IMAX - Everest Part 5/5

[29teepee]

They show him being followed with a camera after camp 4, yet they say he left solo at 11:30p.m? What a crock of shite.

[duncantoms]

How come the prayer flags and mementos left behind are not right at the very top? In the footage in this and other videos/photos there's always a few more feet higher.

[illtron]

@duncantoms Guessing that would prevent people from standing there

[EvelcyclopS]

@duncantoms A cornice forms the largest part of the summit, this can vary in size but its not stable enough to stand on.

[JEBAKO1978]

Cant believe videos like this get 50k views and other random x!*/&%$/ get millions.

[boomdeyadaa]

Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for posting this. Really missing the Himalayas!

[melissaxotiffanygurl]

i'll look for the picture when i climb that mountain!!! <3someday i will climb that mountain .

[valkyrie1960s]

very nice music at the beginning of this part!

[thenukster]

So why exactly did Krakauer's team and the rest leave Beck and the Japanese woman for dead? Seems kinda cowardly to me. Maybe if they had gone back for her , she may have survived but instead they cowered in their tents. Strange how Beck who was left for dead managed to walk into camp on his own power. Don't know how some of those people live with themselves.

[celticlofts]

You'll find the answers to those questions if you take the time and read Krakauers account of the events. You simply have no understanding of what it's like at that altitude and the effects it has on the human body, if you did you would not be calling people cowards.

[brianbell129]

When you are on that mountain it is an unwritten code that you will be responsible to save yourself. If it would have been so easy to leave camp and rescue the lost people why wouldnt those people have walked their asses back to camp and saved themselves........the answer is they were lost in a storm

[Jolinator]

@brianbell129 written like a non climber. tell that to the true mountaineers . tell that to ueli steck when he abandoned his summit attempt on annapurna which is statisticly one of the most dangerous mountains in the world to administer cpr to a stranger. tell that to anatoli bourkreev when he went out in the storm on everest to rescue people. the difference is most of these people are not climbers they are tourists. rob hall died because he rufused to leave an idiot with a deathwish. Sad

[lastardriver]

David Breshears shot this and he gave his team's oxygen and equipment to rescue the lost climbers. Except sorry to say Rob Hall and a few of his comrades. RIP>

[aeec04t]

Thanks for the post - it honors the memory of Rob Hall and the others that died on the mountain that day.

[hudson0815]

parts are shot in colorado, but alot is everest itself. Jon Krakauer describes in Into thin Air, that among his group (who went into the disaster storm of 1996) several other expeditions were on the mountain, among them an IMAX crew.

[dudwasup]

yes they did take the imax camera to the top of everst ed viesters went so fast that david breashears and the sherpas that where carrying the camera couldnt keep up.viesters had a camera that he video taped the top and the imax crew filmed the other two climbers

[phizzy56]

great film, thx for the post!

[Sanchez350]

thank you for posting this!

[Massimo1GK]

you're welcome Sanchez

[heisrob]

pretty sure they took imax to the top in 1996.

[tkachuk51]

did they actually take an imax camera to the top of everest or is the video a reporoduction elsewhere?

[Massimo1GK]

mmmh I don't know to be honest

[loganberrywhite]

@Massimo1GK Read David Breashears book High Exposure. It talks about how long he worked to film this movie and developing a lighter IMAX camera that could go up all the way. He left his video camera at Camp IV

[partyongarth420]

@tkachuk51 ide say the camera man waited below the 4th or 3rd camp what not...

and the crew just wore on body cameras/  theres not really much around on the mojntain u know.. nothing... focusing and stuff is probably easy

[MrTheWhitewaterkayak]

@tkachuk51 im pretty sure they took it most of the way at least

[Nikon05]

@tkachuk51 im not sure if the imax camera went to the peak, but it definitely went most of the way, I have this dvd, and in the special features they talk about how hard it was carrying such a big camera and how they faced those challanges, just cant remember if it went to the very top tho!