Only One Man Knows Who Climbed Everest First and We Can't Find Him 

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Fantastic story! I feel like this is precisely one of those videos that just needs you, your great mustache and the story to be complete. The jokes and the funny tone might be a bit overkill for this one, even though they've been perfect in other videos:) Please take it as a complement; you've become too good for your own jokes;)

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Might have known one of your hairy assed ancestors would have stomped on them with your giant boat feet 😂😂

Some Yeti's got all these photos of Mallory and Irvine in their cave laughing their asses off... And using Irvine as furniture... 🧔🏼🏔🥶🪑🤣

I have it from a reliable source that you guys can teleport.

Hello there master Kenobi

Well the Sherpa Monks might have climbed Mt Everest to meditat6or something. A lot of monks here prefer to meditate in extreme places so i think you're probably right.

I was thinking exactly the same thing, was just scrolling down to type it and yours was the first comment i saw lol.

@@modernstories8139 sounds like a monk thing to do lol

@Will King not it if it was 100s of years ago. India and the surrounding areas have been populated for 1000s of years. who knows, maybe someone somehow made it up there 3000 years ago. it would be lost to history

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"Fires" on all cylinders. Literally comparing to a smooth running piston engine. In this context a system, organisation, TouTube channel.

Agree, he is amazing.

Thoughty2 has consistently been by far and away my favorite RU-vidr for probably almost 2 years. My night gets so much better every single time I hear “Hey, Thoughty2 here”. And you said it best. He does not miss. The editing is unmatched as well, especially with the audio/music/FX. Incredible stuff my man. Please keep making content for us. You are the best. And you keep improving somehow.

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That actually wasn't Irvine it was a different British climber from the 1930's if I remember correctly (although I forget his name) Michael Tracy's youtube channel has ALL of the confirmed, realistic information about everything Mallory & Irvine, along with explanations for profit motivations for people to spread misinformation (and likely move the oxygen tank for the 1999 documentary search) 🤨

The Mallory claim is pure speculation, Hilary and Norgay were the first to summit.

@@Chasstful there’s literally no way you can know that

@@Chasstful first confirmed to summit and return.

@@ummyh5660 I can know it for certain because its true. We know Hilary and Norgay summited. There is plenty of doubt that Mallory summited. I believe the consensus among mountaineering historians is that its doubtful that Mallory made it. This is mainly due to very primitive climbing equipment available in the 1920s. The maker of this video is overstating teh Mallory claim.

@@Chasstful sooo you don’t know for certain😂 that’s basically what you’re saying

Biggest pain in the back side

Literally chilling as well! 🤣

@@DrWhoFanJ chillingly dead

@@TheFagerlund A proper deathly chill! 🤣

Like when Robert Falcon Scott at last attained the South Pole only to find Roald Amundson's tent, abandoned there month's earlier.

@@automaticninjaassaultcat3703 I actually would love that!!!!

@@riaranta3150 can I come too?

You guys need to get up that mountain! If anything happens, I'll call your folks...

TheLastScampi yeaah boy!I live in nepal if you wanna climb contact me

Shit I’m down

Sherpas don't get enough credit for all they do to help expeditions happen.

So many have tried and failed. Apparently it's so cold in winter that entire teams make it to the base camp and turn around because they can't deal with that level of cold

@@TheBlackAxe1 I know. Edmund Hillory (I know I spelled it wrong but I can't remember the right spelling) would not have made it up Mt. Everest without Sherpa Norgay.

@@jamescooke7243 K2 is a crazy mountain to try to summit from what I've heard.

