Unclimbed NORTH FACE Expedition · EVEREST North Wall

[@Chris-CardVault]

The all stars of early mountain climbers

[@wapiti3750]

They looked more like a bad JV squad The result was so predictable: Everest: 63; Expedition Team: 0.

[@reetarai3819]

@@wapiti3750 छ कि

[@wapiti3750]

@@reetarai3819 It is that, for sure.

[@wapiti3750]

@@reetarai3819 मैले नेपाली भाषा सिकेँ जब म त्यहाँ बसें र चढें। म पहाडको एउटा गुफामा बस्थें र याकको मासु खाएर बाँचेँ। नेपाली एक जटिल भाषा हो तर म यसलाई छिटो छिटो सिक्न सक्षम थिए। मलाई लाग्छ कि मलाई यो सिक्न को लागी १० बर्ष लाग्यो!

[@ToreDL87]

@@wapiti3750 Yeah they goofed up

[@niafer9444]

I would like to thank the band of Mrs Burton's school for deaf infants for stepping up and doing the background music when the original band cancelled at the last minute. Thank you for the upload :)

[@silvermainecoons3269]

IKR? My poor ears are bleeding. 😂🤣😆😅

[@terencetan236]

Underrated comment. Love the sense of humour

[@weluvjaden]

Hilarious. Couldn't stop laughing!

[@codycox2465]

It kicks ass

[@fnuppyfnup]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@skimaskedabi]

When I was a kid and my mom used to teach violin lessons in our house, I always wondered what a full orchestra of the kids that didn't practice would sound like together. This soundtrack answered that question I think

[@lindasd7591]

🤣

[@jupitorious7925]

I got mild altitude sickness from the soundtrack but recovered well after one hour... Thanks for the upload, thoroughly enjoying your channel. Brilliant

[@hobbes8737]

good to hear you survived the soundtrack and video quality hardships. haha

[@lindasd7591]

😄

[@RahimaKhan-mk9gy]

😅😅😂😂

[@joeymarie72]

I love watching these older ones. It's nice to see what she looked like before all the trash and long queue for the summit. Thank you!

[@michaelhusar3668]

They should enforce the pack it in, pack it out rule to keep the mountains prestine. Sadly they have too many people climbing today that just leave everything they don't need anymore behind, including the dead bodies.

[@msmo2060]

This comment is gold

[@moondancer5115]

Can't get enough of these Everest docs... fascinating! I have no desire to be a mountaineer, but do enjoy each story of drama, bravery, tragic losses and literal breathtaking beauty of Everest. Thanks for all the uploads Mr. Snow.

[@b.w.22]

100% agree. The scene of the enormous peaks is so dramatic on its own, let alone triumph and tragedy, seracs and crevasses.

[@alainvosselman9960]

Same here. Especially these worn out vintage docs. After having seen a video a certain mountain ascent.. it's like you were almost there with them juuuuust a little bit and shared their emotions, confrontations... From the comfort of your sofa...lol

[@hobbes8737]

I'm a mountaineer , and climbing a mountain is the coolest . It doesn't have to be a suffer fest in freezing cold . Pick the right mountain during summer and camp in the alpine .

[@alainvosselman9960]

@@hobbes8737 I was planning my first hike and wanted it to be in the mountains but the bummer summer kinda ruined those plans so i'll be waiting for next year to come. I'm Belgian, so the Pyrenean mountains aren't that far away from here... I'm curious what it's like. I won't be doing any climbing. Just hiking.

[@b.w.22]

@@hobbes8737 - I don’t know if you’re in the US, but if so do you have a favorite or a recommendation for a new “mountaineer” who hikes a lot?

[@SaltyCracker402]

Whoever composed this soundtrack belongs in the horror film industry

[@jingievaalbal3322]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@ElaineBoucher-sn2po]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@theresachung703]

I’m Dead!

[@jessicamark4602]

Agreed. My ears! I can barely get through it bc of that.

