Link Sar: The Last Great Unclimbed Mountain 

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4:24 looks like they had some help.

Sherpas are the shit and they want to work, they just need and deserve better hazard pay, life insurance and the agency to set some limits on what certain climbers expect of them.. they are like rock stars where they live. I'd hire at least one, just to support their economy and have some company and share the load.

A lot of them don't want to be in that environment and have to be involved in risky work just to put food on the table for their families

Without oxygen tank as well

so true. Also very little in the way of numbers- climbing grades, meters between camp, and so on. Even the hight of the peak was only mentioned at the end. I loved the focus on the experience in terms of the climbing, mountain environment and relationships. thank you for giving us a window into the journey.

Don't you like red bull and shout out to Arc'teryx

the thing i hate most about these climbing documentaries is fake melodrama bullshit. Just show me the climb. I don't care about anyone's girlfriend, mother, etc.

''lack of fake melodrama''. This video is just another alpinist melodrama super-climbing story being drowned in even more dramatic scenes.

@@hallo91209 there's a difference between telling a narrative with some drama, and spending 85% of the video interviewing people who aren't on a mountain, which is what most climbing videos seem to do.

Was not expecting to see Foresty here! Glad to hear you'll be in the States once the border opens. Agreed, this was a massive accomplishment and test of will.

The Link Sar peak is just over 7,000 m above sea level. Altitude is not the sole factor that decides how dangerous a mountain is to climb. This why Himalayan peaks such as Annapurna I, K2 and Nanga Parbat are way more dangerous and lethal mountains to climb than Mount Everest. Mount Everest has a climber fatality of about 4% of the climbers that reach the summit. Annapurna I has a fatality rate of just over 30% and K2 is almost 30%. About 1 in 3 climbers that reach the summit of these mountains don't survive and usually perish on their descent to base camp. The Himalayan mountain ranges are natural wonders that formed when the Indo-Australian tectonic plate collided with the Eurasian plate. (Strange how the Australian continent, the Indian ocean seabed and India are all moving northwards as one tectonic plate).

Did not expect to see you here!

100%

Ff, I got this by watching you. Thanks man.

Dude they made a video to show off how cool they are. It’s titled “the last great unclimbed mountain”!! How much more hype can you get! Either way quit your gate keeping. Trying to dictate what the “right way” is. Just let people do their thing and stop judging. How does living near the place give you a right to determine how others should experience the place.

@@colwem what. shouldnt you always respect the people and their traditions around you? so why dont you try and do this...

@@colwem because it is where he is from. ITS HIS HOME LAND! Just stfu martin i dont get who you are defending and why you being so argumentative. just watch the video and keep your shty opinion to yourself.

If people come to my country and don’t follow our customs and I have an issue with it I would get attacked for being a racist or xenophobic. But I guess it’s ok to act like this as long as you’re not white. More importantly, what traditions? This is mountaineering. Its a modern world wide thing. Not some ancient local tradition. This mountain is in the middle of no where. No local has ever had any reason to go anywhere near the top of it. So who the fuck has a right to judge anyone on how they climb it?

@@colwem Traditions are, that for us, our mountains are sacred and spiritual. We treat them almost like people, and I believe it's not okay for someone to come onto our land and disrespect our mountains.

waddya mean? I watched it all right here on RU-vid

Surrealism is for those who watch. Realism is for those who DO. Thank them for bringing this wonderful bit of men overcoming so much, and sharing some of it with all of us.

2 years of preparation, not 4

I can assure you it isn’t in the same ballpark of technical. Unless you see ladders, hammers and iron and what look like coat hooks sitting on microledges…you’re not Meru level of climbing

Hip hip hooray for rich white kids!

​@@marktalbott3835 Yes, because no accomplishment is worth commending unless there is a perfectly calculated level of diversity from some corporate board. Hater.

Yeah, next time they should drag a minority woman in a wheelchair up there to make it a valid achievement.

@@marktalbott3835 - I'm jealous, too! :-D Plus, you forgot to add relatively young AND HEALTHY. Conquistadors of the Useless are what they are, and so are those who live vicariously through their uselessness.

@@bruzote nice word salad dude! Did you break out your thesaurus?

Same

Three fcuking days to get down. 3 days!!!

@@frankpinmtl That hurt my heart to hear as well. These guys are amazing.

@@icejunki Can you imagine? They said they were on the mountain for 9 days - so six to get up there. Imagine you struggle that hard to do something no one has ever done, risking an avalanche to get there - then you need to risk another 3 days to get back.

@@frankpinmtl Alpine style mountaineering at its best.

