Everest Basecamp – The Shocking Truth

Everest Basecamp – The Shocking Truth

I can’t believe the last time I was in thepool was in 2006 and back then I was here to make a film about a blind climber attempting to Summit The North Face of Mount Everest but that’s another story so on this one monthong epic adventure I’m going to go

To a place that I’ve never been before every bace camp on the south side when I recorded this piece to camera I had a story in my mind a script but by the time ID reached every space camp that script had been ripped up because what I

Found there made a profound impact an impact that I’m still trying to deal with and process even today this is my story The shocking truth about Everest Base Camp you know the expression Deja Vu well for me this place the Radison hotel in Catman do is Deja Vu on steroids because

In 2006 I spent nearly 2 weeks at this hotel preparing for my big Everest Expedition and now some sort of 16 17 years later on I’m getting ready for my micro expedition to Everest space camp on the south side cuz back in 2006 we were at the North side so it’s the South

Side here I come and the plan the plan is for today is to drive 5 or 6 hours to Rami shop where we’re going to spend the night and then tomorrow our plan is to get a little little aircraft to look like air strip deep in the Himalayas and

That’s going to be an interesting flight I’ve done that a few times before and I’m really looking forward to that um it’s got a bit of a reputation but it is what it is and I’m looking forward to it and that’s the plan so I’m so excited that you’re going to be

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Off the Rison hotel in Catman cat so normally most flights leave from cand do but because of the recent demand the airport simply can’t cope so this occasion we took the 5-Hour drive to the small air strip of rashap so we’ve arrived this is it this

Is Rish up this is our this is our first camp for the night it’s quite a good drive really it was about 5 hours bit bumpy but would you expect nice to nice to get out a camp man dud nice to experience bit more fresher air and blue

Skies instead of the haze of cand do so um I’m guessing the plans are sort out our individual tents sort out our bags have tea biscuit maybe and relax and it really starts to feel that our adventure is beginning these are the tents we’ve got permanent sort of tent

Village and um what you may have worked out already is that I’m not doing this trip Alone um I’ve actually bolted myself on to to an existing an existing trip uh led by World Expeditions who’s been doing this kind of stuff all over the planet for decades

Um you know what why do that I mean I I could have organized it myself and and found local guides and and porters and everything you know you can do that but it’s a lot of work um and probably in the end of day might might work out more

Expensive so so on this particular trip I have decided to just like I say bump myself on to an existing trip so joining me on this trip are four friends Julia and Alex and they’re actually film students of mine Marty who’s a film making friend of mine and a good old

Friend called olle and olle is a super warm friendly guy and it is great to have four friends with me on this journey this is it this is all going to happen now now so probably another half an hour I love these little kind of airports these little kind of more

Runways really bags check Security check ready to go ready to go to Luca our guide on this trip was a man called rining sherper he was arguably the best guide I’ve ever had his knowledge of the local environment and the culture was incredible but most importantly he was a warm and friendly

Guy when you jump out watch this is a really really good fun I I love little aircraft I just find them so funky and uh obviously sitting right up at the front is even better you can watch uh watch our Pilots so one of the things I’ve been telling my friends about our

Expedition would be the flight to Lua because it’s got a bit of a reputation a reputation of being one of the most dangerous flights in the world and that’s primarily because of weather and flying through Cloud especially with massive mountains either side of you also the landing at Lua airport is very

Very challenging the runway is about 30% too short so to compensate there’s a 12% gradient to slow your flight down and Lua is part of Edmund Hillary’s Legacy to the sherper people obviously we landed safely but with a very short turnover around of about 10 or 15 minutes our flight had

Refueled took off again flew back to ramash up to pick up the next bunch of hikers so we’ just left Lua and uh we’ve just now officially beginning to enter the national park and there’s an entrance fee to the park um which we’re sorting out at the moment it’s a way of

