I would like to come back on a controversial subject.
The Mont Blanc.
Hi! I'm Pascal, and welcome to this 2nd capsule about the Mont Banc.
Why controversial?
Because before I published my first Mont-Blanc video, I was only uploading my
documentaries and my vlog, and I had my little community that followed me and that ritten
nice comments to each of my publications.
I received only positive comments.
I had a ratio of thumbs up, versus thumbs down, of 100%.
Until I launch the famous Mont Blanc video.
But I did not expect to have as much of reach with this video.
I must say, that Mont Blanc video alone represents 37% of all
the views on my YouTube channel.
The very morning that I launched it, I received my first negative comment.
In fact, I received it even before receiving positive ones...
Which are still in majority, by the way.
That been followed by a rain of comment more negative than the others.
I think this is a sign of controversy...
Today, I do not want to come back contradict my words, I just want to
answer a few of these comments to explain my point of view.
First of all, there are those who treat me if "self-proclaimed adventurer".
Well, for a moment I wondered if I was pretentious to brand myself that way.
But by reading the definition in '' the dictionary ''.
The one who loves extraordinary adventures, who runs the world and willingly engages
in risky businesses where he can hope for some benefit.
I realize that '' Adventurer '' is not a title awarded by any organization, such as doctor,
and after visiting 15 countrys of which 7 crossed by bike, climbed several peaks,
as much in summer as in winter in the worst storms,
without counting many activity high in adrenaline and so on,
I do not find it exaggerated to grant me this title.
Then there are the comments on the guides.
Several criticized me let flow the idea to climb the mountain without a guide.
When I say it's possible to climb the mountain without a guide, I do not recommend
to everyone to do it.
If the very idea of leaving alone on the Mont Blanc worries you, do not do it alone.
As I said, the most important in the mountains is to know when to give up.
The day I reached the summit, I I felt very comfortable all along the ascenssion.
If I had noticed at one point that I was poorly prepared to reach the summit,
I would have looted my pride and turned around.
I saw several guides with their clients during my ascent, and by listening to them,
I would have been disappointed to have spent such a sum to get their accompany up to the top.
Not because what they say does not make sense, quite the contrary, simply
because with the experience I gained with the years, I would have paid lots of money
to make me tell things that I already knew.
If you do not feel comfortable, book a guide.
But again, be careful!
There are many kinds of guides.
After watching the documentary: Mount White noir de monde, the link is in the description,
we quickly realize that anyone can improvise himself mountain guide and that some
company, lets imagine to their client, that the ascent of Mont Blanc is an activity perfectly safe with a guide.
Again, I do not mean that all the guides are morons, quite the opposite.
But do not think that if you buy the services of a guide, this guarantees you
to come back from your adventure on Mont Blanc in one piece.
The week I climbed Mont Blanc, 8 peoples lost their lives.
These were two groups of four peoples, led by a guide.
In both cases, the three customers, as well as that their guide are dead.
The following comment is from Chamoniard Guide:
the 2 balls pseudo adventurer, he does not know nothing in alpi and allows himseft to give advice?!?!
your reactions to the comments make you look like a schizophrenic in complete denial of reality.
Certainly you are looking for views on youtube to pay for your travels, then at a pinch
share your so-called adventures, but in no case gives advice on topics
you do not know anything about!
You are incredibly arrogant!
so show us your beautiful videos, but shut up!
It is better to shut up and pass for a moron rather than open your mouth and leave no doubt about it!
Well, thank you for your comment.
How to say...
I put my videos online first because to hold a camera in my hands,
take beautiful pictures, speak in front of camera, inform myself about various topics, write
my texts, do the narration, do the shooting in the studio, the video editing
and put it all online to help people, is a passion for me.
Certainly if there was no possibility of income, I would probably not invest
as much time doing these videos.
But for your information, my YouTube channel currently brings me about $ 30 a month.
So it's very far from paying my travels for the moment.
On your side, the next time you want criticize someone like this publicly,
I invite you to do it with your first and last name, as well as your profile picture.
I have the impression that you would never had been able to tell me that in the same words if you had met me in the street.
Next subject, the famous shoes.
Ahah ... I received so many comments about it.
I said that I climbed the mountain with this boot, and that if it was to redo,
I would do it with this shoe.
What I mean by that is that it was a so beautiful the day when I climbed it,
that this pair of shoes would have very well done the job for me.
Evidently the Sportiva Nepal Evo is the best suited for Mont Blanc.
