Bonington's 1982 Everest Expedition with Dick Renshaw, Pete Boardman, Joe Tasker, Adrian Gordon and Charlie Clarke. Reduced sound quality due to age of video tape.
Thank you for the revist the world about us i remember it well was a kid then never knew what it was about .I Have read joes books about joe tasker and boardman climbing it sort of ties up the lose end's seeing it on video .
For me I have the holy trinity in heroes of worship in my unexciting unfulfilled life. Those heroes are the men & women who practice the 3 things that are the only 3 things I have ever wished to do so myself. Explore Space, Pilot a formula 1 car and to tackle the most inhospitable & in these cases, highest locations on earth. Forever in awe.
Taking into account Bonington's age at the time, it seemed quite a bizarre decision of his not to of attempted the unclimbed ridge without bottled oxygen. It's arguable even then whether he would of been successful or not, but had he of been, then he would of achieved something that no one else ever had. R.I.P. Boardman & Tasker.
Agreed. If only Bonington had climbed the ridge with the oxygen which he had with him at ABC. At least one of the expedition might have been successful
Heartbreaking….Peter Boardman is worth checking in to. Bonington thought it was impossible. Im disappointed that he said he only thought the thought. Not wanting to disappoint the climbers. So probably they would have tried anyway. Its only disappointing because it ended so wrong for two extremely experienced climbers. Later some years it was managed too so…..dont know what gear they had or the time of year….or the year for that matter
1988 Russel Brice and Harry Tayler climbed the so called "Three Pinnacles" without supplemental Oxygen, but had to descend after that huge effort the normal route to the North Col because they were too exhausted. 1992 another expedition climbed it, but they also couldnt reach the summit. They found the body of Peter Boardman after the second pinnacle on the Kangchung face side of the mountain and no signs of Joe Tasker. 1995 a huge Japanese expedition with 35 Sherpa porters climbed it to the summit with all way fixed with rope and huge amounts of supplemental oxygen. I dont think this route will ever get climbed complete without suppl. O2, too hard climbing, too long the time you have to stay above 8000 meters.
@@rolandofurioso5498 Russell Brice tried… no kidding. Huh. Thank you. Re Japanese with 35 Sherpa Porters and ample oxygen. I’m not a fan of oxygen free exploration. I do believe in exploration big time. I don’t understand how the two got entangled anyway. Appreciate this run down a lot. Even Trask and Boardman who are so admired should have known better and deep down I bet they did. Just sad as can be.
I just want to do this in Kerry ! No worries there regarding Altitude... Only 1000m above Sea Level. Some Decent Gulleys there if solo.. or an easy 8 pitch rock climb for 2. Just need a Blizzard !
14:00 Not Tibetans. CHINESE of course. Same reason as the empty Rongbuk Monastery and litter at the site. . The Cultural Revolution grabbed anything and discarded anything.
I really don’t get the , without the use of oxygen thing , it’s expecting the body to miraculously cope with things it’s not designed to , like thin air! Just asking for trouble in my opinion.
A huge dollop of male ego and summit fever mixed together! Zero safety considerations while the leader and his mate was circling Everest to try and see what happened!
@@dianamincher6479 ccording to fact that Peter remained close to the first pinnacle and Joe`s things were found after another pinnacle, Peter probably collapsed due the mountain sickness and Joe just climbed on until something happened to him (fall or something else).
John Castle is the narrator. They certainly took cameras to Everest in 1972 but will have to have a flick through the book again to clarify what they did capture.
I find it such a weird deal...there are these sherpas who dragg all the essentials for a safe, fed and succesful climb on their backs all the way up the mountain for the man who wants to make history for mankind, his country or himself while the true mountaineer, the true hero..the sherpa..is often not even mentioned after the accomplishment 😮
You do realize that they did sleep low. They had already acclimatized prior and that's why also they made snow holes went back down. It was also George Mallory in 1921 who knew and invented go high sleep low. You really don't have knowledge about climbing or our pioneers who invented climbing at high altitude. It was also George Mallory who released to use oxygen to reach the summit of Everest.