Collecting local Revenue because Nepal is you know it’s a poor country by default and so you know it helps when tourists come over to this region they contribute towards it so I have no problems paying money to go into a national park and what a national park

It is there’s also a police station um where they can check your bags because one thing that you’re not allowed to take into the national park which frustrates the hell out of me as a filmmaker but I do understand it and that’s a drone um they really do not

Allow them so if you are thinking of coming and doing in your own adventure leave it up behind and I guess primarily the main reason for this is because while we’ve been waiting S 5 10 minutes for the paperwork to be done already three helicopters have gone overhead and

There’s a lot of air traffic going along so you know flying drones with helicopters in the air and light aircraft isn’t a smart idea it is frustrating because you know then you get the stunning photography but at the end of the day it’s not allowed and obviously safety comes

First so the distance from Lua to ever bace Camp isn’t that far you could probably hike it under a week or so but because of the altitude you have to allow for climatization your body has to have time to reproduce extra red blood cells and that’s why our trip took so

Long as it did we had to acclimatize to be successful this first day is going to be really easy we keep on stopping at these beautiful little tea houses and just sitting and chilling and enjoying the beautiful sunshine cuz today we’re only trekking for 2 hours but bear in mind we

Got up at 4:00 in the morning so I think the first day we are entitled to a nice relaxing day but I just I just absolutely love Nepal I just I don’t know it feels like it’s a spiritual home for me and know sounds a bit sort of a

Bit sort of veryy fairy but it really does I absolutely adore adore Nepal welcome to day two woke up stunning views of the mountains around us and we’ve only just started we’re only still really almost in the high Foo Hills at the moment um don’t if you can see the

Beautiful Peak behind me I’ll get a better shot on my nickon in a minute but the plan for today well we’re going to walk to oh hang on a second just as I’m talking it’s another helicopter and this is another example of why drones not allowed in the national park

So if you are thinking of coming please don’t bring your drone because they are back and forth the whole time so anyway what was I saying um yeah we’re going to mjo it’s about 4 and 1/ half hour walk um we take it very very easy very easy

Which I really enjoy cuz the means I can also film and then we get to mjo we’re same kind of setup as you see behind me with the little green tents and um we’ll spend the rest of the day doing whatever we want to do but I’m really looking

Forward to exploring more of the kumu valley for me Nepal is a special place and one thing that makes it special is the Buddhist culture that the country dwells on when you Trek in thepool you’re surrounded by beautiful prayer flags and prayer Flags represent Earth fire air and water and the physical and

Spiritual soul and those prayer flags are everywhere also when you track you come across sters small Buddhist shrines and that also embodies the Buddhist culture and finally you’ll be constantly surrounded by stone tablets and prayer Wars and written on those stone tablets and prayer wheels are the Buddhist chant

Om manip padm home meaning Jewel of the lotus flower and it’s those things that make trekking in Neo or experiencing neol in general so special well this this is the end of day two this is mjo and uh We’ve walked about 4 to 5 hours it’s about 8 kmers

Give or take um it’s been it’s been good it’s been very easy we’ve taken a very very slow pace as we climb altitude which is very very important to climatize um but I’m really looking forward to tomorrow and then beyond of that because then we reach namshi Bazaar

The home of the Shera people in the kumu valley because everything before NAMI and in fact including Nami has become quite westernized and has has catered For The Tourist but once we leave namshi we’re going to be heading out more into Wilderness and for me that is what I’ve

Really come for to experience the high Himalayas when you say the word Shera it’s massively misrepresented most people consider the word Shera as a porter somebody who carries your bag and that is simply wrong the sherpers are an indigenous group of people originally from Tibet but now live in the high

Himalayas a sherper is like saying a Welshman um a sicilian or a kazak they are a group of people not a porter so we’ve just entered sagasa National Park now sagasa is the Shera word for Everest of course Everest is the Western word named after its surveyor George Everest but for the