[@Vourn-75]

😂😂😂😂 exactly 💯

[@thedie-castaviator4081]

I have no desire to climb mountains, hate snow and absolutely detest heights. Admittedly I'd like to see Everest from the lowest ground I could, but for some reason I'm on a mega mountain climbing video binge. Love your channel and a new subscriber. Thanks for the awesome videos 😎

[@MichaelHendriks]

Look up Everest base camp trek in Nepal. It's not super easy but really not that hard. It's basically trekking from teahouse to teahouse. Fly to lukla, acclimatize in namche bazar, choose a trek with plenty of days to aid acclimatization.

[@peacelove6356]

Sounds awesome! And you can see the top?

[@whoswhoatthezoo9372]

That’s funny, I’m doing the same exact thing - it’s fascinating. Due to the 🦠 I’m home more often, so I’m looking for interesting things to watch. Climbers and climbing doesn’t really get much attention in terms of media coverage, compared to other sports great videos but the background music 🎼 is annoying. 🤗

[@danieltoth3900]

You hate heights and yet are an aviator, die-cast no less! Wow you are so ironic. BTW, I believe you. Not trying to be a smart ass!

[@thedie-castaviator4081]

@@danieltoth3900 I can fly at 40,000 ft in a Boeing 787 happy as Larry with no issues. I get up on a ladder and I'm very un-nerved and don't like it one bit. It's the strangest thing🤷‍♂️

[@lindasd7591]

After a short while, I recovered from the nauseous soundtrack. Great footage! Good info! So sad that climber Marty died.

[@whoisthispianist194]

The soundtrack made me want to fall down the North Face.

[@MerleLove-r1e]

You are absolutely right

[@oldheartmetal]

Stories set to music like that never end well.

[@cathleenrocco4804]

Neither did the music.

[@dennislower4742]

I'm down the rabbit hole of mountaineering videos

[@kch7051]

documentaries today are just so much better....Redford is good...fire whoever did the music...like now

[@fatcattn1]

The soundtrack reminded me of The Shining and made me want to take an Ax to my TV 😳😬

[@tedkelly183]

😂

[@auralplex]

Horrendous soundtrack

[@b.w.22]

I started grinning ear-to-ear seeing this team run across Bonington! What a fun, daring, and small fraternity mountaineering must have been at the time. Thanks again for sharing all of these - you’ve singlehandedly entertained me this summer and gotten me out into my WV mountains more this season. Just today putting a second coat of Pecard’s leather dressing on a new pair of Scarpa hiking boots, 100% inspired by Gunter Messner.

[@wapiti3750]

Ah yes, Sir Chris Bonington. I asked him once how many times he had close calls to death in the mountains and he answered: "too many to admit to".

[@mec8690]

And the photo of Reinhold Messner with Lou Whittaker and Jim Wickwire at advance base camp.

[@weijingburr2392]

Incredible doc. Thank you for the upload. That awful whistle/flute music is driving me nuts. I can't stop scratching behind my ear, with my foot. On another note the book Seven Summits is a great read.

[@johnhutchins7704]

Lol the music is horrendous

[@auralplex]

I couldn’t believe what I was listening to. I’m a music producer and this was awful. I know how they made those sounds and with what equipment. Sounds like a Korg Polysix with a modulation on the pitch. Everything sounds modulated, for I don’t know what reason.

[@vbrvideoproductions4643]

I'm getting PTSD listening to this sound from living next to a Chinese neighbour's kid learning violin years ago :)

[@ingafranke2348]

I used to do "crazy" things which harmed me,(but not risking to lose limbs and life), but I had good reasons for doing so again and again. Later I got a depression and went to therapy. It was a kind of therapy where there was not just talking, but I relived the traumas from early childhood on.. And there I found out the real reasons for the crazy things I was doing: The lack of love and appreciation I experienced as a child, worked as a constant unconscious drive to do things by which I hoped eventually getting the love and appreciation of my parents and later of other people. There was the constant drive to prove that I was worth it. I became aware that the reasons I had believed in before, were mere rationalisations. Not being able to stop doing those extrodinary things harming myself and not feeling what urged me to do so, I had to make up a "good" reason for doing so. I strongly believe, that in most of those extreme mountaineers there is also an unconscious drive that forces them to torture their bodies and their minds to extremes, which are far beyond what I did to me: They get crushed with exhaustion, they intensely suffer from frost that destroys their limbs, they risk to leave their families, their small children without a father, they see their friends die next to them. But they still have "good' reasons for continuing, just as I had. As long as they are praised as heroes for doing so, it's difficult for them to find out the real reasons why they enjoy torturing themselves, because their unconscious need for love and esteem is being fulfillled. Why should they want to find out the real reasons then?

