Mount Everest Story for Kids – Kiara Climbs Mount Everest

0:00 Kiara rolled her magic dice… and it landed on a snowy mountain square! A swirl of snow lifted them right out of the playroom — whoosh!

0:11 The highest mountain in the whole world!

0:15 And there it stood: Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth — eight thousand, eight hundred and forty-nine metres tall. In Nepal they call it Sagarmatha; in Tibet, Chomolungma.

0:30 By a turquoise lake, Pip found a stone curled like a shell.

0:37 A seashell... on a mountain?!

0:41 It was a fossil! Long ago this was the floor of an ocean — the Tethys Sea. Then India, riding a giant plate of rock, pushed into Asia, and folded the seabed up into the sky.

0:56 It's still pushing — and Everest still grows a little every year. Kiara put the fossil gently back where it belonged.

1:09 They met Dawa, a Sherpa guide. Sherpa people have lived in these mountains for hundreds of years.

1:21 In nineteen fifty-three, Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa, and Edmund Hillary became the first to reach the top — together, as a team.

1:31 On the mountain, we look after each other.

1:37 At Base Camp the air felt thin. At the very top there's only about one third of the air we breathe at home, so climbers go slowly. Pip puffed. Rivet beeped.

1:53 Oxygen low. Walking slow.

1:57 Bistarai, bistarai! Slowly, slowly!

2:04 In the Khumbu Icefall, climbers cross deep cracks in the ice on ladders. Kiara stepped onto one… and froze.

2:13 And little Pip — who was once afraid of heights himself — said softly:

2:19 Look. Just once.

2:22 Look... just once.

2:26 She looked up, not down — and walked across.

2:32 Then the wind began to howl. Snow flew sideways, and the prayer flags snapped and cracked.

2:40 Mango flapped ahead to find shelter… and saw a soft blue light glowing deep inside the ice.

2:50 Over here! Over here!

2:54 Inside stood a tall, shining lady, with snowflakes hanging perfectly still above her head.

3:03 An Ice Queen!

3:06 She smiled.

3:11 Not a queen. A sage. I am Isvara.

3:15 Who are you?

3:18 Someone who gives you a moment, when you need one most.

3:24 A rumble — and a wall of snow came thundering down! Isvara raised one open hand, and the whole world stopped. Every snowflake. Every rock. All hanging in the air.

3:38 My pause lasts only while I stand still. Go — together.

3:44 So they walked through a frozen world. Blossom's horn lit the way, Rivet found the safe ridge, and Mango called the turns.

3:55 Hold paws! Everyone together!

3:59 Nobody rushed. Nobody was left behind.

4:06 On the ridge, Isvara breathed on the air, and it became a mirror of ice. It showed the summit, lost in a roaring storm.

4:17 The top… or each other?

4:20 Kiara looked at her tired, brave friends.

4:24 We'll turn back, and come back stronger!

4:28 Turning back isn't giving up. It's getting ready.

4:35 They rested. They practised every day. They waited for the storm to pass. And when the sky was clear, they climbed again — slowly, together — until, at sunrise, they stood on top of the world!

4:53 We did it! Together!

4:55 They tied a prayer flag for the wind, and carried home every scrap they'd brought.

5:04 Back at the board, Kiara held the Everest card… and a tiny snowflake that would never melt.

5:14 With dedication, you can do anything!

5:18 And that's the moral of the story: if you have dedication — if you go slowly, help each other, and never give up — you can do anything in the world.