Everest. The Death Zone. Documentary NOVA [12+] 

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1997 "50 people is way too crowded" 2024 "450 people is way too crowded."

Wow…glad everyone made it back. Well done everyone.

I can't believe this doesn't have more views, it's very informative. Plus Jodie Foster, who knew.

I love the Jodie Foster voice

this is a perfect example of how wrong wording paints the wrong picture: _the storm_ didn't claim the people, *they themselves* did this. they, 100% knowingly that this is no environment for humans, went there, it's not the "oh so merciless nature" that claimed their lives, but their own stupidity. Everyone needs to drink water or else we die. But if we put our heads in water we will die too, it's not the water that is "merciless" but our stupidity putting our heads there, knowing our body is not made for this. ps. edit: and yes, everyone can go there and do what they want but in a documentary about the mountain and human, the mountain should not be condemned and painted as evil when in fact it's the humans who WANT TO do this, noone is forcing them, in fact, I bet, had the mountain a soul, he'd be happier, would he be left alone. It's the ego of the humans and not "oh so bad, evil nature" who caused those deaths and it's time to take responsibility and not blame a mountain who did nothing to force them to go there.

This was extremely interesting!❤ I especially love the documentaries of the ascents from BC to the summit or even just ABC. Each expedition is different & interesting ... and knowing the team really helps in feeling like you're part of the ascent and all the hardships & dangers which are ever present from the start. I could never get enough of the Karakoram's 14 giants! ❤❤❤

It's obvious that climbing into the death zone is something humans shouldn't be doing.

They need to cut down the number of climbers waiting on other people is what's killing them

Nice and interesting video 👍🏻 I just love Everest videos pre year 2000. The tempo is slower, and I like that, the music is warmer and the logos and graphics are struggling beautifully in the dawn of digital video-graphics. And I learned that the brain volume is in play for high altitude climbers, didn’t know that.

Those crevasses scare the hell out of me. The Sherpas are amazing. RESPECT!!

I'm more impressed with the Sherpas than I am with the others.

David made the best decision of anybody’s life. I wish more people would humble themselves and do the same!

I can’t even remember those sentences now! No way I’d be able to repeat them way up there.

I pretty much lost it at 10,000 feet, which was a real surprise. My lungs felt fine, but my brain and legs just weren't working right. Of course, I was 54 years old and was only 4 months out from major abdominal surgery, so that may have played a role. Still, I don't want to try staggering around in Peruvian mountains again without either better acclimatization or some Diamox tablets. Or both.

I’m disgusted by the fact that people just leave their trash up there. No respect for our beautiful Mother and the gifts that she gives, these people should be ashamed of themselves.

Thank you ❤️

I just watched the movie Everest today. I have a book that touched on it BUT man what an event!

I’ve lived all my life near the coast with a max of 150ft above sea level. I spent 3 weeks in Texas at an elevation of around 3,500 ft. It didn’t take long to tell a difference. I could not imagine being that high up! So I’m just going to stay my happy behind down here at sea level!! 😂😂

Twice without O2 is crazy

Wow,,amazing stamina,,good team effort,,,astonishing accomplishment,,rip bro rob n others there

For Gods's sake: in most parts of the civilized world it's metres, not feet!

Now I’m curious about how they have applied their data as of 2024. Have there been advancements in technology that allow people to better acclimatize? This was a great insight into what acclimatizing is really like. Definitely not glamorous, or easy, and I have a whole new respect for people who have been to Everest. I don’t think people should climb her anymore though. It’s polluted, a sacred place, and people are still dying trying to climb. I don’t think Sir Ed thought that hundreds, thousands of people would be climbing after his expedition. I believe that there are many consequences that climbers have failed to balance and now the mountain/nature will become a balancing force that we cannot ignore. People need to show respect to this place so that generations beyond us can benefit from this learning experience.

They are studying things that are ALREADY very well established and documented in science. Odd!

Does hanging out in the death zone make you grow bigger balls?

sometimes when i run, my breathing gets away from me and i have to stop. when i train with weights, if i don't watch my breathing it will feel like i cannot get enough oxygen into my lungs. it is the most terrifying feeling in the world for me to feel like im drowning outside of water. why im terrified of water to begin with. the fact that these guys are going INTO an environment where the air is thinning the higher you go is fucking terrifying.

"The view makes it worth it.." you got me convinced now try yourself. Some people just don't get it!! Go Down!! Now!

I was in lake tahoe, my inital hike was too busy so I couldn't find parking.....parked at another spot, saw a sign that said its 1,000 feet down, in 1 mile, going down is a choice coming back up is a requirement. It was somewhere around 7,000 feet in altitude, I made it maybe and 1/8 of the way down the hill, and said this is good, coming back up that hill was no joke.....so omg at 27,000 feet it just insane to me. I understand why so many die.

General Hunt's 1953 Everest Expedition included a physiologist (Dr. Wilfred Pugh). He studied the effects of hypoxia and low air pressue on the body-and published his findings...nothing new here.

Leave the mountain alone

Stay off the mountain if you want to live

I have no idea how people summit without oxygen!!

Oxy meter + an MRI. Good job 😮

I get sick, only by looking at it.........