@@aprilrichards762 it is the hardest In the entire world. If you watch videos on the climb it's terrifying and beautiful at the same time. From camp 4 to the summit it's the most beautiful climb in the world in my opinion

Still a few mistakes in there

Thats not true noel odel describe where they were seen this is misinformation your place in

The third step didnt existed was not familiar in 1924 was not recognize Mallory saw that he will go ether the rockband or skyline

@@veliborvasovic7833 You have no idea what you are talking about

I used to believe that due to the Hilary Step being improbable to climb up for Mallory & Irvine without the ladder, that he didn't make it but Michael Tracey has changed alll that for me. Basically they didn't go that way, Mallory himself ruled it out from previous reconnaissance? Tracey has climbed there himself and his timings based on departure time & Odel's sighting, plus other arguments (the planned route with 2 options included), seem to suggest that they summited. They also used oxygen, the photo was missing, and they perished because they summited too late. A lot is said about the camera, but in Tracey's opinion the camera is irrelevant. These were no glorious amateurs, they were experts of the day. They had decided that if they got to within 200m they'd complete the climb no matter what. They took the risk and they knew the risks.

@@hullcityafc72 yup. Tracey's commentary, revelation I would say, on the so-called "second step" statement from Odell (that never happened) put everything into perspective. Whenever someone repeats the "second step" narrative, I know they haven't actually done any research. Don't particularly care about the subject, just pushing content.

Like Ricky Bobby's dad said, "If you're not first, you're last." Although, to be fair, he was high when he said that.

Or it's just in swedish, because, you know, Ikea is a swedish company.

@@bigsmall246 r/woosh

@@alfredorotondo wow such sophistication. Many impressiveness.

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Probably a guy with an amazing mustache.

thoughty2 watched it first actually

His editor would see this first actually

I too have grown up with the image of Hillary as a national hero. I don't care if he or Tenzing was first, I'd rather believe that they made it together. I'm also at peace with the idea that Mallory and\or Irvine made it, I'd rather believe that Hillary and Tenzing were the first to be able to tell the story of the journey

yep, i was a bit gutted.. but it still stands even if he wasnt the first, he was the first to make it back alive, which in my mind is a successful climb. dying while doing it isnt very successful in my opinion.... either way, its not like us NZers to worry about sharing.... the steapest street in the world for instance.... its a case of cool, someone else had the same daft idea hahaha

China poaches NZ waters and conservation reserves, killing whales, fish stocks and environments, china steals from our GDP aswell through the fakeing and adulterating of NZ manuka honey and other products .china is responsible for alot of the methamphetamine that's coming into NZ as well so yeah please everyone boycott China and it's products as much as possible

I wonder if Alister MacLean had Mallory and Hillary in mind when he wrote 'The Guns of Navarone'. The main character is a NZ climber with the name of Mallory.

@@ahorsewithnoname643 guns of naverone was by Alister McLean wasn’t it?

Im no expert, but perhaps the rope burns could also be because of the "2 man climbing tecnique" used in the second step

Thats not true if someday the tru show that Mallory reched the top its over with Hilary and tensing

@@veliborvasovic7833 If? Your dreaming. Fact is H&N got up and back. All else about M&I is pure speculation that will not and cannot ever be confirmed or denied. I have my own opinion. I believe they made it.

That premise is very disrespectful of the effort that people who died up there made. "oh, he didn't come back alive so it didn't count". Like, dude, that person was for a couple of minutes at the very tip of the world, does it not matter to you?

@@javierortiz82 That's just stupid and wrong. It's your own bias. It's a well know statement in the climbing community. stfu on things you know not about.

I like to think Mallory & Irvine were the first to the top, but the 1953 expedition were the first to return after reaching the top. Would still make the 53 expedition a first as they lived to tell the tale.

His oxygen pack could have emptied over the years. This happened almost a century ago. The only way to truly know if they summited, is to find Irvine and his camera, which even if they do it, the film would probably be ruined.

I've read a lot on this subject and I'm quite certain they never did find either mallory or irvines oxygen pack. The 1999 expedition did recover a oxygen cylinder that was used by mallory or irivine high up on the NE ridge. Nothing has been found above the second step which is disappointing because if they could find a bottle they'd know that they made it at least above the second step. I often wonder if they stayed below the NE ridge and climbed the Norton Couloir. It would be great if someone would find evidence that they climbed either route. It would be even greater if the camera was found and it held proof they made the summit.

No, you’re wrong. He was NOT found with “his oxygen pack” and all it takes to know this is watch the clip from the expedition that found his body in 1999.