Nepali sorry for the Shera it’s sagata and we’ve now officially entered the main National Park and from here on in it’s just going to get more beautiful more Scenic and more open as we head right up into the high Himalaya via namshi Bazar namshi Bazar is the home of

The sherper people it originally was a trading post but now its primary income is supported by people like me trekers and hikers who pass through it heading off to the high passes of the Himalayas we’re just coming up to one of the stunning bridges that crosses through the kumu valley at an altitude

Of 2935 I mean there are many bridges of course and without them our trck would be damn damn almost impossible but this one is going to be stunning absolutely stunning and we’re only 2 hours away from namu Bazar ah these are so these are so wobbly but they’re perfectly strong but

You do bounce a little bit especially in the middle and especially when you get like a a pony or a donkey using it as well so um and of course you end up with the inevitable traffic jam hi it’s funny a lot of the trickers that

Come down all seem quite grumpy I don’t know why they’re like oh we don’t want to talk to you because we’ve already done it and all the people going up are all happy and smiley everyone is filming everything as you can expect in the 21st century and what’s quite funny when I

Did this track first of all the first time I came to Neal it was 2002 and no one was filming anything now everyone is filming everything including myself anyway bouncy bouncy we’re reaching the end the end of the bridge stunning absolutely stunning now I’d been to Nepal many many times

Before but probably for me the most significant trip was back in 2006 when I was asked to make a documentary about a blind climber who was attempting to Summit on the North Face of Mount Everest but unfortunately he succumbed to altitude sickness and passed away just below the summit where

His body Still Remains to today but moments after he died I was then involved in the rescue of another climber called Lincoln Hall from Australia and he thankfully survived and that whole Expedition has been an important part for me on my own legacy as a filmer and in fact that film

Was actually released on National Geographic Channel called Miracle on Everest we’re uh we’re just approaching Nami are as far as I’m concerned sort of the home of the sherper people as mentioned it’s been a beautiful beautiful hike it’s been hard but what do you expect we’re walking at altitude

But we’re going very very slowly and uh climatizing well so no problems there you should always walk at your own speed you know never never try and catch up with anyone because it’s a battle you will never ever win you’ll suffer like hell literally so always enjoy your own

Speed enjoy the view take plenty of rest take plenty of water one step at a time and these sites are there to be discovered whilst I was at nshi Bazar I took that opportunity to have a chat with rinzing I wanted to find out more about the capital of the Shera people

This is a Kumba region and this is almost become a capital of the kumbo region this is a very important place in called Nami Bazar in early days this used to be trading Junction between Tibet and Tibet and Nepal and nowadays all the trackers comes here and at least have to spend a

Two night for the climatization and it’s very important how much has it changed since you’ve been guiding well it has been changed a lot since then uh well now you know as you have seen the Nam is become quite big but culture hasn’t changed much one of my big concerns was

How because the country and because this region and because Nami bizar is so so relying on tourism yes when there was Co what was it like well the covid I think the covid has affected a lot you know has been lockdown we cannot travel from one one Village to another Village

It did affect it a lot we struggle a lot and and did did the people get any help from the government uh no our government no our government is not we can’t rely on the government where we help each other that is a that is in our culture too but now

It’s becoming busier and busier and busier yes now it’s picking up coming back to the normal the last time I’d been to Nepal was about 10 years ago and one thing I noticed on this expedition was how popular it had become in many ways Nepal and the Himalayas have become

A victim of their own success this is uh Shang bu and uh you might notice the kind of flat piece of land behind me it’s actually a Runway and uh we were just told that um planes used to land here for the Everest hotel but not anymore

Now which just helicopters make use of it it was just another example of just how popular the region has become having a guide like rinsing gave us a real life walking encyclopedia the uh the one we see right front of us the black Peak is call a

Kumula is a secret Mountain the reason why they call her name is because of the secret not because of the height and then we go down where we you can see the first on the left SN cap Peck that’s called Tabuchi and then comes a tiny