[@drirene57]

WOW, great insight. Thanks for sharing it. That makes sense.

[@mwg911hk]

It's like they put the band on a rollercoaster and they record them playing as they whiz down that first drop.

[@dudepersonvids]

I thought this music sounded familiar! I first heard it when I was on hold, calling customer service for Hell.

[@janmargaret7972]

Climbing a mountain and being scared, and very cold is not my idea of fun. Nothing could make me ever want to do this. But I am fascinated watching all these videos from my safe and warm fireside chair. Thank you.

[@RachKenney]

This music is from a haunted carnival ride. Truly, the soundtrack of nightmares.

[@countryrat6t6]

The audio quality when it comes to the soundtrack is hysterical! It also puts me right back into a cool, dark middle school classroom staring at that fat TV on the rolley cart. Otherwise, great old documentary!

[@laurabell48]

Thank you, David! Very appreciative of your efforts to put these videos together for us!

[@marmiteoneverything9850]

best soundtrack I've ever heard

[@johnhutchins7704]

lol

[@in-steader2649]

😂

[@Jay5-0]

Kung Fu theater rip off..

[@RahimaKhan-mk9gy]

😅😅😅😅

[@teodelfuego]

RIP Marty Hoey, you were beautiful and intrepid!

[@Sternodox]

Wow! I never knew Throbbing Gristle did a soundtrack!

[@tunatuna6723]

Not sure if this is a real group, but it should be.

[@Sternodox]

@@tunatuna6723 Check out their album 'Twenty Jazz/Funk Greats.'

[@budgetcutsentertainment7178]

The music of nightmares

[@darylsmioth1904]

Wow should have never started watching this excellent documentary. I have to be at work at 3:30am but darn it I'm going to finish watching this awesome clip and I'm not even a hiker or mountain climber.

[@peacelove6356]

3:30a! Whowwy!

[@sticky70]

Great video. I love the old school equipment! Compared to today’s easily available gear they certainly made the best of what they had. I did EBC in 2004 from the well used trekking route from Lukla. I love being in the mountains so I’m going back in 2024, 20 years later to climb Island peak. Great to see Chris Bonington in the video, a climber that I feel is often overlooked these days in favour of more modern climbers with more media presence. Great soundtrack by the way, reminds me of my daughter playing the recorder for hours on end whilst dragging finger nails down a chalk board. 😂

[@theyracemesohardchair]

Liar

[@rocketrider1405]

I’m hooked on your Everest content. Thanks for the education. And, I don’t mind the music that seems to warn me that a serial killer is about to leap out from behind every rock or ice wall.

[@Jay5-0]

Very ominous!..lol

[@lindasd7591]

🤣

[@bootysweat0]

thank you for all the uploads david! i have been binging all your videos and it’s opened my eyes to something that i personally can’t do, but love to watch!!! it’s not easy to find joy these days but these videos sure do help a lot :)

[@fnuppyfnup]

Watching this has trully been a psychodelic experience

[@l.ronhubbard5445]

Psychedelic

[@fnuppyfnup]

@@l.ronhubbard5445 true that

[@nicolosito]

Actually the world's greatest climber to this day, Reinhold Messner, climbed the North Face of Everest solo.

[@cp_pdn]

Link ? Is the North Face the toughest ?

[@ThatGuyz82]

@@cp_pdn the North Face of most mountains in the northern hemisphere are the hardest, due to the lesser amount of sunlight. When they are hard, they are HARD.

[@ThatGuyz82]

@@cp_pdn kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6G1Y6iEZbF5lck

[@nicolosito]

@@cp_pdn Christopher Bonington who led the ultimately successful expedition to climb Everest's southwest face entitled his account "Everest the Hard Way." I suspect that was correct as the southwest face is steeper than the north face.

[@matthewcollins5344]

I have to agree Reinhold is the greatest climber ever🥇

[@Arty11]

David snow I salute you for sharing these marvellous videos of human endeavour. Thankyou 👍❤️🌙

[@swedenfrommycam]

Strange music😳 wonderful climb🇸🇪💪

[@Mark-ux7yh]

Love these documentaries thank you for the upload

[@Gonken88]

Is that a striped shithouse bass?

