I don’t think you actually understand how these expeditions work. They were forcing new routes so two lead climbers push the route out and set fixed ropes in order to make transportation of supplies and people more easy. Then when the lead climbers need to rest the new leading pair use the fixed lines up to the head of the route and they force the route out further to fix more ropes, this isn’t high altitude tourism, this is how most team expeditions work in mountaineering when it isn’t alpine style.
RMS LUSITANIA shares her place with RMS TITANIC as they are still both a Cunard and White Star passenger liner as the LOST BRITISH SHIPS from April 1912 and May 1915. Both RMS TITANIC and RMS LUSITANIA are forever in our hearts and souls, forever.
Chris Bonington gave a talk at my school in the 1970s. By the time he was half way through, I wished I was on a mountain somewhere where I couldn't hear his voice. Worst lecture I've ever been to.
It is funny how some documentaries choose to describe things. Such as @7:25 "Cunard took back the ribbon from a bitterly humiliated Germany" I'm not sure I would describe being temporarily bumped back down to owning the second and third fastest passenger liners in the world as "Bitterly humiliated". When Germany built a liner faster than the English liners, do the documentaries describe it as "Bitterly humiliated"?
You don't get to both have kids and a lethal hobby. You choose one or the other. Children can't choose their parents and if you CHOOSE to have kids then that means giving up certain things in life to be there for them. It's obviously an addiction and these dudes need to be in 12-step programs, not out on mountains creating orphans. Makes me really angry.
The more I watch the more convinced I am that this is narcissistic behavior. Putting your family through the hell that his one son describes in the documentary and repeatedly, to get a kick. His fix. And to boost his ego. Cause that’s what it is, other wise he could simply climb safer places where the chance of dying is a hundred times less. Really difficult to watch this actually. Edit: now his youngest son said his dad was away 6 months a year when he was little. Wtf. That is just a--hole behavior.
For Chris, losing Ian during the descent on the south face of Annapurna hit him the hardest. That was his climbing partner for his ascent of the north face of the Eiger in 1962.
If VAR was around then, Scotland wouldn't have won. That Stanger try would've been disallowed. Still... A brilliant day and one hell of a performance. C'mon Scotland,
That C4 music took me back. From great days with good health and loads of family to now having bad health and no family left. Chris Bonnington is a hero. A true explorer.
Woodrow wilson was an arrogant piece of shit Put his own people in danger. By telling them they could Go anywhere they wanted. Despite the fact that his own people might go into a war zone, it was reckless and he needs to be called out for it.
He reminds me of a WW1 general imagining up pointless difficult routes that get his soldiers killed while he climbs the shepherded tourist route to summit 😾
I also climbed EVEREST with you from base camp to the summit its so easy to get it wrong as i watched till the summit of EVEREST thanks for sharing im exhausted
Of the 1,195 lost in the immediate sinking, only 289 were recovered, some found as far away as the Welsh coast. Of those, 65 were never identified Three of the rescued died in Queenstown from injuries sustained in the sinking
Now that AI technology is able to replicate certain voices near 1:1, I'd love to see people replicate this guys voice, alongside Murray Walker's. Hey, it certainly beats having to put up with David Croft/Alex Jacques' voice!
Not these days, but back then it was common, particularly at Murrayfield where the schoolboy's enclosure was pitch side and there was no fence in front of the East and West stands
As per video description - 'Some copyrighted material has had to be removed'. RU-vid would not allow me to upload this without making the necessary cuts. Beyond my control I'm afraid. Thank you for watching!
