖤❤️

[@MrCoursair77]

And difficult times and difficult situations is called a challenge… if you go with what you know all the time ….you will lose… an experience boxer knows his opponent studies his opponent … listen to the coaches around you even the coaches that are in the environment …finds his opponents weakness…. Then he gets into the ring…. and his chances to succeed are much more realistically, possibly accomplished!

[@carolescutt2257]

And poor Michael x

[@jamesmonahan1870]

DON'T GO UP TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP WITHOUT ME (C))2006

[@huberthongo4936]

Why is cody gakpo doing interviews when he should be scoring for liverpool fc

[@jsa4864]

Ultimately, if it weren't for the Sherpa, you never would have had a chance in hell.

[@user-eu9fz5zm5j]

Some people go without sherpas. Very very small percentage but there are few independant climbers that make it to the peak without sherpas

[@SemenHasFallen]

If it weren’t for your all inclusive hotel you would have a starve

[@tomekk1337]

@@user-eu9fz5zm5j each year the sherpas literally set the route through moving khumbu icefall glacier before rest of the climbers even set their foot on. Without sherpas there would be no everest climbing

[@mtb416]

Ultimately, were it not for climbers paying Sherpas, they’d be utterly poor and their kids without any future at all.

[@jefftickleschitz1265]

Are you speaking from experience or just parroting others?

[@denis888red]

Very honest. Many people who have never been near the place hold a completely wrong/false idea of what it takes to climb Everest. They see a few photos of lines of people at the summit and get a completely skewed perspective of what it takes and think that it's a walk in the park when it is absolutely anything but. Just getting to Base Camp alone is no walk in the park. A few hundred people a year succeed. Far, far fewer than the number of people who play professional football if you think of it that way. Moreover, life experience tells me that those who decry the achievements of others are always of the same type. And I'll give you a clue.... It is a word that rhymes with 'Banker'. But good for Bear. He seems and sounds like a really good, solid guy of the type I'd love to know.

[@deltalima6703]

It literally is a walk in a park. You have no idea. Ryan Mitchell posted some videos that show what it is really like for an incompetent tourist to climb everest.

[@denis888red]

@@deltalima6703 Considering I was there the first three weeks of this May, I'd say I have every idea pal. Every idea. Quite literally. Then again, you've 'seen some videos' eh? So you'd certainly be the man to know....

[@deltalima6703]

Go watch the videos. The secrets out, so stop trying to bullshit people. You were another incompetent tourist? Big deal, doesnt make you an expert on anything.

[@kacperrutkowski6350]

​@@denis888redit depends what you consider to be 'walk in the park', but compared to some other mountains it may be. Fixed ropes are literally almost everywhere. The only difficult thing is hypoxia, which also isn't that much of an issue. Ofc it's not that easy, but when compared to for example south face of Dhaulagiri. Despite not climbing it in person I would say, that it's probably at most somewhere around El Capitan level (which sadly also became a tourist atraction after the 'Free Solo' movie).

[@denis888red]

​@@kacperrutkowski6350 At least you have something considered and measured to say...unlike some of the tripe I see posted on these clips. As to hypoxia being that much of an issue... Well. If it's not, it's not. If on the other hand it is....

[@Accurize2]

What he climbed it and DIDN’T stay in a hotel during in the overnights?!

[@Redeemedbylove1987]

Where is he getting 1/6 death rate?

[@OffensiveFarmer]

He climbed it in 1998, there were a total of 1237 successful summits of Everest in the 20th century and 168 fatalities making it 1 in 7.3 but obviously there would have been many who never got to the top yet got back down safely so yes it wasn't 1/6 people who attempt to climb Everest that died but it was roughly for every 7 successful summits on Everest 1 person died.

[@Redeemedbylove1987]

@@OffensiveFarmer Maybe it was worse in the 90s.

[@Intuition11111]

@@Redeemedbylove1987 every year is different due to weather conditions and wind and what not

[@perpetualgrin5804]

Bear also ate the frozen meat he found near the summit.😅

[@bravendyer9529]

Big waves , is it worth dying , I said yes . Still surfing at 7O fun big , not heart stopping big .

[@danielul05]

Stupid

[@niki4you]

Not sure why everyone in these comments have their knickers in a twist, every single person that knows about Everest knows that no one climbs that mountain without the amazing work of sherpas. Do people think he’s trying to claim otherwise?? Cause he’s not

[@robjones-qj2jj]

Yes, he is

[@niki4you]

@@robjones-qj2jj no no he’s not

[@alanlee6687]

Les Stroud is the real BMF!!!