[@Mark-ux7yh]

Marble grouper

[@Gonken88]

@@Mark-ux7yh Is that like even a real name on a fish? 🤔

[@alanluscombe8a553]

I live next to mt Rainier and have met the whittakers many times and have spent many hours in their store in ashford. Good people.

[@heiroot]

Hey neighbor

[@alanluscombe8a553]

@@heiroot lol hello, idk what you think but I love living in ashford. I used to live in a house a mile outside of elbe now I live behind the post office and general store in ashford. My mother worked at that store for over ten years when it was suvers

[@theyracemesohardchair]

I was disappointed that nobody mentioned the music in the comments section

[@glennkemp3680]

I think the climbers should have to listen to this droning music while they're climbing. Omg.

[@hanah32465]

Am I the only person who loved the music?!?!

[@auralplex]

I’m playing this at my wedding

[@davidwilliamson9333]

IT WAS KINDA HAUNTING. MARTY IS MY HERO , WHAT A WOMAN!!!ID MARRY HER 😍 💕

[@sionyevans]

Fantastic footage truly moving..excellent soundtrack..where can I buy it ...

[@auralplex]

Lol

[@intothemystic5223]

Anyone know where I can get this soundtrack? It's so relaxing. But seriously, great documentary!

[@l.ronhubbard5445]

I don't know where you can get the soundtrack but you can replicate the effect it has on you by wrapping your pointer fingers in sandpaper and slowly twist, push and pull them in your ear canal

[@intothemystic5223]

@@l.ronhubbard5445 😂😂

[@thomasfoster0327]

Whoever made the soundtrack should have been took to the top of mount Everest and staked to the ground

[@theyracemesohardchair]

🤣🤣🤣

[@alisonsmith7162]

More like thrown off.

[@annnee6818]

Dear god this needs an audio remaster like I need oxígeno. Super interesting tho thanks😊

[@theresa42213]

Lassa is not the most remote city in the world anymore. Iquitos Peru is in the middle of the Amazon rain forest, and has 400,000 residents. lts the largest city on the planet that is not connected to the outside world by any road. They use the river system. Just some trivia.

[@lifesahobby]

disclaimer: This comment is so deep you might need a submarine There are a few golden nuggets in this film especially when they ask these climbers why they climb. It solidified a theory i've been working on about the symptoms of having too many long term goals and not enough short term ones. I reckon those suffering from a lack of short term goals exhibit behaviors such as a love of politics or arguments. Many thanks for this upload. Its so easy gloss over the knowledge or wisdom of the mountains. But here in this film whoever captured the answers may not have realised the impact of their exploits and hard work. I want to thank the camera man, the sound recordist and editing team, without their work we would never have this information. ( if you wish to not suffer the symptom of politics you must have more short term achievable goals in your life.) right now 6:28 am the darkness of winter approaching, its time to put on the trousers pack the dogs into the car and go achieve a short term goal.... a mountain nearby will suffice. Have a good weekend, people of the internet.

[@JL-nk1pc]

Stay off the crack

[@TP-ie3hj]

Crazy is how much things change, watched a kid from Japan climb. His video is like someone who went for a hike? He hired one sherpa to help him out, followed everyone up, at Camp four hes sitting in the open looking for his Sherpa? Like looking for the host of a guided tour? Couldnt find him oh well Climb on to the top. Then back down like he was climbing half dome!

[@thatwasantique6708]

Who's that kid? Any links to the video? 🙏

[@TP-ie3hj]

@@thatwasantique6708 I dont have a link but its on here. It was crazy to watch. Camp 4 no tent no oxygen just sitting out on the rocks in the sun. Waiting then decided to follow the line.

[@lucidhurricane]

RIP Marty you were A SUPERSTAR.

[@hohaia01]

Great score.

[@dianal.1279]

Thank you so much for uploading these fantastic videos! Best youtube channel! 🌻☀️⛰

[@Bella.216]

Very sad this is also the same year Joe Tasker and Peter Boardman died on the pinnacles. For the people complaining about the music, get over yourself. Y'all complaining on little crap. Don't like it, don't watch it.

