Reaching The Summit Of Mount Kilimanjaro | Extreme Dreams S2 EP5 | Wonder

[Music] pushing my boundaries has changed my life now i'm on a mission to help five people change theirs i'm ben fogle and this is extreme dreams each week i'll lead a team of would-be explorers on the trip of their lives as we put ourselves against the world's most extreme environments i'm not taking a risk not for anyone not everyone will complete the journey but for those that do their lives will never be the same again [Music] [Music] it's the final day of our week-long expedition to climb mount kilimanjaro the highest peak in africa it's been an amazing journey but it's tested my five teammates as never before they've had to battle incredibly tough conditions extreme weather and the ravages of altitude sickness accident-prone mum paula was the first member of my team to fall victim to the mountain she suffered one minor injury after another and two days ago as we spent our first night on kilimanjaro she was struck down by a mystery fever i'm red enough to stomp your tailbone it was too dangerous for paula to carry on so she was evacuated off the mountainside junior doctor deepika was the next person to suffer your way is so far behind everyone else she struggled to overcome the rough terrain and had to be helped up the mountain by the expedition doctor i want you to take a deep rucksack please the second it's like you obviously need some help and obviously you know like come on we'll give you a hand she's the weak one then i get really upset i get really annoyed but deepika dug deep and soldiered on all-round nice guy ben has been the group motivator a survivor of the london bombing at edgware road tube station then desperately wants to honour the victims by reaching the summit in a way for the people who died i feel like be letting them down if i didn't make it builder jason is also desperate to reach the top to finally achieve the dream he shared with his father i'm here dead and we're going to do this this climb for you jenny the youngest in the team was the most confident about reaching the top of the mountain but on yesterday's walk to our final camp the high altitude caused her major problems i'll be fine hopefully hopefully the doctor thinks i'm fine but hours later as we started our final push for the summit she collapsed is that my pulse aren't you 73. yeah that's crazy are you getting a bit i'm back tomorrow i'm sleeping back my pulse is 172 believe it or not um good luck please all stay positive this is ben and the team out despite all the will in the world it was just too dangerous for jenny to continue we'd lost the second member of our team and the rest of us were left wondering if anyone would make it to the summit [Music] it's now two o'clock in the morning we've been walking constantly for over two hours and we're nearly three miles above sea level the team have the hardest challenge of their lives still ahead of them but losing jenny has hit everyone hard she was probably the fittest in the group i mean we all want to get to the top but she really really wanted to get to the top um so i think it's not only a blue for her but forever for all of us really you're constantly told about how dangerous the altitude is and when you see someone fit um and otherwise well just be incapacitated like that purely because of the altitude it's yeah it really it really um really brings it home you know you looked around at everybody you could tell everybody was like thinking the same thing and am i going to make it coming up on today's extreme dreams it's a race against time to get to the summit well stop complaining keep your mouth shut and keep breathing deepika faces the struggle of her life i'll push you up perhaps here yeah let's not do that altitude threatens to strike me down before i can reach the peak my head is just like a piece of bacon in the frying pan [Music] tonight's climb is taking us from base camp at kibo hut up to the summit uhuru peak but our first objective is gilman's point 200 meters below the top the oxygen level in the air is now half that at sea level which is making climbing harder and harder it's it's freezing it's dark and you're walking up a screen always sliding slightly down always trying to make sure your footing is right because you know if you if you slip you're going to go all the way back down the slope and take half a dozen people with you a pace of the death march you know that was it no quicker and that was just oh come on just hurry up just hurry up you know just get on with this but when you did try and up the pace a little bit it was that breath so there's no there was no wind situation you know the most frustrating part was you could get so far and you could be hit with altitude sickness and that was it walking it's okay just half an hour after losing jenny another member of the team starts to struggle with the altitude i don't know if i'm finding the whole pace quite hypnotic or something or if it's um the altitude and i kind of can see like white spots or green spots i have to close my eyes and shake it and then it goes away dr jim