I Visited Mount Everest Base Camp 

i watched this video on a hunch and i stayed for the feels and the epic cinematography. I could feel the passion required to take such a huge step. It's an amazing journey, im glad i got to be a part of it, even if i just watched it and left my thoughts via this comment. But yeah nature has a lot to offer us, it's upto us how we take care of it. and how much we appreciate it. This video made me realize all of it, the beauty, the immense power and how powerless we are in the true face of nature. Kudos brother. Great job.

Wow this is truly amazing and thank you for sharing his story! ❤

I am from India and this video was recommended to me. Its my dream to climb Mt. Everest Base Camp with my father 1 year later. I am thankful for this wonderful video and sharing your enriching experience. Hope this journey has changed your life, and hopefully, one day, mine. Thanks a lot Luke! Love from India.

Great video. Hit all the right notes with respect to the locals. Love it. Very rare on youtube (maybe even in your videos for all I know - this was the first one I've seen). Keep it up

Hi! An Indian here! Fun fact: my school was the 3rd school in the country to send children to the base camp

Same thought.

It looks like it kind of naturally turned this way and it's awesome.

I hope Luke paid Phanden a fair value of money for this video

Same thoughts.

Agreed! Great job young man! Luv this!

It's about Luke's walk to Everest base camp.

He is so at peace and knows destiny. His calmness and respectfulness I love, and for himself now is family.

​@@Inaworldofloveyour name doesnt check out... 😂 Learn what themes and nuances mean

Very clever way to get the rights to a person's story without actually paying for them.

@@matijajuric5479 His name is I naw orldo flove

he made a choice that day to never be among those gravesites they passed by. for his family. may he live a long and peaceful life.

Also for a Sherpa that promise is to the mountain as well

@@JonoGT0 That is the most beautiful part for me - his closeness to Chomolungma and his respect to her. Feels to me that they have connected souls.

Well he had conquered 'Her' several times, even passions can wane over time

He has been up there. He knows what it takes and how lucky you have to be to come back down.

yes. but obviously people only care to go there and post on instagram. So nobody would click on the video if its about the life of a sherpa.

@@eduardochavacano agree

sherpas are wonderful people❤❤

Everest brings Nepalese wealth plus a Aspen Colorado ambience

I noticed too. ❤

♥️♥️

That’s awesome! He’s definitely a true athlete

You joined 4 days ago. This is your only comment

@@BBAERSTANCE1they may have created this account in order to comment here since they recognized the guide. That's the most likely explanation

@@BBAERSTANCE1 so what about it?

"spotlight"

Very true and very well said.

BEN AND LUKE 🐴🐴

did NOT expect to see benoftheweek here

As someone with millions of subs - Your attempt to create hype over this by suggesting why you don't know it is free is as cringe as it gets....

@@tipsysmichigander6483 chill it ain’t that deep

@@zerkalt190 If you felt the need to comment maybe you should chill.. And yes it is that deep. It's actually unbecomingly pathetic!

It’s common in Nepal “:)

Part of the business

Absolutely, it is like somebody's constantly hammering your skull. Everest tests you both mentally and physically.

Just moving your body is so taxing. Never been to Everest, but I just stood up from the couch to get a cookie from the kitchen, so I kinda know how it feels.

@@Bakkiepleuah lol, some days I know how you feel. Stairs are a pain as well

thats altitude sickness and yall should be more careful about it

I went as well, and if those headaches are that intense, you need to go down for a bit. Altitude sickness is dangerous and you therefore need to end up lower than the highest point you went that day.

Even this man who is well past his prime easily arrived at Base Camp appearing as a casual afternoon stroll for him. Extremely impressive.

worth making a fuss about though. 783 people in the USA have climbed it. there are more types of professions than that

​@@nicok8203 yeah, my orthodontist climbed Everest.

I have infinite respect for all the Sherpas, porters and guides for what they do, but the rich dumbasses who pay tens of thousands so they can cross this over in their bucket list are cringe.

@@nicok8203 They don't climb a damn thing the sherpas carry their bitch asses up and down it and all they accomplish is trashing up the mountain.