The steps of jagged peaks going higher and higher at 7:16 made me laugh out loud, looks so crazily surreal.

I live near mountains but am not at all experienced beyond tent camping & foraging. Even when 40 lbs too heavy, I did a baby backpack trip years ago, and climbed an extremely low peak (low in hiking terms, we didn't have to hike more than 4 hrs, but it was in the Rockies so it was still a high altitude) in the Kootenai range - it's still a great thrill in my life history - looking out on some inaccessible valleys untouched by humans WOW!! I'd recommend a trip to the closest mountains near you, maybe research guided trips or talk to folks at outdoor stores. You definitely don't need to be a climber to commune with mountains ❤

Keep working homie you’ll get there someday!!!

Find your highest ideal of how to make the world a better place, and go for it. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail

I don't know if you climb already but if you don't just start, small hills. Do some courses and join a club.

There are millions of people who are motivated and like-minded but there are an insignificant percent who have the funds to do with these guys do. Scree them

@@garret8787 make the world a better place by jetting around with your parents money and sponsorships and using local labor with hardly any pay. Yeah that's making the world a better place. What a load of bollocks! 😂

I give 1 million thumbs up!

spoiler alert

Maybe climb a mountain yourself and make your own movie?

Im just sad that there are no more great mountains to climb

Love your videos Xander! Fancy seeing you here.

I love an epic orgre. ;-)

Bonington

@@bruzote thanks. Ive seen other strange spellings before and thought I was just confused. We are talking about the Eiger here aren't we?

@@lindapops The Ogre. Another peak in the Karakoram range.

@@lindapops The ogre is a mountain, also called Baintha Brakk, there's Baintha Brakk II too, another technical wall next to the main ogre

Never stop climbing! Keep the passion burning bright. 20k ain't nothing to put down, either!

I have never been mountain climbing. I live in Illinois, and the highest peak is a hill in someone’s backyard. We have not mountains. Being said, I’ve always wanted to climb. Some day I might. I hope I do. It seems like such a spiritual thing to do; not in a religious way, but a moral way. The sub culture of mountaineers can be breath taking.

@@amber_long Thank you :D

@@congruentcrib you are cool! I know its hard to tell if I'm being sarcastic or not but I truly am not.

@@jamesbee2006 ima hope you’re genuine; if you’re not, then I’ll pretend you are. I’ve gone boldering and normal rockwall climbing, but it’s always been indoors. Nothing with natural formation.

At around 2008-2009 Graham was in Canada climbing on Mt. Slesse with a local partner, while they were ascending another team of 3 were descending with one of the members of the team being a 14-15 year old who was known locally as a very enthusiastic/goofy kid in the community, he stated that he had to ditch gear behind over other issues they've encountered, conversed a bit and both moved on with their climb while they descended. Graham's partner remarked about the kid and how the local community saw him as and Graham replied with 'you will be hearing about that kid someday'. That kid turned out to be Marc-Andre Leclerc. Guess it takes one to know one

Jon, What inspired you initially to want to climb? Never been but curious.

@@lisaperry5999 well I am not experienced at all, but climbed that mountain when I lived in Kenya growing up, as part of a school thing. So as an adult I wanted to take my boyfriend to see where I lived, and we decided to make the climb to have an exciting challenge. It's an amazing hike with so much beauty. It's hard, but anybody can do it if you can run a few miles without stopping. So really accessible.. The last day is the only really tough part but it's never dangerous, at least if you take the Marangu route we did. In fact, there was a 70 year old Japanese lady and a paraplegic who both summited the same day as us too, amazing... Besides the natural wonder of the experience, it's really cool to know you climbed the highest peak in Africa too. You should do it! We just got lucky to run into Mark and his family on the way down. They are really cool people. That's another fun part is you will meet a lot of interesting people from all over the world along the way in the evenings after your hike for the day is done. If you want a suggestion on a superb guide I will suggest mine. facebook.com/nicodemas.gobre Tell him I sent you. :) His family runs a great operation and will ensure you have an amazing trip. They took us on safari to Serengeti afterward too. I highly recommend them.

@@jburchel Thank you for responding I am interested in watching for now. I have heard so many stories..but haven't heard why people want to climb the more dangerous mountains like everest,K2,ect. The $$$ and training involved in doing something you may not survive is intriguing to me.

@@lisaperry5999 yes it takes a special breed to do that I think! I watch these kinds of videos for the thrill but if I were actually THERE I would panic and fall off the mountain for sure... haha

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Ade re! Na’ se kala levendí!

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Our pleasure! 🙏

Nanga Parbat in winter

Due to thickness of air I am not sure how good it will be