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The vast majority of people on planet earth have not and will not ever climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on the planet. For context, only around 6,600 people in history have ever successfully made it to the summit of Mt. Everest.
But thanks to those who have climbed to the top of the earth *and* documented their expedition, most of us have at least seen some of the images of what it looks like at the top of the world’s tallest mountain. Now, DJI Drones have changed the game with drone footage of Mt. Everest that’s unlike anything ever seen before.
Using a new DJI Mavic 3 Pro drone, they flew from Mount Everest base camp to the summit and back and filmed the journey. The drone’s Everest flight time was 43 minutes, a journey that takes climbers weeks or months, and the footage they got is absolutely stunning when condensed into just 4 minutes and 11 seconds. Enjoy:
Call me crazy, but I actually enjoyed the parts of the video where it went from desolate icy mountain to showing groups of climbers bunched together on their way up to the summit. Seeing that string of expeditioners in the Camp 2 section at 6,500 meters of elevation (21,325 feet) was fascinating.
Conversely, I was thankful the video did a great job at not showing the piles of trash and dead bodies near the summit. There are estimated to be over 200 deceased still on the mountain, preserved in the ice and left by expedition crews who couldn’t risk their own lives to take the corpses down. And I’m thankful I didn’t have to sit through that visual on a casual Wednesday morning.
Not to be lost in this either is this drone footage might capture the best Mount Everest weather I’ve ever seen. There’s almost always a storm circling at some point of the mountain but those blue skies are stunning.