Black rock and behind that you can see just the top that is Everest Sagar mat and then comes on the the pointed one on the right the highest one is kot and then just below one is called lar lar means Loi East and just below where you can facing towards to

The sun which is very bright that is a c and PE 38 and comes the beautiful mountains which call I’ve been to Nepal uh six times I think six times and I must confess the first couple of days leaving lla I actually found a little bit boring um it’s just the repetitiousness

Of of tea houses and hotels and guest houses and shops and restaurants when you start to go north of namu bizar this this is what you get and these are the rewards and the reasons to come to the Himalayas in 1953 Tenzing norg and Edmund Hillary were the first human

Beings to Summit Mount Everest and even today their legacy is still leading A Lasting Impression this whole this whole compound was built by Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand of course Edmund Hillary is famous the world over with co-s summiting Everest with Tenzing no from Nepal and uh Edmund

Hillary uh was so motivated and captivated by by the sherper culture the sherper people that he dedicated his life to to trying to uh best better their lives primarily through education and health care and this school just over here is part of his ongoing Legacy to help

Better the lives of Nepali people and I think if you are going to undertake any Adventure an adventure itself is quite selfish but if you can leave a positive Legacy for other people or for the environment then that only has to be a good thing for me Tenzing and Hillary

Have left their Mark in history as true pioneers of mountaineering I’ve just arrived at our Eco Camp and I’m surrounded by these stunning stunning mountains and I’m a bit of a mountain geek I love mountains and that one over there that is lotsy and I think don’t quote me on this I think

It’s a fourth highest in the world and if it’s not I’ll correct that in voiceover but I’m pretty damn sure it’s the fourth highest and what a lot of Mountaineers do is Elite Mountaineers is they climb Everest lotsy and maoo they kind of bunny hop between the three but

But they are the creme that are Creme of Mountaineers only the elitist can do that but for us being Mortals it’s just an incredible stunning place to be here and just to see some of the world’s highest mountains I’m literally surrounded by 6,000 7,000 and 8,000 Peak mountains what a stunning stunning place

To be this is where it becomes worth it stunning if I can do any justice on the little bidy action cam on auto settings at the moment oh dear that’s no good you get the idea absolutely sunned and the Sun is just coming over and as soon as the sun comes over

Gets really warm beautiful absolutely beautiful now I know I booked myself onto an existing trip but I must say there is something special about hiking alone so peaceful I’ve just managed to get 5 minutes away from everybody else and now I’m really enjoying the

Piece there is a lot to be said to be tricking with others but um already there’s someone caught up I do love trk it by myself but it is nice to have people around you I guess it’s okay I’m good no no no no no

It’s okay I I’ll be good you you walk 10 me in front go on do you see what I mean because our sh up guys they look after us so well they feel very responsible to look after you but many people that come here myself included of tracks all over the world

And you know we’re capable of walking you know just a few meters behind but it is their duty of care and I must respect that so but just being at the back sometimes is so good anyway I better catch up before they start panicking I also wanted to take this

Unity just to say how how Bloody good our guide is rinsing and and all of the staff but rinsing is just an incredible team leader and guide there’s a lot to be said with kind of self-guiding or finding finding someone local but is it

Is a little bit of hit and miss you know if you do go with a with an organized trip like I’m doing with World Expeditions um you’ve you almost got a bit of a bit of protection ction you know that you know that your guide is

Going to be good and we’ve met quite a few people on track and their guides don’t speak any English or very poor English and and you know you could get by but when you’re in this landscape you want to more than get by cuz we’re getting little history lessons and

Ecology lessons and geology lessons and cultural lessons from rinsing as we’re traveling through through and it’s those nuggets of information that make it all worthwhile when you reach the 4,000 M Mark you certainly notice the difference this is this is the first time we’ve gone higher than 4,000 M on

The track um it’s fine 4,000 m is fine you just got a little bit out of breath no headaches no problems no loss of appetite none of that stuff just a little bit harder to breathe which is normal because there’s less oxygen in the atmosphere so fortunately we’re

