i'd be scared. If something went wrong they wouldn't have the gear to hike down. or did they? even if they did have the gear, did they have the training? but then again us helicopter pilots don't really give a shit. we trade risk for reward every day.
and one more thing.. remember that the higest flight with a helicopter vas to the altitude of 12,442 meters (40,814 ft). This was done with a Lama helicopter.. and the motor flamed out at peak altitude and the pilot had to audtorotate down. wich is also a world record :)
Venn. the teacher is almost right.. Is it goes. The snow dossen't have time to acumilate on the summit becouse its in a jet stream.. So no. Most of the time there is NO SNO on the summit. But. it happends :) Going to climb Everest in 2013 and K2 summit in 2015.. So. read the facts....
@lucastimmer First off, the only mod to that B3 was that it was basically stripped down to bare minimum for weight. Everything else was a plain-Jane stock B3. Second, someone said the video is fake. Nope, it's not. Third, did ya'll know that the world record for the highest helo rescue occured in a B2 version and not a B3???? Pretty damn cool!
I feel this is slightly ridiculous....why can't they use these helicopters to effect rescue missions that are so desperately needed when climbers are stuck in the death zone and beyond, on the mountain? seems like cheating to fly to the top of the world....i'd respect the pilot more if he actually summited the traditional way.
@Jarocho2003 it did take him great risk, you know how difficult it would be to fly that high up. plus if he crashed assuming he survived he'd be boned
It saddens me to see this. The summit of Everest is, for all intents and purposes, sacred ground, only deserved by those who have the will power and hunger to push their body to the limit for weeks on end so as to reach the top. It is a shame to see how easily this chopper reached the top. Almost like an insult to the mountain.
I thought that same thing at first, but then thought about how many places in the world were virtually inaccessible even 100 years ago that are now visited quite frequently due to technological advances.
Thats what we need a guaranteed rescue for the worthless clients of money hungry guides running a business taking unqualified shit for brains assholes to a summit that they have no right to be on in the first place. What a bonus that chopper might allow lady GaGa to make the summit in complete safety. Or how about we install hyperbaric chambers at all the high camps, hot tubs and maybe even a Starbucks or two.
I like it a lot Dave!!!! And with that wise policy of removing the fixed gear at the expense of the profiteers we should also have them pay for the clean up of the whole mess they've made in th past. The idiot clients shouldn't be allowed to trash this sacred mountain for profit. We also need environmentalist Nazis in those hot shit helicopters to ensure that the mother fucking wannabe pigs behave and if they don't the miserable circus should be terminated on the spot.
On May 14, 2005 an AS350 B3 piloted by Eurocopter test pilot Didier Delsalle touched down on the top of Mt. Everest, at 8,850 metres (29,035 feet) .[3] This record has been confirmed by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.[4]
On April 29, 2010 a stripped-down AS350 B3 succeeded in rescuing three alpinists from Annapurna at 7,100 m, one at a time, the highest such rescue ever.
@kits11326 It was not stripped down, they just removed all lose parts inside the helicopter like maps and tools, as well as the pilots door, so he could lean out and see what happens under his helicopter. But it was not about losing weight. But you are right, it was the highest rescue with a helicopter so far.
That day, I was in Advanced Base Camp, 6400m at the north side of Everest. I heard a chopper, and thought I could be suffering from cerebral edema...Happilly it really was a chopper. I think I remember it was at the very first time of the day, in a calm morning. No one could summit yet, at least at the north side, because of lack of good weaather consecutive days, necessary to acclimate and get the camps ready to climb and go back to the base camp.
That day, I was in Advanced Base Camp, 6400m at the north side of Everest. I heard a chopper, and thought I could be suffering from cerebral edema...Happilly it really was a chopper. I think I remember it was at the very first time of the day, in a calm morning. No one could summit yet, at least at the north side, because of lack of good weaather consecutive days, necessary to acclimate and get the camps ready to climb and go back to the base camp.
@go2karltube Actually, the ceiling of an aircraft is not it's mechanical limit, but simply what it is certified for. So, under normal circumstances that would be the legal limit that no pilot is allowed to exceed. However, if you get an experienced pilot along with a thorough inspection of the helicopter, you can get a temporary permit to operate it at a higher altitude. Maybe 30,000ft for this attempt?
@Vapor07ice Not true. Ceiling of the aircraft is where the climbrate is below 1m/s. There might be other 'cheated ceilings' but the mentioned one held for decades.
@canokiwi its an unmodified helicopter! thats the gag of the whole thing. that they build a helicopter that can land on the top of the world without modification.
@hackerdog: Read that chapter about high and low pressure at different altitudes again. You find a lot on Mt. Everest, but high pressure is sure none of it.
the truth is, if he got out, without the oxygen mask, he would have like 30 seconds of life, before his body collapses due to the high pressure. That's why climbers have to stay on Base Camp, then Advanced Base Camp, and they often have to climb to camp A and return, just to give time to their bodies to adjust to the pressure.
Its correct that the body may be collapsed, but not because of the pressure, its because your body dont have acclimatized with the low oxigen u have at over 7.000m...its just 1/3 of oxigen in the air. its because of the oxigenpartialpressure
@TheRaawan wrote, "anybody can conquer everest this way."