[@MichaelAtkinson-dp1et]

One in 6 is like Russian roulette

[@CapraDemon101]

It is exactly that. Crazy. Not sure if it's big balls or big ego

[@jodi1761]

That's is not remotely true. The risk of dying on Everest is much much lower. In total, there have been ca 12000 summits and ca 340 deaths. That gives a less than 3% risk. To add to this, many people who try, do not summit, since most people turn back when they realize that they probably won't make it top the top in time to safely descent. So if you compare deaths to attempts + summits, the risk is even lower. For a supposedly "humble" man, there is no need to spout such BS in order to make his accomplishment seem even more astounding than it already is.

[@FlatuLenceCrazy]

@@jodi1761 He mentioned back in 1998.

[@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines]

@@FlatuLenceCrazy I think that part went over their head! :)

[@philippeberini2574]

Did lots of gym weights and machines, until I figured that strenght does not help with crawling around on the floor (as example). Getting more into mobility, bodyweight functional stuff like animal flow or some cali excercises. Gotta get started with rings!

[@issimondias]

Thanks for this, really helpful.

[@philippeberini2574]

@@issimondias I realised my comment was for another video 🤣

[@AKlover]

Everest is now an open air toilet and trash dump, apparently it is one of if not the easiest 8000m peaks and thus full of tourists.

[@chipsutcliffe7110]

Can't be one in six, although that sounds very dramatic and is good for TV. The lines of people ascending the mountain would suggest many, many people are dying each day. This is not the case as that avalanche that did unfortunately kill many sherpa made worldwide headlines. The people gossiping this rumor is symptomatic of the wrong reason that people climb Everest.

[@GazRsExtremeBrickMachines]

It was around that figure when he climbed in the 90s! :) Far different to now! Live, learn improve…

[@XubodhKhadka]

Bunjee jump garna Kusma janu parne thiyo. Not the place where he went.

[@sembuhangyt8136]

True

[@Steelers4life68]

U can tell that loss of life up there really bothered him. He must have been close when it happened. He dont talk about it.

[@awesomefact6592]

Mountain is not for a beginner It is confirmed 😂

[@corkwijk9]

Bear Grylls is one of my favourite actors.

[@paulgermano7837]

Remember. Chuck Norris doesn't climb Mount Everest. Mount Everest climbs him!

[@MrCoursair77]

A good effective life is not gloves off… A good effective life is learning wisdom you don’t have to go out in the streak to get your ass kicked to know you can get it kicked!

[@Errcyco]

The best life lesson I learned in my own was "learn WHEN to listen" 90% of the shit we hear is absolutely useless, but it's important to really absorb the good stuff and learn. If you think you've got it all figured out, you've already failed. Learn tik the day you die, change you mind 59 times on one subject.. important thing is to keep compiling good information.

[@MGWA6891]

If you actually listened, he says it gloves off in the sense that something can come out of the left field at any moment to completely derail the path you were on in life.

[@MrCoursair77]

He’s omitting the most important thing he got help getting up there…… he is no hero…. without other people helping him, he wouldn’t made it. All these guys talk about how …”they made it up there”.’’ omitting that they would’ve lost their life had not been for a Sherper. They never mentioned anything in regards to that how many people did lose their life…..

[@porterway]

Man shut up. A sherpa only guides. They don’t walk/climb for you.

[@Errcyco]

He's a paid actor, they present him as a solo blah blah but it's a massive team he's just the face of.

[@overPowerPenguin]

It's hard to climb Mount Everest, whatever assisted or not. At higher altitude, you are solo, and that's the hardest part. One bad step, bad weather, bad equipment, inadaptation so on and so, and you are dead with no one to rescue you. Heck, if you nap, you are dead. If you think that's not challenging, then, what the f.

[@futurekillxbox972]

@@Errcyco Way before tv stuff - after and during sas . Education is a wonderful thing :) .

[@Tom-uv7ry]

​@@Errcyconot the brightest are you

[@davidrobb2079]

Bear still climbed Everest that's that.

[@phillipoliverholtz9226]

1 in 6 ? But the other 5 shoudnt even be there.... wtf ? The gratest climer is humble, but shaz with coin can claim the same trophy ? What a dissapointing position

[@MrCoursair77]

To know the mountain is to have been living there for a good long time…. Observing…..

