Mt. Everest is a famously inhospitable environment for humans—if someone from sea level was dropped at the very top they’d be unconscious within minutes. Many dangers await those brave enough to make an attempt at the summit, and Dr. Emily Johnston visits WIRED to break down each and every way Mt. Everest can prove fatal.
Director: Wendi Jonassen
Director of Photography: Dylan Bergeson
Editor: Edward Simpson Jr.
Expert: Dr. Emily Johnston
Creative Producer: Katherine Wzorek
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Kameryn Hamilton
Production Manager: D. Eric Martinez
Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila
Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch
Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant
Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds
Special Thanks: Elia Saikaly and Climbing the Seven Summits
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Great, thanks
Respect for the adventures who dared to conquer this and the many who lost their lives. My honest opinion is that the SHERPAS are the unsung heroes who have climbed and summited and CARRIED all the gear and supplies for the priviledged few that are taking this great risk. The recognition should be for the sherpas.
Base camp just seems absolutely repulsive.
All these expeditions should stop now. Leave the mountain alone. Let it stay pious and pristine. Because when you play with mother nature, things could get out of hand. And when nature does a Max Cady on you, you sure don’t wanna be around.
Hmm, and i thought this is a skiing resort. Redbull told me so.
It’s wild that the base camp is at a higher altitude than most of the big peaks in the Western Hemisphere.
They need to take a course in survival, by Cody lundine and a host of others, another thing they should put shipping safe places
Altitude at base camp is higher than the highest peak in Colorado. 😮
This really should be banned but of course I’m sure there’s a lot of money involved somewhere
2 typos in the thumbnail made me be here… is that the perfect clickbait?!
Couldn’t think of anything much worse
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drug addiction and everest addiction, both same i think, both deadly, and both doing nothing to society!! am i right?
Yikes😳
Great video. Thanks!
What ever could go wrong? Hypoxia + Brain swelling.
I don’t think I have any sympathy for people who climb Everest and don’t make it back. These people are arrogant and delusional to think they could successful climb Everest without also thinking that they might very well d1e.
I am not into mountaineering in away or sort, but I don’t understand why so many people would pay this extreme amount of money to climb a mountain just to die on it. Like seriously and don’t give me that BS speech “Because it’s there” crap. Look how it turned out for that guy and many others. Why not go to observe and respect the mountain vs going there be being a liability and have others risk their lives to try to save you when you had no business or real experience to be there in the first place. Looks like a bunch of selfish rich folks to me.
7:47 more people on the freeway means less space and chance of an accident.. the 405 is in my backyard so I would know.
8:34 it’s spiritual.. that’s why.. read the Bible.. mountain tops are known to bring you closer to the spiritual realm