is concerned about deepika hallucinations are an early sign of altitude sickness meaning the brain is being starved of oxygen have you got a headache i don't have any of the problems no headache no no no you're not breathless no well i was breathing carry on and just report from it okay for now deepika can carry on but if she develops a headache or any other symptoms she'll have to go back down despite all the stops we've made tonight we're slowly gaining height we've just reached williams point which is at 5 000 meters so it's quite a big thing for us i think 890 to go to get to the top 896 to be precise 896. um thanks ben as we head off again deepika's showing further symptoms of altitude sickness walking in the dark and concentrating on my feet and i kept feeling like i wanted to go to sleep what's the matter i can't stay awake keep my legs closed and then i slip your eyes are closing yeah we're all now suffering from fatigue and the bitter cold but deepika is by far the worst affected and i'm worried she's on the verge of giving up your eyes are closing yeah isn't this exciting i know yeah i'm just concentrating and stuff and then i keep i can't stop myself falling asleep it's like when you're in a lecture theater and you have to stay awake but you can't and your eyes keep closing and it's horrible trying to fight sleep off when you're like that especially when you're walking and if you like i kept thinking oh you know fall asleep and then just slip and that's it i have nothing else apart from that okay just keep going keep going deepika's defied the odds to get this far but she's determined to keep going and now she's not the only one suffering it was so draining and i was so tired physically i was absolutely drained and mentally i just i just had enough by then really had enough just thought i've got this far now got nothing more to prove that's it i'm sick of climbing i really was we've been walking now for six hours and the first sign of light means we should be getting close to gilman's point our first rest stop on the crater rim not far now so stop complaining keep your mouth shut and keep breathing just open it to breathe you hear me yes [Applause] we're now standing a mile above the clouds and as it gets light we can see just how far we've climbed i can't really concentrate on the walking because i want to look around it's just the most magnificent jaw-droppingly beautiful sight and we're not even on the top yet but it's funny occasionally you get out of breath and you have a little bit of a panic attack because you go kind of like that and you kind of you're struggling to catch it back because there's 50 less oxygen here now than at sea level so um it's kind of just plodding on they're doing really well but um deeps has kind of her body language is all there to just say i want to give up and she said so a few times now but we're not going to let her give up [Music] after five hours on our feet and the biggest climb any of the team have ever done the first rays of the sun are the lift that we need to keep us going i've never seen anything like that i feel as if i'm dragging up two lumps of ice ice blocks which my fingers i can't feel my legs are burning my heart's going tented it doesn't i really am look at that it's just absolutely incredible [Music] i can see why i always put gods on top of mountains it's six o'clock in the morning and we're now nearly three and a half miles above sea level up up here at such high altitudes the human body really starts to deteriorate it's quite difficult to think properly now um i wonder what it's going to be like higher up everything is a bit slower it kind of feels a little bit like i'm just a teeny bit tipsy yeah i haven't drunk for about two weeks but my my brain does feel slightly present um but you know people do start hallucinating at this sort of altitude feeling tipsy is a bad sign as it means i'm becoming disorientated and if it gets any worse i might well be the next to drop out gilman's point the final resting place before the summit is now just 150 feet above us but to get there we face the steepest part of the ascent when the sun came up you could suddenly see everything and how far we'd come and finally then you get to see what you're hoping might be the peak and there's just a wall of rock in the way you have to pick your way up and through and by this stage we're all tired and running out of water and running out of food and trying to gee each other up to go on it was just it was it was incredibly tough that whole night it looked so sheer you know it looked a real how the hell do we climb from there he went believe it or not there's a path and i was thinking he's he's how we choose sickness he's got he's not he's not feeling good there's no trowel there still to come on extreme dreams as the summit looms the pressure becomes too much for ben it's just bloody-minded determination now really it's all about that altitude sickness strikes me down it's getting um really hard i can't even think straight and dr jim decides who'll be allowed to make the final assault on kylie now we've got to climb to