Last Unclimbed Ridge · Chris Bonington on Everest 

Love these old Everest documentaries. Back when Everest still had a sense of adventure about it. Instead of the absurd circus it is today.

Man! No sherpas , no ropes and ladders to guide and help them! That's real and raw climbing!

These classic mountaineering documentaries are priceless. Thank you for sharing them! 🌄

When I just googled the name Chris Bonington I was expecting to learn that he was frozen on a mountain somewhere. I'm happy to say that today in October 2021 he is still alive at age 87.😁

This is the absolutely the best best film of climbing on Everest and a tribute also to the yaks animals and their keepers who enabled it.

A very good description of worry and grief on the mountain - the veneer of normalcy seated thinly over a monstrous terror. When I was young I first came across the peculiar writings of HP Lovecraft, the first I read being “At the Mountains of Madness.” That, coupled with my Dad’s penchant for camping on fire roads deep in the Wallowas (back in the 50s) left me with a deep fascination for climbing as a metaphor for surmounting unconscious fears. There was a stark flash of that at the end when they confront the mountain massif knowing fully that their friends had been lost to it.

That is one brutal Route for sure. Chris Bonington is a great Mountain Storyteller and is still alive and well.

Don’t know how Snow finds these but I always look forward to them

Thanks for posting this. When I trekked to Kanchenjunga Base Camp (north side) a few year ago, I was reminded every day of Peter Boardman's description of that trip as "the most beautiful walk in the world." It also made me think of where and how he died, which I found quite saddening.

Joe was a lovely man,, fond memories off him I was only young but he had patience to explain things,, he also had a little equipment shop once in hope,, now gone sadly missed

Great documentary, this one. I think there's a little bit missing from the end - it's very hard to find it these days. RIP Boardman and Tasker, true legends..

When I get a notification of David Snow I break my neck to sit down and watch it because I know its gonna be good..thanks for upload 👍

I am reading now Chris Bonington' book "The Everest Years" and it has been so far a great experience. This one expedition is written in full details, and it must've been a grueling task for all those men. Pitty this movie doesn't go all the way to the end, so if anyone knows of another full version I'd be very grateful. But thanks for uploading just as we have it. Cheers!

I really appreciate videos like this that showcase amazing people doing amazingly difficult things. When I was younger I used to love going climbing and hiking, but now my body just isn't cut out for that due to a connective tissue disease. Thank you for making it so I can live my dreams vicariously through others, and have these sort of 'experiences' even if I'm not able to go out and do these things myself.

Yes!!! Thank you for so many excellent uploads!!!

Love both men, but I've always been fascinated with Peter. I always felt so sad when they never were seen after their summit attempt. Thanks for the upload

Many Thanks again for your time and dedication around these videos.....👍👍👍👍

These guys are Original OG's digging a cave in the snow drifts. Now that's how it's done.

I also read the bonnington book talking about this attempt and the loss of tasker and boardman and now to see the video is quite amazing

Having read Chris Bonnington’s book many many years ago, this was one video I had to watch. So sad that Pete and Joe passed on as they did. RIP. I think Doug Scott tried the NE ridge some years later without success - but he knew when to quit. Wish Joe and Pete could have done that - quit at the right time. I believe, This ridge still remains unclimbed in alpine style.

Fantastic documentary RIP Joe & Pete

Great videos all !!! thank you.

This channel is a blessing!

Thank you Mr Snow. Incredible and beautiful ridge/approach. Wonderful filming and showing the steep slopes. I think there must have originally been more at then end of the documentary...

Thanks David for all your hard work with these videos, really appreciated

This channel is legendary.

Fantastic documentary,legends everywhere

Back in the glory days… Before people paid $65,000 to be dragged up Everest by a group of guides and Sherpas.

Interesting video. I enjoyed their reminisce chat. Hard to watch going up 24, 26 and on to 27 thousand feet without oxygen. Also poor Yaks the load they carried so sad. I was amazed at the caves of ice they dug sort of like Igloos. I like to google the mountaineers mentioned on a story; see their faces and know about them, I googled Peter Boardman and saw a photo I wish I hadn't. I really admire all these men/women they give it their all to conquer a dream. Rest in Peace here these brave men: Peter Boardman and Joe Tesker ✝

I like to throw these videos on in the background while i relax and take a little nap but 6:59 said *NOPE NOT TODAY BUDDY* 😂 made me almost jump out of my seat

Those Yak herders are the real deal. Respect.

good doc.

