The windiest place on planet Earth | Wild Weather with Richard Hammond - BBC One 

Apparently this is how my parents went to school

2:24 are we just ignoring how that thing went through the camera so smoothly without hitting it..damn

Imagine if a guy from 2008 had their windy mic with them at this place.

It's quite a remarkable place! I went hiking here back in September, 2006. When you start at the ground, it's like any other place in north east, pretty mild late summer type weather. Hike is about 4 miles and it's just amazing transition between those 4 miles (about 4000 feet elevation gain) from mild summer to extremely cold temperature with very strong wind.

They must have build this at night when the wind was sleeping

"seemingly rigid structures" shantiest fence i've ever seen in my life

The real question is, how they managed to build that building in that really windy environment?

My dad worked on top of Mount Washington back in nineteen thirty-eight and thirty-nine and describe the living conditions on the top of the rock pile as it's called he told me that many a day the wind blew over 100 miles an hour making it virtually impossible to go outside because of wind chill a friend of his by the name of uncas was actually blown over the side of the mountain and went down about 300 ft and live to tell about it

I love how he has to explain why it would be bad if his nose fell off

That one russian kids microphone the whole game...

In Scotland, we call it Tuesday

My Pops always told a story to me when I was younger about how he and an old friend hiked Mt Washington when a sudden windstorm struck-- blinding snow gusts out of no where. They barely made it down, and by that time my Pop's friend was almost completely snowblind. The combination of intense sunshine with the wild windy weather apparently makes this a truly surreal environment. Always thought Pops was exaggerating, but now I see he was actually underselling the whole thing entirely...

I'd bring a pair of wings and see where my luck takes me.

Can’t wait to see that one random guy with a Tank top sayin “this ain’t nothing”

2:33 whoever wrote the captions did a good job.

The station, the railing, the cement blocks: How did they build all this crap here in the first place?

"they decided to come with me because... they're idiots." lol

I can deal with the cold, however wind chill factor just takes the piss.

You know it’s windy when you need a camera man for other cameramen

When I was in Iceland in September the winds were so strong that people had to crawl on the ground. Walking was almost impossible.

A salute to the real unsung hero here, the guy who had to hold that camera still.

“My nose fell off, that would be bad because then i wouldn’t be able to wear sunglasses again!” -The single best quote in a documentary ever

I'm putting my PC there.

"Quick! Hammond, deploy your parachute.", said Clarkson.

Imagine building a comfortable house there that´s made with massive concrete and inside you have a cozy living room.

“They’ve decided to come with me well because, they’re idiots”

When you haven’t unlocked that part of the map

It can also be mentioned that Mount Washington is the highest peak in New Hampshire and also the second highest peak in the Eastern United States, just slightly behind Mount Mitchell in North Carolina... although Mount Washington starts out at a lower elevation therefore has a much higher vertical rise, so you know you are on a mountain!!!

The question remains... how did they build this place?

Richard Hammond: "Not windy, not windy, not wind-" *Flies into the air*

Brothers and sisters we are united once more by youtube's recommendation algorithm.

It now has the record for lowest wind chill ever recorded in the US -108

Imagine the workers who built it.. no easy task

Next time in 60 minutes: The darkest place on Earth. ”It’s really, really dark.”

The third cameraman was wearing shorts and flip flops

Fun note. The old original building there has massive ships chains over the roof chaining it to the ground. IT is now a gift shop.

The walls are frozen, they look like they're inside a freezer.

anyone else notice how the fence at 2:25 went and avoided that go pro perfectly?

2:35 James May - "Look what you've done to my bloody shed man!" if you know, you know

I hiked to the top. You get above the tree line. Wind isn't always there. However, I watched a front move in from Canada (thanks, Canadians) and it went from Sunny and mild to dark, cold & sleet. New Hampshire crazy weather there. About 200 yards below the summit, the Sun was out and the temperature was warm again.

I’ve walked up that mountain a few times. If you live in New England part of USA it’s a popular hiking mountain. It’s cold at the bottom and as you go up you put on more and more layers until you’re in torrential weather, then as you come down the mountain you take off mostly everything and at the bottom you’re in a tee shirt and shorts again and it feels like summer

In their demonstration I like how the small “house structure” was just barely held together with anything.