the highest point are you ready to get there after one of the hardest climbs of our lives we finally reach gilman's point the final rest place before the summit [Applause] we've climbed to four times the height of ben nevis the tallest mountain in the uk but the summit is still a further 600 feet above us our guides who are used to the altitude are ecstatic but we're so exhausted we can barely lift our arms to celebrate getting this far and deepika who's come close to giving up so many times seems completely overwhelmed now we've stopped moving we can feel the cold and the lack of oxygen more than ever everybody looks exhausted everybody looked drained few people look delirious and i was absolutely freezing jason's been suffering for hours with frozen feet unless we do something fast he could develop frostbite and lose his toes up here the best way to stop this is for jason and i to share body warmth i'm not going to look at you in the same light now oh they're warm oh lovely oh jason's soon back to his old self who the thought is they would have fought it me with my other stranger for you for me ben's not suffering as much from the cold but the altitude is getting to him i've got a headache which comes and goes if i concentrate my breathing i can control it but it's it's a rough environment there's just no oxygen up there you're really beginning to suffer it's the most beautiful place it's the biggest adrenaline rush getting there but you know all the time you're at the top it's killing you at this height the risk of oxygen starvation and altitude sickness is so great that it's simply too dangerous to stop for more than a few minutes but before we can set off we each need to convince dr jim that we've got what it takes to carry on if we collapse beyond this point it'll be too high for either a helicopter to rescue us or for the guides to carry us down so for our own safety only the fittest will be allowed to continue now we've got to climb to hahuru the highest point are you ready to get there i hope so but i can feel my heart pounding if we have too many of the symptoms of altitude sickness we'll be sent back down the mountain headache no headache i had i had a little earlier but the cup of tea i just had to stick it away no dizzy you're not breathless no no dizziness no yeah nausea dizziness lighter doctor jim clears ben jason and myself now it's deepika's turn um headache yes nausea no dizziness no tiredness feel very sleepy sleepy yeah okay so deeps yeah what do you reckon i don't really want to go any further because um this is enough for me to see what i mean i hope anyone no one thinks less of me but i think it'd be too much and you'd be set too far and it might spoil it deepika's fought bravely for days but for her the climb ends here do you think you've proved something to yourself um yeah i guess but i did need a lot of help help to get up so yeah i think so yeah well done i didn't think i wouldn't get to the top but i never thought i would i just didn't really have an expectation i thought i probably won't get up to the top so when i was sat there i was proud of myself but i think i was mostly just it was mostly just i was happy that i got there and i think the best thing was i was thinking i was just downhill now it's amazing i was like i just took her down that's great saying goodbye to deepika is hard for us all but we know she's pushed herself as far as she can in terms of the achievement um i found like it was i felt and i felt you know amazing about it you're a snail thanks you've done so well thank you so proud of you well done yeah see you i think it will be interesting to see if when i'm in a real dark point if that's something that can help me um to draw on to help me get through it while deepika starts the long journey back down the mountain we have the hardest part of the climb still to come ahead of us is a three-hour round trip along the crater rim to the peak and ben's really on his last legs the surprise i thought jim was going to can we do um we've got to do it in one and a half hours there and then one and a half hours back or we will start suffering fairly horrible symptoms so we better do it really it's just bloody minded determination there really it's uh it's all about that yeah if you start to feel unwell tell me and you may have to turn back don't mess about whatever you do okay simple as that because we've got to get out of here we're way above our acclimatization level for the two remaining members of my team the pressure's really on this is the most dangerous stage of the climb and it's all we can do to put one foot in front of the other everything we do every movement just thanks twice smash energy we're now heading up to the highest point it just was another one of those walks that went on forever it felt like you weren't making any progress and we were walking around the rim of a crater that was undulating with about a 40-50 feet drop below us and every time you hit an upslope you had to walk just incredibly slowly it was like a death march you were just putting one foot in front of another and we were i was just