Mount Everest North Ridge Climbing Route in 3D 

I’ve recently been watching mountaineering disaster videos and documentaries and I can’t tell you how happy I am that even though you got to 8300 meters you knew your limit and turned around. So many lives were lost due to Summit Fever and I’m over the moon that you weren’t one of them. You had the sense and mental fortitude to turn back and reach your goal a year later. Summiting is optional, getting down alive is mandatory. So so happy. ♥️

Thanks! This really made it easy..now I can take climbing Mt Everest off my bucket list.

My neighbour has a shrine to himself for climbing Mt Everest. He paid $25,000 to a company who planned the trip, cooked his food, carried all his supplies, arranged lines and placed new ones where needed. There were dedicated photography/video sherpas awaiting him at key points. There was a guide to follow him closely during the ascent and a sherpa that carried extra oxygen just for him. Tents were pre-erected at camps. He had very little climbing experience before hand. The photo of him on the summit is 4 feet tall at his house. He also has a water buffalo stuffed in his house. He paid a hunting lodge in Africa to take him out to shoot one. He accidentally informed me he didn't even have to get out of the Range Rover. Crap like this doesn't count unless you do it yourself. There's a line between adventurer and tourist.

So good to finally understand this visually.

Loving this in 2023. Congrats on getting that high!

The summit is labeled "half way point." I laughed and was like, nice joke. Then I'm like, oh wait that's right because you have to go back down lol!

I was feeling very weak and the wind speed was very strong, my fingers were starting to freeze and it was all not very nice so I turned back. I returned this year and reached the summit - you can read more in my blog - the website link attached above.

And can you believe that one of the major expedition companies now does this in 32 days? And I love the inclusion of Lisa Gerard & Hans Zimmer’s “Now We Are Free” as the North Col approaches.

Well done on getting into the Death Zone, turning around when you did and getting home safe. Congratulations on an all-round superb effort. And nice vid too btw.

Hi Ricky - well done on getting to Camp 3 also! I really struggled in 2011 as got sick with HAPE earlier on which I never recovered from all expedition. I went back in 2012 and reached the summit on the morning of 19 May. Good luck for your return and thanks for the comments!

You are for sure a very smart and educated climber and a disciplined one too! It is very easy to lose focus up there when you’re so close. All too many times, people who get that close will opt to push for the summit. It takes discipline and the knowledge of ones body to know when is when. Great video and I hope you make it to the top of the world, as climbers like you deserve that moment, and it’ll come if it hasn’t already been accomplished! Good luck and stay safe!

This is one sensational video. A must see for all that love mountains and the "Mother of all Mountains". Everest!

Man thanks for making this video. I don't want to risk my life simply for climbing a mountain - watching a video of it is all I would do.

This route looks less terrifying than going through the icefall on the south side.

Ok been there, and done that. Thanks. Doesn't seem that tough. LOL

you can sense your exhilaration at having achieved the 8150m mark and one and the same time your utter crushing disappointment and longing to have gone on to the summit - those 3 steps look very nasty - like sheer rock face covered in ICE - you were FAR from the summit still even though it seems like you were "close" the actual effort required to have made it there would have been tremendous - nice video

The south route simulation is much easier to read. I couldn't read a lot of the markers on this one. I also wish a lot of this was speeded up. Four to five minutes for a video like this is good. Nine minutes is pushing my patience way too much. I ended up skipping through a lot. Just a friendly technical critique. I do appreciate what's been done here.

Beautiful video and music! Congratulations on successfully reaching the summit on your next attempt. I'm glad you returned to give it another try.

Between camp 3 and the summit there’s something like 20 bodies, and down the cliff face beneath the steps is the rainbow valley. Called that due to the different colors of down suits scattered across the valley, lots and lots of corpses: something like 150 on the north side

Thank you for helping me contrast the two routes finally. I mistakenly thought that a north face attempt required climbing up the western ridge and got confused by the mistaken belief that the steps 1,2, and three were only used by the south face climbers. but now clearly see that both approaches converge below those steps, referenced so often on the southern more common approach videos. thanks for taking the time to teach people with this video about such a magnificent part of our world. your awsome.