2:25 Satisfying how the GoPro fits xD

Having hiked up Mt. Washington several times, I can confirm that, even on quiet days, winds can gust past 30 MPH without much difficulty. If the day is already naturally a little breezy, hiking to the top is generally a bad idea and you're better off just leaving the last 1,000 ft alone. I'm not sure how the wind is so magnified at the peak, but it gets crazy. If anyone is in New Hampshire's White Mountain area, I'd recommend taking the Mt. Washington Auto Road up to the top. It's worth the journey.

small buildings that aren't even remotely planted to the ground. nice demonstration

Every teenager ever: "I'm about to take a walk... Outside"

I was blown away that the BBC reported wind velocity in miles per hour.

When I went there it was 0° with 70mph winds,which made it -30F. It is such a beautiful place to visit.

Y’all need to find better builders The shed and fence looked like it was glued together with white Elmer’s glue

Just imagine the amount of energy that place could provide with those wind speeds Edit: jfc I'm not an Engineer but I know it's not viable, hence the use of the word "imagine"

Who TF built that fence and shed during testing? Is it held together with paper stitches?

Recent new record wind chill of -108 F or -78 C set just a week or so ago. What fun.

I'm curious for what happens if you just jump in the air

Yo, when he was putting all his cold weather gear on with the wind blowing outside and ice frosting the inside of the door, I thought he was about to step out into the arctic or some place. And then, halfway through the video, they're like "on Mt. Washington," and my mind was blown, cause I've been to Mt. Washington. We went in the summer, so it didn't look anything like in the video, but it was still one of the craziest places I've ever seen. It took us more than half an hour to drive up there, stopping periodically so our car didn't crap out on us. I can't even imagine how the hell they got up there to film this. All the trees we saw were super old but super small, wizened pines which my brother, who knows about trees and had hiked Mt. Washington before, said were like that specifically to stand up against high winds. Once we reached a certain elevation, though, there wasn't much of anything but rocks, grass, and lichen. At the top, it was like a whole different world. Mt. Washington is the converging point of several different weather systems, and the weather would change every five minutes, going from sunny to totally overcast, to partially cloudy, to covered in a dense fog, to sunny again. The temperature seemed to change every minute too, and even though it was the middle of August, it never got over 65 degrees. We hadn't come to hike, but me, my brother, and my mother clambered down the hiking trail a ways, stepping from rock to rock as much as we could because there are so many different things that only grow/live on Mt Washington that a careless step could be an ecological homicide. We went until we reached an overlook, and just as we got there the sun came out, streaming through the broken cloud banks, with the whole world spread out beneath us. It was absolutely beautiful, and that day was one of the best ones in my life. If you ever get the chance, visit Mt. Washington, but only do it in the summer, because apparently this is what it's winter looks like.

Mom: “Go outside, get some fresh air.” The fresh air:

When I was an ordinary seaman in the Navy, the second officer of the watch thought it was a good idea to send me out in 80 knots wind to check the running lights. A few feet from the bridge doors, I blew away in the wind. If it had not been for the 50 cal mount, i'd be a goner today. It took the petty officer of the watch and the quartermaster a good 15 minutes and a big stick to get me back inside.

Is BBC telling me that Richard Hammond is heavier than a small building? 🤯

All i can imagine now is at 3:27 Jeremy Clarkson commenting: "It's astonishing that the smallest living organism in the world is able to sustain the world strongest wind."

"The windiest place on earth" me: oh boy I'd like to learn about this place and how the wind even got there in the first place maybe some other places that are windy as well the video: its really windy... *ends*

Imagine Going To Mt Washington On Friday It was -47 with a wind chill of -109 with winds at 103 MPH At There Peak Its A Whole Another Level Of weather There

I'll pay 100$ to whoever lights a cigarette in that place.

Fun fact They build this place by placing some kites somewhere else to distract the winds from attacking

My overheating pc: Is this a dream? Me: No, lets go

Also the coldest temp ever recorded happened on Mt. Washington Feb. 4, 2023. -108 F below zero.

Who built that shed? Jeremy Clarkson?

For some reason I kept expecting him to race some sort of vehicle...

1: How the hell did they build that building in such winds 2: That windscreen on the shotgun microphone won't do jazz.

"And the only way to demonstrate that is I'm gonna go stand in it" - classic Hammond

*Builds wind turbine there* *Immediately generates enough electricity to supply humanity's needs*

Gonna play crysis there on my Pentium 4 for maximum performance and cooling

Just think if he was there last week when they recorded a record breaking temp of -106 f

"I'd never be able to wear sunglasses again, and I want to" 😂😂😂

South Dakota had winds at 65 mph no problem. I woke up once and our backyard fence was gone... landlord thought we took it down.