concentrating my breathing and i could hear the other two behind me doing that most the time as well after hours in the cold we're now walking through snow under the baking african sun and my altitude sickness is getting steadily worse it's getting um really hard i can't even think straight my brain feels like it's kind of being frazzled so because i don't have a headache but i just feel i can really feel the effects now wow first time on the whole on trek how are you guys feeling it's just this know what to do with toys and every every few steps i take you have to check yourself over to make sure that your balance is working okay and you're not feeling nauseous because if something goes wrong now it's really serious i didn't like it it really when we were at the top i really i was desperate to get there as soon as we got there i just wanted to turn around and get away because you could feel you could feel your body breaking down the longer i'm up here the worse i'm going to get i'm i'm never if you ask my friends and my family i'm not one who's usually not right this i just is like i'm really drunk i feel like i'm slurring my words i almost put my arm around everyone it feels like someone's put something dodgy in my dream very hungry too high do you mind it's all yours you sure do you want your hearts behind i had my feet under your armpits do i mind come on fair enough cheers just justin justin just in time sure i just saw justin timberlake up here [Music] any chance you could see angelina jolly for her an hour later and in the distance we can finally see our goal the summit of kilimanjaro guys that's the top how does that make you feel still looks a bit far doc are your legs empty no my head headers my head is just like a piece of bacon in the frying pan baking in the frying pan huh it's strange should we go on guys yeah are you all fit to go fantastic really good it was the longest half an hour final half an hour ever because it never ever seemed to get any closer this is the peak we can not go no further highest point on kilimanjaro [Music] but we've all been here all week for last 10 days training climatizing and climbing boy is it worth it for jason reaching the top will make the dream he shared with his father of climbing a mountain a reality definitely on that last point from gilman's to the summit was tough but i felt as if as silly as it may seem i don't really give a damn i felt my dad was with me pushing and encouraging me on to get to that goal and to achieve what i set out to do it's an emotional final walk for ben too a year ago his life changed forever when he was caught up in the london tube bombings he's here to honor those that died and hopefully put the past behind him the things that happened on the seventh and the suffering that was that was caused i didn't feel i could go and try and climb kilimanjaro and fail it was important that i made it to the top because in a way to me it felt like i was paying my respects we're exhausted cold and almost delirious but after all we've been through nothing's going to stop us completing those final few steps to the top we walked up together the three of us to get to the sign and you're suddenly at the top of kilimanjaro together congratulations guys it's taken extraordinary determination only half of us have made it but at last we're standing on africa's highest point the peak of kilimanjaro how do you feel it's a weird mix between them elation in the sort of exhaustion but also i know it means a lot to all of us here to make it up to the top it's a very emotional time for ben but after witnessing such horrors he's a step nearer to the closure he needs [Music] one of the other survivors sent me a note before i went saying you know it'd be great if you could go and leave all your troubles at the top and you know come back down and get on with the rest of your life um and to some extent that's that's helped because making it there it was an emotional experience rather than a physical one for me and it was it was important for me to to make it for that reason and i'm very glad i did i know he's reason he's such a brave man and a bravest man i know i'll tell you we've got to get down here i don't know hey johnson i just don't want to laugh or drama so i can't explain how the euphoric feeling inside and the emotion i feel that we're proud this is for my mother for being a rock handler my father and son man this is for them and i'll never ever forget i don't know the reasons why seven years after his father died jason's fulfilled his dream and reached the top of one of the highest mountains in the world um sake that we would have loved to have done together [Music] it did it put it to rest for me and that's it i experienced it and i felt as if we was there experiencing it together anyway okay guys it's for all of us the whole team deeps jenny jenny here we are now on the roof of africa but just for today it really does feel like we're on the roof of the world [Music] you

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Length: 27min 43sec (1663 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 06 2021