Really?
Please list the other instances in which a helicopter has touched skids, let alone touched skids and hovered for 2 minutes at Everest's summit.
As others have no doubt stated, you are a terribly ill-informed imbecile.
Also, don't waste your time looking for other helicopters that have touched skids to the summit of Everest, none other than this one ever has. Instead, why don't you just shove your head back up your ass. Bye!
It's never been done before or since except for the two (2) days in a row that this test pilot did it.
Most helicopters cannot fly to this altitude and the few that can could not hold stead with skids touching the summit with the kind of wind that blows at that altitude around that mountain.
An INCREDIBLE machine, and an INCREDIBLE pilot.
Amazing and ballsy because one mistake and that copter is going to hit the mountain and not stop rolling downhill for about two miles.
During the well-documented 1996 Everest disaster/fiasco in which eight (8) climbers died during an unexpected storm it was considered one of the most amazing feats ever of helicopter piloting to be able to get a helicopter up to a camp at 21,000 feet (6,400 meters) above sea level to evacuate U.S. climber Beck Weathers. The Everest summit is 29,035 feet (8,850 meters) above sea level.
That is not what Everest looks like on the top, more like Nuptse which is about 26,000ft. Climbing window dates start around the end of March and go to about the end of May. If that landing really happend on May 14, 2005, where are the climbers and where is all prayer flags and photos left on top? I'm not saying it didn't happen, but for that time frame you would see footprintes and a very large prayer flag mond.
@Anubis5by5 - if you look there is a very large plume of snow drift off the summit, this means that the winds would be too strong to summit. also if you look, it is heavily wind scoured, so its most likely that any loose ice from feet have been shaved away...
@Anubis5by5 I agree, at the current time I'm very skeptical of this so-called feat. Also where is the snow plume coming off the summit on the touchdown. They showed it earlier when the helicopter was climbing.
Fake! Heli rescue is almost impossible above camp four or five! how could he have gotten to the SUMMIT? Plus that didn't really look like the summit and I didn't even see the prayer flags. Thumbs down. Seems fake...
@mariusrodrigo After googling it, I did see a record on national geographic. Maybe your right. But there were no prayer flags there which made it seem weird.. and I really don't support this record. It defeats the purpose of climbing and now people will just get in a helicopter, jump out, place a prayer flag, jump in and say they summited everest. We already have Sherpas pretty much just pulling us up it. Now were just gonna "climb" by helicopter?
If this is real why are you being so ambiguous,why are you not showing land marks and tangible points that realy proved your point. I have climed Ama Dublam and Pumo Ri and have the pictures to prove it i risked frost bite to take pictures that left no dout i had summited,but you in a chopper couldnt even fly over the prayer flags and rubbish on the summit or even flyover Gorak shep to prove you were even that high,wich i dout..show the BBC NEWS report of the amazing event the i will belive it
The reason jet can't fly around mountain everest is because the altitude it to high when they takeoff. They takeoff 3 times slower on 29,000ft then 0ft.
@TASHKENTGOATMAN I agree with you, that didn't look like Everest, and also, I thought the air is too thin up there for a chopper??? Wasn't the highest altitude chopper rescue on Everest? 'Cause to my knowledge, that was a very risky rescue anyway for the chopper, and it was nowhere near the top. I think it was for that guy, Beck Weathers in '96 when he survived that really bad storm that Rob Hall died in .
This is pure rubbish ..there is no way that can get to the summit..and theres no way the Neps would allow it..also why dint it make the news.....no way..it didnt even look like Everest I couldnt see Pumuri or Amma Dablam
@TASHKENTGOATMAN It's called setting a record. Means it's never been done before, but not impossible. Documented as it happened. It's powered by a Turbomeca Arriel 2B Turboshaft engine, I know, I work for the company... It was a crowning achievement.
@helicoastie.. SIR I hate to dout your word but i do dout it,,for a start i realy dont think the Nepal goverment would let you do it,also the jet stream is blowing at 200miles an hour for 99% of the time and when its not there are assults being made on the summit ,i dont think they would want a chopper landing up there also where are all the prayer flags,,that also is not Lukla airport or the strip byThengbouche or the unfinished strip by Loubouche,,so all in all i think its rubbish
Tenia entendido que un helicoptero no puede subir mas de 7000m, o eso siempre se hoye cuando tienen que hacer un rescate a algun alpinista del himalaya. No pueden rescatar pero si subir arriba del todo?
@ilergetes77 Y tenias entendido bien, pero hay un par de modelos que sí, son capaces de subir tan arriba. El problema es q son carisimos de fabricación, mantenimiento... etc.. vamos q son inviables para realizar rescates.
GREAT, WE ARE USING IN THE CORDILLERA OF THE ANDES IN SOUTH AMERICA, IN JUNGLE IN SEISMIC (if they could suspend the tabs on the skys as these have caused accidents when entangled with roots in the ground, also on land because land a first sky and if not careful descontrolandoce jumps.
Its pathetic how Americans taking this achievement personally in a way like someone is always competing with them.......Fuck, just settle down....no one is competing with you......
I am Jesus in the form of a troll telling you: all with your puny desires to be better then the next person to blog on here are stupid little beings of no significance. Your lives are pointless. None of you are better and anyone else. So why argue about it?
I wonder if he was on pressurized oxygen all the way up. You can't go up too fast or you will get the bends... just like deep sea divers coming to the surface..
Actually, they shoved an oxygen canister up the pilots ass. I believe he was breathing about 2 liters per hour mixture of O2 and Ass mixture. The bends were therefore not a problem.....although removing the oxygen canister from his ass has presented itself as a sort of conundrum.
I'm simply amazed at the capability of the chopper at this altitude and the ability of the pilot. It's completely unrealistic to assume the pilot could land and get out. There is no way. Period. Great video! :)
no you are not telling the truth...do you know what sort of boom that area has experienced due to tourism and such...people who would normally be making pennies on the dollar can now work as sherpas or other tasks that help out expeditions. Please understand that it is a mountain and the amount of time and money that task would take would not outweigh the benefits
I would take of my hat off for that chopper driver if he parked the chopper on the top and climbed down. I think i did a heroish job when i climbed Mount Everest backwards in 1994 and this chopper thing is nothing compared to that achievement.
I have heard they want to remove mount everest simply blow it up with some kind of special TNT (extremely powerful) and it will happen in 2011. why they do it is because it give too much shade from the sun, in the Takla Makan area. There is nothing to do about it. The chinese government has already decided it.
Apperently its a true landing; National Geographic and alot of other sites have confirmed it. He actualy did the landing twice. It was allso the seasons first summit, which can explain the lag of human leftovers.
Do some research. Ultimate altitude record is 40,820 ft; 12,442 m set in 1972.
Jean Boulet (France) in Alouette SA 315-001 Lama powered by Artouste IIIB 735 KW engine; Istres, France, June 21, 1972. So of course a helicopter could land on Everest. Hard part is making the attempt concerns wind. Winds can be over 100 mph at the summit. Note how the pilot kept making corrections to keep the helo pointing into the wind. Amazing flight.
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keep telling yourself that! it is you who needs to do some research as it is not possible try not to believe everything you see, unless you see it with your own eyes
I agree, this must be some other mountain. The service ceiling of an AS350 B3 is 4,600m which is barely half the height of everest, i dont think that they would get the max height that wrong.
They touched down. That counts. Shows how scary it would be to climb to the top. Machine is impressively high tech but climbing still seems like the bigger adventure than getting a machine to go up there.
It's incredible. everybody is so quick to criticize them for what? not shutting off the engines and stepping out for a smoke? You're missing the point. They landed a chopper on Everest. A chopper!!!! It's intense.
I dont think thats everst. Wheres all the flags? And the summit is big round and flat. When the expeditions go up they fit like 10 people on it at a time. that helicopter rested its nose down for like 30 seconds on a fin of snow. Even if it was everest, i dont think resting the nose down and not getting a full touchdown qualifies as "landing"
well i guess i was wrong, because i did some research and they did land on everst. allthough the story did note there were no witnesses except this video.
But still...30 seconds with the nose touching counts as a landing?
Dont try this at home Hahaha Lol I love fsx.
colliente97 2 days ago
FSX anyone? Wanna try it?
LegoMovieMan44 5 days ago
one hell of a commercial
TheJustRussian 1 week ago
fuck you, you and your helicopter
MrPiucci 1 month ago
It is real.... don't try this at home with your normal helo... it is a Eurocopter!!! AS350B3
gabrieladelgado1 1 month ago
3:52 HOLY SHIT!! o_o That was awesome
LordDavid6 1 month ago
i'd be scared. If something went wrong they wouldn't have the gear to hike down. or did they? even if they did have the gear, did they have the training? but then again us helicopter pilots don't really give a shit. we trade risk for reward every day.
colinbcolby 1 month ago
@colinbcolby you sound like a rooster
beardedswine 1 week ago
se tendrian que realizar zonas de rescate en la montaña con esos helicopteros para futuras misiones de rescate
charqui101 2 months ago
bien fait mes amis. That is pretty cool. Crazy that this happened 5 years ago and I am just now seeing this.
boardgabe 3 months ago
Fake! Helicopter ceiling is 17,000 ft highest recorded heli flight is around 21,000 ft that's still nowhere near summit
drum1286 4 months ago
@drum1286
Wrong, the record was set by a Lama and its around 41000feet.
This is not fake, it was done by a strippe down AS350.
staslig 2 months ago
wheres all the summit flags on the summit? if this chopper landed in may then thats the busiest time with climbers reaching the summit.
mounteverest53 4 months ago
GET TO THE CHOPPA!
latinluigi 5 months ago 2
They should use it to clear the dead bodies above 8000 meters
Kolgejt77 5 months ago
I cant post the link here but go to wikipedia search for eurocopter as350 and read the part of the text called achievements.
no its not fake, yes it is possible, yes it is the summit of the everest,
and no, the lama helicopter does not hold the heigth record anymore, its this exact same helicopter,
Get your facts straight and stop talking crap everyone.
CiTyMonk316 5 months ago 7
and one more thing.. remember that the higest flight with a helicopter vas to the altitude of 12,442 meters (40,814 ft). This was done with a Lama helicopter.. and the motor flamed out at peak altitude and the pilot had to audtorotate down. wich is also a world record :)
tomijorg 6 months ago
and one more thing.. the summit of everest is called Black faced becouse there is no sno there most of the time
tomijorg 6 months ago
i meant Vell at the beginning.
tomijorg 6 months ago
Venn. the teacher is almost right.. Is it goes. The snow dossen't have time to acumilate on the summit becouse its in a jet stream.. So no. Most of the time there is NO SNO on the summit. But. it happends :) Going to climb Everest in 2013 and K2 summit in 2015.. So. read the facts....
tomijorg 6 months ago
(sniff) wats that smell??? smells like ......bullshit
Ferretguy55 7 months ago
29 people reached the summit on foot and hate this video :P
swamigal 7 months ago 3
Not possible. The top of Everest only has a third of the Oxygen at sea level. A chopper would crash at that height very quick
fails2much 7 months ago
god job there wasn't anyone there!
TheLittleWorldofGaz 8 months ago
That's not landing.
Hrafnaskald 8 months ago
Awesome pilot, I bet the climbers that day were thinking what hell???? Wonder if I can get a ride down? Haha
mickeylerch 8 months ago
@lucastimmer First off, the only mod to that B3 was that it was basically stripped down to bare minimum for weight. Everything else was a plain-Jane stock B3. Second, someone said the video is fake. Nope, it's not. Third, did ya'll know that the world record for the highest helo rescue occured in a B2 version and not a B3???? Pretty damn cool!
ColtDeltaElite10mm 8 months ago
this is a fake vedio! n ilegal, Nepal government asked europian union to punish these bastards.
sarifonta 8 months ago
i hope to see a landing pad on the top by 2018
armbender777 9 months ago
It's nearly impossible to do what he just did and it was very very risky
StowersBEAST 10 months ago
I feel this is slightly ridiculous....why can't they use these helicopters to effect rescue missions that are so desperately needed when climbers are stuck in the death zone and beyond, on the mountain? seems like cheating to fly to the top of the world....i'd respect the pilot more if he actually summited the traditional way.
panneywei 10 months ago
@panneywei It's too expensive.
acr08807 9 months ago
What takes people years of preparation and a great deal of risk took a chopper just a few minutes to accomplish...gotta love it! LOL
Jarocho2003 10 months ago 2
@Jarocho2003 it did take him great risk, you know how difficult it would be to fly that high up. plus if he crashed assuming he survived he'd be boned
dawgfacesoldier 8 months ago
I wish a yeti had eaten these jerks
palaeologus1 11 months ago
It saddens me to see this. The summit of Everest is, for all intents and purposes, sacred ground, only deserved by those who have the will power and hunger to push their body to the limit for weeks on end so as to reach the top. It is a shame to see how easily this chopper reached the top. Almost like an insult to the mountain.
zorboth 11 months ago
@zorboth
I thought that same thing at first, but then thought about how many places in the world were virtually inaccessible even 100 years ago that are now visited quite frequently due to technological advances.
choctaw111 10 months ago
the hell, if we can supposedly fly helicopters to the summit, then why arent we flying helicopters to rescue people in distress past camp 4?
pat97pat 11 months ago
@pat97pat
Thats what we need a guaranteed rescue for the worthless clients of money hungry guides running a business taking unqualified shit for brains assholes to a summit that they have no right to be on in the first place. What a bonus that chopper might allow lady GaGa to make the summit in complete safety. Or how about we install hyperbaric chambers at all the high camps, hot tubs and maybe even a Starbucks or two.
1138thz 11 months ago
@1138thz How about we just take down all the ladders (esp. at Second Step) and assist ropes. Restore
the ultimate challenge.
davidleealford 10 months ago
@davidleealford
I like it a lot Dave!!!! And with that wise policy of removing the fixed gear at the expense of the profiteers we should also have them pay for the clean up of the whole mess they've made in th past. The idiot clients shouldn't be allowed to trash this sacred mountain for profit. We also need environmentalist Nazis in those hot shit helicopters to ensure that the mother fucking wannabe pigs behave and if they don't the miserable circus should be terminated on the spot.
1138thz 10 months ago
@pat97pat Because flying up there is not safe and who would risk that rescue job? Unmanned craft will do the job
duncantoms 11 months ago
thats pretty cool, but I bet they pissed off a lot of the climbers that were there watching a chopper land on the top :P
jdearman77 1 year ago
Wait... whos recording it?!