2:29 That's how europeans see american houses.

It's a miracle that they were able to construct a observation deck in such weather.

For anyone who has never heard of or been up Mt. Washington in NH, US: It's a relatively small mountain at only about 1900 meters / 6900 feet above sea level. Now when I hiked Washington state's Mt Rainier, which has a height of over 14k feet, we parked at about 7k feet and hiked into glaciers which have ice year round. However, due to its location, Mt Washington gets a stunning amount of wind year round, and the climate can change at the drop of a hat. I've hiked Mt Washington a number of times, but one time in particular, we started our hike from the base in the early afternoon, and it was 85 degrees Fahrenheit. I brought a winter jacket and warmer undergarments, just in case, because I knew how changeable things could be. When we got above the tree line, the wind picked up considerably and it was 50f. By the time we got to the top, it was about 32 Fahrenheit and the wind was absolutely brutal. I'd passed a number of people who had turned back. It can, quite literally, be that big of a difference, and if you're not prepared you'll have to turn around. It's a beautiful hike, but you have to be ready for the weather to change dramatically. It can be well up into the 70s-80s-90s F at ground level, but close to freezing with high winds at the top.

Nature: How much wind do you need? Mt Washington: Yes

Put some windmill there so we don’t have to keep making nuclear fission

That makes me think the amount of effort has been to build that station there. Must have been a really hard job!

“You’re eyeballs could freeze” Yeah i think I’m good mate.

2:29 ok.. That is a REALLY rickety shed, a well built, sturdy shed wouldn’t be completely destroyed in 50mph winds

So your telling me he can jump off that building and fly

Now it not only holds the wind record, but the coldest temperature wind chill at -114 f. As of January 2023

Building: moves Subtitles: *bye bye building*

I bet Kite Flying in that town is considered a High Adrenaline Sport

Props to the cameramen who didn’t move an inch😂

My friend from Colorado scoffs at most New England "mountains", but she considers Mt. Washington worthy. I've always wondered about how tall it used to be. The Rockies and Himalayans are less then 100 million years ago. The Appalachians have been eroding for 440 million years! They have also been ground down by repeated glaciations. How high did it once reach?

Someone from the Midwest in America “It would not be so bad if it wasn’t for the wind”

americans will be dressed in shorts and be like "it's my right" EDIT: thanks to all the people that can take a joke!!! and something for the other people that decided to get offended: i hope that one day you will realise that not everything should be taken serious, jokes are jokes, humour is humour, no harm was supposed to be brought against any culture

"Brendon and Shaun on camera and sound have decided to come with me because... They're idiots." - Richard Hammond 2014

Mt Washington just broke the US Wind Chill Record @ -109F or -78.3C..."By Saturday at 7 a.m., temperatures had dipped as far down as -45 degrees, two degrees shy of the lowest ever, with a wind chill that made it feel like -109, a new wind chill record for the United States." - NBC News Relative to where I live in New Hampshire we experienced a balmy -30F/-34.4C wind chill.

Just for some perspective, the fastest wind speed ever recorded was 318 MPH during a Tornado in Oklahoma Don't fuck with tornadoes kids.

The most amazing part of this is the shed built without screws or nails.

I grew up 10 miles from there. There's a ski mountain right across from it called Wildcat Mountain and I remember in 1976 getting off of the ski lift at the top and the sign read, "Wind Chill is -70 degrees Fahrenheit". That's why they call what bank robbers wear "ski masks". Around 2004, I think, my brother called me in Orlando Florida where I was living on the Fourth of July and said he just saw on the news it was 0 degrees with 100 mph wind gusts. On the 4th of July !!!

Right now it’s -45°F with 101 mph sustained wind over there, a wind chill of -107°F, breaking the previous record wind chill for the usa which was -100°F.

That shed would have fallen over if a geriatric cat farted on it. That fence would have toppled due to a garden slug teetering on the edge

Richard: *puts everything on* Also Richard: I have to pee

How's his hat still on? I didn't see him button or tie it to anything.

Watching this in storm Unice Feb 2022 as Wheeli bins fly through the air.

awwwww.....I wanted to see a flying hamster =(