[@sterlingreece9355]

Complaining about complaining, if you don’t like their comments don’t read them

[@auralplex]

People can do what they want mmmmk?

[@rofiihamdi65]

thankyou for making this video

[@rondog540]

Great watching, although I- preferred the Australian documentary up the same face in 84, just because it contained some more information about the route and difficult pitches. Respect to all these pioneers.

[@Xxxxxx19-p1c]

18:00 Narrator: “They stop for a break and have a private moment of thought.” Music: “We all float up here. “ 🤡🎈

[@elleemann]

Soundtrack makes me feel like I'm on acid...

[@nancyvukovic256]

It's portraying what they felt like with altitude sickness. I don't want to climb anymore.

[@colapinklink8120]

Thx, love you're Videos!

[@DavidSnowClimbing]

Thanks for watching!

[@Gonken88]

He *is* the videos.

[@kenny5598]

OMG that music is amazing.Where can i buy???

[@SuperHyee]

Thanks !

[@melodychest9020]

Loved these cameras compared to the modern fish eye ones which give you distortion and a headache! Great documentary and this was pioneering stuff, including fixing their own ropes.

[@FriedChairs]

You’re confusing cameras with lenses. Every focal length you could want are available still.

[@melodychest9020]

@@FriedChairs Think u didn't get my point. The vintage video photography was quite stunning (without the distortion of super wide lenses) in my opinion compared to other more recent video footage I have seen where they try to bring in more field of view with fisheye wide angle lenses, which to me does not look all that cool. Of course I know that you can load different FL lenses on camera bodies!

[@theresaspray7081]

Watching in 11/21 ……. Climbers now would have a fit if they had to carry all their gear as well as equipment needed to make such an assent on a mountain. Amazing to watch how things were done back in the day compared to now in 2021!

[@danmaltby3271]

real climbers still do,Messner did it solo carrying his own gear

[@Grandizer8989]

If I ever get to Camp 4.. (I won’t). I’m going to bury a Mallory era 1920s camera up there. Out of sight but easy enough to find someday. Imagine a climber’s swollen brain at that altitude thinking that they found the Holy Grail of mountaineering. If I can’t get a camera, then I’ll bury some Roman Coins.

[@echoskirmish5203]

I'm recovering from a night out and I'm not sure whats making me sicker: the soundtrack or last nights tomfoolery.

[@RyanWalshGuitar]

Amazing soundtrack!

[@sudhirbisht5577]

That spooky ghostly music in the background was indicating all along that this is going to be a failed attempt.

[@gavysaul2391]

If we can stand the music sound, certainly we can climb. Just to be sure the wind sound won't be worse.... or may be is to ambience the film as a very old one...thanks for your mountaineer videos just love all of them

[@timedwards5734]

Thank Yoko Ono for the spectacular score!! 👂💥💀

[@davidpeters3857]

😂😂❤

[@sethrc1756]

This soundtrack is an assault on the ears

[@Darryl_Frost]

Great video, but their use of the music and that weird WOW effect gets really annoying really quickly..

[@johnhammond9962]

Sometimes the best music is none at all.

[@Dilberto88]

Poor Marty. I can’t believe that her piton pulled with a loud “ping” and she fell backwards expressionless for 3000 feet. So tragic.

[@Xxxxxx19-p1c]

Next time please add “spoiler alert” to the beginning of your comment.

[@SONICrider]

Intens and the music makes is even deeper.

[@AbleHammer]

It’s Eerie watching Marty knowing she’s going to die. It’s like seeing into the future.

[@davidwilliamson9333]

IM FASCINATED BY HER . WHAT A TERRIFIC WOMAN. GOD BLESS HER SOUL

[@wgisgr8]

I thought 💭 that very thing

[@pollyscookies9180]

A "spoiler alert" would have been appreciated. Whelp, cat's outta the bag now!😸

[@vestland3877]

@@davidwilliamson9333she should have stayed in the kitchen

[@mimivivi3003]

Почему они ее не пытались искать?

[@duderino8722]

Thanks for posting this old classic, but the Description contains an error. It was Jim Whittaker who was the first American to summit Everest, not his twin brother Lou - though Lou was an equally talented mountaineer.

