Bizarre ‘UFO’ spotted above Mount Everest

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
Did you trek from Lukla ?

We were in Tibet.....my friend was also on a Buddhist pilgrimage. We landed at Lhasa and stayed there for a few days....then traveled to the mountain.

I saw the UFO at base camp when I was at approximately 17,000 feet.....and at 15,500 feet my friend and I thought we saw a yeti. It turned out to be a yak......and the UFO was likely a satellite or a MiG-25 on border patrol.
 

3FEL9

Islander
We were in Tibet.....my friend was also on a Buddhist pilgrimage. We landed at Lhasa and stayed there for a few days....then traveled to the mountain.

I saw the UFO at base camp when I was at approximately 17,000 feet.....and at 15,500 feet my friend and I thought we saw a yeti. It turned out to be a yak......and the UFO was likely a satellite or a MiG-25 on border patrol.

Oh Tibet. Chinese gov. occupied territory.
But your visit must have been out of the ordinary for sure. Any signs of the Dalai lama ¿
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
1000 rooms, 13 stories .. How much were opened for visitors, when you were there ?

I honestly can't remember....but I do remember being there for at least a couple hours. That and some of the other monasteries were over 500 years old. The Jokhang Monastery in Lhasa is 1300 years old.......they don't have things that old around here. The closest I've seen is the Viking Settlement in Newfoundland....and those were just the foundations.
 

1963

Noble
If its over Everest its not a helicopter......base camp is near their service ceiling. It is quite possible the person couldn't identify a helicopter above a peak near Everest.....or it could have been a sky burial bird that's even closer. But as usual its blurry so its hard to say.

If its over the peak in the video it could be a helicopter as it looks vaguely like a Huey.....but since its blurry I'd go with the sky burial bird.

History was made last month on Everest, but it did not involve climbers. For the first time in history, a helicopter landed on the summit of Mount Everest. It was done as a kind of publicity stunt by Europcopter, the maker of the helicopter, but it has huge implications for future ascents of the highest peak.

On May 14th, 2005 at 7:08 a.m. (Nepal time), a serial Ecureuil/AStar AS 350 B3 piloted by the Eurocopter X test pilot Didier Delsalle, landed at 8,850 meters (29,035ft) on the top of the Mount Everest in the Kingdom of Nepal.


Heretofore, the summit of Everest was utterly out of reach for helicopters. In fact, just landing at base camp, 10,000 feet lower, was considered a life endangering feat. Several attempts resulted in crashes. KC Madan, a Nepalese military pilot , became a hero when he landed his machine at Camp II to rescue Beck Weathers and Makalu Gau after the 1996 tragedy. Now, pilot Didier Delsalle has landed on the summit, where he remained for two minutes.

helicopter_everest1.jpg

Helicopter on Everest makes History | GreatOutdoors.com

Cheers.
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
History was made last month on Everest, but it did not involve climbers. For the first time in history, a helicopter landed on the summit of Mount Everest. It was done as a kind of publicity stunt by Europcopter, the maker of the helicopter, but it has huge implications for future ascents of the highest peak.

On May 14th, 2005 at 7:08 a.m. (Nepal time), a serial Ecureuil/AStar AS 350 B3 piloted by the Eurocopter X test pilot Didier Delsalle, landed at 8,850 meters (29,035ft) on the top of the Mount Everest in the Kingdom of Nepal.


Heretofore, the summit of Everest was utterly out of reach for helicopters. In fact, just landing at base camp, 10,000 feet lower, was considered a life endangering feat. Several attempts resulted in crashes. KC Madan, a Nepalese military pilot , became a hero when he landed his machine at Camp II to rescue Beck Weathers and Makalu Gau after the 1996 tragedy. Now, pilot Didier Delsalle has landed on the summit, where he remained for two minutes.

helicopter_everest1.jpg

Helicopter on Everest makes History | GreatOutdoors.com

Cheers.

Was it last month or in 2005?.....the wording is confusing. Then it does answer what is in the alleged ufo image.

I was there in 1995.
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
1963.....It was still considered quite a feat of flying to get the some people from Camp 2 after the earthquakes in 2015 as it was just normal military choppers.
 

1963

Noble
Was it last month or in 2005?.....the wording is confusing. Then it does answer what is in the alleged ufo image.

