Skiing Down Mount Everest with No Oxygen: It’s a Wild Ride

From Red Bul­l’s YouTube Chan­nel: “Ski moun­taineer Andrzej Bargiel becomes the first per­son to climb Mount Ever­est and ski back to Ever­est Base Camp with­out sup­ple­men­tary oxy­gen. After near­ly 16 hours climb­ing in the high alti­tude “death zone” (above 8,000m where oxy­gen lev­els are dan­ger­ous­ly low), Bargiel clipped into his skis on the sum­mit of the tallest moun­tain on earth and start­ed his descent via the South Col Route. He reached Camp II that night and rest­ed — the sum­mit ridge and Hillary Step had tak­en longer than planned, mean­ing dark­ness made it dan­ger­ous and dif­fi­cult to nav­i­gate fur­ther that day. The next morn­ing, he skied through the treach­er­ous Khum­bu Ice­fall — guid­ed by a drone flown by his broth­er, Bartek — before safe­ly arriv­ing at Base Camp to become the first per­son to ascend and descend Mount Ever­est on skis with no sup­ple­men­tary oxy­gen.”

View­er be warned, it’s quite a ride!