Joost Kobusch
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 21 Jul
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ugly and you don't want to go there anymore many routes that we used to climb there aren't climbed anymore and interestingly since the glacier is melting sometimes it adds some extra meters to a climb that can be very very challenging that usually were covered by the glacier
and not often of the best rock quality.
And seeing these changes, of course, I realised that within a few years of my lifetime, I can witness the glacier melting and walking way, way further down to the glacier than before.
And it's alarming.
It's something that I can visibly see in a few years.
So imagine the impact that it has over a longer time.
Also in this podcast... 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.
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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