Videos from Everest with author and adventurer Matt Dickinson Press Release

© Matt Dickinson

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of his first ascent of Everest, Matt joined Jagged Globe on their 2016 Everest South Col expedition as the teams' official writer in residence.

In this series of video clips, which were filmed by author and adventure filmmaker Matt to document the trip, he shows us the sights he encountered during his journey to Base Camp.

Everest Files Clip 1 from Vertebrate Publishing on Vimeo.

Here we see him following a Sherpa carrying a huge load across one of the main suspension bridges over the Khumbu River.

 

Everest Files Clip 2 from Vertebrate Publishing on Vimeo.

Matt following a yak train carrying his bag across a suspension bridge en route to Namche Bazaar. To the south, you can see Lukla and the route out of the mountains.

 

Everest Files Clip 3 from Vertebrate Publishing on Vimeo.

With ten days to go before the team reached Base Camp, they caught their first glimpse of Everest. Lhotse, the worlds fourth highest mountain, can be seen to the right.

 

Everest Files Clip 4 from Vertebrate Publishing on Vimeo.

Sadly, one member of the team had to cut his Everest expedition short, after contracting an altitude-related illness. Here we see him being airlifted to a hospital in Kathmandu.

 

Everest Files Clip 5 from Vertebrate Publishing on Vimeo.

A couple of kilometres away from Base Camp, Matt has a rather curious encounter...

 

Everest Files Clip 6 from Vertebrate Publishing on Vimeo.

In this clip, Matt shows us a yak train moving down the mountain and a Sherpa carrying a cumbersome load to Base Camp.

 

Everest Files Clip 7 from Vertebrate Publishing on Vimeo.

Following a trek through the Khumbu Valley, Matt takes his final steps on his journey to Base Camp.

 

Everest Files Clip 8 from Vertebrate Publishing on Vimeo.

Matt takes us on a tour of Jagged Globe's camp where we can see prayer flags hung up in preparation for a Puja ceremony and avalanches falling over the tops of the peaks in the background.

 

Everest Files Clip 9 from Vertebrate Publishing on Vimeo.

Matt captures an aircraft flying out of the Himalaya.

 





14 Jul, 2016
Yer Ma...
14 Jul, 2016
I love his 1996 film Blessed Everest. I still have it on tape recorded off the telly, and could probably recite it verbatim.

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