I was there in 1995.

Hi Castle... Long time no see old friend.
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Anyway CY , sorry if you didn't notice the link below the picture but ....

On May 14th, 2005 at 7:08 a.m. (Nepal time),

...and yes my friend, I know that flying a helicopter so high is a pretty rare occurrence but has been done on more than one occasion , but rare nonetheless because Helicopters create lift by their rotor blades pushing an equal mass of air downwards and as in this case, the air pressure at the top of Mt Everest (29,000ft) is only about 1/3 as much as at sea level so the helicopter can only generate 1/3 of the normal lift. In addition it's cold so you risk ice forming on the rotors, fuel and hydraulics freezing and finally as you know the weather isn't always very nice.
On June 21, 1972 Jean Boulet of France piloted an Aerospatiale Lama Helicopter to a record altitude of 40,000 feet. He removed all the unnecessary equipment and he was breathing supplemental oxygen.
At that altitude the engine broke and the helicopter had to be brought down via means of autorotation. ...scary huh!
... And yes, I too saw that film [Everest 2015] in which the helicopter had to recue the climbers [if that is what you were referring to?]..and it was based on a true story that had occurred 'in the year 2000', which was 12 years before the op-photo first hit the headlines. ... I'm not saying that i'm certain that the op-picture is of 'a helicopter' , I simply don't know! ..but if pushed for my humble opinion, I would say that verisimilitude tells me that the picture is not of 'something from somewhere else' but rather it does seem a lot more likely to be a chopper, but as I say, I wouldn't re-mortgage my house on it being one! ,.. but the point that i'm trying to make is that as we know that helicopters were capable [albeit at a push] of ascending to 11,000 ft higher than Everest a full 40 yrs before this picture, and the fact that a helicopter achieved the feat of conquering Everest 12 yrs before the picture, it wouldn't surprise me if technical advancements in helicopter efficiency design would make the obvious candidate for 'the picture of a helicopter-looking-object above mount Everest ' ... actually being a helicopter.
...Oh, and the reason for the mystery surrounding the picture,.. you know, no one coming forward to brag about the feat, ... well the obvious answer is that of course it could well be down to the thing being some kind of secret military black-ops programme . .. and not yet for public consumption.

ps, were you a mountaineer then Castle?

Cheers Buddy.
 

Castle-Yankee54

Celestial
...and yes my friend, I know that flying a helicopter so high is a pretty rare occurrence but has been done on more than one occasion , but rare nonetheless because Helicopters create lift by their rotor blades pushing an equal mass of air downwards and as in this case, the air pressure at the top of Mt Everest (29,000ft) is only about 1/3 as much as at sea level so the helicopter can only generate 1/3 of the normal lift. In addition it's cold so you risk ice forming on the rotors, fuel and hydraulics freezing and finally as you know the weather isn't always very nice.
On June 21, 1972 Jean Boulet of France piloted an Aerospatiale Lama Helicopter to a record altitude of 40,000 feet. He removed all the unnecessary equipment and he was breathing supplemental oxygen.
At that altitude the engine broke and the helicopter had to be brought down via means of autorotation. ...scary huh!
... And yes, I too saw that film [Everest 2015] in which the helicopter had to recue the climbers [if that is what you were referring to?]..and it was based on a true story that had occurred 'in the year 2000', which was 12 years before the op-photo first hit the headlines. ... I'm not saying that i'm certain that the op-picture is of 'a helicopter' , I simply don't know!

ps, were you a mountaineer then Castle?

Yes I saw the link......I guess I didn't realize it was so old. I wasn't talking about the 2015 movie Everest......as it was based on the 1996 events also depicted by the movie "Into Thin Air"....which I preferred. I was talking about the rescue efforts after the 2015 Nepal earthquake where military helicopters rescued climbers from higher camps after the route was cutoff by the avalanche. The helicopter was just a standard military Bell UH1 I believe.

I had heard of the high experimental altitudes.....but I had not heard of the recent....(ok 2005)....daredevil stunt of landing on the summit of Everest. The similarity between the mountain/image in the OP do resemble a helicopter.

Yes in the past I was a mountaineer.....but I wasn't at Everest to try and climb it.

By the way I'm well aware of the lack of oxygen in the high mountains.....and how it affects the rotor blades lift.
 
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