You have one of the most beautiful countries and genuine people on this planet. Stay proud

nice that slowly our country is getting more and more recognition globally. For such a small country, many people seem to miss it or forget its existence

real

You guys are putting up great content imo

@@tipsysmichigander6483 So, I see you commenting on every single positive comment, and I have to wonder what on Earth happened to you that made you this unreasonably negative.

if he posted more he'd get more views. He hasn't even reached 100k on this vid which is not a good sign

@@tipsysmichigander6483 dude stfu, look at your channel lol

You eloquently described what I was feeling when watching this.

and documenting it for him as well. it’s so beautiful

More than that. It was shot beautifully. It was intimate. It was real and it is now for ever or as long as the Internet lasts. Two or three hundred years from now a group o kids may be asked to do a report on Everest and one of them may watch this video and see a snap shot of these two people's life. It's a legacy.

Indeed! Nothing quite as good as travel 'vloggers' actually showing the world around them and delving into the details; the people, the places, and of course the culture

It’s the only reason I watched more than 3 minutes of the video. Me me me me!!!! I can’t take it anymore. Gives me some hope that a young person can still see the forest through the trees.

Love that comment

you found the words I was looking for...thanks for expressing how I too felt after watching. Respect.

@@jjsuggs4321same

@@jjsuggs4321n ur comment is what I wanted to say to the op commenter ❤

yall really overthink anything lol

@@daftfreak13 we just bein philosophical whats wrong with that

@@deekey33 VERY highly doubt that big guy. You sound hella goofy.

​@@daftfreak13we found the monkey brain

@@daftfreak13and u sound like the type of person no one wants to be around

Yeah, that was about people near the mountain, who really do the hard job around those who climb. That's astonishing that most videos start at the base camp and sherpas are usually just some people in the background.

They DO have awards. I forget what they are called, though.

No offense meant with the "kid" comment, by the way. Anyone mid-twenties and younger is a kid to me, but you'll definitely understand when you're older. 😂

@@jus10lewissr Hey jus1 - you should definitely watch his other videos - the ones where he is traveling - all amazing, well done in terms of story telling, editing, music, people. Some of my favorites are all rated high - his trip to Greenland (twice); trip to Mynamar (very moving); recent trip to Solomon Islands and China, his hitchhiking with a young woman in India (amazing); his trip to Pakistan that ended up traveling to the mountains to see the dark sky with his new friend - that was absolutely amazing! So many good videos - all great. But even his earlier videos back when he was in his early twenties or even late teens were good and showed his talent.

Same bud, subbed right after watching this...what a life!

I totally agree with your statement!

Luke Korns is a tremendously talented - and comes across as a good, kind and caring guy. I came across him accidently too about a year and half ago - and then went back and viewed his other videos - both recent ones which are amazing (see the one where he travels to Pakistan - very moving; hitch-hiking in India with a young woman; his trip to Mynamar; his two parter visit to Greenland, the first part was especially emotional given the high suicide rates in the town he was visiting; his recent trips to Solomon Islands and China - and earlier Lebanon. going to the Amazon and Morocco. In each case he focuses on the people - all of them people he had just met - and their lives, bringing to us their view of their world. Always well edited, good narration and sounds and music. Also, check out his earlier videos when he was in his early twenties (including his Spanish language ones when he lived in Peru and after he moved back to LA - hilarious and well done). Even in those videos he shows his talent that emerges more fully later when he travels.

Agree ,it was very humbling. I appreciated the energy of gratitude given for this whole journey & his Guide ,sharing his family his story

I also loved that he was so clear that he would never summit Everest again, some people might be tempted for just one more summit and we all know how that one last job can go.

Kasto zha? Theek zha?

​@@Mark.Sciguerranice try

Academic goals mean nothing, especially now. Get back home, I can tell that is where your heart and soul belong.

​@@graymcmic1419 😂🤦‍♀️

@@Chifuyaaaa What? Are you capable of using words instead of emojis?

Wow, thanks so much for this!