[@spacecatboy2962]

and when he got to the top, he had to eat his own poo

[@duncannapier318]

Remember my ego, camera, Instagram and Facebook password but forget The Sherpas. If The Sherpas hadn't been born Everest would still be unconquered. 🇿🇦👍

[@slalomsteve]

Utter nonsense.

[@accuso]

This "Sherpa" wave is boring. There are many professions over the world, where high risk is inevitable. It's worth respect as any risky jobs to pay the bills. If there was no mountaineering, there would be much less sherpas

[@PetraKann]

The fatality rate on Everest is not 1 in 6. It's currently running at about 2%. (ie 1 in 50) K2 is the most dangerous mountain to climb at almost 20% fatality rate (i in 5). K2 is only a few hundred metres lower than Everest. There is also the Annapurna peaks - very dangerous

[@madelynswanson9051]

He climbed it in 1998 back when those were about the accurate statistics

[@skywalker5936]

I'm from Nepal, the whole idea of climbing a mountain and claiming that you conquered is very stupid.😂 Sorry no offense to anyone 😂, enjoy life while you have it. The mountain can never be conquered.

[@Ali_Ali509]

Well, prepared tents OK, help of sherpas OK. But I'm sorry, if anyone climb with supplemental oxygen, that person really didn't climb Everest, but rather like 6000m mountain. Still great achievement, but ...

[@TJjjjjjjjjjj]

So does that mean divers who use oxygen aren’t real divers ?

[@Ali_Ali509]

​@@TJjjjjjjjjjj​Apples and oranges. Firstly I didn't say he is not real climber. I just said, he didn't really climb 8848 m high Everest, because use of oxygen "lowers" the altitude. Also there is lot of kinds of diving. One of it is freediving, which is diving on one inhale without O. Thats the point of it. And of course, if you use oxygen, you are not real freediver. If you want to look at the fish, do what you want and take a bottle 😊

[@TJjjjjjjjjjj]

@@Ali_Ali509 Fair point, but are they really that different ? Because once you ascend past the 26,000 feet mark on Mount Eve; aka into the “death zone”, oxygen is so limited that your body's cells literally start to die. On top of that you are also severely at risk of heart attack, stroke, let alone the constant and severe altitude sickness. And that’s with oxygen. It’s on my bucket list but I’ll definitely be sucking on bottled air

[@Ali_Ali509]

@@TJjjjjjjjjjj Oxygen is limited even in lower altitudes. You can have high altitude sickness even in 5000 m. Higher you go, less oxygen. And if you suck it from bottle, you reverse the effects of lack of oxygen, so you cheat the altitude. Look if you must ask if it is really different, please don't go to Everest, because it looks like you don't know nothing about high altitude mountaneering.

[@TJjjjjjjjjjj]

@@Ali_Ali509 lol where did I say you couldn’t ? 😂 but you do realise there’s more to hypoxia than just high altitude sickness. + you really should take your own advice because surely you should have known the vast majority of people attempting the final ascent of MTE use oxygen 🤦‍♂️ and I guarantee I’ve made more summits than you have champ

[@williameisenberg1999]

They sell Mt Everest like it’s Disney Land ,,, I’ve seen that Mountain ,it’s nothing to mess with , also it has become a garbage dump full of garbage but also lots of dead bodies

[@stevennguyen4993]

Life is rough and death is guaranteed. But I'm not one to mock death. Diseases and accidents can sure kill you. But I'm not gonna seek death and try to live on the edge so I could turn around and cheer at having to have lived.

[@Danmc-li3pg]

Didn’t this guy get caught sleeping in hotels while filming his show where is is suppose to be in the wilderness

[@jimsatterfield8748]

I think that was another guy. Les Stroud.

[@moulanakratos]

His show was never about him surviving wilderness it was about teaching people how to survive in such situations.

[@pggalwain5181]

Good for him! Makes him smarter than the people watching

[@AmberL709]

Not one word about the sherpas!!

[@bradsanders6954]

"Make my Mark" so many people have summited Everest, and yeah you could die. Its insanely hard, but the lines of climbers going up nose to tail in a traffic jam............. Find something original, something different. No one is going to hear about or remember one of 400 people who summited Everest in a year. Even if you die, your one of many stuck up there.

[@benjonnyshirley4203]

yes mate! Attempt something original, something unique, go for it. But still there will always have been someone there before you; nothing is original, just things that are less common

[@davidpalin1790]

Above 8500metres you are dying 😢

[@Bingpot_Cowabunga]

When your hands are moving clothes around in coloured water, you’re dyeing.

