Everest 2022
hi this year my wife paulina and i decided to undertake a trekking trip to the everest base camp i'm 68 years old and polina is 62. uh so we're the age when very few people decide to uh undertake such strenuous uh trekking trip but uh we decided to do it anyway the travel to everest base camp involves working for 150 kilometers and ascending to the height of eighteen and a half thousand feet um it also starts with uh flying to from kathmandu to luca airport which is considered the most dangerous airport in the world partly because you have to fly between the mountains and also it has very short landing strip and finally clouds come unexpectedly and block the views for the pilot [Music] is [Music] i [Music] kathmandu this is a street where we live this is our hotel [Music] out there the corner bell arts hotel arts and they sell it everywhere the whole city is a big bazaar [Music] this is musical balls portugal this is [Music] this is cafe new orleans this is nepalese food this is our first stop and from there we'll start our ascent to mount everest after several delays we are finally on the flight to lupla [Music] high [Music] [Music] [Music] this is luke luck we just landed [Music] [Music] this is a valley that we encountered [Music] so i think this is our first day and we are going down today we will be walking for just four hours and then we'll be at another destination [Music] [Music] toilet it's really cool really really cool toilet [Music] okay don't do it too long it's our first [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] how are you doing here's we're starting the day way to nam chair we are going to namcha bazaar today these are going to be our one of the hardest days 2600 feet elevation game [Music] we had to let this dunk us the right away there's paulina and our two guides this is the panorama where we're hiking now [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh stones for buddhists [Music] that's it here's portugal the bazaar and we're in our room it's a very basic room receiver this viewpoint [Music] there's plywood on my head but that's what these guys are doing and they're going to go all the way down that's where paulina is coming from all right let's go babies everest observation point it's pretty cloudy so we're not sure that we can see [Music] but it's hidden behind the clouds that's a very touristy place where everybody is sitting so here's the view from the window of our hotel namche bazaar we're about to have our breakfast and that's where we live look at this mountains [Music] our next destination remember what's our next destination what's the name of it what's the name of the next stop where are we going today is our next destination amazing how they can carry those things to use tall mountains but not the stalls we are going to see pretty soon here's our first view of mount everest and uh the on the right of it is i'm a dublin 6 000 what 6800 but we're in a very beautiful valley with flowering trees and flowering bushes totally amazing and i think that here is where we're going to have lunch and the seahawks are going to have lunch as well especially this one [Music] it's done by manual force nothing in that is mechanized [Music] it's totally amazing they plain stones they break them by hand everything is done by hand we have arrived to the monastery of tembooch yes we're here finally the last 1500 feet [Music] [Music] that's the monastery [Music] [Music] so we are starting our day number we are going to dongbuche from tenbuj here's the local guy who carries some stuff in gasoline this is is super monks riding [Music] [Music] okay so we're here among many different buddha temples and here's this grand canyon of himalayas of course it's really cute and these children are cute too [Music] more yachts [Music] [Applause] gas delivery to europe [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's no we are starting the day number six i'm going to labor and uh it's really cold in these rooms but we came up with the strategy we are sleeping on the two humongous blankets like this and that help us to be very comfortable and there's wind out of the window a very cold wind under the but we have uh hats on our on our heads and that's how we fight the cold so breaking stones and then they're putting them together going to la bucha it's very high up in the mountains and we're living and here's our brave guide and paulina and and this is me [Music] then what's the name of this mountain ah i'm at a fly [Music] okay here's helicopter trying to rescue somebody and that's where we are walking towards which place butcher right another panoramic view really beautiful [Music] frozen river no more flowing water slowly very hard to walk but paulina is doing well i'm doing well pemba is doing well everybody is doing well okay my finger wasn't afraid but i hope it's still okay this is a place which is a monument to people who died on ascending or descending mount everest or any kind of climbing that takes place in this region so every one of them is commemorated with the stone group which is located here so you can see that there are a lot of stone groups which are built up and that's for every soul that has been taken by this climbing and there are lots of them on this side of the mountain and beyond that there are more of those stone groups the elevation is 5030 is polina brave girl yes she walked by her own power yay and here are the favorite animals these are really beautiful hills mountains and the river and the village of la bucha [Music] all right so today is the day when we will be going to everest base camp that's what we were starting this travel for and today is the culmination of our effort and we hope we will be successful we are sure that we'll be successful we are enjoying this trip so far so good for a shop go ahead all right so he is giving him some snacks laughs you know like real father is supposed to do he's taking care of his son that's wonderful and the sun is coming up i think we might be able to see the everest that's not