Everest: Beyond the Limit

  • Russell Brice: Expedition Leader
  • Phurba Tashi: Lead Sherpa
  • Mogens Jensen: Asthmatics
  • Tim Wayne Medvetz: Motorcycle developers

Season 1

  • Terry O'Connor: ambulance
  • Brett Merrell: Firefighter
  • Mark Inglis: leg amputee

Season 2

  • David Tait: millionaire
  • Rob Baber: Seven Summits -slayer
  • Betsy Huelskamp: journalist

Season 1

  • Max Chaya: Seven Summits -slayer
  • Gérard Bourrat: 62 -year-old climber

Season 2

  • Fred destination: doctor
  • Darius Vaiciulis: Mobile retailers
  • Monica Piris: expedition doctor

Everest - Game with death is a produced by the Discovery Channel television series about two ascents of Mount Everest, which were by the organizer Himalayan Experience ( Himax ) organized and conducted by Russell Brice.

Action

In the first season, a seventeen -member production team accompanied a group of 11 climbers, three guides and 24 Sherpas from the base camp on the northern route to the summit of Mount Everest in 8848 meters altitude. Among the climbers, the amputee Mark Inglis and asthmatic Mogens Jensen.

The second season shows in 8 episodes climbing the highest mountain in the world once again using the northern route.

Season 1 - Game with death

The first season deals with the ascent of Mount Everest from the base camp or the advanced base camp (ABC) in Tibet on the northern route over 4 high camp to the summit. The route has been previously secured with fixed ropes of Sherpas and equipped with oxygen bottles and supplies.

The American Fireman of the Los Angeles Fire Department ( LAFD ) Brett Merrell already returned to 7300 meters due to exhaustion and to put up at the base camp. The Danish climber Mogens Jensen, who wanted to climb the mountain without oxygen had to, because of dizziness and nausea reverse one hours below Camp 4 at 8250 meters.

Team 1 with a mountain guide Bill Crouse started at 1:00 on the summit of Camp 4. The American emergency physician and specialist in height diseases Terry O'Connor reached the first participants of Himax expedition to the summit of Mount Everest.

14 May 2006 23 against clock team broke 2 with mountain guide Mark "Woody" Woodward at temperatures from -40 ° C from the high camp 4. The Lebanese Max Chaya reached the summit at 6:30 and has successfully climbed all Seven Summits. The leg amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit in second and can return to Camp 4, but had to be lowered on the following day due to severe frostbite on his stumps and five fingertips from there. The U.S. motorcycle developer Tim Wayne Medvetz must at 8780 meters, turn back just 70 meters below the summit, on the repeated command of Russel Brice for outgoing oxygen supplies. Also, the 62- year-old Frenchman Gérard Bourrat had to turn back there and lost by freezing the crests of all fingers and toes.

During ascent and descent, the team got past the dying Englishman David Sharp, without initiating a bailout, which later leads to controversy in the media.

Season 2 - Return to the icy heights

In Season 2 returns the two protagonists unsuccessful Mogens Jensen and Tim Wayne Medvetz from Season 1 to Everest back to venture a second attempt together with three other climbers on the Tibetan northern route.

The American journalist Betsy Huelskamp already had to return to the upstream base camp below the high camp 2 due to hypoxia and is later taken by expedition leader due to their lack of burdock skills from the team.

David Tait and Phurba Tashi Sherpa were the first to the summit, crossed it and descended on the unsecured Nepalese south side.

A day later, started Team 1 led by a mountain guide Mark "Woody" Woodward for the summit attempt. Tim Medvetz broke below the Second Step in a fall the right hand. Rob Baber reached the summit and led from the top with a mobile phone call. He took off his sunglasses, so slowly began a snow blindness with him during the descent. 06:20 Fred went a goal at the summit, half an hour later Darius Vaiciulis. The last came to the injured Tim Medvetz. All were able to descend into the ABC successful again.

Team 2 was led by mountain guides Kuraoka Hiroyuki. Katsusuke Yanagisawa reached in this group with an age of 71 years than previously oldest climber at the summit of Mount Everest.

Season 3 - Mountain without mercy

The third season of the documentation and was first aired on the Discovery Channel on 27 and 30 December 2009. The squadron documented Russel Brice's Himax team while climbing the southern route, which is known for its famous obstacles such as the Hillary Step and the Khumbu Icefall. The participant David Tait from the second season is also on this expedition again part of the group.

Actor

  • Russell Reginald Brice ( born July 3, 1952) is a New Zealand mountaineer, managing owner of the company Himalayan Experience expedition and the expedition leader of the two documented ascents of Mount Everest. From the upstream base camp and Camp II from observing with a telescope the expedition members, forwards it to radio and evaluates computerized weather data.
  • Phurba Tashi works at Himalayan Experience as Sirdar and Chief Sherpa. He was already about 10 times on the summit of Mount Everest.
  • Mark Inglis ( born September 27, 1959) is a New Zealand extreme athlete, who was the first leg amputee on both sides to climb Mount Everest in 2006.
  • Mogens Jensen is a Danish mountaineer and triathlete who wants to climb Everest without supplemental oxygen despite his chronic asthma suffering.
  • Tim Medvetz is an American motorcycle developer who has attended both documented climbs.

Production

The camera team took two Digital Betacam cameras, three helmet cameras and six digital type cameras Minolta Dimage Z1 on a total of 250 hours of film. The camera men Ken Saul and Mark Whetu reached the summit.

DVD

The three seasons have been released in the U.S. and in Germany on DVD.

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