What the world is streaming: Everest tragedy on camera
At the 17-second mark, the camera pans away from the camp, and people can be seen running from the avalanche.
Everest tragedy on camera
German mountaineer Jost Kobusch, who survived the recent avalanche which flattened Everest base camp, has released incredible video footage of the incident. A few seconds into the two-minute-long video, Kobusch is heard saying, “The ground is shaking”, as sherpas and climbers run to take shelter among tents and rocks. At the 17-second mark, the camera pans away from the camp, and people can be seen running from the avalanche and diving into tents. All you hear next is a series of expletives as a wall of snow smashes into the camp and onto the unprepared campers, of whom 18 were killed. The amazing point-of-view video has been watched over 19 million times since April 26.
Fruity cast
In case you have ever wondered what happens when a heavy metal is poured into a watermelon, YouTube has the answer. A Florida-based YouTube user who calls himself ‘The Backyard Scientist’ released a video on April 28, in which he heats aluminium in a propane-powered foundry till it melts and pours it into a hole carved into a watermelon. The result is not as devastating as you would think. Rather than the watermelon melting, or exploding, the aluminium seeps through the melon’s tiny channels and forms a coral reef-like sculpture, similar to the aluminium casts scientists have made to visualise the form of ant colonies in 3D. The beautiful, yet crazy, video has been watched over 3.5 million times.
‘Marvel’lous indeed
With the release of the new Avengers film, it’s no surprise that a surplus of videos have surfaced revolving around Marvel. In one of the videos, the folks from YouTube channel “How it Should Have Ended” have determined the five stages someone goes through while watching a Marvel movie. It’s no accident that the stages are similar to the five stages of grief because as most comic book movie fans know, watching a Marvel film is an emotional process. The stages involve telling everyone you’ve watched all the teasers and trailers, the anticipation when the opening credits begin, the nitpicking when it goes against what the original comic book says, amnesia and the smugness when you realise you’re the only one who stayed for the closing credits. Uploaded on April 24, the video has been viewed 2.5 million times.
Source:: Indian Express