@@ihcman9130 i wonder if its because everyone's looking in the wrong place. they never had any intentions on climbing the steps, instead their route was to go around it and up the Norton couloir. i read something which contained a possible location of irvine. there was a picture that seemed to show his body somewhere in the yellow band,.

@@ihcman9130 Mallory himself said the 2nd step was impossible.Mallory also wrote he had found a sure fire route that he was certain would take them to the top. Everything, including the two attempts before, was build up to the final climb. Mallory was an oxygen skeptic till he saw the total novice Bruce climb so quickly. He immediately dropped his prejudices and realised oxygen was the way. As noted, Norton produced an altitude record 4 days before M&I left for the summit taking the couloir route, now named after him. It's hard to argue Mallory would take the ridge AFTER claiming it was impossible and AFTER Norton had gone before and been so successful. Norton even claimed the route wasn't that hard. They just went without oxygen.

That's how it works now. Green boots is a popular place to stop and rest because of the guy frozen in his sleep wearing green boots. Body retrieval is almost impossible at that height, so they leave them.

@@jflanagan9696 this may sound stupid but can’t they just drag him of? Like actually grab them by their feet and drag them on the ground. This wouldn’t be very respectful to the corpse but I feel like it would be possible

@@oliviervansuchtelen9928 i mean, you can throw something off the roof, it'll get down. Isn't very nice or safe

Now we just have to press on towards Kinky Boots.

@@jflanagan9696 green boots isn't there anymore, according to people who have summited since 2016

Each trip up would cost that of an expedition.

We will go to mars before that for good

@@SLA-yo4is lmao what

They’ve already done it. You go in a big cylinder thing with wings then look out the windows when you get up in the air.

Even if it was theoretically possible to built an elevator that tall it would never happen because rising to that high in a short length of time without acclimatising would kill someone. In airplanes they have to pressurise the cabins so that people don’t die going from the oxygen levels at ground level to 10’s of thousands of feet in just minutes. When climbing Everest there are multiple camps people need to stop at. Not just to rest but quite literally to acclimate to the the levels of oxygen. So no. There never will be a quick transport to the top because it would kill people.

That's weird. I just described Thoughty2 to my husband as similar to Vsauce. Then I saw your comment two minutes later. But you were the first to say it 😁

Somewhere between vsause, Simon Whistler and Tom Scott

@@Laffy-ix5xy Plot twist: Your husband doesn't know vsauce is a YT channel and thinks you just described another man as some sort of perverted liquid.

Haha

I cannot tolerate VSauce, it's not just that he's soylent it's also how youtube keeps trying to force me to watch THE EXACT SAME VIDEO ON TIME OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

One extreme to another.

Really? Take a leak and smoke a cigarette nearly 30,000 feet above sea level? So how is it his piss didn't instantly freeze (along with his pecker) as it came out, and how could a cigarette draw enough enough oxygen to stay lit?

@@davidanderson_surrey_bc you can piss on everest, do you think climbers just wet themselves?

I believe Mallory & Irvine made it in 1924 being the first to reach the summit. But I think the 1053 expedition also have a first as being the first to summit AND make it back alive to tell the tale.

This may be a dumb question, but how sure are we that natives from the Nepal region had never done it centuries ago? Is it just impossible without compressed oxygen (it isn't, some people have done it), or impossible with low tech gear? Or are most corpses found up there identified as being recent and not really old, and could age of corpses even be identified based on the conditions? Would centuries-old corpses even be discoverable or would they be buried?

been

Sunglasses well and truly tucked away in his clothing. Was dark when returning. Last seen 2pm, well before nightfall. Also did not have the picture of his wife onhim which he intended to leave at the summit. So fascinating. Edit: Watch the sodding video first.

@@juniorballs6025 Another explanation for the missing photo is that he could have died first, and Irvine took the photo with him to try and fulfill Mallory’s final wish.

They found the body from what I know, and it was found in a location where he either just fell short of his goal, or died immediately on the decent shortly after summiting.

@@giusepperana6354 Thanks for the “been”. I am not great at proofing. I am overly self critical and if I read something I write I usually end up deleting instead of posting it. I know it is messed up. Thank you, u were polite. Have a great day.