Going at such a slow pace that you know you can recover very quickly to suck in that fresh air and last night was our last night in a tent uh from now on in uh it’ll be lodges um I must confess I do much prefer sleeping intense um I’m not a

Great fan of buildings and lodges and accommodation I feel more connected when I’m in a tent I feel more connected with the environment when I’m in a tent I sleep much better feels cleaner it feels fresher I think I may have been born in a 10 if I didn’t know

Otherwise but still stunning stunning bright day I’m just uh a bit concerned that this video isn’t a uh a montage of me going this is absolutely stunning um but I’m sure you appreciate this is the Himalayas and guess what they are absolutely stunning this is my sixth time to Nepal and uh it’s

Stunning I think it’s the the combination with the Buddhist culture the the prayer Flags the sters the prayer chance or money pad muor ju opposed against the most incredible scenery on the planet the making Neal just I can’t think of a word but that’s the word to use whatever word that

Is that is p on this particular trip as you know I’m staying in a mixture of kind of uh tented Villages or these kind of guest houses now as I think I mentioned I prefer the tented setups either the standing tents or the mountain tents cuz like I said I think I

Was born in the tent so I love tents I’m not the greatest fan of lodges um but they are there and we are using them I’ll give you I’m not going to give you a guided guided tour I mean you know you don’t need me to do that um but you know

They are they are nice they’re simple they’re effective um but they are expensive um something that I’ve noticed cu the first time I came here was like 20 years ago you can blow a lot of money in these places so for example if you had if you use the wifi had a hot

Shower had a Mars or Snickers bar and say bought a toilet roll you could quite easily blow $30 us in one Lodge now that’s not a great deal of money but if you were on a I don’t know a 20-day hike the idea of a cheap holiday once

You get in country actually soon goes out the window actually so so just bear that in mind that if you do decide to stay in lodges or if your tour company puts you in lodges you could end up spending quite a lot of money you could then argue well that’s

Good because it puts it in the local economy and that’s true but nonetheless you know like I say 20 20 20 or so days $30 a day some people are spending that’s quite a lot but anyway let me give you a brief tour of what you can expect in one of these

Lodges so we’ve all got our rooms I’m in room number four and I’m sharing with my friend Marty um we’ve only got one key which is a little bit annoying because that means that you know if goes out I can’t get in or vice versa so so this is

Room four let me let me show you what our room looks like I’ll do that in a separate shot in the edit so with the powers of editing this is this is uh our room I mean what can I say it’s a room um actually does the light

Work this is like some kind of like house moving in show anyway I can’t find a light switch I’m sure oh hang on a minute ah there is a light switch not that it does much but anyway it’s probably solar powered it’s simple you know do not expect a lot okay but this

Is one you can begin to see why I prefer tents um you know I don’t know how many people have slept on this mattress and I’m not using that pillow that’s for sure there’s more um marks on that pillow than yeah anyway let’s not go there but

This nonetheless this is what type of thing you can Expect do you really want to see is there someone in there oh no there no it’s open it’s uh it’s the traditional squat toilet you know it’s okay um you know I’m not going to downgrade the quality of my film by talking about going to the toilet but you know when

You’re in the wild I mean I you know no problem going to toilet but I’m not a great fan of squat toilets in general um yeah I L them in the wild for some reason so anyway squat toilets some of the lodges do have westernized toilets

And then uh you know just depends on what you get and you have to put the toilet paper in the bucket cuz obviously sewer system can’t deal with with uh you know sanat products and toilet roll and all that stuff it doesn’t matter but squat toilets yeah but nonetheless you

Know these are the kind of things that you would expect to find like I say they serve their purpose and they obviously do support a local economy which is extremely important and you know and the staff are lovely and friendly and everything and I guess the last thing

Hang on sorry I guess the last thing I should really show you is where we eat the kind of Comm area uh might do that later on when we actually are having something uh sort of some tea and biscuits that are being provided later on so that’s a rough idea what you can

