I am watching the discovery channel and this programme caught my eye, it follows Rob Babers journey to the summit of Everest. Now with a title like Deadliest Climb, I am fully expecting over egged pudding. Rob is a Managing Director of head 4 heights, and previously had climbed the highest peak in every European country in a record time of 835 days, knocking 4 1/2 years off the previous record.
Rob ascent was just how I imagined climbing the worlds highest peak, massive amounts of suffering, struggling to acclimatize, shit, vomit, piss and dead bodies everywhere, and lets not to mention ridiculously over the top base camp facilities. Now Rob ascent seems to have been supported by Motorola, so he could make the first cell phone call from the summit, after an antenna was installed on the Chinese side of the mountain.
What I really like about this programme though was the fact that they used the same narrator as Deadliest Catch, which if you haven’t seen it, is a equally crazy documentary programme on crab fishing in the baring straights off the coast of Alaska.