South Coast assistant scout leader’s peak performance at high-altitude

South Coast assistant scout leader’s peak performance at high-altitude.

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00:00These are the mountains that I'm about a half an hour's walk away from Ampharos Base Camp.

00:11This area is known as the Kumbu Icefall.

00:17I'll bring this up a bit closer.

00:25There's a little black mountain in the middle there.

00:33Yeah, that one there in the back, that's Mount Everest.

00:37Hasn't got as much snow because it's windy up there, and it's steep.

00:42In the meantime, there's a few rocks falling on the opposite hillside.

00:50And all of these mountains feed, and the snow feeds into a glacier.

00:57Kumbu Glacier, 14km long.

01:06Yeah, normally about 2 o'clock these clouds seem to come over the mountains.

01:16But yeah, we've been lucky today, so I'll get down to the base camp before these clouds come in.

01:22Just left Gokho village this morning.

01:25Climbed about 600m, now we're at about 5400m altitude.

01:33Some really tall mountains here.

01:37That one that's got the head in the clouds, that's Mount Everest, the highest mountain.

01:49Just to the right of that is Mount Nipsey, 7840m.

01:54To the right of that, Mount Lhotse.

01:57And to the right of that is Mount Makalu, which is the 5th highest.

02:07Yeah, quite a few from up here.

02:11I'll just focus in on Mount Everest.

02:17Yeah, so that's Mount Everest on the left, Nipsey in the middle, and Mount Lhotse on the right.

02:24So really high mountains those ones.

02:28And that's Gokho lake where I left this morning.

02:34The village is on the left hand side of the lake.

02:39Yeah, 600m climb, now we're at 5400m altitude.

02:45But yeah, nice day.