[@johnnymathematics6216]

And not in an airplane, unless you eat those god awful airline meals….

[@christophb2736]

It‘s called „death zone“ for a reason.

[@lifeislikeanicecreamenjoyb4360]

💙💙💙💙💙💙🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@kerrydarensbourg5557]

People go up with their Billings and dollars. Technology knowledge means nothing. The nature the mountain is alive. Your money can't help you. If it's your dream, do it, but that's your choice.😮

[@MissIrishdoll]

No mention of the Sherpa people? Unreal

[@martinsmith1538]

Sherpas are heroes. Taking people up and hopefully back.

[@cars2drive298]

Climbing Everest has become the most selfish and shameless human achievement 😂 👎💩

[@prawnstar9213]

I’ve met two people who’ve climbed Everest and I’ve never thought to myself “wow.. what a winner!”. My first thoughts were “gross”…

[@alemti-mn1ns]

Anyone wanna help poor people like me ?? 😭😭💔God will bless u with more

[@paulbelisle7213]

No….blow their money risking their life for nothing is way more satisfying than helping you.

[@alemti-mn1ns]

@@paulbelisle7213 ok

[@alemti-mn1ns]

@@paulbelisle7213 u should help me instead if u want more blessings

[@degsiemcdegface459]

Gloves off on Everest? Don't think so mate

[@avinashbhurtel2341]

Con Artist. He was humbled by Sherpas.

[@keepitsharp7231]

You will never find a hater doing better than you..

[@Modus888-if9yj]

Exactly these clowns get their hands held up the mountain by sherpas they are the real mountaineers

[@MrCoursair77]

You won’t tell the indigenous you’re their friend….. but you lie you know you wouldn’t want any part of that place you wouldn’t even wanna live there or bring your family to live there….. many of them there that come there to claim…. don’t even respect the indigenous that are there don’t even listen to them.. you think they are nasty, but they are not… the shoppers are shepherds… but no one listens to the even most wisest Shepherd.

[@armadilloross]

“Is any mountain worth a life=no.” Ambition for the sake of personal promotion is egoic and selfish. Any goal that requires me to walk past a dying suffering human, doesn’t fit in my world. Humility will always be forced upon those with lofty ideas of themselves.

[@Anonymous-jf2gy]

You don’t get the idea. The very fact that success is not assured and the risks you’re taking makes the experience all the more worthwhile. This is something that free soloists like Alex Honnold understand, as well as wingsuit and BASE jumpers like Dean Potter and alpinists like David Lama and Ueli Steck. A ton of them die very young, at immense cost to their family. But it’s the purest, most intense, most meaningful type of adventure possible. Just you and your tools and your grit.

[@catalogueboys2538]

​@@Anonymous-jf2gy that's a load of bullcrap. You're justifying being irresponsible assholes putting their families future in danger for their adrenaline rush. It's no different than crackheads doing anything for a high.

[@lf67hh28]

You better stay indoors incase a bus runs over you. 😂

[@armadilloross]

@@lf67hh28 yes because getting hit by a bus and dying on Everest equates statistically… 👎🏻🙄

[@armadilloross]

@@Anonymous-jf2gy I get that thrill in other..safer ways. It’s the addiction to extreme thrill that endangers people. I’ve watched every documentary and red books about these extreme thrill takers because the psychology of it fascinates me. What causes a person to knowingly and actively place themselves in a position of leaving family to morn such a loss? You know before you even go there that you may have to leave a person to die on that mountain to preserve your own life. Why put yourself there? If we are not meant to be there, nature will tell us and nature has a lot to say about these 8,000s.

[@scottmarcelsanca9860]

All these idiots on here, this guy was in the special air service....and no hero ???? Who is then people other than the men who put their life on the line for you lot be keyboard warriors lol

[@waywardsoul4918]

Kami Rita Sherpa is the mountain 🏔️ man. Not this guy

[@stinger4712]

If I had to climb everest I'd go with a 6kg pack of propane gas and a burner. A hot water bottle and a tin of cocoa powder. If the propane falls down to 3kg, I'm heading back down to try again

[@myronlarimer1943]

Sorry. Climbing Everest today is simply a tourist trap for people with too much money and unchecked egos. They spend a small fortune to have guides drag their sorry butts up to the top, with fixed lines and ladders. Not true climbing. Not a great accomplishment. Does not require any true climbing skills. Just a bucket list item for people to go on the “motivational speaker tour” or write a book about their harrowing experience and overcoming extreme obstacles, blah, blah, blah…. Not the same experience as when Hillary and Tenzig first reached the summit, nor is it even close to when men like Mallory and Irvine lost their lives in true mountaineering efforts at reaching the summit.