Thanks Laksman and all the best for your dream!

Agree! K2 is one of the most Technical Mountains to climb. Let's not forget Nanga Parbat. But I do agree that that K2 and everest are different climbs for sure. I was just making the point that, man, everest is still a very hard mountain.

You chose awesome background music...exactly what I would have chosen...wow! Last of the Mohicans

It i expensive to climb Everest by any means. Think in the order of US$40- 80,000 dollars depending so much on which route, and what style you climb in. Its easy go start climbing. Go find a mountain and start heading up it! You can only learn by trying. Or take an Alpine experience course which are available in many countries around the world. Good luck!

The first song is the version of "The Gael" recorded for the last of the Mohicans. For another version look up the one by the Hot Violinist on YT.

Hello Mahamad, It is very tough to walk, climb, breath, even sit and tie your shoe laces at high altitude. It is fantastic to have big dreams, but I would suggest you take small steps on your way to your goal. Gain experience mountaineering and also progressively trekking or climbing to higher altitudes first. There is many commercial teams who you can join up with which you can find on the internet. Good luck and have a wonderful adventure!

Hello Tom - I used google earth to create this flythrough. You can email me or contact me through my website mentioned at the end of the video to find out more info! Thanks for watching and commenting!

unbelieavable how a human being can climb that mountain, 27k feet plus? i wish i could meet 1 person who climbed Everest. Nice music, i keep coming back to watch it from time to time. it's my favorite!

Epic music, epic route and epic work to reach last camp!!

the music makes me feel like im actually doing the journey!!

Beautiful film n beautiful music...loved it

absolutely mind boggling! Incredible is the word. Thanks.

Thanks! music is a personal choice but I like find these songs very appropriate for this particular video :)

wow...I mean you were close! I'm sure the rest of the way was extremely hard to climb, but you looked close to the summit. Thanks for sharing. FULL RESPECT goes to you and your team.

Hi there and thanks for the message. One of the songs is from Last of the Mohican's actually. Regards, Axe

"The Half Way Point"...still have to go back down. Incredible...

Awesome! Amazing those that climb Everest! Hats off to all the climbers around the world!

Hi Jodie, I just saw your channel. With the challenges you face then climbing Everest would seem so difficult I think. You seem very brave and very talented at making video's as well! I wish you all the best Jodie and thanks for dropping by. Axe

Wow! Thanks for that, I feel a bit closer to knowing the journey you & other amazing climbers take!

awsome - loved the 'mt everest - half way point' :) hopefully will be there 2013 or 14 depending on my money saving skills ;) next week io'm off to anchorage and mckinley!

2022. Brilliant.

Just WOW!! This is FANTASTIC!! Yes, I had to shout that. I have been absorbing everything Everest for days now and have not gotten a real feel for what these climbers go through to climb (and camp) until watching this video!! Now I can go back and make heads and tails of what they're talking about with references to the different areas, parts, difficulties, altitudes, etc. and understand much, much better. Thanks so very much for this. Any way to do the same video but slow it down some? Especially from camp 4 to the Summit? Also, everyone mentions the heights and hours it takes to climb them, but never in terms of miles. I'd love to know the difference of miles between given points, since sometimes climbers are walking across and not up, its difficult to translate just from feet heights. Again, thanks ~ this is going to make watching these other adventures much, much more interesting!!

Nice idea - a little difficult for me to do this with Google Earth as I was using the fly through option, will play around with your idea for my next video's!

Hi Steve, thanks for the nice comment!

Absolutely wonderful

I like these videos a lot. Didn't care for the perspective swaying back and forth in this one, though.

