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counting down
our picks for the top 10 mysterious and
creepy events on mount everest welcome
to the himalayas
close the tent now it's freezing are you
being sarcastic
dude i don't even know anymore for this
list we'll be looking at some eerie
unexplained and generally unsettling
events that have occurred on the slopes
of mount everest would you be willing to
climb the mountain after all this
be sure to let us know in the comments
number 10 the tale of maurice wilson in
1932
military man maurice wilson discovered a
love for prayer and fasting
after he was cured of an illness two
years later
wanting to prove his convictions to the
world wilson decided to climb everest
despite a significant lack of
mountaineering experience
he thought that by scaling everest when
prior professionals had failed
he would demonstrate the power of faith
to do anything
he actually made it to almost 23 000
feet before his progress was hampered by
a 40-foot ice wall
the accompanying sherpas told him to
give up but wilson refused to listen
he admitted in his diary this will be a
last effort and pushed on
he died of exhaustion just a few days
later in his tent
peter you left the flap open like a
thousand degrees in here lois
close the tent now it's freezing number
nine
sleeping beauty everest is kind of
terrifying
not only because it's so dangerous but
because it's littered with hundreds of
frozen corpses
oh my god dad it's okay there's a huge
pile of dead bodies down here that
cushion my fall
taking a body down is expensive and
dangerous so most are simply left on the
mountain as frozen mummies
one of the most famous bodies is
sleeping beauty
i'll never forgive myself
we're all to blame real name francis
arsentiev this hawaiian woman was the
first
female to scale mount everest without
the use of supplemental oxygen
however she became exhausted from oxygen
deprivation and collapsed on the descent
she twice encountered fellow climbers
and while both teams attempted a rescue
they were ultimately forced to leave her
behind to save themselves
arsentiev froze to death and her purple
jacketed corpse became known as sleeping
beauty
number eight an astronaut's last descent
in 1993 astronaut and northwestern
university professor
carl gordon hennis scaled everest to
test a device called the tissue
equivalent proportional counter
or tepc for short this counter measured
the effects of radiation on the human
body
henae's planned to use the counter at
three different altitudes
seventeen thousand nineteen thousand and
twenty one thousand feet
he scaled the mountain with a research
group called high adventure bvi
but began to suffer significant
breathing problems at 22 000
feet the team attempted to save him with
oxygen but they failed
henae's died in his sleep from high
altitude pulmonary edema and was buried
on the mountain
number 7 the vanishing snowboarder in
2001
marco sefredi did the impossible he rode
down everest on a snowboard
his adventure began at the summit and he
rode down to advanced base camp at north
coal
he then rode down the norton couloir for
two hours
wanting an even bigger accomplishment to
his name sefredi decided to descend the
more challenging hornbane kuwar the
following year
if successful he would become the first
person in the world to do so
the sherpas urged sifredi not to go as
he was exhausted
from the climb and the weather had
changed he went anyway and was never
seen again
the sherpas reported seeing no snowboard
tracks and sifradi's body has never been
found number six the maybe russian
expedition of 1952.
did the russians attempt to scale
everest in 1952
it's possible so you're telling me
there's a chance
yeah it's said that a team of russian
climbers
led by one dr pavel dashnolion set off
in october of 1952 to scale the mountain
but that their expedition was a disaster
resulting in six
deaths this trip has been documented in
some supposedly reputable sources
including the manchester guardian the
tribune de geneve the alpine journal
and walt unsworth's book everest the
mountaineering history
however russia has consistently denied
that the expedition took place
and there has been no physical evidence
to support the theory
did some wires get crossed in the
reporting was this some super secret
mission
no one seems to know i'll tell you
something you don't want to know
and i don't know number five mallory and
irvine on the morning of june the 6th
odell took this picture of mallory and
irving leaving camp 4 on the north carol
it's the last picture ever taken of them
the 1924 british everest expedition is
often debated this expedition saw george
mallory and sandy irvine attempting to
become the first people to summit
everest they disappeared while climbing
the mountain and weren't seen for
another 75 years
it wasn't until 1999 that mallory's body
was finally
discovered by a research expedition
completely frozen
and mummified i looked over to my right
and all of a sudden i saw a patch of
white
that wasn't rock and it wasn't snow and
all of a sudden i'm gonna go look over
here and as i started traversing closer
to this
i saw what appeared to be the lower part
of a leg
it was found with a significant rope
jerk injury around the waist
a broken leg and a wound in his forehead
irvine has never been found
and whether or not they were successful
in their ascent remains unknown
he was determined and he was tough and
he was strong
and i think i think he made it i think i
think he and
irvine both made it number four mountain
ghosts
i see dead people as previously
mentioned everest plays host to
many frozen bodies but is it also the
home of their ghosts
if sherpa pimba durhy is to be believed
then yes
dorhi claims to have ascended everest in
just eight hours
a record that was confirmed by the
tourism ministry of nepal but rejected
by the guinness book of world records
while climbing the mountain dorhi claims
to have seen numerous ghostly shadowy
figures approaching him with their arms
outstretched
a gesture said to be indicative of their
starvation in life
in fact many sherpas are said to believe
in the mountain's ghosts
however it's also possible that the
ghosts are mere hallucinations caused by
the high altitude
it's not a matter that concerns you mr
torrance
at least not at this point
anything you say lloyd anything you say
number three mysterious deaths in 2017
the world was hit with conflicting
reports regarding some supposed deaths
on everest
sherpas had found the bodies of four
climbers in a tent on the mountain
they reported this news to the
associated press and reuters and the
report was published in numerous
mainstream outlets
however none of the expeditions climbing
everest at the time had reported anyone
missing
nepal's tourism department also cast out
on the report saying that dozens of
climbers would have also seen the tent
in bodies
yet no one had reported seeing anything
was this another instance of everest
ghosts
were the sherpas mistaken once again no
one seems to know
are you being sarcastic dude i don't
even know anymore
number two the wild man of the snows
welcome to the himalayas does the yeti
reside on mount everest
well there have been numerous personal
and eyewitness accounts
in charles howard brewery's book mount
everest the reconnaissance 1921
he reports seeing large footsteps in the
snow his sherpa guides said they belong
to the wild man of the snows
there's no doubt about it there was
something else here too
perhaps the most thrilling supporting
evidence are photographs from
mountaineer eric shipton
they show large footprints in the snow
and sparked widespread national interest
in the yeti
even to this day the photos remain
fiercely debated with some declaring
them the best existing evidence of the
yeti
nowadays they'd be cries of hoax
but back in the 1950s respectable
adventurers
were taken at their word before we
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number one frank smith sees something
frank smythe was an experienced english
mountaineer
in 1931 he set a summit record by
successfully scaling
india's comet he later embarked on three
everest expeditions throughout the 30s
the first rattled smith to his core in
his book camp
6 the 1933 everest expedition smythe
reports feeling a presence beside him as
he scaled the mountain
believing this presence to be real he
took a mint cake from his belongings and
attempted to share it
did you ever have the feeling
that the eyes of strange eerie things
are upon you
he also reported seeing two curious
objects floating in the sky
that resembled kite balloons they
supposedly hovered and seemed to pulsate
these could be hallucinations stemming
from
oxygen deprivation or they could be
ghosts
or aliens extraterrestrial life
you're right jerry the people are gonna
love it
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