for certain but we hope it's heating up and focus raising from the land you keep on tracking [Music] climbing at the elevation of 17 000 feet is absolutely no fun but that's exactly what they're doing [Music] [Applause] [Music] let's [Music] [Applause] [Music] and i think that there's a base camp way way out so we finally tracked the core camp that's the last destination before the base camp we'll stop here for lunch and then keep going keep going and we'll reach the base camp today trekking along the glacier and moving towards the base cap okay no problem yes ready so we are approaching the base camp you can see the tents at the bottom and molina is coming over she's a little bit behind but we both get there at the same time we are like runners of marathon and the finish line is right there so see you soon okay we're reaching the base camp together like marathon runners okay together [Music] this trick [Music] yeah this this track takes everything out of you like every inch a significant portion of these people maybe five percent maybe two percent who knows will never return from trying to conquer this beautiful mountain and then we'll still try here's a russian group globe it's a very large encampment very large because we'll climb another mountain and right now we are almost 18 000 feet here's a little lake next to the base camp you can see the tents from here and you can hear the sound of breaking ice here [Music] today we are leaving gore camp okay to see the sunrise and hopefully to see the mount everest so it's a four o'clock in the morning with about 18 000 feet elevation and we'll we hope to reach 19 000 feet elevation at the top of kalapatar we keep on tracking towards the top of kalapata unfortunately there's no view of everest it's hiding behind clouds i've seen it for a few seconds it's in the peak of it but then that's it you know so these are him alliance somewhere behind [Music] it's very very hard you're seeing you're seeing the peak of mount everest it's right there it's hiding behind the clouds but you can still see it [Music] really vaguely but it's there [Music] yes this is mount everest that's it that's what we came here for here's mount everest very clear a little bit cloudy but still magnificent [Music] that's what people climb on it okay we've reached kalapada top and behind me there is mount everest throw the arrest [Music] all cloaked by the clouds but it's there [Music] show the path that we went to [Music] coming back the rest is still behind the clouds but i've seen it beautiful okay gorset the village of gorosetis and the bottom we're coming back [Music] we're starting our day number 10 right and it's for the the place is called okay and this is beautiful scenery which we are living behind that's the village of parucha that's the yaks that are pasturing here they're enjoying their time and these are the beautiful himalayans which we're seeing ahead of us and hopefully we'll reach them soon oh [Music] right a whole bunch of mountain goats aren't they lovely [Music] okay that's today's the last day of our trip we are leaving hotel tibet and going to lukla it's gonna be the last of our hiking if this street was very hard but totally beautiful totally enjoyable and we tested ourselves to our limits all right so let's get back there vomits lemons [Music] [Music] you go down okay you cross the river to where you cross the river ah yes if you want to go to goku you go like this okay you want to go to base time you go like this this is tango that's where we went oh yeah we weren't going back okay no no no we were on the way there we also went to them okay there's ten water we go straight this is tango across the river across the river [Music] yes we were there we're there okay so where is the base camp the bottom of touch everest so the base camp is right here right yeah yeah this is the global chair so the the blue spot is base camp okay thank you very much that's the mount everest yeah is mountain this should be dumb circle [Music] namaste [Music] okay so we are at the finish line of our travel we've gotten back to lupa and we are flying out to kakundu tomorrow and we had very interesting difficult exciting enjoyable trip some days we one day we walked for 13 hours there were some days that we walked for 10 hours and there are some days that we work for nine hours so it was crazy crazy difficult and we are happy to be back to civilization thank you good [Music] here we are we're inside of a nepalese restaurant with our guide our organizer of the tour bhagwat ibaguad okay paulina hi paulina [Music] hmm [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is the central square of the city and hippies used to be here in the 70s and here's our guide hello and here's the palace the government palace and here's how it used to look like in the older days but this is very picturesque uh most of it was destroyed during the earthquake in 2012 or 14 i forgot well this is part of the central district [Music] it's being rebuilt brick by brick using old method because it's unesco site so they mix white clay with brick dust to make mortar for making those temples and which is protected by the cobras and this is uh representing um the symbolize the fertility okay so there's one there's one temple per day of the year so there are 360 temples [Music] if we go every day like our [Music] transitional faith between the life and death that i mean sometimes people used to bring the person before the death when they have last before the last week they used to bring the body there and they feed the holy water and then after um you can see the bomb stretcher over here just over here nearby and after that they blow the console and carry the body from that platform to the they will uh light the fire on the mouth because that's the mouth which is uh the life is not from there and in from the mouth okay so this is the burial places and the platforms and the monkeys and the bull and everything is totally amazingly picturesque [Music] you
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