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03
2011
Mt. Everest South Col Summit Climb 2009
This video is from my climb of Mt. Everest in April/May 2009 with Summit Climb. Our team climbed via the standard South Col route and summited on May 19, 2009. The video starts by showing a major serac fall avalanche over the Khumbu icefall which killed one Sherpa and injured two others. It then follows our team as we ascend to the summit. I climbed the mountain for 7 Summits Cancer Climb and carried the team banner to the summit. We have now summited 6 of the 7 Summits (Antarctica’s Vinson Massif remains).
Video Rating: 4 / 5
They reached the summit on my birthday
JUST REALISED THIS VIDEO WAS UPLOADED ON MY BIRTHDAY!
YAY
Do climbers look out for their friends? Say of one climber was scared of heights, would the others support them?
I have no experience at all on Mountain climbing. BUT I ALWAYS WANTED TO CLIMB EVEREST. I’m only 14, so I think I can wait it out and probably train in Mountain climbing. But I will try and climb it one day
Hey guys I would really like to climb a mountain and maybe someday Everest. How do I start?
@Baileyprods the glory comes when you can make your profile picture the summit
@Bdktv32 got a treadmill?
@dnsveverest Good parts? It looks to me like the good part is actuly doing it. By my knowledge actually climbing the mountain sucks.
@wtficantgetausername There are two climbing seasons on Everest: Pre Monsoon and Post Monsoon. This is pre monsoon (April/May). In each season there are generally 5-10 summit days at best where the jet stream is not blowing right on the summit. The day we summited, was the first real day after the summit ropes went in and the day before was cancelled due to high winds so two summit day groups ended up being combined into one. We had about 90 people head out to the summit that day. New record
is it always this busy? like people all the time climb this?
how old do you gotta be?
It takes amazing cardio and endurance when your that high up… Man I can feel it at 7,000 feet trying to move around allot… I can’t imagine what 20,000 plus feet would feel like…. It’s impressive
I want to climb Everest in the future but i don’t know where to start
amazing video, im doing the north side route in 2 years time.. did you get any altitude sickness, and was there any problems that arrised whilst being up there, the video seems to show just the good parts, i see the avalanche, anything else happen?
look how much people are climbing, amazing
@777bigmick There are harder peaks in plenty of places and harder routes on Everest… this just happens to be the tallest and one of the two standard routes. I carried all my own personal gear, didn’t have a Sherpa, and was clearly not dragged up. That said there clearly are people who were helped up on some of the other teams.
Dont let anybody tell you this is easy, the most experienced climbers in the world get killed up there if the weather turns,everyone wants a piece of it to hell with the environment or the lives of sherpas,theres harder peaks in nepal at only 6000 meters if you really want to climb something and not just be dragged up.
amazing Video!!!!!
@weatkittens Thanks! It seems both a world apart from today and at the same time, just yesterday! Best of luck chasing you dream!
Hey man I know two years down the line and still getting it but congrats. I’m 18 going on 19 and I hope to stand on top of the world myself someday. Truly an inspiration in my eyes.
OMG!! werent u scared?!
i would if i were =_=
@Ps3Reviews40 The second step is on the other side of the mountain (different route) than I took. I climbed the South Col Route from Nepal.
did you climb the second step with the ladder ot not?
Id take a crazy carpet for on thw way down
@videoman892 The entire trip was 2 months to/from the US. The hike to base camp was about 8 days. When on the summit push after acclimating, it was 7 days round trip. On Summit day it took 13-14 hours up, 1 hour on top, and 5 hours down (helped with an emergency slowing return) for a 19 hour day.