Kchandler1012 1 year ago
Nice! Try also searchin' "Backcountry snowboarding in the Dolomites - Monte Pore (2405 m)"!
aletuz 1 year ago
in the helicopter it just looks so easy
Louisthefish23 1 year ago
On May 14, 2005 an AS350 B3 piloted by Eurocopter test pilot Didier Delsalle touched down on the top of Mt. Everest, at 8,850 metres (29,035 feet) .[3] This record has been confirmed by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale.[4]
On April 29, 2010 a stripped-down AS350 B3 succeeded in rescuing three alpinists from Annapurna at 7,100 m, one at a time, the highest such rescue ever.
kits11326 1 year ago 2
@kits11326 It was not stripped down, they just removed all lose parts inside the helicopter like maps and tools, as well as the pilots door, so he could lean out and see what happens under his helicopter. But it was not about losing weight. But you are right, it was the highest rescue with a helicopter so far.
lehneraaron87 11 months ago
Totally fake the chopper would have fallen out of the sky! The air is way too thin at 29,000 for the blades to hold any kind of lift!
newguy1377 1 year ago
@newguy1377 you're retarded
ChronicMist 1 year ago
@newguy1377 its a specially designed chopper. I dont know the specifics, but its modded for slow accent into thin air
cambruda 1 year ago 12
@newguy1377 exactly..my point !
chillaax 11 months ago
Totally fake the chopper would have fallen out of the sky! The air is way too thin at 29,000 for the blades to hold any kind of lift!
newguy1377 1 year ago
Hackerdog, it's not called camp A, it's called " the north col" aka camp 1
TheCollindude 1 year ago
That day, I was in Advanced Base Camp, 6400m at the north side of Everest. I heard a chopper, and thought I could be suffering from cerebral edema...Happilly it really was a chopper. I think I remember it was at the very first time of the day, in a calm morning. No one could summit yet, at least at the north side, because of lack of good weaather consecutive days, necessary to acclimate and get the camps ready to climb and go back to the base camp.
Amazing pilot, amazing machine.
oriolfra 1 year ago
That day, I was in Advanced Base Camp, 6400m at the north side of Everest. I heard a chopper, and thought I could be suffering from cerebral edema...Happilly it really was a chopper. I think I remember it was at the very first time of the day, in a calm morning. No one could summit yet, at least at the north side, because of lack of good weaather consecutive days, necessary to acclimate and get the camps ready to climb and go back to the base camp.
oriolfra 1 year ago
Eurocopter AS350 B3 ceiling is 20,000'. Everest is 29,000.
go2karltube 1 year ago
@go2karltube Actually, the ceiling of an aircraft is not it's mechanical limit, but simply what it is certified for. So, under normal circumstances that would be the legal limit that no pilot is allowed to exceed. However, if you get an experienced pilot along with a thorough inspection of the helicopter, you can get a temporary permit to operate it at a higher altitude. Maybe 30,000ft for this attempt?
Vapor07ice 1 year ago
@Vapor07ice Not true. Ceiling of the aircraft is where the climbrate is below 1m/s. There might be other 'cheated ceilings' but the mentioned one held for decades.
krbosak 11 months ago
@go2karltube thus it being specially modified. lol
sarvelaj 1 year ago
I think it is real. Look at the Wikipedia article for "Eurocopter AS350" - there you have also some references.
Holdudiladio 1 year ago
Was it just the pilot onboard? Looks like they've stripped all unnecessary weight from the helicopter. Amazing piece of flying skill.
The As350B3 has a sevice ceiling of 15100 ft, he's gone nearly twice that by adding another 13929 ft to reach the peak at 29029 ft or 8848m!!
ianrkav 1 year ago
@Raymax01985
ur an idiot hackerdog is right he would prolly be crushed if he got out of the chopper
deerrunmassacre 1 year ago
its hardly a stock astar. its a Ecureuil AS 350 B3 twin engines, stripped shell. i have flown with Didier and spent lots of time with eurocopter.
canokiwi 1 year ago
@canokiwi The As 350 B2/3 series helicopters are single engine machines. The AS355 is the twin.
ianrkav 1 year ago
they're french thats what they do. heavy modified b3
canokiwi 1 year ago
@canokiwi its an unmodified helicopter! thats the gag of the whole thing. that they build a helicopter that can land on the top of the world without modification.
zaubermann7777 1 year ago
what the fuck are they doing! everest is a holy mountain!
nico19611 1 year ago
@hackerdog: Read that chapter about high and low pressure at different altitudes again. You find a lot on Mt. Everest, but high pressure is sure none of it.
magicveloce 1 year ago
the truth is, if he got out, without the oxygen mask, he would have like 30 seconds of life, before his body collapses due to the high pressure. That's why climbers have to stay on Base Camp, then Advanced Base Camp, and they often have to climb to camp A and return, just to give time to their bodies to adjust to the pressure.
hackerdog 1 year ago
@hackerdog The truth is, You're an idiot...
Raymax01985 1 year ago
@Raymax01985 Yeah?Then why don't you try it yourself?
hackerdog 1 year ago
@hackerdog
Its correct that the body may be collapsed, but not because of the pressure, its because your body dont have acclimatized with the low oxigen u have at over 7.000m...its just 1/3 of oxigen in the air. its because of the oxigenpartialpressure
RealestMcKoy 1 year ago
Bravo les gars, superbe !
ghune 1 year ago
@TheRaawan wrote, "anybody can conquer everest this way."
Really?
Please list the other instances in which a helicopter has touched skids, let alone touched skids and hovered for 2 minutes at Everest's summit.