[@johnhammond9962]

This is an excellent doc. Thank you, but whats with the Warriors soundtrack?

[@kevinbaskovich7973]

I was going to comment on the music but niafer said it better than I ever could have. lol

[@julianyc422]

Don't pay $60,000 to a company to climb the mountain. Train and join experienced climbers and pay sherpas $60,000 not $125 a day to climb it for their 12th time.

[@peacelove6356]

How do you hire them?

[@gloriaa.garcia3985]

I think you can find agencies in Kathmandu where u can hire sherpas or Porters also at Lukla.

[@micheldusud8470]

Hello super thanks 👍

[@archertyro6481]

I watch these old shows from my youth and just can’t believe the utter stupidity of the “best of the best” and brightest minds of the endeavour. Wow were we drinkin the koolaid or what.

[@MrAshyb87]

Subbed man, I'm fascinated

[@charleslamica5123]

A very interesting documentary. But... who decided on that background music??? Ouch! Those sounds are horrible.

[@richardravenclaw318]

interesting film. horrible background noise as others have pointed out. makes 1982 seem like along time ago.

[@skimaskedabi]

It was nearly 40 years ago

[@malindaderr9650]

In reference to the soundtrack I believe it's because this video is old. Still a great video though from earlier years.

[@cordobadebear]

I was getting some brain hypoxia from the schizophrenic soundtrack, as well, thankfully it would cut out every time just before whiteout… having grown up in 80s I can handle anything

[@scubbcac]

Loved the old school climbing...but as the sound editor..." need to find the right soundtrack....ohhh I know...cat torture organ...that's the sound I need"

[@terryannandersen347]

The music was horribly annoying. I had to turn it way down, with captions on. Otherwise, this story and the climbers were awesome.

[@alanluscombe8a553]

I love the video but what’s up with the drunk Peruvian pan flute band lol?

[@brainfleming8756]

Would have been a lot better with out the irritating music.

[@stevedavenport7281]

It was bad year for climbers. Tragedy all around.

[@hymnodyhands]

This is a good documentary, but the soundtrack is distorted... I can hear what it SHOULD BE and so account for it... it is the only drawback of an excellent presentation...

[@auralplex]

Not just distorted, but modulated. The pitch is inconsistent… constantly. Very irritating to listen to. Whoever gave this a pass was an idiot lol

[@mimivivi3003]

Rip marty hoey.

[@guud]

Excellent video, thank you on this, really they came like a walk in the park and got realised what that is. Facing life, facing yourself..life at fullest! Rip Marty, too bad that happen, affected a lot on the team. God bless :)

[@michaelgoodhart321]

Experienced severe hypoxia from discordant background music! Perhaps the twisted music is symbolic of the twisted mentality of humans who risk their bodies and lives for the ultimate peak experience, that is not so 'peak' when you lose all your fingers and toes and many times your own life in the process of bagging it.

[@lindachambers6053]

The background music (whistles &bells) almost ruined this video for me. Otherwise, I found it a fascinating story. Thanks for all you do.

[@jorgebnuk]

She probably was pulled by the tension on the rope when it was at the maximum length.. as she was being pulled she must have lost balance and added to that her harness failed.. maybe strapped incorrectly or faulty.. so sad.. only one second that could have been avoided.. non of that her fault.. 😢

[@MilesBellas]

People are complaining about traditional music ? Everest is in a location with a different culture. Isn't that obvious? Using western music would be inauthentic.

[@KennethMoyer-t3y]

That is the most horrific sound track i have ever heard! It is not only bad a composition, it is also incredibly intrusive. The technology now exists to fix it. If it is supposed to represent wind sound it fails beyond belief. I am being very charitable.

[@ripple_on_the_ocean]

Jaw dropped when they bumped into Bonington, Tasker and Boardman 🤯

[@ripple_on_the_ocean]

Good doc even though the "music" made me want to poke knitting needles through my eardrums.

[@pilotactor777]

climbing is not a democracy. Team leaders are there to make big decisions where the team is incapable of being objective.

[@casacara]

All of them are hypoxic, so they’ll be poorer decision makers all around, including the leader.

[@owen7185]

The north face is steep! The tourists who get piggy-backed by Sherpas on the south face would never get as close as these men, even with a team