One of the 114 books he wrote whilst in prison...

Kane and Abel is another great one.

That sherpa was the real mvp in Mr Mallory quest

Jeffery Archer Tory sleaze. He wrote that book from a prison cell. Total scumbag!

@@stevenb427 never knew, and I love his books! ☹️

Not really. Climbing it first is the achievement. Only salty second potential second climbers think otherwise

Yeah this is what hillary said when asked about if he thought mallory made it to the top. Which to me is really rude in my eyes making it to the top is the achievement and if he did make it and died on the way back that's more impressive.

@@archiem591 no it's not lol. Reaching the peak of a mountain is only getting halfway through a climb.

Bollocks

@@TDMFAN REACHING THE TOP FIRST IS THE GREAT ACHIEVEMENT.

Точно.эти парни были до конца вместе

I’m sure there were many , before white people

@@jacksonbryan_3252 u are sure ?

@@jacksonbryan_3252 yeah maaaaaaaan

Many people in the region belief the peak of the mountains are a home to the spirits / gods and you shouldn't climb up there .

Kind of a pompous statement - they probably went up there and died cuz they didn’t have the right equipment

Take a few analog Leicas, Polaroids and a GoPro just in case.

Narrator: he wasn't.

If you find him, we'll release a dozen hounds in your honour.

Take your time.

People who never mountain climbed have summit everest. For $50,000 a outfitter company has pre fixed line rounts and sherpas to carry your stuff.

Actually wool is one of the only materials that will still insulate and keep you warm even when it's wet. That's why wool socks and wool hats are essential items for emergency (everyday, low-altitude) hiking packs.

@@Ninnybrothargument aside it’s not really very wet up Everest anyway. So even if there were problems as weight when the coats got wet they wouldn’t be wet climbing Everest as it doesn’t really rain but snow up there. It’s sooo cold that any moisture instantly freezes. So the point on getting wet is moot.

Dude everyone calls him 42. He even said it is a play on words for the number 42 from one of his favorite movies.

Ha true I'm in Britain just said it lol

@The Ghey Mantis now I feel like watching how I met your mother

People in London wouldn’t pronounce the T

The number 42 is especially significant to fans of science fiction novelist Douglas Adams' “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,” because that number is the answer given by a supercomputer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”Sep. 10, 2019

But is natural erosion taking away some of that centimeter, or all of it and more? Just a thought.

What rubbish, the fall at the top of the world several years ago means it’s not as high.

@@chrisbraid2907 Are you saying there was some rock fall from the top of Everest, or what do you mean,"the fall at the top of the world"?

@@chrisbraid2907 sorry to offend. It was just an observational comment. It doesn't change plate tectonics though. Did the the peak fall off or something? Must've missed that in the news.

@@user-tk5fi1my5i erosion can't take away all. It's too cold for rain so wind would be the main culprit there and I would imagine that it's minimal since it's pretty constant. I've just always thought it was interesting that the most mountain ranges are continually rising. The Appalachians were formed when pangea was formed about 500 million years ago. It's taken that long for erosion to bring em down to where they are now and they only made it as high as the Alps.