Expect when tracking in Nepal whether you’re I me whether you’re independently doing it or doing it through a tour company they use pretty much the same facilities give or take there we are now one reason why I chose this particular trip was because it gave me the opportunity to visit the goo Lake

Region and there there are up to 19 lakes and some of them are as high as 5,100 M what a brilliant fresh crisp cold start we’ve just left our guest house and we’re now heading deeper into the stunning Himalayas our goal our goal to today our

Goal for today is goo where we’re going to spend two night nights in a lodge because tomorrow we’re going to head to goo Ry and from there we can get some absolutely stunning views of some of the highest mountains in the world including Mount Everest so tomorrow is for me is

Going to be the highlight of the trip and I’m so looking forward to that part at this kind of altitude things can and do go wrong the effects of altitude are always very present how are you finding these last couple of days as we get some

Altitude Ollie I’m not going to lie you can hear it now breath it’s I think we’re almost coming up to 5,000 m and even sleeping waking up trekking even though we’re setting us a very light Pace it’s just getting your breath it’s just trying to catch it and it’s just

Something that you’ve never you could never experience and I’m slowly getting used to it but not at the same time it was time to find find more about the goo Lakes so who better a person to ask than rinsing where are we rinsing cuz this is just well incredible yeah this is called

Goku we on Third Lake this is the uh Goku Lake and we are the elevation of 4,790 M and we’re going to spend it tonight here and that is the place where we’re staying and how many lakes are there in this region uh there’s a five

Lakes so this is the Third Lake and Beyond here as you can see that is a six size mountains where you can see there’s a show you and just on the lap of there that is the fifth Lake and uh and the we we spending a two nights here and we’re

Going to climb that beautiful Pig col goer to see the whole panoramic view and this is most beautiful place and and so how high is goori go we be tomorrow we’ll be climbing about 5,300 M and that is a we’re going to work very early in the morning to catch a

Beautiful weather are we going to make it no doubt no excuse It’s been it’s been a slow getting here um it’s just the alude it’s just hard to breathe it’s not physically hard at all much harder to be had all over the place but just a breathing but tomorrow we’re heading up that

Baby and uh we’re going to get some stunning views of the great mountains around which I’m really looking forward to from an altitud point of view I was feeling fine but I started to develop kind of basically flu like symptoms and I made the real difficult

Decision of deciding not to climb GAO Ry which was something really on my bucket list but I just felt that my body needed to rest and it was that rest decision that I think paid off later in the trip it was the right thing to do I wanted to ask rinsing about the

Resilience of the sherper people especially the earthquake of 2015 because I knew that the sherper people were so relying on the tourism Industries well it was a really disaster you know it more affected on the northern part of Nepal and uh yes in Nepal we had a uh big disaster yes it

Did affect to us and uh well Katmandu has been a lot of damage and uh they I mean we are depend on a tourism and the uh there was a I mean you know when the tourist started stopped coming up so yes we how long did it take before the

Tourism started to to happen again it took about a couple of years and uh yes but during that time I was in Tibet I was leading uh the group to the Tibet and when Tibet was closed uh due to quick yeah it tooks about couple of years to recover again still in Katmandu

Still doing the Reconstruction I felt that taking a rest day was the right decision I felt really strong and good but I was getting a little bit worried about my mate olle he was just having problems climatizing and breathing and I was feeling a little bit concerned hard

Beautiful but hard and if any of you have been at altitude you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about it’s just a lack of oxygen basically I mean we currently stood at the height of the highest mountain in Western Europe mon Blanc um and it just makes everything that little bit harder and uh

Tomorrow tomorrow is going to be the hardest day of the entire track along the Chola pass and uh probably including some rest breaks it’ll probably be a 10hour day and um I think we’ll be popping up to about uh 5,400 M give or take um in my life I’ve