What a cliffhanger

Pete was found in 1992 between the second and third pinnacle , just sitting on a rock . One wonders what those last moments were like . You just fall asleep and never wake up . Exhaustion is not a trifling matter .

amazing footage. transfixed.

A long time ago at exactly the right time and more or less by chance I came across a book called Savage Arena. Genuinely, it changed my life.

Those tough tibetan and the herds of yaks is a beauty to watch beside mother goddess.

i've never been recommended something uploaded 6 minutes ago

Thanks Mr. Snow ❄️ 🙏🖖🏼🤟

You are in the death zone way to long going that way. It is hard enough going the regular North col route and the second step is a exhausting climb let alone climbing the pinnacles. Get up and and down as fast as you can. Seems to me it was a little foolhardy attempt if Chris admits that Pete and Joe weren't that experienced for that route. Great video, thank you

That Bonington guy is a really cool cat.

Why does Chris Bonington seem to get so much more kudos and attention than everybody else? In a summit attempt, you should think that the mountaineers actually summiting the peak / trying to summit the peak should get most of the honour, right? But whenever Bonnington is involved - no matter his role - the headline goes: "An expedition led by Chris Bonington" - when reality is he is sitting safely and warm back in his tent at basecamp drinking a hot cup of tea, chit chatting with the rest of the crew over the satelite phone, while the others do the heavy lifting in the deathzone xD Examples: 1970 Annapurna Expedition. Don Whilans and Dougal Haston reached the summit from the south face, Chris Bonington led the expedition. Sure - he may have been the leader of the expedition, but the amount of spotlight he received compared to the guys actually sumitting Annapurna that day is wild. 1975 Everest Expedition. Successfully climbed by Dougal Haston and Doug Scott and two days later Peter Boardman and Pertemba, starting from western cwm going to the Southwest face. This was all Bonington in the articles despite not being anywhere near the actual peak.. Well played... xD 1982 Everest unclimbed ridge over the three pinnacles: Well, it is this video.. Chris Bonington figured out quite early that he didn't have the capacity to carry on for the summit bid (wise decision and he was 48 years of age back then after all) switching to a support role, meanwhile Boardman and Tasker being the stronger climbers carried on and later unfortunately died somewhere above the 2nd (not 100 % sure) pinnacle. If I were an elite mountaineer back in the days I would think carefully of risking my life joining a team of Chris Bonington knowing he would get all the attention no matter what xD

RIP Brave, fullish men, l do understand. 😙

Mr Snow where do you find this gems?

Amazing!! I have red almost everything involving Chris Bonnington and his boys, the british climbing legends who set the standards back then. And now its possible to watch videos from those expeditions here on youtube, one after another. This tragedy with Boardman & Tasker was a true loss who turned them into legends for all time. Thank you for sharing this video

Pete and Joe are both legends.

I need the story of him and his partner being left behind while climbing the ogre, broken legs and ribs, 6 days to make it back to Basecamp and when they arrived apparently they'd already packed up and left them assuming they were dead.

Thank you for the great video. Can anyone tell me how I can find the film, Bonington's Secret Mountain? I watched it once online but cannot find it anywhere. I even contacted Bonington's office with no results. I would love ot see it again.

Just want to know how the camera function there. Brilliant

09:43. Always wondered if the SW face was climbable. Would love to see footage of that expedition

Well done

But how brave you guys are

This reminds me of a Monty Python skit, staring Graham Chapman, mountain climber and member of the Dangerous Sports Club.

At KTM level, the yaks seemed ready to take off on a teasing run. Their relation with the Sherpa boys was like pals, time to time. They scared me, but seemed to grin, i thought.

I watched the 1975 video and then went out and bought the book for good measure, and somehow never heard about this later expedition until this most fortuitous upload. But the very first question that came to my mind was never answered. Previously bonington organized very large groups, this one went to the other extreme. What was behind the change in philoshopy?