That wasn't "another mission". It was the mission. That was the reason given to Tibet to get access to the mountain. Of course, the British Alpine Club was desperate to be the first to climb Everest. Britain had lost the race to the poles so they were determined to conquer Everest, to the point of sabotaging anyone else attempt. Mallory could care less about the rocks at the top, he just wanted to stand on them. But they were suppose to collect rock chips at the summit. The 1999 expedition goal wasn't to find Mallory or Irving but to find the camera. When they found Mallory it was a shock and they weren't sure what to do. There was no camera. It's unsure if a through search of Mallory pockets were made for the rock chips or if they determined his fall line and searched the fall line. They state climbers had been all over that area. Yea, but did they search the area?. Well no, is the answer. When your climbing at that altitude you not taking a step and then scanning side to side 10 feet. You looking down at your feet, trying to breath maybe looking up now and again. Most of time you could climb right by a F-150 pickup double parked and not know it. The Camera: - It has been questioned if Mallory actually had a camera. There pretty certain Irving did, but Mallory. The story goes that Mallory and Irving were leaving Camp 6 for the summit try when Mallory stated he didn't have a camera. At which point Howard Somervell gave him his camera. The problem with this story is; there is a known picture of Everest taken with that camera. So did Somervell change out the roll of film and then give it to Mallory? You can't do all of that with gloves on. So Somervell took off his gloves and changed the roll of film in his camera and then gave it to Mallory. Or this never happened. To solve the mystery. Ask the Chinese where they put Irving and what artifacts they recovered. Which is the same as eating the yellow snow on Everest. Everest was only 1,000M high when the Chinese were in the same room with the truth. Return to Mallory and do a scientific examination. Determine and search Mallory's fall line. Search the fall line. I don't know if anything of value can or would be found on the search line but it a case of doing thing properly and completely. Find Irving and do a scientific examination. Would this solve the mystery? I don't know. Might be a waste of time, just like climbing Everest.

You are responding to a content creator who has no idea what he is talking about, spent 5 minutes on research.

And before bed too. It makes me sleep well 😅

@@Robski18 playlist on in background, sound asleep in 10min 😅

I wanna jump off with a wing suit

same goes for Gagarin and Sputnik-1

@@verhvouvim1518 no one cares about Russians

why him specifically? He wasn't there alone

As a Briton who grew up thinking he was British I agree, like he said, there's no success in climbing it if you die in the process, I'd rather him and Mr Tensing keep the plaudits.

Yeah what if we applied the same logic to jumping off bridges. "why did he jump off the bridge to his inevitable doom?", "well, apparently they said something about it being there and just jumped".

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b_rvs13QkOg.html

I think you'll enjoy that dude^

@@InsanePorcupine you too

Lol ye it’s kind of like saying “why did you jump from the cliff without a parachute” “ because (insert name) did” personally that’s not a valid reason to risk you life. 😆

He's hopefully gonna say his name and break the jinx

Yeah that's how this channel works something cool and intellectual and then top 10 anime deaths of the last year

"Meet the man who tamed Cornpop with his big chain"

@@spinningspin6053 Perfect

Because it's there.

Not a chance

Three problems (at least.) it takes an expedition just to get to the mountain. It takes technical equipment to climb, that the locals didn’t have. And finally, before westerners showed up, Sherpas didn’t climb mountains. They just didn’t. They considers it stupid and pointless.

Maybe they summitted but I kind of think that for a mountain to be counted as conquered you also should get back down safely.

@@eemelilounela1212 ~ you make a great point! People shouldn’t be able to claim the summit if they don’t make it back down. How does that saying go…. Climbing up Everest is optional, coming back down is mandatory. 5ank you for those great words!

i agree, i personally believe they made it up, but success would lay in getting back down. Dying is not success

You make an excellent point Cheeky. If you read my comment, I kinda was pretty close to your theory. Except, when I watched the whole video of Mallory's body being found, the rope certainly appeared stress broken to me as opposed to knife cut. Pointing to one or the other attempting to belay the other. But you could certainly be right. It's kinda speculation at this point. Cheers

@@revmo37 ~ hmm, another great point. Conrad Ankler was the person who discovered Mallory’s body, and I hope I have his name correct, but I will have to watch again to see if they had an opinion on the rope. This mystery will live on for years. I don’t know if we will ever know what truly happened. You are making me think! Thank you!

There's also that notepad they found on his body. Since he'd apparently been writing entries on it as he went up the mountain but didn't write anything about reaching the summit, that leaves two possibilities. Either he fell to his death before getting to the top, or the sun was already down when he got to the top and thus too dark too see to write.

there is also the argument that to summit a mountain requires a safe descent.

RedXlV his fingers would have been too cold to write anything most likely

Good point, Wait What! The wind could easily blown the photo air of his hand!! I had never thought of that!

There is actually no argument there, if you get to the top you have done a completed a summit. Its just better if you can talk about it afterwards. ,

Ed Viesters, who climbed Everest ten times, several times WITHOUT supplementary oxygen, always had a rule, getting to the top is only half the job, getting down is mandatory! He was famous for knowing when to stop. If it was too dangerous, he refused to try against the odds. He knew survival was the most important factor....