Been a lot higher I’ve been up to just below 7,000 M um but that was with a lot of acclimatization and although the acclimatization has been good it’s still hard and you can probably tell by my voice it’s a little bit little bit gruffy but my God the Ste scening the

Scenery is absolutely stunning just these massive massive mountains surrounding us highly recommended if you want to push yourself to the Limit well not to the Limit but push yourself to a limit this is a good place to do it now in this Expedition we chose to head via

The chab pass instead of the more direct route to Everest Base Camp by taking the Chola pass the route became a lot more beautiful and Scenic and or inspiring but the downside of taking the cholar route is that it’s a lot lot harder this is the first opportunity

We’ve had to really stop since leaving at about 6:00 this morning uh it’s just been too cold too uh hard goinging to to stop and get the cameras out and the sun has just come out over the valley and everyone is just like vom uh plonking down we’ probably

Walking for about 2 hours and we’re like Iguana’s just trying to get some sun some warmth um but over there in that direction is where we’re heading and things always look a lot more for boing when you look at them but even so that doesn’t look very friendly when you’re standing at the

Base of a mountain and you’re looking up you always think how the hell am I going to get up there but when you get there it’s actually not that bad but with the cholar pass it was to be honest it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done

Not that it was technically difficult or anything like that but it was at 5,400 M and at that altitude everything is physically demanding and the cholar pass was certainly that extremely physically demanding once you’ve reached the top of the Chola pass at 5,400 M you have a very dramatic

And exciting descent down the Chola glacia using crampons but rinzing had pointed out that the glacier is in massive Decline and they estimate within 3 years the cholar glacia would have melted this glacia has been retreating rapidly over the last 10 years or so and there’s

Lots of little dodgy bits wait in a second okay through but wow what a challenge what an adventure and I’m hoping I don’t fall over on camera now trust your crampons that’s the moso ah anyway yeah so we’re at 5,200 M as you can probably tell by my breathing but it’s freaking

Awesome absolutely awesome what an amazing place what an amazing place so there’s my friend Ollie day what a day in this me up to 5,300 M TR to pass you cannot literally catch your breath I was five steps that’s to stop just 5,300 M you can’t get your breath it’s so it’s

Unimaginable it’s profound because mentally you want to move forward and you invest for two seconds you’re like right I’ve got enough energy and then you take two more steps and you’re not going anywhere so challenging to say least it’s the most challenging thing I’ve ever done definitely one of the most challenging

Things we’ve done definitely what an adventure to do for YouTube eh bloody hell it was definitely definitely a long day the cholar pass was living up to its reputation two words bloody hell we come over that be hard doing it in Scotland we’re doing it just below well doing it at 5,000 M is another ball game but what a beautiful beautiful place I hope you can hear me okay because my microphone’s not working but that has to be the hardest day I’ve ever had in the Hills wow Mountain yeah it really was a long day we’re uh we’re just coming into our

Accommodation take my taking it off going to throw caution to the sunburn oh man I know I’m doing this voluntarily and I cannot complain cuz it’s all self-inflicted and if you are watching this on YouTube which obviously you are please give me a subscribe it’s just a click a this little little click

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Olol hey o ol not going to lie hang on hang on what was that not going to lie I’m struggling it’s not going to lie he struggling struggling so I think fatigue and exhaustion is set in unfortunately something that have been plaguing my mind actually happened and all his health deteriorated due to

Altitude and he made the very one wise and conscious decision of going back down the mountain but at the end of the day he made the very wise decision my big day had finally come my Ascent to Everest Base Camp we’re on our way to base

Camp I’m guessing this is uh about 5, 100 m uh our group has found its own pace so some of the team are really fit and they’re jumping on ahead and the rest of us we’re keeping our own pace and what that does is it allows us

To enjoy it because this is a once in a-lifetime opportunity and if we spend the whole time looking at our feet catching our breath what’s the point so the most important thing when at this altitude is to take your time and enjoy this once in a lifetime opportunity because it is truly truly

