The Forbidden Mountain Nobody Is Allowed To Climb

There's a place on Earth that commercial airplanes go out of their way to avoid. It sits so high people call it the roof of the world — and hidden inside it is a canyon three times deeper than the Grand Canyon. You can find ocean fossils on top of the planet's tallest mountains. A lost kingdom was built entirely out of mud. There's a mountain so sacred that nobody has ever climbed it, and never will. And the people who live up here have literally evolved, at the genetic level, to breathe air that would leave most visitors gasping on a flight of stairs. This is Tibet — 15 unbelievable, verified facts about the strangest, highest, emptiest place on Earth, in under 16 minutes. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 – Planes avoid this place 0:39 – Roof of the world 1:41 – The "Third Pole" 2:39 – A canyon deeper than the Grand Canyon 3:45 – The mountain nobody is allowed to climb 4:43 – Water boils at 188°F here 5:41 – Ocean fossils on the world's tallest mountains 6:36 – The Mud Kingdom of Guga 7:32 – The Tea Horse Road 8:26 – The Potala Palace 9:19 – Tibet used to be an empire 10:11 – Their bodies evolved to breathe thin air 11:11 – The highest railway on Earth 12:09 – Life of the nomads and the yak 13:06 – Why the sky above Tibet is empty 13:55 – The emptiest place on the planet If this filled in a gap for you, a like and a subscribe to Stick Theory Explains helps us keep making these. Tell us in the comments which strange place you want next — the ones we cover come from you. #Tibet #GeographyFacts #StrangePlaces Welcome to Stick Theory — where big stories are told by very small people. We turn fascinating stories from history, science, psychology, geography, technology and the strange world around us into simple stick-figure adventures. 📚 SOURCES & FURTHER READING Sources specific to this video will be listed here. 👍 Enjoyed the video? Like, subscribe and join Stick Theory for more ridiculously simple explanations of surprisingly complicated things. Big Stories. Tiny People. #StickTheory