It is virtually 1 a.m., and as an alternative of going to mattress, I am sitting down to write down this textual content as a result of I’ve simply watched one thing so good on YouTube that I can not assist however share it. Kuba Patecki’s three-part collection about his ascent of Mount Everest is a documentary gem that might simply as simply be performed by Netflix, MAX, or any streaming platform. I believe it is one of the best manufacturing on Polish YouTube. And definitely probably the most grand.
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Who’s Patec?
I heard about Kuba Patecki by chance a number of months in the past. Considered one of my mates talked about in a bunch dialog on Messenger that Patec is at present making ready to beat Mount Everest. It me for a second, as a result of typically I like to take a look at Himalayan content material from the protection of my sofa, however after I briefly Googled it, I shortly gave up.
“Some PatecWariatec? One other clown from YouTube, and from the outdated Friz crew at that” – I believed and forgot about it, as a result of it is positively not my cup of tea.
Right now I can write with full consciousness: Kuba, I am sorry.
The subject stored coming again, so in the future throughout lunch I gave it an opportunity and watched one in all his archive movies. Kuba Patecki is now a 27-year-old YouTuber, influencer, traveler (all of the phrases match a little bit bit), who has most likely achieved the best particular person success from the previous Friz staff and has discovered his personal thought. And within the case of this former staff, this isn’t in any respect apparent.
From a “clown” he modified (though he nonetheless clowns in his attribute model) into the creator of fabric that makes me choose my jaw up off the ground. And if this three-part collection does not win some sort of award, then I will doubt the purpose of any contests.
Patecki i Everest Problem
What’s it about? Kuba Patecki knowledgeable a number of lengthy months in the past that his subsequent problem (and he does fairly a number of) is to climb the very best peak on this planet. 8,849 meters above sea degree to the very high of Mount Everest. As he determined, so he did. After half a yr of preparations, he flew to Nepal and in Could efficiently not solely climbed, but additionally descended from the highest of the world. Which isn’t so apparent, as a result of most deadly accidents happen throughout descent.
I will not speak concerning the thought itself right here, as a result of rather a lot has already been mentioned and written about it, when the hero returned to Poland secure and sound. The results of this venture was not solely the gathering of 850 thousand złoty for the Most cancers Fighters Basis, but additionally a movie by which all the things was documented from A to Z.
I simply completed the third and final episode of this collection. And I can safely say that I’ve by no means watched one thing this good on Polish YouTube earlier than. Additionally it is the primary time that I’ve waited as a lot for the following episode on YouTube as for the following episodes of one of the best collection.
In whole, it is about 3.5 hours of a full-fledged documentary about conquering Mount Everest, which might simply as simply be broadcast on Netflix. Suffice it to say that once I sat down to observe the final episode tonight, I robotically turned on Netflix to search out it there.
It reveals the complete route from boarding the aircraft in Warsaw to the secure return to Base Camp on the foot of Everest. It’s a document of a number of weeks of combating the very best mountain on this planet. It’s a full story of what this street to the highest actually appears to be like like (actually and figuratively).
It is a full-fledged doc
Nonetheless, this isn’t some beginner “I used to be right here, I did this” recording. It’s a story that consists of many parts: from private recordings with a telephone, via skilled photographs with a digicam or drone, to the statements of an entire galaxy of characters who additionally turn out to be cool narrators of this story. Every brings one thing completely different: there’s a coach, a physician, a dietician, and even the legend of Polish Himalayan mountaineering, Adam Bielecki.
The entire thing is interspersed with recordings of Kuba Patecki from the studio in Poland, the place after his return he feedback and provides what just isn’t seen. These inserts additionally properly present the distinction between Kuba “right here” and “there”, and the swelling on his face, which appeared throughout this a number of dozen days of effort, is placing.
Sure, you see appropriately. If you happen to did not know this but, then from this materials you’ll be taught and perceive why climbing an 8,000-meter peak takes so lengthy and the way lengthy the battle is. I simply do not know if it is extra of a psychological or bodily battle.
Rollercoaster of feelings
Throughout every of the hour-long episodes, we observe the struggles, we get cliff hangers. We climb with Kuba (who, by the best way, had a stunning pink go well with custom-made) as he flies up and all the way down to acclimatize. We get sick with him as he will get angina and suffers in a tent or will get meals poisoning, after which evacuates for some time by helicopter to regenerate his physique.
Sherpa Kings
I believe that is additionally one of many parts of the success of this manufacturing. That on the one hand the viewer sees this hardship, this effort and irregular circumstances of functioning, and on the similar time realizes that they, with the assistance of a staff of sherpas, had to consider recording. How a lot work it will need to have been, continually pulling out, taking off, recording and touchdown a drone at 6-7-8 thousand meters, the place persons are preventing for his or her well being and lives.
From this business and enterprise standpoint, the industrial cooperation with mBankswho was a accomplice of the expedition. An attention-grabbing instance of learn how to unobtrusively and sensibly help an attention-grabbing venture with out the burden of business embarrassment.
From the movie we will even be taught concerning the legendary cable vehicles on Mount Everest, whether or not it’s actually true that “sherpas can virtually carry anybody up the mountain” and what on a regular basis life is like at an altitude of a number of thousand meters.
The entire thing “got here collectively” so effectively additionally as a result of in all this “Patec” stays himself the entire time. He’s a really direct, relaxed man who typically talks good nonsense in his personal particular means. He doesn’t faux to be an ideal mountaineer, and with every subsequent ascent he emphasizes this increasingly more eloquently. That he was only a mountain vacationer who, with the assistance of sherpas and oxygen, did one thing that professionals do on their very own and sometimes with out oxygen.
Beginner vs. skilled mountaineering
This resonates particularly in the direction of the top of the collection, once you see this gigantic psychophysical effort of 1 man, and also you understand that there are individuals who do it alone, with out the assistance of sherpas and with out oxygen. Like Piotr Krzyżykowski, who at about the identical time as Patecki conquered each the neighboring Lhotse and Everest in precisely this fashion with out descending to the bottom. It is even laborious to wrap your thoughts round it.
The primary episode has already 2.2 million views. The second has 1.5, and the third is approaching 700 thousand in 9 hours since publication and may have many extra.