Because it is ultra rigid witch allows to spent less energy when going up,
reduces the risk of spraining your ankle and keep warm.
But my Lowa boot, soft to very well done work.
If I could have my pair of Sportiva with me on my first day of climbing,
before venturing for the first time on Mont Blanc, I would opt for the Sportiva over the Lowa.
But as I had left them at home and that the rental for two days would had cost me
around $ 300 to rent a pair boots that I already bought at $ 800,
I choose the Lowa I did really not regretted it.
$ 300 It's still an investment ...
It's the equivalent of ten months of Youtube income. ;)
And again, if while climbing up you realized you are badly equipped or that you feel bad ...
Walk on your pride and turn around.
It's valid even if you have the best boot in the world.
Some also criticize me by writing novels, to tell me that I should not
not give any advice because I have no experience.
The fact that I am not a professional guide do not make myself a novice.
Mountains, I climbed more than a hundred, not to mention those I have climbed countless times.
And I'm Canadian, snowstorms, it's very familiar to me.
Moreover, as I climbed the mountain myself up to the top, I give myself the right to talk about it.
I did it.
I know, a glacier, it's not the same thing that a mountain and has more risks
I do not want to hear it again.
I am also told that many people go to die by my fault, because I would incite everyone
to climb Mont Blanc alone and without training...
If that's really what you learned from my first video, listen it again very carefully.
I say that everyone who wants to climb the summit can, yes.
With training, experience, equipment and well acclimatized.
And chapter two is entirely devoted to the danger of Mont Blanc.
Nobody can say that I did not warn them.
My goal with this video was to raise awareness to the people who will climb Mont Blanc.
People who want to climb this mountain will do it no matter what people say to them.
I am the living proof of it.
I was at the bottom of the mountain, I looked at it, and I really wanted to climb it.
There was a kind of magnetism that attracted me to the summit.
So I prefer to inform those who want to venture there as best as I can
base on my experience, rather than letting them be told "no, you can't" by other people.
In my opinion, there is nothing more convincing than to be told 'no, you can't'
to jump to action and prove the opposite.
There are three expressions that I love.
The famous '' if you want you can '',
the Nike 'just do it',
and more recently "do what you can't" from Casey Neistat.
If you are an expert in the field, rather to write me a hate comment, why
don't not you make your own video too explaining your point of view?
You will help the community much more than by calling me an idiot, a badger,
or again, you moron.
Put the link of your video in the comments, it will make me happy.
Send me comments like this ...
Is useless.
But why are so many people say don't do the Mont Blanc because
it's dangerous, and you can die.
In my opinion ... I am perfectly aware that the ratio is not the same, but there is
more people dying every day by crossing the street, that people dying
venturing on Mont Blanc every year.
It's drastic, but it's my way of seeing things.
If we always listened to the little voices who tell us not to do something
because it's dangerous, it will not work, you won't suceed, because of this, because of that ...
We could absolutely do nothing in life.
And doing nothing is deadly boring.
I work on the road.
Every year I drive almost 100 000km.
I saw more than a hundred Accidents, some happened right in front of me.
The danger is real, just like on Mont Blanc.
But yet, nobody has ever told me that I was doing a dangerous job.
And I better like to die on Mont Blanc doing an activity that I like, rather
than to die on the road, at work.
Oh yes, your chances of dying on the Mont Blanc are much higher than in your living room.
But lots of people are dying in their living room everyday so...
Why do I still talk about it?
I imagine that everyone who wrote me hateful comments will hate me even more, but too bad for you, I expressed my thinking.
Another point that was strongly criticized, that's what I said about the roping.
I do not understand why I am criticized as much about it.
I only emphasized what I saw.
And as I said at the very beginning of the video, I am not a professional guide.
I'm very confident that the roping must to be a good thing.
Otherwise the experts of the mountain would certainly not do it.
But there must be a way to do it.
What I mean is that roping just to be in rope, without knowing how to react
in critical cases, it can't be better than going on solo.
Most of the roped people I saw on the mountain were walking very close
behind each other with each their roll rope in the hands...
We agree that if a crevasse opens under the feet of the first three of a group
of four, in this situation, the last will only be dragged into the fall.
I also saw several who were roped in the "non-glacier" section of the mountain.
For real, apart increasing the risks to get stumble, I really do not see what's the point.
Then there was my mention on the refuge du Goûter, where I explained that the guards
could not stop us from entering if you did not have reservations.
Maybe it was'nt been wise to mention it publicly, but know
that I do not recommend it.