In First day of required college class physiology of exercise. All class members asked to lie down for resting heart beat, etc, measurements. 68, 75, 82, 86, etc until mine was 48. Old lady professor asked me, you don't own a car? You ran here today? You pretty much run everywhere? All true! So instead of studying all class, she made class study of just me! I found myself in Speedo laid out on raised table with 40 student teachers an instructor examining my every muscle. Nice compliment, She said I was made for Everest!

Was it not the decition of David to go up there ?.........

36.25 sorry, but this is INSANE also to your HEALTH and everything.......

God bless Ed he saved dudes life

It is crazy that someone ill would even attempt to climb Mt. Everest

I've NO doubt----------none at all--------that whenever climbers on Everest see a body ----------they think the same thing as do soldiers in war ; " better you than me ! " ------I know from my years in a Level 1 ED. Seeing people come in dead, or dying in our ED, I always thought that, though not out loud. It's normal & to be expected.-----MJL, 76 y/o

Hard to have any sympathy for anyone who dies up there. What do they think they're achieving? Sheer stupidity.. and please don't tell me I don't understand.

These tests are annoying even if done down here. Ridiculous.

I don't trust ladders on slippery ice in motion....I'll pass

When i'm guiding on Everest when we reach camp 4 i ask each climber this question if they cannot answer it correctly within 60 sec i send them back to base camp........" If train A leaves the station going 60 miles per hour and train B leaves one hour later going 85 miles per hour, how long will it take train B to catch up with train A "

These people are delusional ❤😢😂

In certain situations known to be detrimental to human life it is illegal for anyone to be in that area so WHY!! is this still aloud to go on.

I have a stupid question: why not building pipes upward the mountain bringing oxygen to the death zone?

??? WHY ???

They also have to go down....

Why what's the importance of this, ???

14:52 People trying to walk through the ladder knowing that there is a deep crevaces underneath. So my thought is why they don't put a plyboard or something like a ramp above the ladder as it will be easier to cross faster when compared to walking slowly step by step trying to keep your feet on the steps of the ladder.

There is a business just waiting to be born on that mountain. O2 TANK retrieval...

I don't see the point in any of this..

60% My God that's terribly low!!

They signed up for this AND they paid thousands of dollars for it??!! What were they thinking? It should be called the foolish zone or "you made a choice and we aren't coming to get you zone" Russian roulette not only with their lives but with the rescue team that has to come get them. Too bad those sherpas cannot make good money doing something else that doesn't put their lives at risk. C'mon climbers. Find another way to get your adrenaline rush and stop playing with people's lives. Smh

I don’t get the favinstion of it

yoooo

It just seems like mental illness to me. They see the terrible toll this hobby takes on their mental health and how close to death they are skating, and they LAUGH watching evidence of this on video? It is like Russian Roulette played out over months and years. Why are these people celebrated? I just don't get it.

We leave our crap everywhere cant stand people

Are these types of ladders from home depot, why always tea, no coffee, no hot chocolate. Climbers take trash from camp with you very sad

THIS IS NOT A CHANNEL TO SUPPORT. There's a comment below or maybe a dozen or so that starts off ....it's hard to have sympathy for people that died up here..... and in that comment theres a response from this channel talking about how pitiful the people's lives were the died....... Oh yeah boo boo something's pitiful but it ain't them. Thats so ugly. 😘

what's the point of training at sea level when you should be training in Colorado? Training just for ascent at sea level is stupid--you need to be training at altitude in less oxygen in order to master getting down the mountain.

It takes TEN DAYS to get to BASE camp?! I’m truly unable to grasp the size of this mountain. I’ve watched so many videos and nothing helps!

Small appendage syndrome

What about the cameraman is he sick

~17% chances of death.

It strikes me as so odd that White people are so proud of ourselves for doing what Sherpas can do much more easily; Congrats for functioning like a Sherpa grade school child, you Rock! I mean, I know it's a lot harder if you didn't grow up at high altitudes, but still.

Think I'll just sit in the nice hot 🥵 jacuzzi and watch these fools freeze themselves 🥶

No view is worth it

Hey, if I smoke don't climb, am overweight and old, can I still hire a company to summit me for $50k while paying Sherpas who risk their lives trying to support their families a fraction of that and throwing my junk O2 bottles away plus other crap? Pathetic

Everest - the TRASH Zone

Half this documentary is them checking each other bums...climb the mountain 🏔️ already

Mother, no it’s Elohiym (GOD) him. Females come from him. That why they call woman, man first 😊

2023...... 17 deaths

Unless you're interested in the physiology involved with high-altitude climbing, this is pretty boring. Also, if you have or are recovering from a respiratory infection, you shouldn't be climbing above 20,000 feet. Or, probably even a lower altitude than that.

Any doctor who encourages this kind of lifestyle, should NOT be a doctor.

This is so boring I can’t watch anymore.

Big deal... top of the world

A stupid endeavor.

It's been said before, the amount of trash shown in this documentary WAS disgusting. Meanwhile, AFAIK expeditions advertise with everything brought up there will also be taken down again. No clue if it's true but it better would. Whatʼs absolutely shocking to me is the fact that people have to walk by the dead. I understand it's apparently impossible to bring the bodies home, at least from a certain altitude. But why's nobody got the respect and decency to cover them in some snow, at least? This is what human beings do to other humans for thousands of years. At least if youʼve got a heart instead of a rock.

But can they shop ALL day on Black Friday?? I think not! 🥸