[@anthonylee2620]

I just read Into the silence about the first Everest attempts in the early 1920’s. Mallory and Irvine who both died in June 1924, 100 years ago. Clearly it was a lot tougher for them, the first to climb an unexplored mountain, ill-equipped for the task, but the first to try. They were also the first to recruit Sherpa’s and Gurkha’s, who themselves at that time had no experience of climbing up Everest. Sadly we’ll never know if Mallory and/or Irvine reached the top in 1924, as they never returned. Mallory’s body was only discovered in 1999 and Irvine’s has still not been located. Not forgetting Mallory’s famous quote, why did you want to climb Everest’because it’s there.’

[@myronlarimer1943]

@@anthonylee2620 if you can find it, First on Everest is a good read about Mallory and the early Everest expeditions. Yes those men were amazing to try to climb Everest in the 1920s. Truly remarkable in their accomplishments.

[@jabroni6199]

When did you climb it last?

[@monrow11]

Pretty sure it’s still hard as hell to climb bro.

[@mindingmybusiness6309]

Agreed

[@BOOGERBOY1]

Only 200 people have ever climbed it

[@steveilg6134]

if he - or anyone else - uses supplemental oxygen? they have NOT climbed Everest. plzzzz immediately ban supplemental oxygen on ALL mountain peaks. Messner soloed Everest in 3 days in 1973 without supplemental oxygen. standard shoulda been set right then. Om Mani Padme Hung 🙏🏾

[@jtl4714]

Get tf outta here 😂 not everyone is able to sustain themselves at that elevation without additional oxygen. People in peak athletic ability training for years to do it still need it. You’d likely have more deaths from the clouded decision making alone. Maybe rather than banishing supplemental oxygen, incentivize further the removal of the gas tanks (they have some systems in place). Seems more beneficial for the mountain so it’s no longer a giant peak of trash up there. TL/DR it’s nearly impossible to require people to go without additional oxygen. Don’t cherry pick a specific example from 50 years ago and call it “the standard”

[@opheliaelesse]

Did he clean up ? If not, he is worth NOTHING.

[@maxcoldest7196]

NEGATIVE SIR....he did not " climb the BIGGEST mountain in the world"!!! He climbed the TALLEST mountain in the world! Biggest, meaning BASE of Massif to summit! And...YES..that would be Denali...

[@MrCoursair77]

Listen to this guy talking about gloves off… he has no clue what he’s talking about….. that’s supposed to be a term for being tough individual toughness…. I would’ve liked to seen him carry his own gear and go up there all by himself without any help from anybody

[@Mindfull_Momentum]

Do you even know what he's achieved? You don't pass special forces selection without being tough

[@thebucketlist5061]

Bro what the fuck are you on about. You sit on the computer all day. Get over yourself m8

[@Nick-cp8wf]

Your delusional and likely inexperienced in life. Not knocking your potential but your need to see more to know what you said doesn't hold any water in actual reality. It's not possible to climb everest without help. Come back here in 10 years after life's kicked your butt a few more times.

[@lf67hh28]

​@@Mindfull_MomentumYet on his Everest ascent, the Sherpas done all his work...so he isn't mountain tough.

[@Professor_Greenleaf]

It’s easy to tear people down.

[@yc7553]

And people think humans have been to outer space 😂😂😂

[@perrygriffin2371]

Not worth it

[@robjones-qj2jj]

Something else he is full of.

[@MrGarthHardin]

.. discretion n .. .. uuh .. valor, yes .. any Grylls vid is education ..

[@poppag6576]

Greed inexperienced limelighters queuing on Everest will end in disaster. Few will learn this so many will die. No picture no feeling no goal ever worth dying for. I respect my limbs and other peoples lives (the ones who risk rescue missions) so I’ll not disrespect them by being naive.

[@philfyphil]

Err, missing the whole point of it somewhat!

[@poppag6576]

@@philfyphil I missed nothing good luck to them ones who choose to go. Putting Sherpas at risk for the greed of the needy is not something I would decide to do. I’m just not one of them. I missed no point and I’m free to write as I wish. Like share comment and all that 😉

[@nakaimhlanga]

We surely live a gloves off life.

[@deerheart87]

Whatever that means