Amazing after visiting every space camp on the North side I really wanted to visit the south side and now that bucket list had been ticked I just want to say there’s whole trip is possible because of this man and the people he works with the sherper people this whole man makes it

Possible and all of all of the sh people even if they’re not sha they’re Nepali so thank you I know we’re not there yet but my God thank you you all come sir yeah you have to go to Everest Base Camp and experience it for yourself it truly

Is an incredible experience I can’t believe that literally down there is Everest southface Base Camp unbelievable to be here as we turned the last Corner this amazing beautiful Lake came into sh it was huge and we’re all like wow look at this we taking photos and go W amazing

Amazing amazing and then rinsing told us a shocking truth that that Lake shouldn’t be there that that lake is a result of global warming that the glacier had retreated and shrunk and in fact that Lake was where every space camp was this is sinking I mean you know this used to

Be full of the uh the ice and this is the way they used to set up the camp but now you can see there’s hardly any place where you can the legs there and since I know is where that Boulder Rock is there we used to play on the ice cave it’s

Huge ice cave but now it’s all receding all recing melting so fast so so so so sorry ring so so this wasn’t here no this wasn’t here before this has been hasn’t been that long since has been melted all you know how many years I would say is uh within a 5

6 years oh my God yeah it was not that long though because we’ve just come down this slope and G oh my God how beautiful yeah exactly but you’re saying this wasn’t here 5 years ago yeah yeah I mean this is the normally where the pie the

Tent bloody hell and that the where the back big rock is there where they used to build the helip patties but there’s no any place where you can land on there I’m sorry I find that absolutely shocking that it is for those that sit there and joke about climate change yeah

And to say that a few years ago this is where you used to make a camp absolutely and now this is now a lake this is really obsessing Yeah bloody Howell I’m actually almost I’ve got glasses on but I’m actually almost was crying that is profound that is utterly profound as I walked the last couple hundred meters into what was the new Everest Base Camp what rinzing had told me about the glacial melt and the loss

Of the original Everest Base Camp had shocked me to the core I’m just walking into every space camp it has been an incredible journey we’re not finished yet it’s a long way back it’s Catman do and I had this feeling of making a euphoric statement to camera but what I’ve just learned from

Our amazing Shai dzing is that this place has changed so much in The Last 5 Years due to global warming that literally behind me in that beautiful Lake once was Everest Base Camp and now we’re all celebrating our epic success and it is a success but what have we done to our

Planet to achieve our individual successes and we are all part of that Global problem this place doesn’t know any different but we know the difference we know what we have done to our planet this film was supposed to be a euphoric Adventure and it is and it is to celebrate the lives of

The sherper people that have given so much to Western climbers and their Blood Sweat and Tears is etched on this mountain behind me but really as Humanity we need to take a very very long long hard look at ourselves what happened to me on my 2006 Everest North Face expedition was still

Very raw in my mind on that expedition I’d lost four friends to the mountain on a personal note up there on Everest on chonga are three friends that I met in 2006 David Sharp igle Pushkin and Thomas Weber and also the memory of a very good friend of M Lincoln Hall who survived

One night alone on that mountain and who came down alive and who lived his life to the fall only to succumb to cancer but his Spirit his Spirit lives on that mountain my adventure which had started in Kat Manu had been incredible I had been so looked after by rining and all of the staff working for World Expeditions my adventure had ticked all of the boxes but it’s left me asking so many questions about our relationship

With the natural world and the Buddhist culture that Embraces every part of Nepal perhaps offering an age-old thing thinking in a modern world that of balance balance between our own Collective needs and our need to preserve our very own life support machine the mother of the world or in the Shera

Shalong the Western name for Mount Everest

On a month long adventure to the Himalayas in Nepal I trekked to Everest Base Camp, via the Cho La Pass, lead by Rinzin Sherpa. But when I got there what I saw totally shocked me.

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