​@@LukeKornsget patreon your youtibe doesn't make justice

Will never pay for you tube haha

@@justinsmith4562 Paying for youtube is insane work lol

This! This is exactly why you get hooked on this videos! Lots of videos about this climb on youtube, but there is allways somthing in Luke's videos that just connect! And that is it!

I think that is why they stayed 2 nights in the town before finishing the hike.

Thank you, very helpful, will do

I hiked the EBC from Jiri with backpackers I met on the bus to Jiri in 1993. It changed my life.

AGREE

wow, I didn't even notice until reading your comment - what a full circle moment ✨

4:56 as well

Yeah I thought I saw him giving a gift there. Love that he's been successful in life and just wants to pay it forward.

Could easily be on The Travel Channel!

I love your videos

Looks like he brings RU-vid on a new level

Feels like Netflix doco! Amazing !

documentary like🎉

Uuuuhm

I can’t stop crying about seeing people destroy our nature

​@@N0N4M30 I bet, you have enjoyed yourself in a city, a seal of tarmac and concrete over NATURE before. Or do you even live in one or in a house? And for your house and street and electricity and plumbing a lot of nature was destroyed. Stop destroying our nature then! On top of that, your lifestyle choices like computer technology, mobile phone, food from (animal) factory farming, your car, taking a plane and so on destroys much more nature everyday and for much longer even into our future. So? ... And what nature does grow up there in this mountain area? Nothing - nothing grows over at those heights at 5000m! Bro get your shit together, throw away your computer and mobile and start living sustainable, off-grid in the woods!! You're comment is pathetic :D

hi Sahiniiiiiiii didi

So so true.

Brilliant. Well done.

Can you mention some of your favorite docs? I'd like to watch as well. Love these kinda videos.

@@legowtham I second this

This is so sweet, thank you so much fellow traveler!

@LukeKorns You are welcome Luke. I am originally from Sri Lanka but now I live in the US. Most of my travel now is limited to the US states but I hope to travel the world someday !

Or is he able to capture the profound and amazing nature of humans by his way of communicating and creating? He just sees the potential where most of us don't bother to look beyond surface level

You would be surpised how amazing everyone is, but few ppl stop to see it.

Travel alone forces you to talk with locals. In this case he went to lukla and prep there, usually you prep in Kathmandu..most likely how he got this amazing experience.

Ya he just met that guide randomly. Which shows he has an open minded sense of adventure allowing synchronicity to affect the story. So many ppl will just get dropped off at base camp from a helicopter. I feel like this kid has already a once in a lifetime experience of Everest thr

...through the mind of a legendary guide. Like he is unique in that his sheer will of intention had him apprenticing from such a legendary guy.

Much love and respect from Europe - many here wonder whether all this climbing business is a disturbance, but seeing anything about Nepal and the mountains is ever so intriguing This video just gives more reality than many climbing footage.

HOW is this free to watch… incredible dude

I felt the same! I was resisting crying the entire time...I'm not even sure why. I'm mainly struck by the kindness and beauty of this man and his wife. So gentle and caring of Luke.

tearing up with the rawness, the intimate look into Phanden Sherpa's life, music. Brilliant

same feeling. I want to be a filmmaker one day because of Luke

Always leaves us wanting more 😊

Put that hero in a movie!

Ok not just me then. I had the same thought. 😂😂😂

I hope whatever you are going through get‘s better, sending love

I felt exactly the same. Hope tomorrow is better for you.

I felt the same. Here's to tomorrow :)

I appreciate this from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.

Tibet is the other side of the mountains 😁

@@markmd9 It si belived that Sherpas are people once immigrated from Tibet and settled in the Khumbu area. So in a way he is right ;)

they are Nepalese

Sherpa are not from Tibet. They're originally from Nepal .

@@Feelstora08 Wikipedia says otherwise

I bet 5ths must have brought back awesome memories. I always wanted to at least get to base camp, if not climb. Chomolungma has been a life’s dream since I read the early stories of Hillary. Unfortunately I got a blood clot climbing, and two clots in the lungs. So I knew I would not be a candidate. It’s not as easy as some people think going above 8K.