Filming Equipment in Nepal | There's an Element of Risk That We Accept

 Filming Equipment in Nepal

Can you make climbing Mount Everest safe? Not really. Whenever you’re on Everest, or any mountain on Earth, there are risks involved. There are dangers that you have to accept—whether it’s ice fall, storms, or avalanches. When you go into that arena, you accept the fact that something can happen. The earthquake in Nepal that caused an avalanche on Everest was beyond our control. One sad part of what happened in Nepal is that the avalanche destroyed parts of Base Camp, which is traditionally a haven of safety. It’s where you come off the mountain to relax, recuperate, and recharge. And then you go back up on the mountain and throw yourself once again into risky situations. Now, climbers are going to lose that sense of comfort and safety that you pretty much always felt when you were at Base Camp. My last trip to Everest was in 2009. That was my seventh climb on that side of the mountain. 

Filming Equipment in Nepal

I’ve seen and lived through many incidences in the mountains, including the tragic events which occurred on Everest in 1996, popularized by Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air. Just a year ago, an avalanche in the icefall killed more than a dozen sherpas on Everest. Mountains are always going to be dangerous. I do a lot of speaking about the risk management part of the climb. There are objective dangers in the mountain that we can’t control. But there are also the subjective dangers: how we decide what to do, when to climb, whether we decide to continue or turn around. Letting ambition and hubris overcome common sense is when people start to have problems. Most climbers out there are very ambitious, motivated, and driven. Getting to the summit is the primary goal. I’ve always said that getting down the mountain is my primary goal. A lot of people lose sight of that. All of their energy, resources and planning goes into getting to the top, and getting down is an afterthought. Because of this, the majority of accidents occur on the way down, rather than on the way up.

Source : https://time.com/3836706/everest-avalanche-safety-and-risk/