Joost Kobusch

Well, I was up on Everest and my tent was shaken very hardly this morning. So I woke up to realise I was surrounded by avalanches coming down the mountain.

Exactly. So I'm trying to solo climb Everest in the winter without oxygen on the West Ridge. So I'm not climbing in the normal route. I'm climbing a technical route that is rocky and icy and steep. So I'm in my tent on a granite balcony at 5,700 in a steep wall. And that's exactly when the earthquake hit.

One of the biggest challenges of climbing Everest in the winter is the extreme wind speed up there. So my tent was very, very well secured. And it's in a spot where I was sure I couldn't be hit by any wind.

rocks or ice so in a way i felt very safe but there were big parts of glaciers collapsing and exploding around me and the shock waves hit me and well some bits of ice hit the tent and well let's put it this way the tent um has has seen his last expedition

Right now, at the moment, I'm actually back to the base camp and I'm in a safe spot. I'm not in that camp anymore. But being up there, it's basically left and right. There are big chunks of glacier that are falling down, collapsing, forming avalanches.

But also, yeah, it's just like explosion shockwaves from this ice collapsing and fine snow particles, sometimes less fine, pushing against the tent. Yeah.

Absolutely. This could potentially kill you.

To me, alpinism is a journey into the unknown. And I'm very curious about what awaits me up there. And I'm very curious about what I can achieve as an athlete, as a human being. And therefore, I'm very much drawn to this.

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