I just said it because it's a fact, there were about 5 people who were sleeping
on the stairs of the Goûter when I did my ascension.
Personally, I was not mad at them, they were achieving
of their dream, and they had to sleep on the floor to succeed.
Please do not come tell me they put the lives of others in danger because they were sleeping
on a staircase, if a fire alarm had sounded, they would have got up like everyone else to go out.
In Hong Kong people live much more packed that it can be in the Goûter and that does not prevent anyone from living.
I leave you a link in the description that shows the situation, presented
by an English-speaking YouTube channel that I love!
Besides, many will be happy, others much less, since in the summer of 2019, several
articles on the web are talking about a quota of 214 climbers per day.
214 being the number of places available in the dormitories.
I do not know more about it, I leave you to inform yourself on the web.
Next comment ...
Hi, you filmed with what up there?
At the time I used only two GoPro.
It's not the best, but it's small and it does the job.
If I had to do it again today, I would go there with this little go pro, the session model,
and this little Sony camera, which films like a charm.
I leave the links to my equipment in the description below.
These are affiliate links, if you wish order the product through these links,
thank you, that encourages me.
Next comment
There will always be moralizers ...
Your video is well done, simple and precise.
It must be assumed that a person who wants to do Mont Blanc will do it, anyway.
So better to tell him to take crampons and an ice ax, it will already avoid many problems :)
You would have avoided many raging comments if you had roped with a partner,
I think it's a very reassuring practice on glacier grounds.
Aside from that, I enjoyed watching your video, which demystifies the roof of Europe a little bit.
It's good to hammer that it's not easy, to take a guide if you are not
experienced, that you must be prepared and equipped.
See you soon !
Thank you very much Bastien!
I'm happy to see that there are many more people who wrote to me just like you to
express their satisfaction.
Thanks also to those who came to my defense after this Kivik who sent me a rain,
but a rain of comments that was at first a simple criticism, but that I
had to delete it in the end because it becoming to unkind.
Even a guide of Mont Blanc came to support my comments.
I found that very nice.
I realized after the publication of the first video that in the field
of mountaineering, there are many very snobby people who believe that they know everything and that only them holds the absolute truth.
Next question
For the training, I thought to climb the St-Victoire (450 meters of altitude difference) twice a week.
plus a little jogging and other sport.
Do you think that it will be enough?
It's hard to say.
Each person is different.
It is definitely necessary to train as much as possible, are you also used to walk on the snow?
It's far to be the same as walking in a trail.
And you never know how your body is going react to altitude.
Even well acclimatized, one can be a victim of discomfort.
On this subject, it is certain that if you get altitude sickness, it is really better
to have a friend to help you go back down.
This is something that I was criticized several times.
But do not think that I'm encouraging people to clim alone and without a guide ...
It is obvious that it is better to climb in group.
But when we have no one to accompany us and we can not find anyone at the foot of the mountain,
it happens that if we want to achieve our dreams, we have to go crazy things.
But as I keep saying, the most important is to know when to give up.
If you do not feel well or not comfortable, walk on your pride and turn around.
Turning around is much more glorious than to reach the summit because it is much more difficult.
Michel asks me what model of Suunto I use.
This is the Suunto Ambit 3 Peak Sapphire version.
Again I leave a link in the description if you wish to order it.
I also did a capsule series that explains all its specifications, how to configure it
and use it in the field.
If you're interested, you can go watch them just here, do not miss that.
In short, I am impressed by quantity of negatives comment I received, probably because
it was my first, but anyway, you have been a very large majority to have
appreciated and I thank you!
If you have questions about this video or any subject, do not hesitate
to write to me in the comments below the video, I'll be happy
to answer you and maybe even that I I'm going to make a video just for you
Yes yes, it has happened a few times already.
By the way, do not try to write elsewhere, the best place to write to me is in
the comments just below, I read them all the time.
If you want to yell at me and tell me that I am an asshole, go for it.
But if you're rude, do not be surprised if I do not answer you.
As I told you earlier, I suggest you do your own video to explain your point of view.
If you're able to comment, that means that you already have a YouTube account, you can
take your cell phone or webcam from your computer and publish it to your account.
People who listen to me on YouTube are probably listen to other video on Mont Blanc before,
and will probably listen to other just after this one.
That's how you make your own ideas.
On this, we'll see you next week.
This week I brought you to the highest point in Western Europe,
next week, I'll take you to the bottom.
Yes, I'll take you back to the Netherlands, to present you the documentary version of this country that I loved.
Salut!
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