As others have no doubt stated, you are a terribly ill-informed imbecile.
Also, don't waste your time looking for other helicopters that have touched skids to the summit of Everest, none other than this one ever has. Instead, why don't you just shove your head back up your ass. Bye!
AirplaneturboFan 1 year ago
great video, great achievement!
annore68 1 year ago
Wats he so proud of
SavetheStarving 1 year ago
@SavetheStarving
It's never been done before or since except for the two (2) days in a row that this test pilot did it.
Most helicopters cannot fly to this altitude and the few that can could not hold stead with skids touching the summit with the kind of wind that blows at that altitude around that mountain.
An INCREDIBLE machine, and an INCREDIBLE pilot.
Amazing and ballsy because one mistake and that copter is going to hit the mountain and not stop rolling downhill for about two miles.
AirplaneturboFan 1 year ago
@SavetheStarving
During the well-documented 1996 Everest disaster/fiasco in which eight (8) climbers died during an unexpected storm it was considered one of the most amazing feats ever of helicopter piloting to be able to get a helicopter up to a camp at 21,000 feet (6,400 meters) above sea level to evacuate U.S. climber Beck Weathers. The Everest summit is 29,035 feet (8,850 meters) above sea level.
That's why the pilot is proud.
AMAZING pilot, AMAZING machine.
AirplaneturboFan 1 year ago
@TheRaawan at least he went to kindergarten, something that you, obviously, skipped as well
swamigal 1 year ago
@TheRaawan also try not to use PC and send emails, use letters, use fingers to calculate etc......:P
swamigal 1 year ago
What a waste of time...
Tomosan2888 1 year ago
That is not what Everest looks like on the top, more like Nuptse which is about 26,000ft. Climbing window dates start around the end of March and go to about the end of May. If that landing really happend on May 14, 2005, where are the climbers and where is all prayer flags and photos left on top? I'm not saying it didn't happen, but for that time frame you would see footprintes and a very large prayer flag mond.
Anubis5by5 1 year ago
@Anubis5by5 - if you look there is a very large plume of snow drift off the summit, this means that the winds would be too strong to summit. also if you look, it is heavily wind scoured, so its most likely that any loose ice from feet have been shaved away...
EvelcyclopS 1 year ago
@Anubis5by5 I agree, at the current time I'm very skeptical of this so-called feat. Also where is the snow plume coming off the summit on the touchdown. They showed it earlier when the helicopter was climbing.
GOODY61 1 year ago
hey...that is cheating!
Project360Films 1 year ago 60
@Project360Films, cheating? HAHAHAHAHAHA
timmhg 5 months ago
@Project360Films or else fake ;-)
mutlipass 5 months ago
@callofduty906 OMG what a moron...
mariusrodrigo 1 year ago
Fake! Heli rescue is almost impossible above camp four or five! how could he have gotten to the SUMMIT? Plus that didn't really look like the summit and I didn't even see the prayer flags. Thumbs down. Seems fake...
UndeadInsanity 1 year ago
@UndeadInsanity LOL it's an OFFICIAL record by Eurocopterso no fake here
mariusrodrigo 1 year ago
@mariusrodrigo After googling it, I did see a record on national geographic. Maybe your right. But there were no prayer flags there which made it seem weird.. and I really don't support this record. It defeats the purpose of climbing and now people will just get in a helicopter, jump out, place a prayer flag, jump in and say they summited everest. We already have Sherpas pretty much just pulling us up it. Now were just gonna "climb" by helicopter?
UndeadInsanity 1 year ago
If this is real why are you being so ambiguous,why are you not showing land marks and tangible points that realy proved your point. I have climed Ama Dublam and Pumo Ri and have the pictures to prove it i risked frost bite to take pictures that left no dout i had summited,but you in a chopper couldnt even fly over the prayer flags and rubbish on the summit or even flyover Gorak shep to prove you were even that high,wich i dout..show the BBC NEWS report of the amazing event the i will belive it
TASHKENTGOATMAN 1 year ago
@TASHKENTGOATMAN You idiot this record has been officialized so stop telling rubbish please.
mariusrodrigo 1 year ago
Wouldn't have got there without the Turbomeca Arriel 2B Engine... a crowning achievement for both Eurocopter and Turbomeca.
helicoastie 1 year ago
The reason jet can't fly around mountain everest is because the altitude it to high when they takeoff. They takeoff 3 times slower on 29,000ft then 0ft.
