I really love how Sir Chris respected the Sherpa climbers and porters. I’ve seen several more recent videos and some of those climbers seem to not really care about the Real Heroes of Everest! It makes me sick to see some climbers that seem to have that “it’s all about me” attitude. Maybe some of the newer climbers should have to do their own paths through the ice fall, and climb without set lines! I think they’d be humbled pretty fast!
Ngl those Monks just before 15:00 did not look happy you were about to climb their holy mountain.......if you dont know what a gtfoh look is, its there.
I've known mountaineers. A lot of them love to drink and seem to have an unusual superpower to drink while doing extremely hard things, on and off the mountain. Don't try it at home kids. I went to a memorial service for a mountaineer friend -death totally unrelated to mountaineering or alcohol. A story was told about how on an extreme and very cold trip the booze bottle got smashed. I guess it was in plastic or something because they still had it but mixed with broken glass. With classic inventiveness they strained it through a snotty mitten so they could drink it. Serious determination. Lol. He was a fun, incredibly playful,warm, loving and delightful guy. Not an egomaniac. Just wired differently but in a nice way. I'm not a mountaineer and never would be, but I have appreciated my contact with these "different animals" I've encountered. And I'm talking real mountaineers. Not ultra wealthy people who think they can play at being one without courting disaster.
Always amusing is the number of climbers on the British Everest expeditions who smoked. Don Whillins and Mick Burke come to mind. Certainly, there were others since the expedition manifest lists several hundred cartons. Not only for personal consumption but for barter as well.
Sir Chris bonington visited brammah 1 6416mtrs in 1973 which hasn't been recorded yet and not even in last 5 decades..we wish climbers will turn towards this conical peak in kibber valley of kishtwar himalayas
The expedition was very bittersweet. Although they fulfilled the task, they lost a brilliant cameraman Mick Burke, whose footages are used here too. The tragic story is told 1:06:40. To the bitter irony of fate, the story is told by Peter Boardman, who himself was to be killed on the same mountain 7 years later with another skilled cameraman Joe Tasker.