Beautiful and awe-inspiring video... I hope some day to make a trip there, even if for some reason I cannot make it to the summit.

man congratulations to me you are a hero for getting that far

Nossa, esta rota é só para os fortes corajosos mesmo. Parabéns aos alpinistas que se arriscam nesta natureza solitária. 💪

Stay at home .away from the Everest. I was a member of cleaning this Queen.

Hi Banger, thank you for watching, your nice comments I and glad you enjoyed it!

The walk to advanced base camp is long as all hell for the altitude. Wow

Fantastic animation!!!

Pretty amazing. I read all about the '96 deaths; they mentioned the southeast ridge route was over crowded and that contributed to the deaths. There were only three expeditions on that day, probably less than 35 people attempting the summit on one day. Now I see pictures with over 200 climbers trying for the top!! WTF is happening to Everest???

Love the Last of the Mohicans music.

One Day I will see you Everest. Thanks for sharing this great video. It made easier to understand. :) It seems like that from bingeing to Changeste Base Camp I can ride my dirt bike.

Amazing Video - I really love to follow all the way through. Thank you for posting this !!

That looks easy. I think i can do it.

Thanks for the wonderful video. Interesting to see that most of the way there is no ice or snow. However, i read that north side of the Everest has usually bad weather.

Whoever made that orange line was drunk! LOL!

I may take a week's vacation and give it a go!

Excellent music choice.

Increíble, ver toda la subida al Everest desde el lado norte sin nieve.

Cool brother Grant, glad you had a good time. Ill go there after I am done here.

Hi Jody.You should not fly directly to the basecamp of Mt Everest, because this is already very high at over 5000m. You will get altitude sickness and could die within 24 hours if you try this.You need to climb slowly to basecamp over the course of a few days to let your body acclimatise to the lower and lower oxygen. There are two main basecamps, the south side and the north side. The southside you need to walk to, the north side from this video where I climbed from you can drive to.

Kindly find any music by Brian Eno...🎵 Allow the Mohawks and Cherokee have their OWN music film....

Hello Tuco, I have not climbed by the SOuth Col route, but will attempt to make the same thing for that route over the next week or two. Stay tuned. Regards, Grant.

Que largo es el itinerario estar allá es muy diferente el clima, la pendiente,y la temperatura sólo para valientes gracias por mostrasnos la ruta y conocer más de la cima más alta del mundo, saludos de Arequipa, Perú.

Loved it. Just wish the printing was a bit larger at key points but definitely thumbs up and well done.

Peace! Thank you. Splendid. Regards.

It rots that your high point was crushingly just below the ridge that would have afforded you views as good as the Summit. Still very cool

On the North side, you would drive to base camp from Khatmandu through Tibet, stopping to acclimatize, else you would pass out. From the South side, most fly into the world's most dangerous airport in Lukla, then trek in from there. You need to get a permit. Lowest is probably Asian Trekking, but it's really risky without sherpa support, you basically just get a permit and climb on your own for around $9k.

It’s not that Mt Everest is huge, it’s just humans are so delicate and small. Ants are not that much smaller than humans, yet they are a 100 times stronger. Humanity is very small!

Holy Crap I knew it was a long hike just to get to the base but wow that was pretty far. I know I would never survive the climb but this tour was cool. Thanx for posting.

brilliant. Just read 'into the Silence' by Wade Davis, and have pictured this route many times in my head. What are the two pieces of music playing? And which motion picture used the first one? Read the above book. You will not be disappointed.

Agreed with you on that. It's no walk in the park, for sure. They say try breathing through a straw as you climb the stairs for a while.

The south route looks like it has much more gravel and snow free sections. Has anyone ever gone up one side and down the other?Is it the highest mountain? I have heard that the Andes stick out farther from the earth's center ergo its highest mountain is the actual highest on the planet. Also if you consider the vertical height from base to summit, Mona Loa has the greatest distance from top to bottom.

Thank you Lyudmila! I had to translate your comment into English using Google translator!