PilotGleb 1 year ago
@TASHKENTGOATMAN I agree with you, that didn't look like Everest, and also, I thought the air is too thin up there for a chopper??? Wasn't the highest altitude chopper rescue on Everest? 'Cause to my knowledge, that was a very risky rescue anyway for the chopper, and it was nowhere near the top. I think it was for that guy, Beck Weathers in '96 when he survived that really bad storm that Rob Hall died in .
monewmeek 1 year ago
This is pure rubbish ..there is no way that can get to the summit..and theres no way the Neps would allow it..also why dint it make the news.....no way..it didnt even look like Everest I couldnt see Pumuri or Amma Dablam
TASHKENTGOATMAN 1 year ago
@TASHKENTGOATMAN It's called setting a record. Means it's never been done before, but not impossible. Documented as it happened. It's powered by a Turbomeca Arriel 2B Turboshaft engine, I know, I work for the company... It was a crowning achievement.
helicoastie 1 year ago
@helicoastie.. SIR I hate to dout your word but i do dout it,,for a start i realy dont think the Nepal goverment would let you do it,also the jet stream is blowing at 200miles an hour for 99% of the time and when its not there are assults being made on the summit ,i dont think they would want a chopper landing up there also where are all the prayer flags,,that also is not Lukla airport or the strip byThengbouche or the unfinished strip by Loubouche,,so all in all i think its rubbish
TASHKENTGOATMAN 1 year ago
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FlareneX 1 year ago
No big deal - I drove up Everest last month. Very boring
12stringmiser 1 year ago
It's the only chopper in the world who can do that...period!
and before that it was another Eurocpter Allouette 2/Lama...
None US, Russian or German never made it...
jetairfleet 1 year ago
Jesus, how would you land that on there? I don't even think most helicopters can even get to that altitude?
videoman223 1 year ago
great job!
relikvija2 1 year ago
Tenia entendido que un helicoptero no puede subir mas de 7000m, o eso siempre se hoye cuando tienen que hacer un rescate a algun alpinista del himalaya. No pueden rescatar pero si subir arriba del todo?
ilergetes77 1 year ago
@ilergetes77 Y tenias entendido bien, pero hay un par de modelos que sí, son capaces de subir tan arriba. El problema es q son carisimos de fabricación, mantenimiento... etc.. vamos q son inviables para realizar rescates.
KikinBcN 1 year ago
ive been there. no big
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negro6008 1 year ago
they really didn't land at all. How do you call the back of the aircraft in the air landing?
diehardorlive1 1 year ago
@diehardorlive1 i see that u dont understand how difficut that is, to even be at 8,848 meter with a helicopter is crazy
zwedanez 1 year ago
holy crap that is so fing cool
thaygood 1 year ago
Its pathetic how Americans taking this achievement personally in a way like someone is always competing with them.......Fuck, just settle down....no one is competing with you......
ferrarif40owner 1 year ago
oh my lord. I knew this had happened, but that's the first I've seen it. My heart was pounding the whole time. Way to go!
thinbutfun 1 year ago
@callofduty906 You can't live with the truth that Europeans beat Americans on this one.
TrickyEmu 1 year ago
fake
123milkdud 1 year ago
I am Jesus in the form of a troll telling you: all with your puny desires to be better then the next person to blog on here are stupid little beings of no significance. Your lives are pointless. None of you are better and anyone else. So why argue about it?
concoursboy 1 year ago
i fly chopper too i would never attempt that
drinks2muchbeer 1 year ago
amazing
troyisfilming 1 year ago
Fake?!
p3x92 1 year ago
Congrats to him. That there is even riskier than summiting everest on foot.
DSKonieczny22 1 year ago
f*cking unreal
f15mos 1 year ago
Was this the same chopper that rescued the climber in the may 1996 tragedy?
marick626 1 year ago
im rich...and im french...wat to do...hmmm..
skylineh34 1 year ago
did you see all the falling climbers that got blown off just when he landed? lol
TheBergillionaire 1 year ago
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did you see all the falling climbers that got blown off just when he landed? lol
TheBergillionaire 1 year ago
did you see all the falling climbers that got blown off just when he landed? lol
TheBergillionaire 1 year ago
should have given him a parking ticket to piss him off
TheBergillionaire 1 year ago
I really wish that they would build a road too the top soon !
happydaz32 1 year ago
thats not real
motofetzer 1 year ago
@motofetzer look it up
concoursboy 1 year ago
I wonder if he was on pressurized oxygen all the way up. You can't go up too fast or you will get the bends... just like deep sea divers coming to the surface..
MarkVA71 1 year ago
Actually, they shoved an oxygen canister up the pilots ass. I believe he was breathing about 2 liters per hour mixture of O2 and Ass mixture. The bends were therefore not a problem.....although removing the oxygen canister from his ass has presented itself as a sort of conundrum.
hpygolkyone 1 year ago 2
I'm simply amazed at the capability of the chopper at this altitude and the ability of the pilot. It's completely unrealistic to assume the pilot could land and get out. There is no way. Period. Great video! :)
AintLifeGarand 1 year ago 11
no you are not telling the truth...do you know what sort of boom that area has experienced due to tourism and such...people who would normally be making pennies on the dollar can now work as sherpas or other tasks that help out expeditions. Please understand that it is a mountain and the amount of time and money that task would take would not outweigh the benefits
norcalnorway 1 year ago
I would take of my hat off for that chopper driver if he parked the chopper on the top and climbed down. I think i did a heroish job when i climbed Mount Everest backwards in 1994 and this chopper thing is nothing compared to that achievement.
globe255 1 year ago
hard to believe. choppers cant fly this high. the air is to thin
FormulaShane 1 year ago
@FormulaShane LOOK IT UP
concoursboy 1 year ago
You should really make another video but make it prove that that is Everest. It's kinda hard to believe you.
whitetail193 1 year ago
@whitetail193 it really happened on everest this was a widely reported and well documented event.
