Mountaineering Videos

Happily Exhausted. The rest of the day's trekking has finally brought us to the town of Namche Bazaar. Namche is fairly well-known since it serves as the gateway to the Everest region here in Nepal.

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"In Person" Is Important. The podcast has been a great tool to get people around the world familiar with the Everest region. But this morning it became clear there's no competition for personal experience.

Too Much Information. We walked out of Lukla and left the infrastructure of modern life behind us. From here on out, there will be no roads and the only trains will be yak trains. How cool is that?

The Gold Standard? We landed in Lukla, Nepal this morning and everyone was looking forward to seeing-and experiencing-the famous Lukla Airstrip. A quick flight to Lukla is the first stage of most treks to the South Side of Everest.

The Team Arrives. For the past 3 years I've been trying to show a more complete picture of what it's like to visit Everest and the Himalayas. Now, with a bunch of my audience members standing around me here in Kathmandu, that picture is going to become even more complete!

Back To Everest...Again. The highly anticipated season 4 of The Rest of Everest begins this week with a nice overview of what to expect from the Everest Trek 2009 episodes.

Author and famed mountaineer Ed Viesturs discusses why he wrote his book K2: LIFE s Most Dangerous Mountain, Viesturs explores the remarkable history of the mountain and of those who have attempted to conquer it. At the same time he probes K2 s most memorable sagas in an attempt to illustrate the lessons learned by confronting the fundamental questions raised by mountaineering questions of risk, ambition, loyalty to one s teammates, self-sacrifice, and the price of glory.

Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform to Washington, many now say that the recession is nearing an end. But is it business as usual for Wall Street, and have future financial crises been averted? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) join Bill Moyers for a report card on the bailouts, an update on the state of the U.S. economy, and to find out whether efforts of reform have been derailed. And, Bill Moyers remembers his friend, renowned physician and mountaineer Charlie Houston.

Eddie Bauer will launch First Ascent in 183 of its stores across North America on October 12, 2009. First Ascent is Eddie Bauer's new line of expedition-quality mountaineering outerwear, apparel, and gear built by a team of the world's foremost mountain guides, including Peter Whittaker, Ed Viesturs and Dave Hahn. To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www2.prnewswire.com/mnr/eddiebauer/40168/

The Himalayas Are Worth It. While the team was trekking out from A4, Ben filmed some interviews with other trekkers met on the trail.

Explore Tibet with http://teakdoor.com The Travel Forum. Lhasa is at an altitude of 3,500 meters and is the administrative capital of Tibet Lhasa has many sites of historic interest, including the Potala Palace, Drepung Monastery, Jokhang Temple, Sera Monastery, Norbulingka and Zhefeng Temple. Learn more and view high quality pictures of Tibet at http://teakdoor.com

The D Engolmar cave is a cave that is on the north side of Bocairent just on the outskirts of the old mediaeval part of the village. The cave goes underneath the town itself. When I videoed the cave I did not have a torch with me and so was unable to video down at the deepest point, however in photos we took with flash we have since noticed that the cave seems to carry on even deeper than we had originally thought, so I do intend to go back someday and explore the cave better with a good torch.