He was forever on Blue Peter.....thats what I remember

the yak herders! 👍

From the good ole days of professional climbers, climbing the world's tallest mountains without a clinical commercial tourist expedition.

Interesting side note, Jim Bridwell skied to the north side of the mountain and met Bonnington and company, waiting but knowing it was over,

Read "The Boys of Everest" - fantastic.

So was it a storm ? Exhaustion?

Testing the high altitude boot and crampon, other foot in sandle...... I'd have trodden on sandle foot

Walking around with a flip flop on one foot and razer sharp ice spikes on the other at the base of everest just seems pretty darn reckless!!!! One slip and any hope of a summit is gone! Maybe worse!

I wonder if they made it to the summit?...

Appreciate the video & extraordinary climbers, support staff & yaks. There are always back stories that will not be told/ exposed. Must swallow the Chinese propaganda. Who destroyed the monastery that was found in ruins? From the Chinese invasion of Tibet & slaughter of the religious communities?

I forget which one but one of the bodies was eventually found at the base of a pinnacle some years later.It was just sitting in the snow leaning against the rock.

Chris does tell a good story but I'd rather just see him climbing and learning his technique.

Fried chicken, 1/2 burger and chocolate pie In my warm nest. Amen

I still can not understand how the heck Hillary withstood the rigours of the climb without all the equipment they use now!! He wore Wool!!! Now it’s Tourism on Everest.

The title implores you to find a new and innovative way to get killed!

Its strange to see that Yak is so docile. Its counterpart in US(Bison) cannot be tamed like that ever. Right.

Bonnington is a multi Millionaire

Nuts, crazy in the coconut. Why?

The audio is really bad for me

Why did they keep going up some then back down then back up?

Did they ever find their bodies?

Blinkers??

One of the most deeplysad events. I feel chris should have said no being the leader. I really feel that. Its not entirely his fault but then again almost is actually the way teams function. He should have said his feeling is the rule and unless you want to die then dont do this one now this way. After that hes done his job. He didnt say these things….

Climbing hasn't changed a bit since then!

i think Tasker must have found a crevasse and vanished between the first and second pinnacle

If you go to Disney’s Expedition Everest ride, in the queue, you can see photographic evidence of what happened to the rest. This also give off proof of Yeti existence.

What do ya mean UNCLIMBED??? People are literally building cities and towns all around Everest!

I'm gonna be first man to climb Everest in the nude 💪

Why is there a face in that guys hair at @37:43?...not only in this video but faces and people can be seen in the weirdest places if you stop the frame and zoom in on other videos. Sometimes the hair appears to be moving and alive. Not just the reflection either...

Such a pity that they didn't strap on a bottle of oxygen or two just in case! They rather modelled on Reinhold Messner's 1980 Oxygenless ascent without realizing the full extent of the long and tedious climb in the death zone of the ridge. Bottled oxygen was available for use at ABC.

Is it my phone or does the narrator sound ver scratchy.

Merhabea ben turkiyeden izliyorum Neden amma neden .gogle ceviri yok neden.

In the beginning when they talk briefly, that second dude talking in the tan t shirt is cute af 🥰🥰

Chris Bonington is the British version of Chuck Norris!

facing the danger right infront your of your eyes. Is it maybe playing with your Life and only thinking about yourself???

I find it amusing an most shocking, how Chris bales out when it comes to the glory of the climb , but yet hear he is t.v. an books at what cost the lives of many he made millions of people death

Decent but so sad

Not that many believe the Chinese made it. Their rock samples are not reflective of the top.

Really dated but interesting, imagine the locals being unaccustomed to 'Westerners in their brightly coloured clothing' these days? They probably outnumber the villagers in peak season now. This was old school mountaineering, not the tourist package sold today.

Yes great videos older days humans of real not like these fake people bucket listers like today

Seems crazy to not take oxygen while trying a new approach.

They tell you if you do fall off of Everest fall off the Chinese side- you'll live longer.

Yes without the sherpas

This documentary is veeery careful not to offend the CCP.

hes a bit of a posh sod “one this , one that” lol