Released this Saturday, September 14 on YouTube, Inoxtag’s documentary retracing his ascent of Everest is already breaking audience records with more than 10 million views in 24 hours. However, not everyone is convinced by this sensationalist and sometimes problematic film…
It is one of the most dangerous and extraordinary adventures that can be done on Earth. After months of physical preparation away from public life, the YouTuber with 8 million subscribers Inoxtag is climbed to the top of the highest mountain in the worldThe expedition cost him the modest sum of one million euros, as he revealed to our colleagues at Parisian. An extraordinary experience that the 22-year-old videographer documented. His film “Kaizen”, lasting more than 2 hours, has been available on his channel since Saturday, September 14 and has already garnered more than 13 million views.
However, The young man’s feat is not unanimous. Confirmed mountaineer Pascal Tournaire, who himself climbed Everest in 1990, already had a negative preconception before seeing the content creator’s documentary. Invited to the preview by Mathis Dumas, the YouTuber’s guide, the latter confided to theTeam his opinion, rather skeptical. As soon as the Inoxtag project was announced, Pascal Tournaire had judged the idea “without interest” and expected that the documentary would be a “catastrophe”.
Pascal Tournaire sees no feat in Inoxtag’s performance
After watching “Kaizen”, the mountain specialist has not changed his mind. For him, there is no particular feat to salute.Inoxtag has talent, charisma, he doesn’t cheat but we must remember that a 14 year old boy and girl, an 83 year old Japanese grandpa also managed to get up there,” he recalls.If we give ourselves the means, it is accessible to any healthy person. who kicks his own butt a little.”, Pascal Tournaire states bluntly. Mountaineering denounces the YouTuber’s staging: “And then it’s very self-centered. Three-quarters of the film is: ‘Look at my belly button’, it doesn’t go any further..”
Moreover, the mountaineer, concerned about the pollution of natural spaces, questions himself about this fashion of climbing Everest.Everest is Mont Saint-Michel at 8,800 m, Inoxtag denounces this overcrowding but it also participates in it, it’s schizophrenic. His film will only further this stupid craze..”, points out the athlete. For Pascal Tournaire, the interest in climbing this particular mountain is to do it without oxygen. “During my climb, I spent five nights at 8,000 m without oxygen, I found that extraordinary. With oxygen, at maximum flow, at the summit of Everest, it’s as if you were only at 6,000 m…”, explains the mountaineer. Before quoting Benjamin Vedrines (French mountaineer): “Today, Climbing Everest with oxygen is like doing the Tour de France with an electric bike.” A clear opinion.
