Inoxtag: Kaizen strongly criticized by this French mountaineer

While Kaizen, the documentary retracing Inoxtag's ascent of Everest, was warmly welcomed by the public, the same was not true for this seasoned mountaineer, who has already climbed the highest peak in the world located in the Himalayan range.

Inoxtag à Everest Climb in Kaizen

After a year of hiatus, Inoxtag has finally put an end to the suspense. At the Grand Rex in Paris this Friday, September 13, the YouTuber with 8 million subscribers on YouTube came to present Kaizen, One Year to Climb Everest, a 2h40 documentary film that retraces his ascent of the world's highest peak. He appeared in tears with his sherpas, where he warmly greeted his fans after a single screening (as well as in more than 500 theaters worldwide), before its free release today on YouTube at 2:30 p.m.

As expected, the film was a sell-out, with advance tickets sold out in minutes. The lucky few who were able to get their tickets did not fail to praise the film and the videographer for having succeeded in the challenge he had set himself a year earlier.

This mountaineer criticizes Inoxtag's performance

But not everyone is of the same opinion. Invited by Mathis Dumas, the Inoxtag guide, the mountaineer and photographer Pascal Tournaire who climbed Everest in 1990 did not mince his words about the documentary and the performance of the YouTuber, which he considers accessible.

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“When he announced it, I said that it was of no interest and that it was a disaster, he confided to L'Equipe.After seeing the film, I have absolutely not changed my mind. Inoxtag has talent, charisma, he does not cheat but it must be remembered that a 14-year-old boy and girl, an 83-year-old Japanese grandpa also managed to get up there. If we give ourselves the means, it is accessible to any healthy person who kicks their own butt a little. There, I do not see where the feat is. And then it is very self-centered. Three-quarters of the film is: “Look at my belly button”, çit doesn't go any further.”

The mountaineer also denounces the impact of such a project by a web star with 8 million subscriberson YouTube, 5.9 million on TikTok and 5.2 million on Instagram, on a site already overcrowded and polluted, described as a “real dump” by several scientists. Kanchha Sherpa, one of the very first climbers to have climbed its summit, speaks of a site strewn with waste. “Everest is very dirty now. People throw away boxes and packaging after eating. But who is going to collect them?” he asked The Guardian last March.

“Everest is Mont Saint-Michel at 8,800 m, Inoxtag denounces this overcrowding but it also participates in it, it's schizophrenic. His film will only further this stupid craze.” Finally, Pascal Tournaire disputes the idea of ​​such a feat being achieved with a bottle of oxygen. “During my ascent, I spent five nights at 8,000 m without oxygen, I found it extraordinary. With oxygen, at maximum flow, at the summit of Everest, it's as if you were only at 6,000 m… Benjamin Vedrines (French mountaineer) says: “Today, climbing Everest with oxygen is like doing the Tour de France with an electric bike.”