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106: Episode 106: Hanging on for Dear Life

Not Today

Not Today

Society & Culture, Comedy, True Crime

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Long time friends and mountaineers Jim and Mike were on a trip to summit one of America's highest peaks, Mount Rainer. With a lot of effort, and some encouragement from Mike, the pair was able to make it to the top, and take in the immaculate views. However, on their way down, the snow was melting and hiding many of the treacherous crevasses. Jim was being very careful to make sure that every step he took was on solid ground, but made a life altering mistake.

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Steph. I'm Alex. And this is not today. We are live from our Los Angeles studio.

0:23.0

Hello, how are you?

0:24.0

Amazing, how are you?

0:25.0

I'm good.

0:26.0

I have to sneeze so bad.

0:28.0

You, I was going to ask what's going on.

0:31.0

Yeah, can you tell my face is twitching? Well, it's not twitching, but it just kind of looks like you're

0:36.4

confused almost. Yeah, because of, but you're not focused on anything in particular, you're just like,

0:42.1

I have a sneeze brewing. Like you're particular you're just like I have a sneeze brewing like your your facial

0:45.5

expression sounds like huh yeah yeah it's because there's a sneeber a snee

0:51.6

sneeze brewing there's a sneeze brewing there's a sneeze brewing and I it won't come out that's the worst feeling

0:57.8

I hate that and then you look like that nobody knows what's going on yeah because it's it just is building for too long and

1:04.6

then you're like just do it already and then it doesn't have it and I didn't even

1:08.7

sneeze but it's fine we're fine we're in allergy season for me at least so I have been sneezing plenty so I'll take the L

1:18.6

Correct and yes and this is how much we have to talk about at this time.

1:23.0

Can you tell we have nothing to talk about?

1:26.0

We have nothing.

1:27.0

Let's just jump in.

1:28.0

Yeah, there's a story. Why don't I tell it?

1:31.0

Why don't you do that?

1:32.0

Okay, great. Jim Davidson and Mike Price were best friends and mountaineering partners. By June of 1992, the two men had been climbing together for four years.

1:43.6

However, Jim met Mike for the first time in 1986,

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