The Stories Behind the Climbers: April 1, 2009

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Uploaded by on May 11, 2009

First Ascent team members Ed Viesturs, Peter Whittaker, Melissa Arnot, and Dave Hahn talk about why they choose to climb Everest.

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  • Interesting!

    thank you for posting!

    I wish you a successful climb!

  • 2:47 "Heading to Everest Base Camp"? No you're not, Everest Base Camp is exactly the opposite direction ;-)

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  • YOU GUYS SHOULD THANKS SHERPA TOO. WITHOUT SHERPA CAN YOU CLIMB?

  • i just watched all in the playlist and i didnt see no climbng WTF

  • ed has climbed all 14 8,000ers without o's and has carried loads with sherpas on everest. I'm sure he repects what the sherpas do.

  • thats why they do it, to make it harder

  • This is a elite class of climber: people who've been training and learning about the limits of their bodies for years at a time. I take my hat off to them for their focus and dedication to this highly challenging risk. It's a amazing what the body can be trained to do.

  • ive been there

    2:00

    i think its called pokhra

    cant really remember it was like a year and a half ago

  • not using O2 is completely insane and very stupid- lack of oxygen can cause rapid onset of altitude sickness and cause pulmonary embolysms resulting in death.

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