These videos are absolutely amazing, I LOVE them. I think I've seen them all at this point. If any more come, I'll be first in line. Memorable, and I've watched several of them multiple times, including this one! One thing I'm wondering, and I hope someone can answer. It's true for all Everest routes... this map-video shows "start of fixed ropes". And on the most common route, there are even ladders. Now, please don't misunderstand me: I understand climbing Everest with ropes and/or ladders is still an incredible physical feat well beyond even the wildest dreams of someone like myself, or almost all Human beings on this entire planet. It's still amazing! But... um... how do I say it without seeming like I'm detracting from this incredible physical achievement? I guess I can try to distill it to a simple question: is it still possible to climb Everest without using pre-fixed ladders and/or ropes? And the followup questions: if not, why not? If it is possible, do people do it? Is there some difference in the prestige granted to those who climb Everest without using pre-fixed ropes/ladders? Is using ropes/ladders fixed by people far in advance REALLY climbing the mountain, even as difficult as it may be? I'm so sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone. I'm amazed by this, pre-fixed ladders/ropes or not. But I've asked some of these questions on other videos about Everest and never gotten an answer. Maybe I'm lucky, since perhaps these questions seem offensive or dismissive. I honestly am AMAZED by anyone who could climb any 8000m peak even PURELY by pre-fixed ladders/ropes, even if they had a magic catcher that would ensure they lived no matter what. It's an incredible physical feat, as I've said. But I really want to understand the full implications of the ropes/ladders fixed by those who've come before, what they mean in terms of the gravitas of the climb, and so on. My desire to seek these answers isn't about lessening anyone's feat, nor even agrandising anyone else's feats. Just as a complete ignorant who knows nothing of these matters, it just strikes me as bizarre and unknown. I ask as someone completely ignorant of both climbing and mountaineering, and I hope that the sincerity of my questions might result in a forgiving response without taking offence.

Bless all you climbers & keep you safe but truth be told I would rather be on a 2,900 ft. Mt by myself than there with all those people

Great video. Superb music.. Can you share the link of music used in video?

Simple wow. Let me grasp courage to try my Everest journey

Sick video! Ive been looking for something this detailed for a while! Thanks!

I love the North Col route!

congrats Grant - it's an amazing feat of fitness, endurance, courage and determination. My hats off to you. I'd love to do Everest base camp (and I think I'd seriously be pushing even going that high ASL to be honest), but unless I lose a lot of weight and get very fit, and win lotto, ain't happening.

Hi Laksman, The route with the highest probability of success is the traditional route from the South Side. I made a 3d flythough of that route also which you can see on my video channel. I am on facebook so you can find me there also :)

I was there this summer 2019...and l told myself....SOMEPLACE there must be a G0D..........or supreme Love

Wow, why is base camp so far from the mountain? I expected it to be at the base of Everest, but it's somewhere near Ipswich.

Thanks for a great video, very interesting and informative. Congratulations that you reached 8350M.

Imponente, Desafiador, Misterioso, desejado por muitos! Com Vida Própria. Seu nome: Monte Everest.

Also, let's not take away anything from anyone who climbs Everst! great video and congrats!

Fine business . Thank you for your time !

I'll be damned if this isn't the fucking musical score from Gladiator.

Jody, there are no permanent human habitations at the basecamps of Mt Everest as at 5000m this is to high to hang around for too long as there is too little oxygen, its very cold and hardly anything grows up there to eat. You can trek up during the climbing seasons (or drive on the north) to get some great photo;s though. search 'axe on everest images from everest' to see my favorite photos of everest.

The music in the first half is the theme of 'The Last of The Mohicans.'

I know nothing about climbing, but enjoyed this video for the way it clearly showed the route being taken to reach the summit. Given that, it looked to me as though the climb to the Changste Base Camp was pretty straightforward, but from there on was very difficult - perhaps more so than the southern route. Is that a fair assessment? I'd have preferred larger captions - found these very hard to read quickly and this distracted me from watching.

It was actually 8350m - thanks anyway Billy!

Where's the Yeti?

Wow. Your high point - good for you!!

We did it gang! We climbed the bing one.