Everest 2026 has already gone wrong - and the climbers haven’t even reached the summit yet. This Mount Everest 2026 update dives into the chaos of a record-breaking permit season, the collapsing Khumbu Icefall, and why the "Ice Tower of Doom" is creating a survival nightmare for this year's expeditions. If you love mountaineering disasters, survival stories, adventure documentaries, the 2026 Everest season is shaping up to be one of the most unhinged tragedies in mountain history. I'm covering everything from the 492 permits issued to the first casualties of the year and the record-breaking summit attempts that are quickly turning into a logistical catastrophe. Tim Allardyce interview video link: https://youtu.be/zlkCJf9Lbv4?si=xT5xyYiWX4N-4KTU Key moments in this update: 0:00 Everest 2026: It’s already gone wrong 0:24 The Khumbu Icefall "Death Trap" 1:54 1,000 People? The South Side is a Zoo 2:46 Ryan Mitchell’s 35% Blood Oxygen Drama 3:29 The Warning: "Climb at your own risk" 3:56 Is Climate Change making Everest "easier"? 4:27 First Casualties: A tragedy before Base Camp 4:47 The Serac Collapse and a tragic pioneer’s end 6:08 Whiteout Hell: Trapped in the Death Zone 7:09 The Deadly Summit Queue is coming 6:00 The Impossible Dilemma 8:19 What happens next? #Everest2026 #MountEverest #EverestUpdate #Mountaineering #EverestNews #KhumbuIcefall #MichelleVsHumanity Join the Campfire Conversations & get exclusive "unhinged" content: https://www.patreon.com/15055758/join FREE Everest Read / Watch guide - https://linktr.ee/michelle.vs.humanity My other channels: https://www.tiktok.com/@michelle.vs.humanity https://www.instagram.com/michelle.vs.humanity Photo credits: Hillary Step near Everest top (retouched).jpg Photo via Wikimedia Commons Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence Source: Wikimedia Commons Queue photo: Nirmal Purja Ladder photo: Jam McManus DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for education and entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. No copyright infringement intended. If you are, or represent, the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please send an email to [email protected]. Don't forget to like this video and subscribe for more unhinged stories from the edges of humanity!
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I don't understand why they went ahead. They even have a ceremony asking the mountains permission to climb it. This year clearly the mountain said NO and still they go ahead. Nothing good will come of this.
I love mountain climbing which can feel very zen, rewarding and spiritual. I don't think there's that experience to be had at Everest. It looks like a nightmare with that many people.
They should have called the season off after they found this huge serac blocking the route. The moutain clearly says "no".
Zero summits and it’s already like this. Are we looking at the worst Everest season on record?
Maybe the mountain is shaking itself! And the permits are money even if they all fail
The Ice Fall Doctors, said, "NO", the Rope Fixers said, "NO", the Mountain said, "NO", yet..........the industry/expeditioners said, "screw you, if you wont do it, we WILL"! So.....up they went fixing their OWN ropes and ladders and making their OWN ROUTES up. And yet...........the mountain is STILL saying, "NO"!
You say 'as safely as possible ' whilst showing a five ladder bridge across a crevasse. Laughing, but it's not funny at all.
In the whole blood oxygen thing, I am not mountaineer, but I was my mums carer while she was dying of lung cancer. The body can manage for a limited time on lower SpO2 levels but cant maintain it long term. People with COPD should have levels between 88 and 92. My mums was often around 50-70 especially if she had moved.
Wow, this was really interesting
I think Everest is finally saying, “Enough is enough! Get off of me and leave me alone! I’m sick of your trash!”
I donot admire the oeople trying to climb Everest these days. If it weren’t for the poor Sherpas doing all the work, I’d say 99% of the people trying to climb wouldn’t have the skill to even make it out of Base Camp. Just a bunch of rich, entitled parvenues playing at mountaineering.
The mountain is constantly telling people to stay away. I’m listening.
Greed>Human Life
Oh please, what is this channel