Obelix6 1 year ago
@Obelix6 So was the moon landing but people still have there doubts about that.
b4igetu 1 year ago
I have heard they want to remove mount everest simply blow it up with some kind of special TNT (extremely powerful) and it will happen in 2011. why they do it is because it give too much shade from the sun, in the Takla Makan area. There is nothing to do about it. The chinese government has already decided it.
globe255 1 year ago
@globe255
your an idiot!
Obelix6 1 year ago
@Obelix6 Yes but im telling the truth.
globe255 1 year ago
@globe255 special TNT.. like maybe a nuke. and BS.. but.. it would be cool
concoursboy 1 year ago
@concoursboy Yes there is nothing like a big blow.
globe255 1 year ago
@globe255 some ones pulling your leg mate
Adooshamon 1 year ago
@Adooshamon Oh yes on a daily basis.
globe255 1 year ago
whatever
rexcars27 1 year ago
total sacrilige.
what next ronald macdonald on a pogo stick?
schmoonzx 1 year ago
@schmoonzx Diddy already did it
Dancing88Mike 1 year ago
that's not to land, it's to slightly touch the summit, but it's still amazing!
danieldrumss 1 year ago
Funny how many people think they know the operational characteristics of the AS350 by looking at the factory spec sheet.
LandoT7 1 year ago
Apperently its a true landing; National Geographic and alot of other sites have confirmed it. He actualy did the landing twice. It was allso the seasons first summit, which can explain the lag of human leftovers.
Zhqrxt 2 years ago 2
This event was FIM certified.
Do some research. Ultimate altitude record is 40,820 ft; 12,442 m set in 1972.
Jean Boulet (France) in Alouette SA 315-001 Lama powered by Artouste IIIB 735 KW engine; Istres, France, June 21, 1972. So of course a helicopter could land on Everest. Hard part is making the attempt concerns wind. Winds can be over 100 mph at the summit. Note how the pilot kept making corrections to keep the helo pointing into the wind. Amazing flight.
MaxCruise73 2 years ago
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keep telling yourself that! it is you who needs to do some research as it is not possible try not to believe everything you see, unless you see it with your own eyes
jasongamble81 2 years ago
ignorance is bliss.
JJboy1992 1 year ago
That's wrong and disrepectful for all the people who climbed Mt Everest. Get that freaking thing off the mountain, geez...
Ramarda 2 years ago
True Point.
EstateRavePosse 1 year ago
fake!even to a 4/6 eyesight!
capfpaz 2 years ago
@capfpaz look it up !!!!!!
concoursboy 1 year ago
Sorry but there were no prayer flags in the summit and if a helicopter could
Fly at that altitude which it could't it would be able to easily land on the summit
powwnage 2 years ago
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HA HA HA,this is so fake youn can smell it,no chopper can reach this altitude,kiss my ass aniketanikhindi.
rune2300 2 years ago
I agree, this must be some other mountain. The service ceiling of an AS350 B3 is 4,600m which is barely half the height of everest, i dont think that they would get the max height that wrong.
sheepman222 2 years ago
The service ceiling is not the maximum height that an aircraft can reach.
cybereyev 2 years ago 5
@sheepman222 can people not research things?
concoursboy 1 year ago
i thought it was impossible to land a helicopter on everest or even go to some of the higher camps. i thought the air was too thin
14ramosr 2 years ago
They touched down. That counts. Shows how scary it would be to climb to the top. Machine is impressively high tech but climbing still seems like the bigger adventure than getting a machine to go up there.
mythmoth 2 years ago
no they did not really land, they touched the summit with a few inches of the landing skid.
KMartha22 2 years ago
It's incredible. everybody is so quick to criticize them for what? not shutting off the engines and stepping out for a smoke? You're missing the point. They landed a chopper on Everest. A chopper!!!! It's intense.
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plsniper 1 year ago
That's definitely everest, but where was the landing? Weak
cokeuberalles 2 years ago
I dont think thats everst. Wheres all the flags? And the summit is big round and flat. When the expeditions go up they fit like 10 people on it at a time. that helicopter rested its nose down for like 30 seconds on a fin of snow. Even if it was everest, i dont think resting the nose down and not getting a full touchdown qualifies as "landing"
surfandsk8 2 years ago
lol that would be funny if after all that work, OOPS wrong mountain... Everest is THAT one...
afcanesfan 2 years ago 2
well i guess i was wrong, because i did some research and they did land on everst. allthough the story did note there were no witnesses except this video.
But still...30 seconds with the nose touching counts as a landing?
surfandsk8 2 years ago
haha I laughed at this comment
KMartha22 2 years ago
@surfandsk8 Yes it does count. What you think matters not to the International Aviation Commission bla bla bla.. look it up!
concoursboy 1 year ago
This crap
c4t2f0 2 years ago
this guy sucks!!! try to climb it like the rest of the people did. WEAK!! This place should be reserved for climbers only.
bostonbruin77 2 years ago