Crunch of crampons on aluminium ladders during crevasse crossing, in Everest

From the archive record

Three light-weight aluminium ladders have been tied together to facilitate a crossing of this deep gash of a crevasse in the upper reaches of the Khumbu icefall on Everest. The climber huff and puff, out of breadth, due to the altitude and low oxygen. This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of 50, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM / SR 1080i High Definition, Alexa, SR, XDCAM and 4K. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions a