Chris Bonington Everest Expedition 1982 - The Last Unclimbed Ridge (Part 2)

Thank you for uploading this. Shame the end is missing, but the book has that information anyway. Cheers!

Thank you for this historical document

How they ever thought they could pull this off is totally beyond me. First: The wind, colder temperatures on this route is brutal Second: Digging snow holes, fixing roaps with no oxygen Third: the pinnacles are horrid at that alltude without oxygen. Fourth: no way make it over the pinnacles with fixing roaps without oxygen, with horrible cold temperatures at that alltude plus going on to the North ridge on to the summit over the 3 steps without roaps being fixed. I mean who in their right mind would actually believe this could be done. Plus their plan wasn't descending the north Col they planned to go back through the pinnacles with the roaps they fixed. No way, they didn't have oxygen to be able to live more than 2 day's. Hell one day they weren't even at the 2nd pinnacle and it was 9 pm. The only way the Japanese did it was they had a huge team with Sherpa fixing a shit ton of roaps.

Was the ending intentional? Woah!😮 “Just gaze at the huge terrifying face, there’s an immenseness of oppression…” ( video cuts to garble and warping)

Oh he's brilliant Sir Chris

Poor Joe and Pete ...... gone way too soon.

It’s like the guys new the night before they set off that they wasn’t coming back..I think the had that realisation moment of the danger in the task in hand...Rip

A pity there were not more experienced and competent high altitude climbers on the team?

A whole generation of great British rock climbers wiped out by not really appreciating the problems associated with high altitude that we know now...the joy of hindsight

The Joe and Pete is actually visible on the photo 4:00

I wonder if they made it over the pinnacles??? Or did they fall???? So damn sad

Any idea how much is missing off the end?

I always wondered about this expedition, rumour has it that a lot of alcohol was consumed. Why no support team?

04:05 mins Damn it... Poor guys !

Iam not a big fan of Chris I think he knows the odds ,he always has death on his trips to Everest, an his career was boosted by others miss mishaps, he feels bad cause he sentenced to people to death an got his fame from it like all his other expedition, my opinion only .