It doesn't count for who summited Everest first though...which is the whole point.

Laika the dog is remembered as the first living being from Earth in space, even if she didn't make it back alive.

@@jeffwang6460 It's weird, but you definitely make a good point. Most, not all, but most, people consider survival secondary to "winning", being first, etc. I wonder if that is a universal concept, or just among certain societies. From the videos I've seen on the space race, the Russian space program felt their astronauts were expendable, a little too expendable, in my opinion...those photos where they just airbrushed out all the ones that didn't achieve their objectives is pretty chilling...

If it was the moon instead of Mount everest. You would still pay more attention to the one who stood on the moon first, even if his rocket exploded on the way back. But being the first to make it back alive is an gigantic achievement in and of itself

It has been done... with no joy.

I think the 1999 team had a medal detector but it was one of the climbers out of his assigned search grid, eating lunch, who glanced at what looked strange. After lunch he went over and discovered Mallory. I believe they need new technologies to search Everest. Like a tethered gondola that can float just above the surface of the mountain. Under the gondola is an array of sensors.

What will that worth a bean to 2 dead resins ?

@@bernardliu8526 what?.... If they did actually make it to the top and photographed it then they died knowing they accomplished their goal. If they did accomplish said goals then they absolutely deserve the recognition and their family deserves to have that recognition. Those are all just what ifs and yeah they may be dead but it would still be nice for the living if we did find that camera to see if they actually made it or not. Why would you not want them to get the recognition they deserve IF they did make it to the top regardless of their current living status.

What are the odds that if the film is found and successfully developed, they'll see a picture of the two of them, being photobombed by a yeti.

@@TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou My point was obvious - dead people cannot experience a scintilla of joy, nor sorrow. I will, however, grant you that their families, if the found and developed photographs can prove their ascendancy to the summit of Mt. Everest (a fantastic name!), will feel much vicarious pride.

Agreed...there’s basically no way (at the moment) to know if Mallory and Irvine made it. Even if they do find Irvine’s camera, his film is intact and it shows them at the summit...they didn’t come home. It is what it is. Hillary and Norgay were the first.

In reality, its very likely that some of the sherpas who live in the region had climbed Everest, before any westerners even attempted it. The sherpas ate known to climb up with western climbers and not use oxygen.

Still if they made the peak, they would be the first to make it up there. Norgay and Hillary would be the first to return. Both amazing feats.

@@seanlane1051 Extremely unlikely. You need special equipment like oxygen tanks, special clothing, crampons and ice axes, most of which were not common with Nepalese or Tibetans

@@seanlane1051 That’s actually true. Legendary mountaineering locals...of course some of those guys took a hack at it. It doesn’t make sense that they wouldn’t...

I'd like to know, why can't people go back and look? They left the body there, didn't they? Or were they careless and threw things out of the pockets as they searched?

@@toomanyopinions8353 they fumed it but never released the film. Someone who was there admitted that evertine they rewatch the tape it makes them cringe. It was a botched search as they were only interested in one thing - the camera

@@toomanyopinions8353 It's not a for sure that Mallory even had a camera.

And lines of dead for what matters

Piled is an overstatement. Do a bit of research beyond mainstream media

They're mostly real estate developers looking for new opportunities.

Like Disney World

Free Solo is a great film!

it 25 now

@@Vsm4969 ok but when i was there there was only 1

This will be the title of his next video.

THE VIDEO WAS PRIVATE, EiNsTeIn

Either somehow the video took 2 days to upload, and he used the comment function during the uploading process, or like someone else said, it was private. However the official youtube channel is 50 years old, so it could just be another youtube fuckup.

You can schedule your publish day and time for videos

You can set youtube to when your video goes live.

Nouche: If Mallory reached the summit alone he would most likely have taken the camera with him.....that's why they took it.

Irvine now sleeps with the frozen fishes.

Nah I think she was called Candice

Honeymooners!!!